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Mohammad Hafeez : "I am blessed to be very good in all three facets of the game"

There is no way he should be batting in top 6. If he has to remain in the team he has to be the bowling all rounder and he should be the only all rounder we should be playing with in the team. S Malik is needed to be replaced with Umer Amin who is a young batsman and can also bowl 3-4 overs
 
His blessing is on temporary basis.

Against minnows he is fully blessed, against top dogs he suddenly gets un blessed.

Fake professor. :yk
 
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Zaini said:
My dad was saying the same thing, Hafeez as a batter has been awful under misbah. Hafeez is hungary for the captaincy me thinks!
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Absolutely desperate for it.

Absolutely desperate.
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
Absolutely desperate for it.

Absolutely desperate.
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I'm a Hafeez fan, yet I'm sadly thinking the same thing too. Hafeez might not be a great bat, but he's been awful for the past two years. I do not understand how he's looking in good form in practice, making runs every match in T20s, yet doing nothing in ODIs. And throwing his wicket like no tomorrow. There seems to be a lack of application, it's not simply that he sucks (Though that's a factor).

Feeling rather uncomfortable about it. Rather he'd not become captain in ODIs, give it someone else. Unless he can actually start performing consistently with the bat.
 
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ads101 said:
I'm a Hafeez fan, yet I'm sadly thinking the same thing too. Hafeez might not be a great bat, but he's been awful for the past two years. I do not understand how he's looking in good form in practice, making runs every match in T20s, yet doing nothing in ODIs. And throwing his wicket like no tomorrow. There seems to be a lack of application, it's not simply that he sucks (Though that's a factor).

Feeling rather uncomfortable about it. Rather he'd not become captain in ODIs, give it someone else. Unless he can actually start performing consistently with the bat.
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The proof (for me) was when he took over the T20 captaincy and the first ODI that Misbah was captaining following a Hafeez captained T20.... Hafeez was trying to order the players around like as he himself was the ODI captain.

It was round about the time that he had fooled everyone into thinking he was the next big thing.

Ever since then he has been trying to increase his power at the think tank level.

It's only recently that Misbah has been able to "put him back in his place".

Hafeez is an awful captain anyway. Been saying it for ages. It will be proved eventually.

I hope we don't have to suffer his captaincy for too long.
 
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That wasnt great straight after a rain break.
 
A terrible shot tbh, first ball and hes giving the keeper catching practice
 
Hafeez never convinced me as a regular despite his run of form last year. Just not good enough.
 
Well, he didn't say he was blessed to be good in the mental aspect of the game
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
Has a place at 7 IMO.
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And this is the problem, too many players in the team vying for a number 7 spot.
Look, if we keep playing him he will pitch in with important wickets but his batting is why we play him. It's like Afridi all over again, shift the player up and down the order basis which facet of his game is in form.
Pakistan are in tough spot post misbah, they were grooming hafeez as his successor. Problem is the hafeez is not good enough. Maybe if we play in Abu Dhabi for the rest of his career yes.
 
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Pete Rose said:
And this is the problem, too many players in the team vying for a number 7 spot.
Look, if we keep playing him he will pitch in with important wickets but his batting is why we play him. It's like Afridi all over again, shift the player up and down the order basis which facet of his game is in form.
Pakistan are in tough spot post misbah, they were grooming hafeez as his successor. Problem is the hafeez is not good enough. Maybe if we play in Abu Dhabi for the rest of his career yes.
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Hes a full time bowler ranked in top 10 of the world.

His batting is good enough for 7.
 
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Hafeez is an awful captain.

Absolutely awful.

He overthinks. Pain and simple.
 
Will score and Hundred against Zimbabwe and say "Nothing wrong with my technique, I knew it was coming".

Just as he did after plyaing the worst test series one can ever think about and play a good T20 innings on a flat pitch against club level bowlers.
 
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Mobashir said:
Will score and Hundred against Zimbabwe and say "Nothing wrong with my technique, I knew it was coming".

Just as he did after plyaing the worst test series one can ever think about and play a good T20 innings on a flat pitch against club level bowlers.
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Precisely.

