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Pretty sorry viewing that batting and bowling charts as far as Pakistanis are concerned are mostly dominated by tried and tested cricketers who have been mostly average in international cricket.

As Mamoon says. The cupboard is empty

Can someone draw up a list of top 5 Pakistani batsman and bowlers in terms of performance so far?
 
Seems the best way for a Pakistani cricketer to be on the hype machine is too get injured and not play and/or not play in televised matches....
 
Our LOI team looks hopeless


But our test team is good and will still be good after Misbah's retirement.
 
There is no reason to be either desperate or ecstatic.

The cupboard isn't empty, it just isn't as full as it used to be.

Junior is 25 - he has a career ahead of him.
Shehzad is in his 20's too - he can turn a corner as well.

There are some others as well who can do the job.
 
so far pp hype machine was only right abt harris sohail... less we talk abt other lejunds better it is
 
Umar Akmal can turn around his career just like Rohit Sharma, hopefully PSL gave him a lot confidence. This is the year for Umar.
 
there's probably some degree of stage fright to be fair, which will abate each year. the new talent has been shocking though, i think everyone agrees. that said, given the deplorably poor administration that has been ruining our cricket for so long, this is no surprise.

on the other hand, the response i think has blown away all expectations. this means there is a very economically viable prospect on the table, and it means that overnight, there is a significantly increased interest and motivation to play the game domestically. demographically, theres reason to suppose this could be the second biggest league in the world. from a socio-economic perspective, that might prove more difficult than for developed secure nations to achieve. either way the biggest danger that i see is that the pcb mismanage it, and ruin it for short term commercial gain - we can probably all see the sethis of the world rubbing their hands together and cracking open bottles of bubbly in our minds.

overnight, the pcb has stumbled upon a gold mine. im not optimistic they will be able to deal with it, not leats because this league itself is four years too late for reasons none of us know.

the pcb is just like the lucky arab at the moment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4YdIkx26s
 
The youngsters who have impressed and can go onto be future stars for us:

1. Umar Akmal
2. Muhammad Nawaz
3. Muhammad Asghar
4. Hassan Ali
5. Ehsan Adil
6. Usama Mir


So the cupboard isn't exactly empty, but there is a distinct lack of batsmen in that list
 
There is no reason to be either desperate or ecstatic.

The cupboard isn't empty, it just isn't as full as it used to be.

Junior is 25 - he has a career ahead of him.
Shehzad is in his 20's too - he can turn a corner as well.

There are some others as well who can do the job.

LOL I feel like I've complained about them for so many years that they have to be like 35.

I think with Babar, Amir, and hopefully one day Haris there's a decent group there. And SOMEHOW if Shehzad and Chota can grow into consistent decent players, that would be something. Junaid Khan could come back.

I'm not sure we'll have superstars but if you have enough above average players on your squad, you can really be competitive. But there is so much work to get these guys to be consistent.

I think for the most part, it's showed me that the players the selectors pick are generally right now the best we have. With the inclusion of Nawaz and hopefully soon someone like Asghar, there's not some secret gem they're missing. There are some GLARING additions (Khurram and Iftikhar) but those guys aren't actually going to play anyway I assume.

Maybe with more time guys who showed some promise here - Hassan Ali, Nawaz, Asghar - will be picked consistently in A squads and then national team.
 
As I said in the other thread it's what I expected really.

Bowling resources look decent.
Fielding poor
Batting woeful with not one 'new' Pakistani batsman impressing.
 
As I said in the other thread it's what I expected really.

Bowling resources look decent.
Fielding poor
Batting woeful with not one 'new' Pakistani batsman impressing.

I would say Umar Akmal did impress. It's just that we're so jaded with him that no one expects him to really keep it up
 
I would say Umar Akmal did impress. It's just that we're so jaded with him that no one expects him to really keep it up

Agree, but I mean someone new. A up and coming youngster.
 
Well nawaz , hasan , and asghar have been three of the more impressive bowlers in the psl and none of them have played internatiinal cricket .

I dont think theres a hyped up young batting prospect playing here apart from maybe babar , so i dont knpw how you have come to the conclusion .
 
