Is the National T20 Cup being overestimated when the likes of Masood & Manzoor can score centuries?

[Sherlock]

Is the National T20 Cup being overestimated when the likes of Masood & Manzoor can score centuries?

Surely the quality isn't up-to standard when players like Masood/Manzoor can score T20 hundreds?

Or am I underestimating their talents and abilities, something of which I'm yet to see from either of these players all these years?

 

[maxamax]

Dont know about the cup but Manzoor was a seriously good opening option for tests.

 

[Abdullah719]

Both hundreds were in losses.

 

[mhraja]

Khurrum Manzoor's century should not be surprise he has score T20 century before, on back of that he was selected for Asia T20 Cup.

 

[pkwdpassion]

This is why its important to look at performances first-hand then relying on stats, its available on youtube watch the full innings of Shan Masood and compare it with for e.g. Sohail Akhtar. Both batted under lights in same conditions, watch Shan Masood score and compare with SohailAkhtar who made 70 odd chasing a huge total of Lahore blues w/ death bowling of Ali Shafiq.
Check the no. of misfields that ran to the boundaries,
looseners bowled at batsman,
no. of short of length dollies.
Drop catches, etc..
Don't know it was deliberate but Shan Masood was fairly fortunate to have faced a consistently lacking bowling unit who did most of the above-mentioned stuff when he was on the crease, whereas Asif Afridi or Sohail Akhtar faced more full of length, seaming deliveries from even young bowlers like Ali Shafiq. All Lahore blues players were moving the ball when FATA was batting.