"I thought both bails were already off and that's why I didn't appeal" : Sarfaraz Ahmed

[MRSN]

People are missing an important point here.

Slow overrate. It was constantly on his mind telling the players jaldi karo etc. I thought that was poor. Never seen any other team go "let's go faster lads" when the priority is to win. He just wanted to get on with the game.

It's a mistake. It happens. People need to move on.

That's what selfish people do think about themselves.

 

[MRSN]

Can't believe our leader is this thick inside his brain. Tells alot about his street sharp mind.

 

[Usman]

Unforgiveable. This is our captain.

Lets not forget the Roy edge.

What Roy edge?

 

[dhump]

What is his job in the team?

- He is a useless batsman.
- His captaincy is terrible, and match awareness is poor.
- He is a poor, poor wicketkeeper and overweight.

I don't understand why is he in the team and not shocked that he was sleeping and didn't even appeal for run out.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Get with the times. England are a modern ODI team and this 300+ unbeatable myth is starting to fade away.

Their record at home while chasing in ODIs since the 2015 World Cup:

All their scores (notice the margins of their victories):

There's a lot of problems with the team but it's not as simplistic as 'kick him out because 300+ wasn't defended'. Better teams than Pakistan have failed to defend 300 against this England side.

Only newzealand and Pakistan failed to defend a score of more than 340 from the list above

 

[Major]

Get with the times. England are a modern ODI team and this 300+ unbeatable myth is starting to fade away.

Their record at home while chasing in ODIs since the 2015 World Cup:

All their scores (notice the margins of their victories):

There's a lot of problems with the team but it's not as simplistic as 'kick him out because 300+ wasn't defended'. Better teams than Pakistan have failed to defend 300 against this England side.

Pakisatn won the champions trophy because they were defending scores of 300 less.

300 plus is defendable if you have got a good bowling line up.

 

[happydavy]

Btw he's lying when he says that he thought both the bails were off. The blinking lights, the feel in the gloves when the bails were removed, and a damn object falling to the ground, these aren't the things that can be missed by anyone.

 

[Indiafan]

It was an honest mistake. Can happen to anyone. Besides, it was umpire's job to review both run outs

Umpires can only give out or review if fielding side appeals

 

[Naveedahmed1]

He didn’t want to waste time and get fined for over rate hence didn’t appeal

 

[hadi123]

He's supposed to be our captain yet he showed absolutely pathetic levels of match awareness. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] is spot on when he talks about how much of a joke Sarfaraz is

 

[Mamoon]

He's supposed to be our captain yet he showed absolutely pathetic levels of match awareness. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] is spot on when he talks about how much of a joke Sarfaraz is

He is living the dream. He is under no pressure to perform individually and nor is he held responsibility for the abject performances of his team, and all he has to do is take regulation catches, i.e. do the bare minimum as a WK.

People as well as Mickey ''we are a proud team and we hate losing'' Arthur talk about him doing his primary job (WK) well, but he does the bare minimum. He takes the catches and executes the stumpings that all full-time keepers do. When was the last time he pulled off something special behind the stumps?

He is utter rubbish and it is ridiculous how easily he is getting away with not taking individual responsibility. Compared to other captains like Kohli, Morgan, Williamson, Finch/Smith, Faf, Holding etc., he is on a holiday.

The Karachi lobby is also very strong. They praise him in the media for taking dollies, but no one has uttered a word against him for continuously taking dumb reviews and forgetting to appeal for what could have been a game-changing run out.

Hopefully this circus will come to an end after the World Cup. Both Sarfaraz and Mickey need to go. The first and foremost criteria of captaincy is that you should be a star performer in the team and your selection is a given with or without captaincy.

Secondly, Pakistan needs a coach who has the guts to call **. Mickey has coached South Africa and Australia, and I refuse to believe that he genuinely feels that Sarfaraz does not have to perform with the bat as long as he is doing the bare minimum as a wicket-keeper. He has coached captains like Graeme Smith and Michael Clarke, and he knows what the true worth of Sarfraz is. However, he is tight-lipped because he has to save himself from the sharks.

 

[Chokli]

How can he expect both the bails to already be off when he knocked one of the bails out with his hands right under his two eyes?

 

[Mamoon]

How can he expect both the bails to already be off when he knocked one of the bails out with his hands right under his two eyes?

If he can take reviews after the batsmen middles the ball (that too against spinners), he can also pull off this stunt.

 

[topspin]

Sarfraz is a lost soul on a cricket field. Give him a plate of biryani, he wouldn’t have any trouble locating those bails (sorry rice!) left behind on his plate.

But on a serious note how can your awareness be this bad with these modern stumps lighting up!

 

[MRSN]

What Roy edge?

Don't know about Roy edge but he clearly let go edge in the second last over which went very very close to him and he did first go for the catch but then very surprisingly pulled his hand back. This brought 7 from 7 to 3 from 6 very easy equation for England.

It was remarkable how he pulled his hand back when it was definitely catchable. Amazing how he keeps shouting at others but fails to do his basics right.

 

[hadi123]

And then you see how smart Buttler was today to get Sarfaraz out