The youngsters who have impressed and can go onto be future stars for us:

1. Umar Akmal
2. Muhammad Nawaz
3. Muhammad Asghar
4. Hassan Ali
5. Ehsan Adil
6. Usama Mir


So the cupboard isn't exactly empty, but there is a distinct lack of batsmen in that list

Problem with Akmal is that I'll take his performances with a pinch of salt until he ACTUALLY puts such performances in international cricket. Osama Mir did OK.

The thing is that I'm not just looking at stats here when basing an opinion. It's just that none of the players really looked complete. For eg there were not really any complete innings from a youngster who hasn't already played a couple of years of international cricket. There was no innings comparable to KPs in the playoff if you look at just the quality of batsmanship. Nawazs runs were especially not of a proper bat.

We didn't find any good pacers who haven't already had mediocre international careers.

Same with batsmen.

We only found some spinners but that's hardly a weak spot for us anyway
 
I think what it's also showed is the psychological effect of international boycott if cricket in Pakistan. We play a subdued, introverted , fearful form of cricket.
Nowhere is this more clearly seen in our batting orders where the hitters by and large come in at the end when it's way too late. We re still stuck in 1992 mindset .
Clearly other nations have left us behind in our approach to cricket.
Being around top international international players and coaches is challenging that somewhat. Worry is things
Will go back to normal after the PSL.
 
I think what it's also showed is the psychological effect of international boycott if cricket in Pakistan. We play a subdued, introverted , fearful form of cricket.
Nowhere is this more clearly seen in our batting orders where the hitters by and large come in at the end when it's way too late. We re still stuck in 1992 mindset .
Clearly other nations have left us behind in our approach to cricket.
Being around top international international players and coaches is challenging that somewhat. Worry is things
Will go back to normal after the PSL.

the lack of experience is pretty glaring.

If you look at the people who really played huge knocks in knockouts, it's players like Haddin, Pieterson, Sammy got Zalmi back in it, etc. There's just a total lack of experience and exposure that these players have.

Guys like Wahab, Hafeez, Umar Akmal have done better in part because they've been picked to play elsewhere.

Perhaps if someone like Asghar gets drafted for an international league he COULD become an Ajmal for us, and maybe the more Amir plays overseas it'll help. They're just not there yet.
 
Batting wise I would say bismillah khan looked good. The rest were people who have experience eg shezi and akmal junior sarfraz etc. I think next year we will see some more players. I'd like to see sami slam inamulhaq etc being given a shot.

Was impressed with nawaz asghar bismillah khan. And surprisingly shahid yousuf who looked so good but just lacked experience.

We need to give the league a year or two. Overall I'm relatively happy with it as it will give more youngsters a chance.

Also I'm sick of hearing that we'receive stuck in the 90'same. May I remind people that we were the ones who used to hit 100 plus in the last ten overs. You need top batters to do that and we are having a bit of a drought. I still think we need to persist with players like azhar.
 
What exactly did people expect? A player nobody had heard about would smash the bowlers around or bowl at 150 kph.
People here know most of the players in the squads and their capabilities so this should not come as a surprise.
 
You cannot judge talent from only t20 cricket.
 
Bowling friendly conditions did not help either. There is a definite shortage in top quality batsmen but bowlers both fast and spinners looked pretty good.
 
To be fair, there hasn't really been a whole lot of new talent that has been displayed in this Psl. At the end of the day there are only 5 teams and all of them have only played one or two new players per game. The fact that there have been two standout new performers(Nawaz and Asghar) is actually quite a feat in a short tournament. Also, other players like Sharjeel, Ehsan Adil, Bismillah Khan, Hassan Ali etc have looked pretty decent also.

I don't think the future is as bleak as some are making out to be :)
 
Look on the bright side, the PSL franchise owners will now start talent hunting and scouting for the best emerging talent in Karachi, Lahore, and across the country trying to find the next Superstar who they can hire cheaply compared to overseas stars, as they build their teams. And the best thing is they will do this without the PCB selection panel having any input to get the sifaarishey players in. This talent will start to flourish hopefully and give chances to many unknowns who can't make it through the current domestic system, as they have no mama / Chacha who can arrange things with those authorities who run domestic cricket.
 
