"If I had scored 50 or 70 more runs, we would have been in a better position" : Sarfaraz Ahmed

[Abdullah719]

"If I had scored 50 or 70 more runs, we would have been in a better position" : Sarfaraz Ahmed

Sarfaraz Ahmed at a presser after Day 2:

“We’ve been facing the same problem since 10-12 innings now; In first Test, Shan and Imam were batting well but once Imam got out, we started to lose wickets”

“The same happened in Cape Town and here, so this is a problem we are facing, and we have to work on this”

“We played a few bad shots today; I played a bad shot and so did Babar Azam; in fact, if you see the last 5 wickets to fall in our innings, I, Babar and Faheem all played bad shots and if we hadn’t done that, maybe our position would have been much better in the match”

“I have done some work on my batting so in the first 2 innings my feet movement was not working so I worked on that”

“They have a quality bowling line-up in Philander and Steyn”

“Over here you have to play in a positive way because a good ball can come at any time”

“If you see Aiden Makram and Hashim Bhai, whenever they see a bad ball, they play their shots on it”

“If you don’t play positive cricket, you can lose your wicket at any time”

“If you talk about today, we had a chance to get 260 runs which we didn’t get today”

“Babar and I were thinking of playing positive cricket, but I couldn’t get more than 50 today; If I had scored 50 or 70 more, we would have been in a better position but at the moment, the match is still on”

“Our bowling in the last 45 minutes of play was not upto the mark; We bowled very well for most of the day but in the last hour or so, we didn’t bowl well”

“Our bowling did well in patches but if we had bowled well consistently I don’t think that South Africa would score more runs against us”

 

[Rayyman]

Thank god he is taking responsibility now. He's still one of the top WK/batsmen in the world.

It's gonna be hard to win this one. Maybe by miracle they can chase 300.

 

[Fahdi]

Finally calling out his own ineptitude as well as the other batsmen.

Should have added, "the senior batsmen have to contribute regularly". Might have motivated Asad to score another place saving 50.

 

[Amjid Javed]

All ifs and buts, same rubbish excuses for last 2 years, time players were dropped.

 

[TeymurBlake]

His performance was just so....... Sarfaraz really.

 

[Justcrazy]

No one expected Pakistan to beat SA in SA . It was not never going to possible.

 

[Hawkeye]

Lol, still attacking the bowling.

And not a word against his buddy Shafiq.

Sarfraz-Shafiq combo needs to be kicked out from Pak cricket.

 

[rhony]

The good : Shan, Babar, Amir, Shaheen
The bad: Sarfraz, Hasan, Imam
The ugly: Azhar, Shafiq, Fakhar

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

“Over here you have to play in a positive way because a good ball can come at any time”

This sums it all up. There is no balance between attack and defence. We hook every short ball and poke at every delivery on the fifth stump. Our dismissals are very embarrassing.

Are we playing T20 or some serious cricket?

Shan Masood is the only one who found the right balance between attack and defense in this series. Once you get in here you can score a lot of runs.

 

[PakPremi]

This sums it all up. There is no balance between attack and defence. We hook every short ball and poke at every delivery on the fifth stump. Our dismissals are very embarrassing.

Are we playing T20 or some serious cricket?

Shan Masood is the only one who found the right balance between attack and defense in this series. Once you get in here you can score a lot of runs.

Agree with you Pakistani batsmen either go on blockathon when in trouble or attack everything. They need to see videos of Amla and Williamson to get the balance right. Amla played gem of inning. Sarfraz looked in good touch but his temperament got better of him in the end, but it is good to see him batting well with two fifties In this series and two in Australia series.

 

[Amjid Javed]

If the tail scored more runs.
If we had bowled better.
If batsmen hadnt played bad shots.
Same excuses...sarfraz!

Same mistakes again and again, facts are teams going backwards with sarfraz, Asad and Azhar to name a few in the side.

 

[786warrior]

Utter nonsensical statement - if I had scored 50-70 runs more.....

That's up there with - if we had scored more goals than them then we would have won...

Reminds me of Ricky Gervais's David Brent saying, "If my aunt had a pair then she would be my uncle!"

Yes sarfraz and if you had bowled 2 overs and taken 10 wickets we would be doing better!!!!

Mindless statement from a brainless captain with a team consisting of chronically mentally weak characters i.e shafiq, Ali , Zaman, hafeez.....

 

[BaankeJi]

Utter nonsensical statement - if I had scored 50-70 runs more.....

That's up there with - if we had scored more goals than them then we would have won...

Reminds me of Ricky Gervais's David Brent saying, "If my aunt had a pair then she would be my uncle!"

Yes sarfraz and if you had bowled 2 overs and taken 10 wickets we would be doing better!!!!

Mindless statement from a brainless captain with a team consisting of chronically mentally weak characters i.e shafiq, Ali , Zaman, hafeez.....

He is owning up his fault

 

[MMHS]

Feeling sorry for the guy. Scored a desperate 50, and so far has taken 8 catches out of 15 wickets; but his team his heading for a 3-0. I think, not much wrong in his press conference today. That Bhai part is PCB’s fault - haven’t prepared their Captain. Also, I think PCB doesn’t consider using this word as unprofessional, because he is using this 2nd time, they could have instructed him after 1st incidence, had they bothered. Only criticism I can do is, like bowlers, he should have been critic of his senior 2 batsmen as well.

Anyway, I think this is his last Test as PAK Test Captain, and a repeat in ODI might force PCB to replace him before WC.

