Thay have Simmons on the bench who scored their fastest 50 from an opener and yet only played 2 PSL games
Can you believe it? Horrible team management
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Thay have Simmons on the bench who scored their fastest 50 from an opener and yet only played 2 PSL games
Can you believe it? Horrible team managementThey lost because of shinwari,this is the problem when average/bad bowlers took wickets,you start thinking they are better than what they are and give them more responsabilities.Can happen with iu too on sunday if they give faheem a go in the powerplay.
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Well, yesterday´s match is a prime example of the fact that wickets in hand count for nothing if your batsmen aren´t keeping an eye on the required run-rate. A bizarre run-chase which they lost by 13 runs despite losing only two wickets in the innings. Denly´s innings overall doesn´t look all that bad, but Babar Azam should´ve batted at the pace required. I pity the fact that an in-form hitter like Ingram walked out to bat with only nine balls left. Not to forget of course here is Karachi´s awful bowling and fielding the last two matches - which happened to be in the play-offs.
All in all, feel happy for the Lahore crowd who got a couple of very good matches to witness. Kudos to the curator who prepared a couple of very good T20 pitches. Over to Karachi on Sunday!
I was surprised to see him not playing the very next game after scoring that fifty, and another two after that of course. I could be entirely wrong here in guessing this, but I think he was kind of being harshly punished for his slow batting in that Super Over run-chase against Lahore. If indeed it is so, then that´s foolish because he batted really well in the main part of that match.
All in all, feel happy for the Lahore crowd who got a couple of very good matches to witness. Kudos to the curator who prepared a couple of very good T20 pitches. Over to Karachi on Sunday!
Thay have Simmons on the bench who scored their fastest 50 from an opener and yet only played 2 PSL games
I was surprised to see him not playing the very next game after scoring that fifty, and another two after that of course. I could be entirely wrong here in guessing this, but I think he was kind of being harshly punished for his slow batting in that Super Over run-chase against Lahore. If indeed it is so, then that´s foolish because he batted really well in the main part of that match.
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The backstory to England’s 2010 World T20 win - still their only triumph at an ICC white-ball event - is well worn.
A few weeks before the tournament, they warmed up with a match against England Lions in Abu Dhabi. The big boys were soundly beaten by five wickets. So dashing were the rapid half-centuries by the second-stringers’ openers, Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter, that they were drafted straight into the squad, at the expense of the rather straighter Jonathan Trott and Joe Denly. The biffers replaced the plodders, and the rest is history.
Fast forward eight years and, while both Lumb and Kieswetter have been forced to retire prematurely through injury, the plodders are still playing and Denly is a cricketer transformed.
His 15th season as a professional is upon him, and it follows a winter during which, almost by stealth, he has become all the rage in, yes, T20 cricket, having played for various teams in the leagues of Bangladesh, Australia and Pakistan.
As a stylish, straight and powerful batsman, excellent fielder and handy leg-spinner, he has become a favourite value pick of a new breed of T20 analysts, not least because he scores as quickly against spin as seam.
Denly has represented Dhaka Dynamites, Sydney Sixers (where he arrived with the team winless from six games before winning the four games he played) and Karachi Kings, and is now back at Kent, where he will be captain for the summer’s early weeks, with Sam Billings at the IPL. It is back to red-ball cricket for Denly now (he scored 1,165 Championship runs, including four centuries last year) as Kent’s season starts against Gloucestershire at Canterbury on Friday, but he is not forgetting his winter in a hurry.
If the Big Bash, where he replaced then outshone Jason Roy and looks set to return next year, was the competition he had dreamed of playing in, travelling to Lahore in Pakistan to play the latter stages of the PSL was approached with greater trepidation.
He discussed it at length with his family, took advice from the England security advisor Reg Dickason, who oversaw the trip, and other players who had travelled to Pakistan recently.
“I’m so glad I made that choice,” he says, “because the feedback I’ve had from all over the world was great. I think my Twitter followers doubled in 24 hours! I felt completely safe and the whole experience was memorable.
“Talking to the Pakistan players and people involved in Pakistan cricket and how desperate they were to take the game back there...they were all very positive about how much we would love the experience. They weren’t wrong, and to be part of that was amazing.”
Denly knows these opportunities are coming because although his game has not changed stylistically, he is simply a better batsman than he was in 2010. The leagues are improving him, too, with the responsibility of being a senior player and overseas star.
Speak to many around the county circuit and they say Denly would strengthen England’s T20 team, despite the depth of white-ball talent. He seems sure he would do much better at international level now but seems unlikely to receive a recall, as England’s T20 team is often used to develop younger players. He has had no contact with the national management, although the selectors could do much worse than get in touch if there were injuries.
“I was gutted to be dropped but looking back it was the right decision,” he says.