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LOL I feel like I've complained about them for so many years that they have to be like 35.

I think with Babar, Amir, and hopefully one day Haris there's a decent group there. And SOMEHOW if Shehzad and Chota can grow into consistent decent players, that would be something. Junaid Khan could come back.

I'm not sure we'll have superstars but if you have enough above average players on your squad, you can really be competitive. But there is so much work to get these guys to be consistent.

I think for the most part, it's showed me that the players the selectors pick are generally right now the best we have. With the inclusion of Nawaz and hopefully soon someone like Asghar, there's not some secret gem they're missing. There are some GLARING additions (Khurram and Iftikhar) but those guys aren't actually going to play anyway I assume.

Maybe with more time guys who showed some promise here - Hassan Ali, Nawaz, Asghar - will be picked consistently in A squads and then national team.

I believe that we have a sort of competitive team and we will manage somehow.

Even in the 90's we were losing to major teams.

Losing hurts but ground reality is that we are playing with a handicap.
 
When you have the tournament full of TTF, we shouldn't expect any talented players to come out anyway.
 
I think ISB should've given Babar more games. His 0(8) innings in Dubai is probably the worst of the whole PSL but in Sharjah many batsmen started performing. Should've gotten backing like Nauman Anwar.
 
Spin bowling department doesnt look too bad.


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Thanks God for that. I was getting tired of people, who keep crying lets change the whole team, bring new players in. And just about everyone in the Pakistan team is blocking some huge talent. :yk2
 
Talent in T 20 ?? LOL Something is seriously wrong as former selector Qadir was looking for talented batsmen in T 20 league rather than in domestic tours.
 
Pretty sorry viewing that batting and bowling charts as far as Pakistanis are concerned are mostly dominated by tried and tested cricketers who have been mostly average in international cricket.

As Mamoon says. The cupboard is empty

Can someone draw up a list of top 5 Pakistani batsman and bowlers in terms of performance so far?

And who are Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Asghar and Hassan Ali?
 
I'd rather say that the PSL has "filtered" who is better than who.
 
Mir Hamza and Zia ul Haq were total flops. Bowling at 129-132 km/hr. If these guys are our top wicket takers in domestic cricket every season then we have serious problems.
 
Only one fast bowler I can spot apart from him others are mediocre but I think there are not many fast bowlers playing in the tornament.As op said no one single batsman who was impressive
 
Look on the bright side, the PSL franchise owners will now start talent hunting and scouting for the best emerging talent in Karachi, Lahore, and across the country trying to find the next Superstar who they can hire cheaply compared to overseas stars, as they build their teams. And the best thing is they will do this without the PCB selection panel having any input to get the sifaarishey players in. This talent will start to flourish hopefully and give chances to many unknowns who can't make it through the current domestic system, as they have no mama / Chacha who can arrange things with those authorities who run domestic cricket.

You made some good points but most of the owners try to get the big foreign names as it add value to their franchise.
 
It seems like whole nation woke up and they showed interest in cricket again. Perfect opportunity for PCB to make changes at grass root level and InShaAllah we will produce some cricketers in next few years...
 
Talent in T 20 ?? LOL Something is seriously wrong as former selector Qadir was looking for talented batsmen in T 20 league rather than in domestic tours.

Sir when you talk about talent you refer to the pool of players that have been prominent names in the domestic over the years.. The fact is you can judge a talent from a t20 league, if I tell you Mohammad Amir or Saeed Ajmal became prominent after the 2009 WC I won't be wrong.. Sohail Tanvir is another product.. Misbah made name for himself in the 2007 WC edition

Hafeez established himself in this format, whereas Nasir Jamshed was another fantastic find in the 2012 WC along with Raza Hasan..

When we talk about the low talent of Pakistan, we compare them to International standards of skillsets, and the skillsets present in our players, most of them have a very low percentile compared to the high standards abroad.. These low standards are charactersitically prominent in the batting department, they look at an all time low!!
 
