"I’m fit, confident and ready to play for Pakistan again if selected” : Junaid Khan

[Square Drive]

Relax.

Did well internationally just recently.

Should play the next game but if he fails, Wahab should come in.

 

[cricketInsight]

He may have lost his spot in his PSL team but was pretty decent on the Aussie tour.

 

[Mamoon]

Rao Iftikhar was a better bowler than him.

 

[GudduBadmash]

Rao Iftikhar was a better bowler than him.

Rao was a very hard working and underrated bowler

 

[Mamoon]

Rao was a very hard working and underrated bowler

Yes, should have played a lot more matches. Unfortunately he was not 'talented' enough.

 

[volcyz]

Rao Ifitkhar was actually very good,

him and Rana Naveed were a pretty potent combo in ODI's.

 

[Sarfarazian92]

Still living off his performances pre-2014.

Thought the decision to play him ahead of Wahab was a good one but he bowled exactly like Wahab today.

 

[Abdullah719]

Still living off his performances pre-2014.

Thought the decision to play him ahead of Wahab was a good one but he bowled exactly like Wahab today.

Wahab was the second-highest wicket-taker in PSL 1.

It's a tournament after all, that seems to be his speciality.

Wahab in PSL 1 - 15 wickets
Junaid in PSL 1 - 6 wickets

 

[Hasan123]

Rao iftikhar always gave his best.

On topic won't write Junaid of, after getting smashed in a domestic t20 when he did well vs Australia recently. Needs to improve though.

 

[Sarfarazian92]

Wahab was the second-highest wicket-taker in PSL 1.

It's a tournament after all, that seems to be his speciality.

Wahab in PSL 1 - 15 wickets
Junaid in PSL 1 - 6 wickets

Yeah but usually Wahab gets smacked a lot in LOIs, was referring to that.

Seems Wahab will be back for the next match.

 

[Bilal7]

Who wasn't smashed today? The usual garbage from some posters.

 

[Syed1]

International performance > PSL performance

 

[yasir]

Who wasn't smashed today? The usual garbage from some posters.

Sami and Irfan gave 47 in 8 overs, Junaid 52 in 4, all in same match. Junaid is the reason Zalmi lost this match

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Needs another BPL to fool this gullible nation again.

 

[Zohaib Shah]

Still a great bowler. One bad domestic game won't change that. It seems like some posters were waiting for a failure.

 

[The_Odd_One]

His career is over. Performance against India was a fluke.

 

[Syed1]

Still a great bowler. One bad domestic game won't change that. It seems like some posters were waiting for a failure.

Yeah exactly, the way they are celebrating seems as if Junaid is personally holding back Marshalls and Akrams in our domestics from getting a spot in the side.

 

[Zohaib Shah]

Yeah exactly, the way they are celebrating seems as if Junaid is personally holding back Marshalls and Akrams in our domestics from getting a spot in the side.

I find it funny how some people are quick to judge a player off one game. When logically a player should be judged after number of games. All I am gonna say is that he had a poor start to the tournament. All is not lost though he can perform well in the next game.

Also it felt like Zalmi's were short few runs. They should have gone past 200 with the way they were batting. The wicket looked very flat.

 

[Sports_Psychologist]

Bowled well overall apart from last 5 balls..
That over to Smith when he gave only 2 runs was great...

 

[saeed5646]

just having a bad day .he will bounce back

 

[Major]

Worst bowler i have ever seen. This guy single handedly gave us the game. He destroyed all the hard work that hasan ali had put in that took the game away from islamabad.

I get it that the ball was wet(misbahs decision to bowl first ) but all the other bowlers mananged.

He bowled one of the worst no ball you could ever ball. He bowled that then got hit for a six. 13 runs off 1 single ball. And then that 4.17 runs of 2 balls. And he got smacked by a guy who is not a finisher but more like an opener.

 

[Mamoon]

Good to see him kicked out. He is not needed.

Our bowling lineup for this match is the best we can put up with this squad.

 

[waleed88]

Junaid Sahab got his yorker wrong quite a few yards... I wouldn't be smiling like that if I was him today... the game was Zalmi's to lose, and they were winning it until the 17th over was bowled

On top of that he was bowling in high 120s and bowling alot of off cutters.. doesn't look fit at all

 

[Mamoon]

Junaid Sahab got his yorker wrong quite a few yards... I wouldn't be smiling like that if I was him today... the game was Zalmi's to lose, and they were winning it until the 17th over was bowled

On top of that he was bowling in high 120s and bowling alot of off cutters.. doesn't look fit at all

His knees are gone. Called it when he got injured in 2014 based on the nature of the injury and I was certain that he will miss the World Cup and will struggle to find any sort of rhythm again.

He should not play international cricket again, and PSL is beyond his level as well.

 

[waleed88]

His knees are gone. Called it when he got injured in 2014 based on the nature of the injury and I was certain that he will miss the World Cup and will struggle to find any sort of rhythm again.

He should not play international cricket again, and PSL is beyond his level as well.

Junaid Khan has peaks and then he has extreme troughs.. a decent performance in Australia is followed by a a very substandard performance in the first game... It always looked like Junaid will be the bowler batsmen were gonna go after, he was bowling at Thisara Perera's pace... and looked to be going nowhere with his direction.. and bowling like this despite knowing Wahab Riaz is breathing down his neck..

Right now its a competition of the 'troughs' between Riaz and Junaid Khan... both look good when they come back from a layoff, but both are competing each other on who has a more intense trough in their performance... both of them are too inconsistent to be regulars for Pakistan