How good was Ramiz Raja?

[talha3]

I think that slow century v Windies is one of the reasons people dislike Raja. Overall he appears, apart from that innings, to have been a fair-enough opener in LOIs.

IMHO Pakistan openers are as follows

Rank 1) Saeed Anwar, Saeed Ahmed (nobody ever mentions this fantastic batsman), Hanif Mohammad, Majid Khan

Rank 2) Aamer Sohail, Mudassar Nazar, Sadiq Mohammad, Shoaib Mohammad, Mohsin Khan

Rank 3) Taufeeq Umar, Ramiz Raja, Salman Butt, Imran Nazir, Yasir Hameed, Saleem Elahi (bear in mind I'm also counting LOIs): useful in one format and poor in another.

The question is, does Hafeez make category 2 or 3? Or TBC?

 

[Zaz]

This summed up how he sleptwalked when he played - makes Inzy look wide awake. So amazing when he criticises Inzy and Yousuf for example.

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Terrible! Talk about giving your wkt away!

If a player did something like that today hed be accused of fixing!!

 

[1137moiz]

The question is, does Hafeez make category 2 or 3? Or TBC?

TBC. He certainly has the potential to become a Category 2

 

[W63L35]

Pakistani openers in Tests and ODIs ... sorted by # of runs and averages;

 

[PTI tsunami]

Rameez was brill of the legs but crap on the offside also he was probably the worst fielder ever

 

[ElRaja]

inzi should have opened more in odis.

 

[MenInG]

Happy Birthday to him - 58 years today.

 

[MenInG]

59 years old today.

Happy Birthday to Rambo