It seems like whole nation woke up and they showed interest in cricket again. Perfect opportunity for PCB to make changes at grass root level and InShaAllah we will produce some cricketers in next few years...

I didn't knew the impact was so big. I suggest having a few matches of PSL in Lahore and Karachi and maybe the final at Lahore in the second edition of PSL.
 
I didn't knew the impact was so big. I suggest having a few matches of PSL in Lahore and Karachi and maybe the final at Lahore in the second edition of PSL.
According to SK, some matches for next PSL season will take place in Pakistan (maybe playoffs or final ceremony)...

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I think a lot of folks have made the point about how you go from near obscurity to play in in front of a live audience and tv etc. plus I think nine of our current or new batsmen know how to bat under pressure. Psl will hopefully help.
That being said, too many of the new promising players get injured too often. Babar Azam being the latest example.
 
You have to wait for at least 5 years before PSL starts producing Rohit's and Virat's :waqar
 
You're looking at the product but not the manufacturing process. The focus should be on the idiotic, unqualified coaches in domestic and juniors teaching these players.
 
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You're looking at the product but not the manufacturing process. The focus should be on the idiotic, unqualified coaches in domestic and juniors teaching these players.

You cannot manufacture talent though,how you guide/maintain it make the product sustainable.
 
There's never a lack of talent.

It has exposed the lack of dometic structure, where no batsman/hardly any bowlers mature up and have it in them to play competitive cricket.

Take Kami, he was piling runs against domestic lullo bowlers, but once he hops onto some quality bowlers, all his batting capabilities go down drain. Was the worst player on display throughout tournament
 
I was disappointed with the batting except Umar.

But looks like there are a few bowling talents which the PSL has helped to unearth.
 
The youngsters who have impressed and can go onto be future stars for us:

1. Umar Akmal
2. Muhammad Nawaz
3. Muhammad Asghar
4. Hassan Ali
5. Ehsan Adil
6. Usama Mir


So the cupboard isn't exactly empty, but there is a distinct lack of batsmen in that list

can we have a chance to all of them in the LOIs... aamer yamin had a wonderful first over when given the chance after benching him for the first 5 matches.. cupboard is not empty... PSL has shown there are few talents which can be groomed and can replace the luggages that been carried unnecessarily in the LOIs for the national team
 
Said it before and will say again, scrap this PSL, it won't do any good to our cricket. Infact it will dry out our many news kids instead of bringing them to exposure.

We will see same players for next 5 years, a cycle will go on which will never tend till these players reach to the age of 50.

At first edition, people started believing that talent can only be produced by T20 cricket :facepalm:

In next edition they will say bring e.t.c T20 player to the Test cricket or ODI cricket. We don't need this.

PCB wasted a hell of money on PSL, their motive that PSL would give exposure to young players, to new talent e.t.c e.t.c which we all know this is crap. These leagues or franchises only cares about their money.

If PCB invest the half of the money in domestic circuit which they have wasted on PSL, it will give 10x players in every tournament. Why not improve your domestic standard, introduce some qualified coaches, introduce better production of game. People think Hasan Ali, Nawaz, Asghar are PSL production, which is their biggest mistake. These all 3 are performing in our domestic tournaments.

People say in next edition there will be more teams and there will be more players e.t.c . Which more players you are talking about?? 90 percent of players will be those who are playing since ages. We will see same rubbish again and again.

Better to focus on QEA and National OD tournaments. Increase the number of tournaments, increase the production. Televise these all tournaments, and then see who will produce more cricketers, this MML or our national tournaments??

Our cricket is already half destroyed, and now with the help of PSL it will be fully destroyed. And no doubt we can become next West Indies who would love to play leagues, will produce T20 players but there won't be any scene of ODI and Test cricket.
 
Said it before and will say again, scrap this PSL, it won't do any good to our cricket. Infact it will dry out our many news kids instead of bringing them to exposure.

We will see same players for next 5 years, a cycle will go on which will never tend till these players reach to the age of 50.

At first edition, people started believing that talent can only be produced by T20 cricket :facepalm:

In next edition they will say bring e.t.c T20 player to the Test cricket or ODI cricket. We don't need this.

