Just watch this upcoming Quaid e Azam season and they will make their names known themselves. Haider Ali is already with the national squad, but here are a few more names to keep an eye on: Saud Shakeel, Abdullah Shafique, Sami Aslam, Imran Butt, and Zeeshan Malik.
They are all aged 24 except Shafique who is 20. Shafique is younger and has played less first XI cricket but out of all of them he is the most pleasing to watch. He’s just fantastic. He has closely worked with Gio Collusi, one of the best batting coaches in the world, and is rated by folks like Rashid Latif.
This upcoming season will tell us a lot as he will be pushing to make a name for himself, as will the other names mentioned.
For now, replace Asad Shafiq with Babar at 4, Haider Ali at 5, and Rizwan at 6. The New Zealand playing XI should look like this:
1. Shan Masood
2. Abid Ali
3. Azhar Ali (c)
4. Babar Azam
5. Haider Ali
6. Mohammad Rizwan
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8. —
9. —
10. —
11. —
Azhar should then retire after the series, yielding Shan the captaincy, and opening up another spot for the standout performer of QeA 2020.
However, it is likely they will end up playing Haris Sohail instead. This will block a spot in the team. We all know Haris doesn’t have the motivation to be a player who wants to improve his game, score hundreds consistently or be patient at the crease - so why keep him around at the age of 31, when he has knee issues, drops out of tours when he feels like it, and is so lazy that it becomes a joking point for his teammates in interviews?