We just need a competent think tank to see through this sort of stuff.
 
Mediocre player. Bowling isn't that great either. Just bowls stumps to stumps and waits for the batsman to make a mistake - thats's how he gets wickets. Some of you pakistani fans want him to bat lower down so his batting average can improve a bit with not outs :)
 
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Energetic said:
Mediocre player. Bowling isn't that great either. Just bowls stumps to stumps and waits for the batsman to make a mistake - thats's how he gets wickets. Some of you pakistani fans want him to bat lower down so his batting average can improve a bit with not outs :)
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Whatever he's doing bowling wise. .. It works.
 
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Mobashir said:
It works, but as the poster said, that's not great bowling, that just good economic bowling.
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Which is valuable. And deserving of a spot in the 5 bowlers we select
 
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Mobashir said:
The 5th bowler should an all rounder or some batsman that bowl part time.
We can't afford Hafeez in our team as the 5th bowler.
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Hes the third or fourth bowler. Not the fifth.
 
His batting is baqwaas. Poor excuse for a batsmen.

His bowling isn't that great for what it is, plus misbah doesn't use him as an attacking option. he uses him more as a backup bowler coming late in the innings, that to picking and choosing overs, 'aah left handed batsmen is in, might try hafeez now'.

He is hungry for captaincy, you can see it in his face, he behaves in a manner in which he is above all. If he ever becomes captain, pakistan are doomed. A player that should be thrown out the team, leading pakistan.. ludicrous!
 
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Mobashir said:
Junaid, Irfan, Wahab and Ajmal are the 4 first bowler.
Aren't you watching the Champions trophy? Or even the series in South Africa?
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Not Wahab.
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
Hes a full time bowler ranked in top 10 of the world.

His batting is good enough for 7.
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This ranking stuff is fairly misleading. Afridi carried on playing basis these ranking well after his sell by date.
A good cricketer looks like a good cricketer....it's in the pedigree, you don't see it when hafeez plays. Sure he will cement his ranking after this playing against Zimbabwe etc....
Still doesn't take away from the fact that he is fundamentally crap.
Harsh yes, but fair as well.
 
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Pete Rose said:
This ranking stuff is fairly misleading. Afridi carried on playing basis these ranking well after his sell by date.
A good cricketer looks like a good cricketer....it's in the pedigree, you don't see it when hafeez plays. Sure he will cement his ranking after this playing against Zimbabwe etc....
Still doesn't take away from the fact that he is fundamentally crap.
Harsh yes, but fair as well.
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Hafeez is really hard to get away and lethal against lefties.

Not sure what you been watching?
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
Hafeez is really hard to get away and lethal against lefties.

Not sure what you been watching?
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Not the misleading rankings. Afridi, hafeez all on the same level for me....styles might different but the end result is the same mediocrity.
 
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Pete Rose said:
Not the misleading rankings. Afridi, hafeez all on the same level for me....styles might different but the end result is the same mediocrity.
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Hafeez is a better bowler than Afridi.
 
Hafeez is mediocre at best. He's been continuously exposed throughout his career. Shame on misbah
 
amjad145 said:
Hafeez is mediocre at best. He's been continuously exposed throughout his career. Shame on misbah
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Not misbah's fault tbh.
Pakistan have one solid year of cricket on the home pitches of UAE.....hafeez cemented his place on that solid performance.
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
So which Pakistani players aren't poor?
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Not too many 'batsmen' coming through. Need to give some new players a run. Not sure what Umar Akmal and Ahmed shehzad have done in their spell out of the team.
The former couldn't buy a run in domestic cricket last I checked.
 
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Pete Rose said:
Not too many 'batsmen' coming through. Need to give some new players a run. Not sure what Umar Akmal and Ahmed shehzad have done in their spell out of the team.
The former couldn't buy a run in domestic cricket last I checked.
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You didn't answer the question.

Which Pakistanis are not poor?
 
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Pete Rose said:
Batsman? Misbah, Shafiq....and that's about it.....the rest they need to find.
Bowlers: Ajmal, Rehman, irfan, junaid, I like Asad Ali....lets see how he goes.
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Misbah is aged 40.
Shafiq averages 28.