“For a couple of years after I was playing with a lot of baggage and was desperate to be recalled but I’ve learnt to accept that you are going to fail sometimes, and I’m at ease with that.
“I’m 32, confident in my own game. I deal with pressures within the game well and am much more relaxed than I was when I played for England. In hindsight I probably played for England too early and didn’t do myself justice with that opportunity.
“Now, I just enjoy my cricket. Keep it simple, watch the ball, play proper cricket shots — there’s nothing too funky about my batting!
“That’s made me a much better player than I was back then.”
Perhaps Denly need not be yesterday’s man after all.
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cr...destroyer-for-the-sydney-sixers-a3810176.html
A few weeks before the tournament, they warmed up with a match against England Lions in Abu Dhabi. The big boys were soundly beaten by five wickets. So dashing were the rapid half-centuries by the second-stringers’ openers, Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter, that they were drafted straight into the squad, at the expense of the rather straighter Jonathan Trott and Joe Denly. The biffers replaced the plodders, and the rest is history.
Fast forward eight years and, while both Lumb and Kieswetter have been forced to retire prematurely through injury, the plodders are still playing and Denly is a cricketer transformed.
His 15th season as a professional is upon him, and it follows a winter during which, almost by stealth, he has become all the rage in, yes, T20 cricket, having played for various teams in the leagues of Bangladesh, Australia and Pakistan.
As a stylish, straight and powerful batsman, excellent fielder and handy leg-spinner, he has become a favourite value pick of a new breed of T20 analysts, not least because he scores as quickly against spin as seam.
Denly has represented Dhaka Dynamites, Sydney Sixers (where he arrived with the team winless from six games before winning the four games he played) and Karachi Kings, and is now back at Kent, where he will be captain for the summer’s early weeks, with Sam Billings at the IPL. It is back to red-ball cricket for Denly now (he scored 1,165 Championship runs, including four centuries last year) as Kent’s season starts against Gloucestershire at Canterbury on Friday, but he is not forgetting his winter in a hurry.
If the Big Bash, where he replaced then outshone Jason Roy and looks set to return next year, was the competition he had dreamed of playing in, travelling to Lahore in Pakistan to play the latter stages of the PSL was approached with greater trepidation.
He discussed it at length with his family, took advice from the England security advisor Reg Dickason, who oversaw the trip, and other players who had travelled to Pakistan recently.
“I’m so glad I made that choice,” he says, “because the feedback I’ve had from all over the world was great. I think my Twitter followers doubled in 24 hours! I felt completely safe and the whole experience was memorable.
“Talking to the Pakistan players and people involved in Pakistan cricket and how desperate they were to take the game back there...they were all very positive about how much we would love the experience. They weren’t wrong, and to be part of that was amazing.”
Denly knows these opportunities are coming because although his game has not changed stylistically, he is simply a better batsman than he was in 2010. The leagues are improving him, too, with the responsibility of being a senior player and overseas star.
Speak to many around the county circuit and they say Denly would strengthen England’s T20 team, despite the depth of white-ball talent. He seems sure he would do much better at international level now but seems unlikely to receive a recall, as England’s T20 team is often used to develop younger players. He has had no contact with the national management, although the selectors could do much worse than get in touch if there were injuries.
“I was gutted to be dropped but looking back it was the right decision,” he says.
“For a couple of years after I was playing with a lot of baggage and was desperate to be recalled but I’ve learnt to accept that you are going to fail sometimes, and I’m at ease with that.
“I’m 32, confident in my own game. I deal with pressures within the game well and am much more relaxed than I was when I played for England. In hindsight I probably played for England too early and didn’t do myself justice with that opportunity.
“Now, I just enjoy my cricket. Keep it simple, watch the ball, play proper cricket shots — there’s nothing too funky about my batting!
“That’s made me a much better player than I was back then.”
Perhaps Denly need not be yesterday’s man after all.
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cr...destroyer-for-the-sydney-sixers-a3810176.html
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Not bad. Gets the ball to move either way. His e/r is through the roof though, which is to be expected given he has been picked from a talent hunt.
Fair play to Rashid Latif for sorting this. That is the difference between him and Aqib Javed. AJ says the likes of Ehtisham Sultan are good enough to play for Pakistan and then doesn't even bother to help Sultan sign for a domestic team, whereas RL follows through on his word and gets things done.
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Good to see Kalhoro doing well, don't think we have had many Sindhis playing for Pakistan. (By Sindhis I mean people of interior Sindh not Karachi/Hyderabad)
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I was trying to work out who his action reminds me of, and it's Waqas Ahmed (Mushtaq is a taller, thinner version).
Let's see if Mushtaq that can get that sort of control though.
Let's see if Mushtaq that can get that sort of control though.
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