Unfortunately, I can't say the same. I barely saw Afridi as a cricketer.
Average bowling speed has to be atleast 10k more in this era comparatively. I don't think Razzaq dominated Brett Lee in any sense. Also in this day and age he would be certified bunny agianst guys like Rashid khan, Kuldeep.
How can it be true ?
An extremely unlikely scenario, but Bumrah too smacked Broad for a 35 run over in Tests. It's Cricket, anything is possible.
Yeah but that happened.
Faced... and failed TBH.
Failed in WC. Against Ind batting avg 8, bowling avg 90
What are you responding to?
Yes, but it never mattered as much as the wc, where Razzaq was a serial failure and choker against his biggest rivals.
I am sorry, but Bumrah is basically unplayable. People actively avoid him
the classic adage - Enpty vessels make the most noise.
What bilateral?? This guy just averaged 24 with bat, 40 with ball against India is ODIs. Isn't that mediocre?
Lol that's pathetic.
By that logic - even that guy Balaji smashed Shoaib Akhtar & Muhammad Sami for 6s in that 2004 series
Yea why not? If he can justify it, why not?
Its not about being triggered
I can see hin getting occasional success against any top bowler but won't be the norm obviously.
Respectfully, I disagree.
Every bowler gets bashed, it isn't possible for a bowler to not get bashed in their 10-15 year long career.
There’s a distinct lack of humility, awareness, and education that shines through when some of the Pakistani retired players open their mouths. Ajmal and Razzak among others come to mind right away having watched their interviews.
In the 2024 t20 WC match, Head scored 14 runs off 10 balls he faced against Bumrah. Bumrah gave away 29 runs in his 4 overs and also managed to dismiss Head later in the innings. On the whole, Head has had a slight edge over Bumrah in their encounters, but it has not been a lopsided affair. I agree with most of the other points you have made.
Really? Man I was sure Travis head bullied bumrah.
Worlds like bullied are too strong for t20 cricket. Head was throwing his bat around and some other day could have holed out to someone
What in trying to say is that so far in all of their encounters, Travis head has won more often then not.
Tbf to Razzaq, he may be a poor man's Hardick, but his innings against SA is superior to anything Hardick has done with the bat his entire career.
Razzak had a purple patch in 1999-00. Was easily the best allrounder in world cricket during that phase. Used to get Sachin out so many times
Bit harsh. That was actually an excellent leg cutter on a slow pitch. Munaf Patel was a pretty decent bowler on such pitches
No need to be aggressive or sly.
I think that’s the point though. Is there delusion in his statement, possibly, but cricketers will only talk about their capability at the peak of their powers.
Poor mans Hardik?
2000 runs in tests
As of now Hardik is a poor mans Razzaq and not the other way round.
Lol No
Bat avg of 28 and bowl avg of 37 in tests. Not good enough to make the team either as a batter or bowler.
The only thing Razzaq had over Pandya is that he's the better test player and in odi he has 3 hundreds overs 265 games but Hardick hasn't played anywhere close to that.
Whatever he has done in tests is better than Pandya who has already retired from tests.
Lol yes.
Okay so the bowling numbers are inflated due to era but the same doesn’t apply in batting? If you are adjusting averages then do it for both the departments.
Rizwan tried to do the same thing and we have seen the result out of it very recently
Razzaq > Pandya in test.
Razzaq on his day would hit out Bumrah, but those on his days would be very rare imo. For the most part Razzaq would get owned by Bumrah...
Yes. Not every time Razzaq can dominate a bowler like Bumrah. BUmrah would have the upper hand most of the time in today's era.
