How many 'power hitters' are there in Pakistan cricket?

[Chief Destroyer]

[MENTION=141557]Chief Destroyer[/MENTION]

Today we had our opener score 90, another score 48 and we still never managed to get over the line.

You said power hitters are useless and not necessary, but the last 2 T20s have proved you wrong.

Talat's SR was the difference, not power hitting. He ate too many dot balls. His SR needed to be closer to 150 and we would've gotten the 8 extra runs with ease.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Talat's SR was the difference, not power hitting. He ate too many dot balls. His SR needed to be closer to 150 and we would've gotten the 8 extra runs with ease.

But your original post said we only need one player in the top 4 to score above 70 to cross the line?

 

[Plumb]

Don’t worry all these “hitters” ll perform in psl and we ll see em in ODIs and t20s the torture continues.... have to say Mickey got the worse eye for the talent

 

[Chief Destroyer]

But your original post said we only need one player in the top 4 to score above 70 to cross the line?

Yes, but if another player goes at 130 SR for 50 balls it ruins all the work.

 

[Ahmed216]

is one power-hitter Asif not enough??
this power-hitting is overrated in cricket.

All we need is guys who are good accumulators against both spin and pace, who have good basics of timing and placement and can hit boundaries when the situation demands.

Hussain Talat was swinging blindly under pressure , drifted away from the basic of watching the ball on to the bat

 

[Mirpur express]

The thread should be amended to how many hitters who can hang around for 30 balls

 

[Mirpur express]

Power hitters of course ����

 

[Finisher]

Pakistan batsmen on average hit a six after 25 balls, the lowest six-hitting percentage for any team in T20Is in last two years.

South Africa today hit 11 sixes. Pakistan just 2. When they try, they get caught. If they can't hit sixes in Johannesburg, where can they? #RSAvPak
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[YousafTheBeast]

Yes, but if another player goes at 130 SR for 50 balls it ruins all the work.

Not at all, Pakistan required what 40 odd from 18 balls, that’s achievable in this day and age.

How many full tosses do we see that are miss timed by our batsman and end up being 1-2 instead of 4-6?

Hussain Talat had a free hit I think in the 17th over, he tries to scoop it over the keeper instead of hitting down the ground like any power hitter would do.

Let’s take the WT20 Finals as an example, Marlon Samuels kept his team in the game with 70 odd, but it was never going to get them across the line, it took a power hitter in Brathwaite to get the Windies over the line with 4 consecutive 6s.

Joe Root another example - an amazing player, but he can’t get into the T20 side because of his lack of ability to clear the boundaries.

A team that can only hit 2-3 sixes in a game that too when chasing isn’t going to win many games.

 

[Wasim_Waqar]

Big hitters that can force their way from PSL into World Cup squad

Who is there? Please discuss.

 

[topspin]

Shahid Afridi and I'm not joking given Pakistan's preferences for seniors. He's still one of the three best lower order hitters in Pakistan along with Asif Ali and Imad Wasim.

BUT

no thanks.

 

[coy0607]

Asif Ali is NOT a hitter at all.

I would say Malik, Hafeez, Fakhar, Anwar Ali, U Akmal are the best hitters.
It's quite sad

Can someone expedite Sharjeel somehow

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Khushdil Shah - I pray he gets selected
Zeeshan Malik - I pray he gets selected too
Saif Badar
Asif Afridi is a beast but career stats won’t back it up.

 

[Madplayer]

Pakistan t20 team can do with a Saif Badar in top 5.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Pakistan has no half decent six hitters really.

Maybe UA on current form.

Asif etc haven't come to the party.

The only real six hitter we have (or do not have) is Sharjeel.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

How come we don't have a decent power hitter in whole Pakistan?

And i thought touching 150k was the rare thing thing to do, how come we don't have a single decent reliable power hitter who can avg in the mid 30s but can hit sixes at will and also put a price over his wicket, how on earth we gonna do well at the worldcup?

 

[b.lesner]

Khushdil shah proved against England lions , New Zealand A and U-23 Asia cup when he hits it , it stays hit

 

[DRsohail]

Khushdil shah

Was ordinary in psl.What next>?

 

[BleedGreen]

Asif Ali.

 

[b.lesner]

Was ordinary in psl.What next>?

Just got 1 game last season , i dont know what you are talking about
He has already performed against New Zealand A and England lions and U-23 Asia cup

He scored 65 odd of 30 deliverers in 1 game and won them the match

He hit Mohammad Irfan amd zulfiqar babar big sixes down the ground in their peak

 

[DRsohail]

Just got 1 game last season , i dont know what you are talking about
He has already performed against New Zealand A and England lions and U-23 Asia cup

He scored 65 odd of 30 deliverers in 1 game and won them the match

He hit Mohammad Irfan amd zulfiqar babar big sixes down the ground in their peak

Was leg sidish hack in domestics as well.May be I am wrong,have to see more of him if he is that good,

 

[Savak]

Struggling to remember when was the last time a hitter played an extra ordinary knock and helped the team chase

 

[ar2020]

Struggling to remember when was the last time a hitter played an extra ordinary knock and helped the team chase

Probably Malik

 

[asfandyar]

We are extremely short on power hitters, off spinners, pace allrounders and wicket keepers. We have plenty of consolidators, left arm pacers, slow left armers and all rounders who aren't good at batting or bowling

 

[asfandyar]

I think for India, the turn-around moment was when they found good bowlers. They were always a good batting side. Their bowling now makes them formidable.

We need to find good, dynamic batsmen fast, but looking at Pakistan cup squads, only a bunch of 30 year olds with <80 SR come up.

