You don't get it, Doc. Our batsmen are all ABdV-esque brilliant geniuses with a lot of talent and amazing TALENT and are very TALENTED. It is defensive captains like Misbah and Azhar that are holding them back, forcing them to play badly and slowly so that they become useless and don't live up to their amazing potential. Other teams are JEALOUS of our talent but we can't make the most of it due to a defensive mindset which leads them to bat badly.
Ok, first thoughts:
On a more serious note, I would be more disappointed with our bowling today than the batting. The difference between the teams were the spinners.
Shakib is an excellent LOI spinner, as good as Ajmal WAS (isn't any more based on an initial impression) while Arafat Sunny bowled decently despite chucking. We are always more reliant on our bowling and really should not be conceding 300+ because it is simply not possible for us to chase that, 97 times out of 100.
I thought the batting was decent today. Azhar did FAR better than expected, and while Haris seemed uncomfortable and faced a few too many dots, made a decent score. He is still very new on the ODI scene and should improve insha'Allah.
Rizwan was a revelation, but for anyone who's been following domestics, it wasn't entirely unexpected since he seems to be a good chaser. Could really have used some of Professor's minnow bashing here.
Batting order could've been better. But overall, considering that the top 7 barring Prof had played a combined 105 ODIs prior to this, it was OK.
Don't want to see Saad Nasim in the team again. He tried hard to emulate the usual contribution we get from our #7 (Lala) which was a 0, and that's appreciated but something slightly better would be nice.