 

[786warrior]

He is owning up his fault

I sincerely disagree bro - pathetic statement - if he's owning up he would be ashamed of his conduct, decision-making and inept cricketing skills as evidenced over a number of series.

Please don't buy into this tripe he's coming out with - please don't

 

[TeamPak95]

Chris Martin: "All those zeros in my career could've been hundreds had I scored 100 more runs in each of those innings."

On a serious note, and I know it's most likely due to the questions being asked by the reporters, but how can you still not give a mention of your senior batsmen for not showing up when it mattered and still comment about the bowling (in that regard, this presser is better but still). *sigh... oh boy. 3-0 here we come

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Lmao whats wrong in using bhai ??

Making a mountain out of nothing.

 

[angrypathan]

Lovely to see the extensive criticism of Azhar and Shafiq by Sarfraz

 

[QalandarFan]

Lmao whats wrong in using bhai ??

Making a mountain out of nothing.

Some people are just like that Have a problem with everything about Pak Cricket.

 

[Usman Chadda]

Lovely to see the extensive criticism of Azhar and Shafiq by Sarfraz

These two have escaped criticism from various sections of the media aswell. Everyone from Imam ul haq to Muhammad Amir have been bashed, but the main reason of our struggles have been ignored. I guess pointing out their flaws doesn't really fit the agenda or bring the ratings.

 

[Shafi]

Pathetic mentally by our players. Once you called your opposition players as bhai then it automatically your approach will be too lenient. That's why you will see Moin Vai, Tahir vai, Rashid vai, Irfan vai, Amla vai, Ajaz vail perform better than their abilities against us.

 

[Shafi]

Feeling sorry for the guy. Scored a desperate 50, and so far has taken 8 catches out of 15 wickets; but his team his heading for a 3-0. I think, not much wrong in his press conference today. That Bhai part is PCB’s fault - haven’t prepared their Captain. Also, I think PCB doesn’t consider using this word as unprofessional, because he is using this 2nd time, they could have instructed him after 1st incidence, had they bothered. Only criticism I can do is, like bowlers, he should have been critic of his senior 2 batsmen as well.

Anyway, I think this is his last Test as PAK Test Captain, and a repeat in ODI might force PCB to replace him before WC.

Do you really think PCB will get rid of Azhar and Shafiq near future?

 

[MenInG]

Pathetic mentally by our players. Once you called your opposition players as bhai then it automatically your approach will be too lenient. That's why you will see Moin Vai, Tahir vai, Rashid vai, Irfan vai, Amla vai, Ajaz vail perform better than their abilities against us.

Bhai is a form of respect in our culture and that's about it.

Can we move on?

 

[PakPremi]

Pathetic mentally by our players. Once you called your opposition players as bhai then it automatically your approach will be too lenient. That's why you will see Moin Vai, Tahir vai, Rashid vai, Irfan vai, Amla vai, Ajaz vail perform better than their abilities against us.

What is wrong with calling someone Bhai mere Bhai.
As for your points opposite is true Pak have calling all these guys bhai but have not left them perform against us overall, even Amla has not been prolific against Pak on this series.
Lol at those who criticising Sarfraz's if statements. So all those captains on losing end when they say if we had scored 20 more runs we could have made it challenging must also be pathetic. The only pathet6 people are who do point scoring just because they do not like someone. No captain should call out individual names for blame, especially with test still in progress. So aqal key nakhen lo mere Bhai.

 

[MMHS]

Do you really think PCB will get rid of Azhar and Shafiq near future?

No. They can get a 2nd duck in next innings, still will play next Test. And, even if that Test was in next week. It’s not about seniority either - plenty of senior players have been dropped in past. They are in good books of where it matters - age or performance doesn’t matter.

 

[happydavy]

Bhai is a form of respect in our culture and that's about it.

Can we move on?

Yeah but does Amla ever reciprocate that respect and refer to Pakistan cricketers as Bhai? If not, then it looks a little desperate on Pakistan captains part to build a one sided relationship.

 

[MRSN]

Bhai is a form of respect in our culture and that's about it.

Can we move on?

Amla is called "bhai" here because he is a Muslim.

 

[Zaz]

Amla is called "bhai" here because he is a Muslim.

Its a nonsensical statement calling him bhai Amla is playing for the opposition Religion / Culture/ Seniority should has nothing to do with it

He should be treated the same as the rest of the opposition Will amla call the other south african players bhai too?

Shows the mindset of the captain

 

[786warrior]

Easy bhais!

We got more important things to be focussing our ire on than the word bhai - maybe sarfraz is a surfer dude and calls everyone bhai as one mighty say bro?????

 

[Amjid Javed]

Excellent inns with bat in 2nd inns, 3rd duck of the series.

Fantastic series with the bat!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Captain led from the front.

 

[Shandarchowka]

Its a nonsensical statement calling him bhai Amla is playing for the opposition Religion / Culture/ Seniority should has nothing to do with it

He should be treated the same as the rest of the opposition Will amla call the other south african players bhai too?

Shows the mindset of the captain

Easy tiger. As Mr [MENTION=93712]MenInG[/MENTION] pointed out, it's just part of our culture and brotherhood. What is your problem if Sarfraz is calling Hashim bhai?

As for the topic, Sarfraz tried but I think he matured as the tour progressed and is close to discover his mojo back. A firing Sarfraz will make all the difference in the world for Pakistan. Still early days, but he's learning!