 

[HGhazanfar]

Unfortunately we only have Kamran Akmal, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali

 

[jnaveen1980]

If you ask me all the Asian teams lack power hitters. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Indian power hitters won't be selected due to politics. Pant won't play because of Dhoni. Iyer won't come in because of CSK quota Rayudu. Shankar is more a traditional batsman who can occasionally connect. Dhoni is ridiculously pathetic against spin these days.

 

[Sher Khan]

Khushdil shah. Very good hitter.

 

[asfandyar]

Khushdil shah. Very good hitter.

Can bowl too. Replace Umar Akmal with Khushdil ASAP

 

[Muhammad Saad]

A FC avg of 30? Next please, we don't wanna invest in another Asif Ali.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Ahh remind of me good ol days of 98/99 when we had monster hitter down the line.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

How about trying Hasan Ali at 1 down in the world cup? He's got a decent defense as well.

 

[JattMaula]

If you ask me all the Asian teams lack power hitters. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka.

Srilanka do have some potential power hitters.

 

[Hawkeye]

Umar Akmal
Asif


and strokemakers who can play fast are Hafeez, and that's it. Maybe Babar too at times.


There's nobody else.

Talat, Bilal Asif far too inconsistent right now.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

I would still take Umar Akmal over Asif Ali any day of the week. Asif is a sitting duck against any decent spinner and he is too inconsistent evem against avg pacers as well. Atleast Umar got a good defense it's just his mental health which is not supporting him.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Sharjeel

 

[Energy]

To be a power hitter you need to qualify as a batsman first. Akmal has shown no signs of a batsman on this tour. All his runs scored are either cut shots (plays and misses involved, with cantilevering on the bat like a gull player) or slogs.

Best way to make use of late order hitting is to get Faheem, Imad and Shadab motivated and stuck in and contribute 20-30 on average every innings. While we will need to rely on the top order and bowlers to go far in the World Cup.

 

[MenInG]

To be a power hitter you need to qualify as a batsman first. Akmal has shown no signs of a batsman on this tour. All his runs scored are either cut shots (plays and misses involved, with cantilevering on the bat like a gull player) or slogs.

Best way to make use of late order hitting is to get Faheem, Imad and Shadab motivated and stuck in and contribute 20-30 on average every innings. While we will need to rely on the top order and bowlers to go far in the World Cup.

Power hitters 'choose the right time to launch their attack - Andha dhund firing is not needed.

 

[Sher Khan]

Sharjeel was the only good power hitter we had. Shame what happened with his career. Wasted talent.

 

[saeedhk]

Zero. The last decent hitter was Sharjeel before he went crazy.

 

[Savak]

Umar Akmal has just badly regressed. If you watch his batting early on from 2009 to 2011, yes he would play that leg side hoick and on the on side but his off side game was much better and his defence was much better.

Those things have completely gone from his game, he is purely a leg side player now.

 

[Rana]

Best Hitters in Pakistan (no particular order)

1. Asif Ali
2. Sharjeel Khan
3. Umar Akmal
4. Khushdil Shah (believe in him)
5. Faheem Ashraf
6. Anwar Ali
7. Iftikhar Ahmed
8. Aamer Yamin
9. Haider Ali
10. Muhammad Harris
11. Fakhar Zaman
12. Wasim JR
13. Hassan Ali
14. Muhammad Akhlaq
15. Sohail Akhtar
16. Sahibzada Farhan
17. Hussain Talat
18. Muhammad Faizan

I may have missed some.

Some of them are accumulators and some are lower order hitters. However, all of them have good technique and the right base to launch big if given the full licence to go for 6s only

 

[YousafTheBeast]

I think this is the wrong thread, I should have put in more specific team thread. I will request mods to move to correct thread.

Unfortunately out of those the ones that are in the team are mostly bits n pieces so are failing most of the time. Khushdil can't seem to clear the inner circle never mind the boundary. Iftikhar is pretty hit n miss also, the ball has to be in right spot for him to hit while the big hitters in other teams can manufacture the big hits.

I know it was a couple of years ago but Khushdil did hit 25 sixes in the NT20 in 2020/21 I think, that too in like 12 games lol. He’s got the capability, just hasn’t worked for him at the intl level.

 

[Kroll]

I know it was a couple of years ago but Khushdil did hit 25 sixes in the NT20 in 2020/21 I think, that too in like 12 games lol. He’s got the capability, just hasn’t worked for him at the intl level.

Yeah, domestics is a totally different environment. Players will be more comfortable as not as much pressure at the intl level and the quality of attack isn't going to be that good either.

 

[CricketingMinds]

I am surprised why and how Faheem Ashraf has fallen off the radar completely! Not even in the top-20 probables anymore - ANyone know why?

 

[shamaan]

I am surprised why and how Faheem Ashraf has fallen off the radar completely! Not even in the top-20 probables anymore - ANyone know why?

He had fitness issues and his form hasn't been great.

 

[Farabi]

Best Hitters in Pakistan (no particular order)

1. Asif Ali
2. Sharjeel Khan
3. Umar Akmal
4. Khushdil Shah (believe in him)
5. Faheem Ashraf
6. Anwar Ali
7. Iftikhar Ahmed
8. Aamer Yamin
9. Haider Ali
10. Muhammad Harris
11. Fakhar Zaman
12. Wasim JR
13. Hassan Ali
14. Muhammad Akhlaq
15. Sohail Akhtar
16. Sahibzada Farhan
17. Hussain Talat
18. Muhammad Faizan

I may have missed some.

Some of them are accumulators and some are lower order hitters. However, all of them have good technique and the right base to launch big if given the full licence to go for 6s only

This doesn’t include the Pakistani batsman who hit the most number of 6s in the world last year: 40+ sixes which was also a world record?