Ajmal is special.
Other bowlers are average and can barely hold a bat.

We have an awful awful side.
 
MR__KHAN__JI said:
Misbah is aged 40.
Shafiq averages 28.

Ajmal is special.
Other bowlers are average and can barely hold a bat.

We have an awful awful side.
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Misbah is currently the best batsman in the odi team.
Asad Shafiq is just started his odi career. His test avg, gives a glimpse of his pedigree.
I am happy for Asad to be given chances to get his average up. In Odis
 
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Pete Rose said:
Misbah is currently the best batsman in the odi team.
Asad Shafiq is just started his odi career. His test avg, gives a glimpse of his pedigree.
I am happy for Asad to be given chances to get his average up. In Odis
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Agreed.

We live in hope.
 
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Ouch.
 
most useless batsman ever, I have no idea why is this rubbish in the team[As a batsman]
 
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shah_1 said:
most useless batsman ever, I have no idea why is rubbish in the team[As a batsman]
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He is trying to get his career average over 28.
 
If you look at his batting stats carefully, only scores runs against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, India and Ireland bowling attacks.
 
Doesn't really seem like the guy who's been holding top places in ICC rankings over the last few years. As a batsman, he seems worse than a lot of tail enders in world cricket. Flukes here and there dont really hide his Afridiesque periods of utter mediocrity and cowardice. Just embarrassing for Pak to have a tail ender at the top of the order. Umar Gul bats better.
 
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Energetic said:
If you look at his batting stats carefully, only scores runs against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, India and Ireland bowling attacks.
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That's not something the selectors do.
 
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freelance_cricketer said:
Doesn't really seem like the guy who's been holding top places in ICC rankings over the last few years. As a batsman, he seems worse than a lot of tail enders in world cricket. Flukes here and there dont really hide his Afridiesque periods of utter mediocrity and cowardice. Just embarrassing for Pak to have a tail ender at the top of the order. Umar Gul bats better.
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I think his highest ranking is 40 odd as a batter. ...
 
Cant understand this obsession with trying to convert a tailender into a top order batsman..,okay if he had the guts, technique or strokes of Ashton Agar maybe..but Hafeez is not good enough to perform as a top order batsman even against kids in U15 World Cup
 
How many failures will it take before Hafeez is dropped for poor form? Or is his past achievements so great like Miandad that he cant be dropped..someone please enlighten me
 
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Majid Khan said:
How many failures will it take before Hafeez is dropped for poor form? Or is his past achievements so great like Miandad that he cant be dropped..someone please enlighten me
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Past achievements?
 
^ I am assuming its past glory as it surely cant be current or recent performances.. If I am not mistaken did Hafeez not get a 50 against Ireland and some runs against Hong Kong in the past, not to forget his achievements v Zimbabwe
So is the Little Master just going thru a bad patch? OR should he just retire and celebrate his success against the minnows
 
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Nothing wrong with his techniques... yeah leaving inswinging balls is not a deficiency.
 
Anyone know if Pakistan have any series against minnows coming up? Because if we havent then Hafeez might break the record of most consecutive failures without being dropped from the team
 
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Zimbabwe coming up
 
Okay so that should give Hafeez a chance to silence critics and prove class is permanent and form is temporary
 
Bits and pieces player. No way should he be an opening bat.
 
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It's because of Misbah. Hafeez is a rubbish player because of Misbah and that's a fact.
 
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Will need his bowling today.

Should open the bowling
 
14.2 Narine to Mohammad Hafeez, OUT, terrible mixup! Jamshed has to go, Hafeez went forward and knocked it softly towards cover and appeared to set off for the run, Jamshed charged away from the other end and it looked like Hafeez sold him down the river, Jamshed had to scamper back but it was too late as the fielder threw it to Narine, Jamshed had no chance
Nasir Jamshed run out 22 (37b 1x4 0x6) SR: 59.45
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Looks like Hafeez wants his opening spot back.....
 
The dream cricketer. Scores hundreds, takes bags of wickets, excellent at catching and running between the wickets. What a man. What a professor.
 
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