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Imam-ul-Haq becomes the second-fastest batsman to 1000 ODI runs (after Fakhar Zaman)

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Currently on 535 runs in his 9th inning, which suggests he's on course to break it. We play minnows Zimbabwe, and then all the Asian minnows next, so it's possible.
 
lol i was thinking he could do it the way he has been scoring 100s.
 
He needs to score big here to make it easier.

It will be difficult to get 400 in 7-8 games against SL and India.
 
Terry Bollea said:
Highly unlikely but he can get a 100 against teams like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and one of Associates in Asia Cup
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I don't know, he needed to score big here to give himself a good chance.
 
Depending how he plays it's possible he can might play some more tuk tuk to ensure he gets the records lol
 
Terry Bollea said:
Highly unlikely but he can get a 100 against teams like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and one of Associates in Asia Cup
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Maybe Sri Lanka, but I don’t think scoring a hundred against Afghanistan and Bangladesh will be as easy as you think for him.
 
Imam-ul-Haq: Fastest to 1000 runs watch

Currently on 649 runs in 12 games. Has 6 innings left to get 351 runs. Can he do it?:sarf2:sarf2
 
Quality knock this.Gets too much flak here people think all Odis are played on Highways even in World Cup you will get some pitches where 250 would be a winning score and a player like Imam will be vital for such a game
 
I think the biggest thing to applaud about his innings is the calmness and composure he has displayed today. Mujeeb and Rashid are world-class bowlers who can run through any line-up and Afghanistan themselves are no push-overs, they have already defeated two higher ranked teams with resounding margins.

High-quality knock by Imam today, hope he continues to perform in the crunch games ahead.
 
OmaIR1 said:
Pakistan's latest minnow basher.

Not impressed.
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Well he can only bat against who he’s facing and who he’s faced so far he’s played well. Let’s not give him a bashing until he doesn’t do it
 
adzzy786 said:
Well he can only bat against who he’s facing and who he’s faced so far he’s played well. Let’s not give him a bashing until he doesn’t do it
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Fair enough.

Let's see how he fares against India this Sunday.
 
adzzy786 said:
Well he can only bat against who he’s facing and who he’s faced so far he’s played well. Let’s not give him a bashing until he doesn’t do it
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We don't need to deal in these kinds of backhanded apologia.
A batsman is tested by the bowlers he faces, not the batsmen of the opposing team.
Who could Imam possibly have faced today who was better than Rashid and Mujeeb?
 
New Yorker said:
We don't need to deal in these kinds of backhanded apologia.
A batsman is tested by the bowlers he faces, not the batsmen of the opposing team.
Who could Imam possibly have faced today who was better than Rashid and Mujeeb?
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Thats nonsense.

Sure, the runs are good.

But if you play Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe C and Sri Lanka B and get to 1000 runs its meaningless as it comes.
 
He's one match-winning hundred vs India away from silencing all doubters.
 
Looks really difficult considering we're playing New Zealand next, a quality attack, not your Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka level stuff. I hope he can do it though.

His best chance is if he scores big against Bangladesh.
 
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Dr_Bassim said:
Thats nonsense.

Sure, the runs are good.

But if you play Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe C and Sri Lanka B and get to 1000 runs its meaningless as it comes.
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The argument is not about the worth of Imam's career runs, but about the idea that we need to wait on on some specious, better quality attack before can begin to say things about his true mettle. There is no better quality attack in this tournament, or indeed the world, than Rashid and Mujeeb. We don't have to wait, even if we cannot yet conclude, because the evidence is already coming in.
 
New Yorker said:
The argument is not about the worth of Imam's career runs, but about the idea that we need to wait on on some specious, better quality attack before can begin to say things about his true mettle. There is no better quality attack in this tournament, or indeed the world, than Rashid and Mujeeb. We don't have to wait, even if we cannot yet conclude, because the evidence is already coming in.
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Looking at it he was struggling against the 2 best bowlers there were close calls his strike rate got worse through the innings made up in some way by hitting 2 fours and a six of Nabi whose a part timer.
The evidence suggests he won't be stroking masterful 50s and 100s against better bowling attacks.
 
Every time we write him off he comes up with something special.
 
New Yorker said:
The argument is not about the worth of Imam's career runs, but about the idea that we need to wait on on some specious, better quality attack before can begin to say things about his true mettle. There is no better quality attack in this tournament, or indeed the world, than Rashid and Mujeeb. We don't have to wait, even if we cannot yet conclude, because the evidence is already coming in.
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Still making it sound like Afghanistan is the benchmark.
 
