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Fahim's bowling average reads 29.50 in ODIs. That's a bit better than both Raees and Junaid since their comebacks who both average slightly over 30.
Fahim doesn't have a classically flashy action for a fast bowler, but he does hurry up the batsman quite a bit and is surprisingly fast. And of course he is primarily a fast bowler in domestic.
A big issue to why we don't perform consistently is our batting. With Fahim as 3rd pacer, we could potentially include another batsman and bat down to 9 (i.e. Shadab). Which would make our batting strength greater and ensure our batting doesn't stall when the latter batsmen come in.
What's more the batsmen up top will have more freedom to play their strokes with a longer batting line up, less prone to collapses, and better batting tail for the batsmen up top to play with.
I don't really believe you can consistently challenge at the top without a decent line up that can hit 300 or so regularly, and if we degrade our bowling slightly to do it, I'd take it. I don't think Fahim is a massive downgrade bowling wise (or indeed if even one) on Junaid or Raees, and we have Malik, Haris (and potentially Amin) to serve as part timers.
Thoughts?
Fahim doesn't have a classically flashy action for a fast bowler, but he does hurry up the batsman quite a bit and is surprisingly fast. And of course he is primarily a fast bowler in domestic.
A big issue to why we don't perform consistently is our batting. With Fahim as 3rd pacer, we could potentially include another batsman and bat down to 9 (i.e. Shadab). Which would make our batting strength greater and ensure our batting doesn't stall when the latter batsmen come in.
What's more the batsmen up top will have more freedom to play their strokes with a longer batting line up, less prone to collapses, and better batting tail for the batsmen up top to play with.
I don't really believe you can consistently challenge at the top without a decent line up that can hit 300 or so regularly, and if we degrade our bowling slightly to do it, I'd take it. I don't think Fahim is a massive downgrade bowling wise (or indeed if even one) on Junaid or Raees, and we have Malik, Haris (and potentially Amin) to serve as part timers.
Thoughts?