PCB wasted a hell of money on PSL, their motive that PSL would give exposure to young players, to new talent e.t.c e.t.c which we all know this is crap. These leagues or franchises only cares about their money.

If PCB invest the half of the money in domestic circuit which they have wasted on PSL, it will give 10x players in every tournament. Why not improve your domestic standard, introduce some qualified coaches, introduce better production of game. People think Hasan Ali, Nawaz, Asghar are PSL production, which is their biggest mistake. These all 3 are performing in our domestic tournaments.

People say in next edition there will be more teams and there will be more players e.t.c . Which more players you are talking about?? 90 percent of players will be those who are playing since ages. We will see same rubbish again and again.

Better to focus on QEA and National OD tournaments. Increase the number of tournaments, increase the production. Televise these all tournaments, and then see who will produce more cricketers, this MML or our national tournaments??

Our cricket is already half destroyed, and now with the help of PSL it will be fully destroyed. And no doubt we can become next West Indies who would love to play leagues, will produce T20 players but there won't be any scene of ODI and Test cricket.

Where are the sponsors for these domestic leagues? A board needs to make money after all and franchise based cricket is the way to go for additional revenues. Forget about domestic games for a sec. How many people watched Pak vs Eng test series or ODIs? Its true that they didn't play in Pak but that's the reality and it won't change for a few years. BCCI has cowardly back tracked on their MOU. How else will PCB make money? How much money do domestic players make? Isn't this a good opportunity for financial security?
 
If T20 leagues were a measure of quality international players, IPL would've produced a dozen by now.

And would be better if you don't post inaccurate stuff.

Nawaz is tried and tested? Asghar? Hassan Ali?

We have already produced batsmen who can become future batting stars:
Umar Akmal
Babar Azam
Haris Sohail
Umar Amin
Sami Aslam

Three have already proven themselves world class at international stage.

Why crying and slitting wrists? You think Tendulkars and Wasim Akrams are playing in other leagues around the world?!?!

We didn't even give chances to a large pool of domestic players yet found at least 2-3 GOLD.
 
It's already common knowledge that Pakistan has a dwindling talent pool. PSL has only served as a reminder.
 
Umar Akmal, Babar Azam, Harris and Umar Amin are the key for Pakistan's future.

Can't say much for Umar Sadiq, Saad Ali, Imran butt, Saud Shakeel, and Fakhar Zamaan because I haven't watched them, the stats can be misleading for Pakistan's domestic cricket bullies
 
To me Babar Azam's failure and then the injury is the biggest disappointment. It was supposed to be his and UA's tournament. UA did well but Babar's success could have kicked Malik out of the team for good especially after his disastrous performances. Any T20 team, let alone Pakistan cannot afford a Azam and a Malik in the same team. UA was terrific though and the overall failure of the batsmen to even score 150 consistently has exposes the lack of depth in the barring coffers. Afridi's batting was disappointing to say the least after his good performances against Eng on these same pitches. Imad flopped as well. Malik, Imad, Anwar, Wahab, Amir, Irfan is heck of a long tail. Hafeez was OK in patches. I don't know anything about Khurram. Babar is injured. Bowling attack is very good but the batting doesn't evoke much confidence
 
To those saying Babar etc failed.

Calm down.

A T20 league is not where you judge specially batsmen for international cricket. Babar has already PROVEN himself as an international star.

Come to reality.
 
To those saying Babar etc failed.

Calm down.

A T20 league is not where you judge specially batsmen for international cricket. Babar has already PROVEN himself as an international star.


Come to reality.

Concise but a concrete post. People here now measuring talent, success, failures on the basis of this league and deciding their ODI,Test future.
 
Agreed, like I said before, cricket is at decline in Pakistan. There's little passion left in kids to excel in this game. PSL has reflected that. Even being surrounded by B grade international players, none of the batsmen or fast bowler were able to outperform any of the experienced heads. Apart from couple of spinners and all rounders like Aamir Yamin, Hassan Ali, we are not able to find any special talent. Although players like Fakhar Zaman, Usman Sallahudin, Sadaf Hussain were not there, but I doubt that they're going to make much of a difference.
 