Cric1234 said:
Looking at it he was struggling against the 2 best bowlers there were close calls his strike rate got worse through the innings made up in some way by hitting 2 fours and a six of Nabi whose a part timer.
The evidence suggests he won't be stroking masterful 50s and 100s against better bowling attacks.
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Unlike everyone else on this board I am not blessed with the power to foretell the future. I am interested in arguing on the basis of what I see before me. And I see a batsman who weathered a very good bowling attack. Which allows one to begin saying something about whether he is any good or not. Without for that matter drawing any final conclusions. Only time will tell in the end.
 
New Yorker said:
For spin bowling I would say they actually are. Who has a better LOI spin attack today? But is that what we are arguing about?
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You know it doesnt work like that. For instance he can go on to dominate India's spin attack as well. But in order to do that, he needs to get through their opening attack.
It is a totally fair criticism that he has yet to do anything of note against a decent attack: he did not choose the itinerary.
 
New Yorker said:
For spin bowling I would say they actually are. Who has a better LOI spin attack today? But is that what we are arguing about?
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It's a meaningless record.

If I play HK, Afghanistan and Zimababwe B in 10 matches and get 1000 runs .. it means absolutely nothing.
 
Big Players perform at big stages and win games on there own. babaar and Imam are bot yet to play those defining knocks.
 
Much better than the likes of Khurram Manzur and Shehzad. I think Salman Butt should finally take a retirement.
 
Some more series with minnows and he will get there. Another selfish player.
 
Need to arrange some series with Bhutan, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to reach 2000.
 
Following his chacha's footsteps. Will be a beast against pathetic bowling lineups.
 
Imam-ul-Haq's march to equal the record for fastest to 1000 runs in ODI cricket

That's right, Imam has scored 905 runs in 17 innings and needs 95 runs in the second game to equal the record of Fakhar Zaman of being Fastest to 1000 runs in 18 innings in ODI cricket, can he do it?
 
Can? Yes of course, but will he? No I don't think so. However, he has had a promising start to his ODI career and although his SR need some improvement, he's starting to grow on me and a superlative innings like today could take his game to another level.
 
Weve seen pakistani batsmen rattle up 1000 runs before quickly and most of it against weak sides. Yasir hameed comes to mind.

Am sure if imam had played all 20 ODIs vs minnows he would be on 2000 runs by now.
 
43% of those 905 runs coming against Zimbabwe.

If he can play the way he did in the first ODI against SA throughout the series, he’ll have my backing.
 
If he's not the equal fastest he will still probably end up the second fastest has 3 innings to become the second fastest.
 
Fastest to 1,000 ODI runs

18 Innings - Fakhar Zaman
19 Innings - Imam-ul-Haq
21 Innings - Babar Azam, Q de Kock, IJL Trott, KP Pietersen, IVA Richards
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Imam-ul-Haq with a message for his critics when he reached his century <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SAvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SAvPAK</a> <a href="https://t.co/OrOFQwGDIw">pic.twitter.com/OrOFQwGDIw</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1088804144431972352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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With this 100, one thing is for certain: minnow basher? Imam ain't!

He can be a key member of our world cup winning squad :)
 
Well played Nephew.

If a player who represents heigh of nepotism can do so well then imagine what a player selected on merit and merit only will do.
 
MenInG said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Imam-ul-Haq with a message for his critics when he reached his century <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SAvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SAvPAK</a> <a href="https://t.co/OrOFQwGDIw">pic.twitter.com/OrOFQwGDIw</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1088804144431972352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Wow. One innings and he acts like this. What has gotten into these young Pakistani players. More drama and antics and less performance.

How i miss the Pakistan team of 90s, they will beat sides for fun and wont bother with antics or atleast their consistent performances matched their antics.
 
cricketjoshila said:
Wow. One innings and he acts like this. What has gotten into these young Pakistani players. More drama and antics and less performance.

How i miss the Pakistan team of 90s, they will beat sides for fun and wont bother with antics or atleast their consistent performances matched their antics.
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I used to think the same but it's Nostalgia if anything, I remember reading that even in early days Wasim sledged Viv, so it was always there just that they were very hard working and ready to learn.
 
cricketjoshila said:
Wow. One innings and he acts like this. What has gotten into these young Pakistani players. More drama and antics and less performance.

How i miss the Pakistan team of 90s, they will beat sides for fun and wont bother with antics or atleast their consistent performances matched their antics.
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To be fair Imam is justified with his reaction, because rarely will you see anyone who has been criticised for being selected without merit like Imam has over the last year or so, despite performing consistently - and the critics said but he only scored against minnows, and here this could easily have been his second 100 v SA playing in SA out of 3 innings — no doesn’t make him an ATG and he is still making his mark as a player, but the guy deserves some breathing space and so does his uncle.

