Is Pakistan's bench strength batting much better than it's bowling?

[Bleedgreen4ever]

I felt on both the occasions that 280+ against an AUS side without Babar and Fakhar are good attempts.

Unfortunately on both the occasions our bowling only managed total of 2 wickets

Is our bench bowling that bad?
Should Pakistan axe Amir and Yasir permanently after this series?
Or is it Malik's captaincy?

Clearly we need to give chance to Musa and Umer Khan.

 

[coy0607]

280 on pitches where you need 350 isn't exactly impressive
neither is laboring your way to a 100 with a SR of 82 in these conditions

 

[ShahidDar08]

Which bench strength you are talking about?
Imam ul haq?
Haris Sohail?
Shoaib Malik?
Mohammad Rizwan?
Aamir?
Yasir Shah?
Imad Wasim?
Fahim Ashraf?

These all are with the team from past 4-5 years.

 

[Bleedgreen4ever]

280 on pitches where you need 350 isn't exactly impressive
neither is laboring your way to a 100 with a SR of 82 in these conditions

280 was way way par total in the Asia Cup

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Yes, been saying this for a long time.

Btw Malik and Hafeez should be on bench. 200+ matches are enough to see what they are capable of.

 

[Hasan123]

Our batting isn’t anything special whether it’s the first 11 or back up.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

No, it isn't. We didn't even select the best bowlers. Just selected based on experience and other reasons that would've made sense in the 1980s.

 

[Chokli]

they scored 280 on a pitch where 330-340 was par.

 

[shaaik]

We are way behind the other teams however its pretty good by our standards and it has the making of a top class batting unit with a bit of fine-tuning

 

[MenInG]

3 Pakistanis in that list but current guys....

 

[Plumb]

Our bench?? well bench looks empty at the moment.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Mediocre in all facets of the game. Bowlers can have a fluke day when they dismiss opposition cheaply but batting cannot chase anything over 300 against any team.

 

[TeymurBlake]

Both our bowling and batting looks barrel. We have some decent players in the domestic circuit but aren't picked.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Dont think there should be any doubts.

In bowling we dont have proper spinners plus apart from Shaheen and Hasan no first choice pacer. Hasnain should be in for world cup though.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Plus Pakistan's most prolific domestic one day batsman of recent times Saud Shakeel isnt playing this series. lmoa!

 

[Raja Danish]

plus pakistan's most prolific domestic one day batsman of recent times saud shakeel isnt playing this series. Lmoa!

how do rate his potential?

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

how do rate his potential?

I rate him very highly. For me one of the finest batsman in Pakistan and ideal for both odis and tests.

 

[Raja Danish]

I rate him very highly. For me one of the finest batsman in Pakistan and ideal for both odis and tests.

i like him too bro hopefully post world cup he will be selected in both odis and tests..

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

i like him too bro hopefully post world cup he will be selected in both odis and tests..

He is a must bhai. I am pretty confident that like Abid he wont disappoint. Btw good to see someone else has the same opinion.

Abid
Haris
Babar
Saud

should be our top & middle order in tests. These guys can win you series.