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Problem with Akmal is that I'll take his performances with a pinch of salt until he ACTUALLY puts such performances in international cricket. Osama Mir did OK.

The thing is that I'm not just looking at stats here when basing an opinion. It's just that none of the players really looked complete. For eg there were not really any complete innings from a youngster who hasn't already played a couple of years of international cricket. There was no innings comparable to KPs in the playoff if you look at just the quality of batsmanship. Nawazs runs were especially not of a proper bat.

We didn't find any good pacers who haven't already had mediocre international careers.

Same with batsmen.

We only found some spinners but that's hardly a weak spot for us anyway[/QUOTE]

I have to wonder where is this brimming basket of spinning talent? Yasir's got it covered in Tests, but after Ajmal Pakistan is sorely missing a quality spinner in ODIs.
 
Not worried about spinners, its clear we have plenty of them in reserve but the quality of death bowling from our pacers has been dire. We seem to have a few pacers that don't know how to set up a batsman, how to create pressure instead seemingly running in and hoping for the best.

However its the batting that has been appalling. Players with no idea how to construct an innings, feet stuck in concrete against the pacers, eating up too many dots and looking miles behind their foreign counterparts. You could just see the difference in quality when Pietersen and Sangakkara were batting in the Quetta-Peshawar match, that partnership was a model in how to rebuild an innings after early wickets. Only Umar Akmal comes away with credit and hopefully it has reinvigorated his form but even then we see how inconsistent he is at international level making it even more disappointing that nobody proved themselves to be a good alternative.
 
The much touted Hasan Ali would just about get into a division 2 country team, Usama Mir will struggle at the higher level as his arm is too high and he can't turn his leg spinner, Aamer Yamim as bowler is on par with up and coming 2nd eleven county bowlers. The 2 Brads have exposed the desperate standards of PK players.
 
All in all Pakistani fans are very easy to excite
 
Pretty sorry viewing that batting and bowling charts as far as Pakistanis are concerned are mostly dominated by tried and tested cricketers who have been mostly average in international cricket.

As Mamoon says. The cupboard is empty

Can someone draw up a list of top 5 Pakistani batsman and bowlers in terms of performance so far?

My theory is that it ''looks'' emptier now because our cricket is stagnant since the last decade or so. The game has gone ahead in more ways than we think while our domestic crop is stuck with the same dakia nusi structure.

In short our guys are the same level as the world of cricket was back uptill early 2000s. World of cricket has gone way ahead, but our legs have remained tied all this time.

Talent is still there, its naturally in us, but now neccissity of grooming a player is 100% whereas previously was 20-30%. Look at Shehzad,Shafiq, Fawad, Shahzaib, Akmal etc. Examples of players stuck with their natural ability not knowing how to take it to another level.

And we cant groom anyone unless PCB is sorted, and PCB cant be sorted unless the government is sorted.
 
Plus performances are not everything. Mohammad Nawaz importance as a player is not because he's a great batsmen or huge bowler, but as a character, thinker, competetive personality etc.
Im glad PCB has selected him. We need more players like him and less like those who think they are kings of pakistan cricket without doing anything,
 
I think PSL and World T20 have both shown one thing - we have precious few specialist T20 batsmen AND we don't play them.

Sharjeel is the exception that proves the rule.

Time to invest in new generation of T20 batting specialists.

We know the current formula of playing seniors with "correct" techniques hasn't worked in 5 years.

We may lose more than we in the first year but I doubt we will dig lower than where we are today.
 
How many new players were on show to identify the talent.

Most of the local franchises went for foreign players who were specialist batsmen. As a result there were very few opportunities given to local talent especially in the batting department with Pak A listers and foreign players leading most of the teams.

If someone analyzes we actually had more bowlers coming up because of this fact.
 
There was no new talent in first edition of IPL either things takes time. And talent is there but need to be polished. Diament isn't for sale until is gone trough a process of cutting and shinning
 
Agree, PSL has expose it. Seems like ppl. Don't want to accept reality. Babar Azam was not good in PSL. Need one or two more team in PSL to find hidden talent.
 