The sad thing is, what if Imam had been unable to perform here against SA due to bad form or just bad luck which could easily happen to the best of batsmen, the critics would have left no stone unturned to convince all that he was not in the team based on merit and only due to a favour by his uncle who could well have selected him on merit with sincerity.

Moral of the story; sometimes relatives do turn out to be good players, don’t always assume they are only there because of their relation.

Majid Khan was a very fine batsman and his young cousin who came into the team and probably on his recommendation for all we know , can’t remember his name, that all rounder, he didn’t turn out to be too bad either :)

Steve Waugh was a great batsman but his twin brother Mark wasn’t exactly a failure either.
 
JaDed said:
I used to think the same but it's Nostalgia if anything, I remember reading that even in early days Wasim sledged Viv, so it was always there just that they were very hard working and ready to learn.
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Wasim Akram backed his sledges with his performances.
 
cricketjoshila said:
Wow. One innings and he acts like this. What has gotten into these young Pakistani players. More drama and antics and less performance.

How i miss the Pakistan team of 90s, they will beat sides for fun and wont bother with antics or atleast their consistent performances matched their antics.
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5 ODI hundreds to be exact
 
In 2019, an opener scoring a hundred at strike rate of below 90 is simply not good enough.
 
4 of his 5 hundreds have come at strike rate of below 100, two of them against Zimbabwe. His performances simply aren't good enough for that kind of ego.
 
vandokkum said:
In 2019, an opener scoring a hundred at strike rate of below 90 is simply not good enough.
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In a team where the typical opener is no more useful than a can opener against a team like South Africa and that too playing outside the UAE, in that context , it’s good enough for sure.

Scoring runs quickly is great, but remember the first two words there are ‘Scoring runs’ , otherwise it’s quickly prefixed with ‘Getting Out’.
 
vandokkum said:
In 2019, an opener scoring a hundred at strike rate of below 90 is simply not good enough.
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Especially if Fakhar Zaman does not fire. It will mean that Pak will not get a good score and the opposition will outscore us.

It's why Pak usually loses whenever Azhar or Imam bat till 40th over. If our bashers fail we either collapse or do not get the max score. Very dangerous against India, Eng or SA.
 
His job should be defined , he needs to bat through till 35 - 40 overs at strike rate of 85 - 90 , the others around him have to try and push the score.

Two accumulators are enough for OD , Imam and Babaar , there no space for third.
 
MenInG said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Imam-ul-Haq with a message for his critics when he reached his century <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SAvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SAvPAK</a> <a href="https://t.co/OrOFQwGDIw">pic.twitter.com/OrOFQwGDIw</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1088804144431972352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Congratulations Kid, you've earned the right to celebrate today, amazing feat for a youngster:vk
 
cricketjoshila said:
Wow. One innings and he acts like this. What has gotten into these young Pakistani players. More drama and antics and less performance.

How i miss the Pakistan team of 90s, they will beat sides for fun and wont bother with antics or atleast their consistent performances matched their antics.
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He is 22 and despite performing decently since debut he is being constantly hounded by Pak fans and media purely due to non-cricketing reasons, he was frustrated and wanted to prove a point, lets cut him some slack.
 
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Justcrazy said:
His job should be defined , he needs to bat through till 35 - 40 overs at strike rate of 85 - 90 , the others around him have to try and push the score.

Two accumulators are enough for OD , Imam and Babaar , there no space for third.
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you don't have to be Einstein to figure that one out, but some of these pakistani fans lack the brain cells to process that information.

babar can play freely if imam is the accumulator
 
Chokli said:
you don't have to be Einstein to figure that one out, but some of these pakistani fans lack the brain cells to process that information.

babar can play freely if imam is the accumulator
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I personally think Babar is NOT a batsmen like Yuvraj or Rohit sharma or Kohli. Problem of Pakistan is basically the roles are not defined.

Pakistan in fact probably do not have batsmen who can accelerate consistently and win games . They need to define the roles.
 
Justcrazy said:
I personally think Babar is NOT a batsmen like Yuvraj or Rohit sharma or Kohli. Problem of Pakistan is basically the roles are not defined.

Pakistan in fact probably do not have batsmen who can accelerate consistently and win games . They need to define the roles.
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see, the thing is this is a team that doesn't even survive the 50 overs.

the first goal should be to ensure that the XI lasts 50 overs.

once they can survive 50 overs and not be 32/4, 23/3, 12/3, 45/5, every other match then we've made progress.... THEN they can start worrying about strike rate.

pakistani fans act like they've had world beaters all their lives and have rohit sharmas, steve smiths, kane williamsons roaming the streets of lahore and karachi.

if it wasn't for imam today they would have collapsed.

look at the trend, imam batted through and pakistan won the first odi.

imam got out second match and look what happened.

imam scored a century in this odi and he left a platform for the others to launch from and we scored 300
 
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