There was some decent talent in the PSL, not world class by any means, but enough to put out a competitive team. Our batting is what it is, these guys can perform on their day, but they are brainless and have no idea about how to go about setting a target or chasing one.

Sami performed relatively well so that shows the pace bowling is still okay, but unbalanced. The spin bowling department was just down to bad selection. There are some good young spinners to come out of the PSL but they needed to have been blooded much earlier and exposed to international cricket before the world cup not in it.
 
Again I say that our new generation are mostly suited for test cricket. They can't play well in LOIs, don't have the power, array of strokes for such a format and not able to rotate the strike.

Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq are fine example of it, even Umar Amin and Harris Sohail are the same.
 
The results from PSL will come from 3-4 years down the line.

Yes, we are not producing any world class talent but we are producing competitive cricketers. The issue is that they have no idea about the modern day cricket. PSL have lot of coaches who have coached and mentors modern teams from different countries and league. They could be of some help.

Moreover PSL have to look into the emerging player category and make sure these players are selected on merit. Adnan Rasul being selected as emerging talent doesn't make any sense.
 
Need to give PSL atleast 2 more years for it to bare fruit. Also none of the 5 teams had any upcoming Pakistani batsman in their top 6-7 hence you did not see any talent coming through.


In just its first year PSL threw up Asghar, Nawaz and Hassan Ali.
 
Only if talented players are out there you will get benefit other wise PSL can do nothing.
 
If only they were selected for starters.

All I saw was hacks being selected and the likes of Usman salahuddin, Sami Aslam, Saud Shakeel nowhere to be seen.

Even the ones selected like Asad Shafiq and Babar Azam were mostly on bench.

Not surprised since our nation regards Afridi as a superstar.
 
The PSL is a short annual tournament, can't really expect it to work wonders, certainly not straight away.

We have another 50 weeks in the year in which players should be developing - the PCB need to look at what else is happening in domestic cricket rather than just resting on their laurels now that the PSL is here.
 
Said it before and will say again, scrap this PSL, it won't do any good to our cricket. Infact it will dry out our many news kids instead of bringing them to exposure.

We will see same players for next 5 years, a cycle will go on which will never tend till these players reach to the age of 50.

At first edition, people started believing that talent can only be produced by T20 cricket :facepalm:

In next edition they will say bring e.t.c T20 player to the Test cricket or ODI cricket. We don't need this.

PCB wasted a hell of money on PSL, their motive that PSL would give exposure to young players, to new talent e.t.c e.t.c which we all know this is crap. These leagues or franchises only cares about their money.

If PCB invest the half of the money in domestic circuit which they have wasted on PSL, it will give 10x players in every tournament. Why not improve your domestic standard, introduce some qualified coaches, introduce better production of game.
People think Hasan Ali, Nawaz, Asghar are PSL production, which is their biggest mistake. These all 3 are performing in our domestic tournaments.

People say in next edition there will be more teams and there will be more players e.t.c . Which more players you are talking about?? 90 percent of players will be those who are playing since ages. We will see same rubbish again and again.

Better to focus on QEA and National OD tournaments. Increase the number of tournaments, increase the production. Televise these all tournaments, and then see who will produce more cricketers, this MML or our national tournaments??

Our cricket is already half destroyed, and now with the help of PSL it will be fully destroyed. And no doubt we can become next West Indies who would love to play leagues, will produce T20 players but there won't be any scene of ODI and Test cricket.

Waqar Younis pointed out the same stuff in yesterday's night show, interesting.
 
Now we know who kept Waqar Younis out of PSL coaching and why ?


Very Petty.



Najam Sethi appointed Moin Khan as Coach on whose advice ?


Who has got a Shopping Mall on Tariq Road ?


Whose Waleema was financedar by a player ?


Who blackmail players to leak Team News ?



The black sheep. Most Corrupt Sports Journalist.



Shame on Him.
 
Apart from spinners, I dont see anyone who excites me as a fan

Maybe Fakhar Zaman but for some reason not entirely convinced at this point
 
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