Mohammad Hafeez, oh so untouchable Mohammad Hafeez

[Pete Rose]

Yes because we’ve never seen a Pakistani collapse before. Whether it’s your new young talent or old world class players, put us on a pitch that does something and doesn’t matter who the bowler is we are gonna collapse.

Just look at Hamilton v nz 2001, vs aus 2003 in Sharjah vs Ireland in 2007. Again and again we collapse because our youngsters just aren’t brought up with the correct technique and temperament and can’t stick around long enough to make ugly runs. And our seniors lack bottle but we can not discard the whole team otherwise we would be like Bangladesh of 10-20 years ago.

All these fakhar Zaman’s harris sohails sharjeel Khan’s as pure batsmen are very weak in bouncy conditions So might as well have somebody who can contribute a little with the ball when cleared.

But I would maintain there’s only room for one of Shohaib or hafeez and I would pick hafeez.

Maths holds up well.
We have lost badly a few times with world class players in tough conditions = we have lost badly every time with mediocre players in tough condtions

 

[Abid Z]

Maths holds up well.
We have lost badly a few times with world class players in tough conditions = we have lost badly every time with mediocre players in tough condtions

Maths is fine as is history and memory. India odi series was tough conditions and hafeez did ok. Was worlds top ranked all rounder for a while. So your little play on words doesn’t work at all.

Look I’m not trying to suggest that he’s the messiah. Just want you and others to accept that change of odd personnel here and there is not gonna fix anything. The whole batting line up is rubbish and hafeez is definitely not the worst in the eleven.

Nor do I think

 

[Abid Z]

What's the point of including a player for his bowling when he's banned from BOWLING.

Enough of his mediocre player, there's Agha Salman and Iftikhar Ahmed, both are off spinners.

Hafeez will bowl soon.

I honestly don’t know these others as I can’t follow domestic tournaments live in Uk but if PP hype machine is anything to go by then must exercise extreme caution.

 

[Pete Rose]

Maths is fine as is history and memory. India odi series was tough conditions and hafeez did ok. Was worlds top ranked all rounder for a while. So your little play on words doesn’t work at all.

Look I’m not trying to suggest that he’s the messiah. Just want you and others to accept that change of odd personnel here and there is not gonna fix anything. The whole batting line up is rubbish and hafeez is definitely not the worst in the eleven.

Nor do I think

It will fix everything. All rounder ratings are a joke in the modern era. But sure you hang your hat on cherry picking in a career defined mediocrity

 

[RagingJ]

Maths is fine as is history and memory. India odi series was tough conditions and hafeez did ok. Was worlds top ranked all rounder for a while. So your little play on words doesn’t work at all.

Look I’m not trying to suggest that he’s the messiah. Just want you and others to accept that change of odd personnel here and there is not gonna fix anything. The whole batting line up is rubbish and hafeez is definitely not the worst in the eleven.

Nor do I think

He offers nothing with the bat, ball or in the field.

He's on par with Azhar for being the worst, at least Malik right now can bowl and field at a decent level despite struggling with the bat.

 

[Abdullah719]

He offers nothing with the bat, ball or in the field.

He's on par with Azhar for being the worst, at least Malik right now can bowl and field at a decent level despite struggling with the bat.

He can take catches

 

[RagingJ]

He can take catches

Ah, he's finally successful with that catching technique!

 

[Canistani Hero]

5 years ago I made this thread. Hafeez lives on. What nostalgia

 

[A-1]

This guy is the epitome of mediocrity. As an all rounder, he merits a place in the team but solely as a batsmen he's rubbish and its beyond me why he keeps getting selected.

Feel like we are playing with 10 people when I see him in the lineup.

 

[shah_1]

He can take catches

Maybe you forget his misfeild in World T20 2007 final, dropped the catch and ball went over the rope for a six due to his misfeild. Interesting incident and we blame Misbah for last shot

 

[Pete Rose]

This guy is the epitome of mediocrity. As an all rounder, he merits a place in the team but solely as a batsmen he's rubbish and its beyond me why he keeps getting selected.

Feel like we are playing with 10 people when I see him in the lineup.

To get a sense of the mediocrity, he has to chuck the ball to be a remotely effective all rounder

 

[MRSN]

Maybe you forget his misfeild in World T20 2007 final, dropped the catch and ball went over the rope for a six due to his misfeild. Interesting incident and we blame Misbah for last shot

He dropped Jadeja who went on to score almost match winning 50

 

[shah_1]

He dropped Jadeja who went on to score almost match winning 50
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Match?

 

[A-1]

To get a sense of the mediocrity, he has to chuck the ball to be a remotely effective all rounder

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

 

[MRSN]

Match?

asia cup 2014

 

[Abid Z]

Both jokers scoring great centuries today

Why people still support Malik and Hafeez?

Because once in a while hafeez does ok. Not a century but good enough. He’s never gonna turn a match around but right now not the worst person in the team. He will be bowling soon or another off spinner will turn up.

 

[Mamoon]

Because once in a while hafeez does ok. Not a century but good enough. He’s never gonna turn a match around but right now not the worst person in the team. He will be bowling soon or another off spinner will turn up.

He will bowl soon but he will also be banned again. He scores just about enough runs to avoid getting dropped, but he fails in about 70% of his innings. That is not good enough for a senior batsman with so much experience.

It is time for Mickey to make a tough call here. The team is going nowhere with his soft runs.

 

[Abid Z]

He will bowl soon but he will also be banned again. He scores just about enough runs to avoid getting dropped, but he fails in about 70% of his innings. That is not good enough for a senior batsman with so much experience.

It is time for Mickey to make a tough call here. The team is going nowhere with his soft runs.

Agree with this except that he should not be the first to be dropped. I know the batting is hopeless (I.e) without hope, but the bowling should be the easier of the bowling so to fix. A couple of personnel changes and it will be a good all weather bowling unit with good bench strength.

 

[Abdullah719]

He is back opening the batting, and 'delivering'

 

[Amjid Javed]

Hafeez will be around in another 10 years showing how blessed and "talented" he is in all facets of the game!

 

[Shafi]

Unfortunately Micky does not have power to kick Hafeez out. He will loose his job. Our captain is a yes man of PCB so he is no good for Micky as support.

 

[Canistani Hero]

An average of 10 in his last 6 games, it's hardly a surprise Pakistan's captain-in waiting is beginning to frustrate Pakistani cricket enthusiasts. Most believe and perhaps rightly so, that he manages a place in the team on the basis of his bowling prowess. That's not far from the truth, Hafeez's usual neat and tidy spells add a unique dimension to Pakistan's bowling attack, a glaring consequence of which is their much exposed batting fragility.

His temperament may have quenched in today's innings but is usually sound, however, one can hardly say the same for his rigidly flawed technique. He seemed rather confident facing the likes of Narine and the trundler-friendly pace of Sammy and who can blame him? When you struggle as much against the moving ball as he does, you hope and pray for the openers to play it out. Usually, they don't. Today, Shehzad and Jamshed shocked even the Guyana sunshine in managing to do so.

Hafeez would have been relieved to have gotten a start. A healthy 20 at a great strike rate, it looked like it was all coming together. A partnership building. Jamshed's luck as ripe as ever but this was Pakistan's chase. Something had to give. Pressure. They had to make it dramatic. There had to be a collapse. Misbah already had his pads on. Hafeez gave in to the script, danced down the track and hit Narine straight down the throat of Lendyl Simmons at long-on. That moment of madness initiated Pakistan's inevitable collapse. They could have blocked, they could have bonked - the end result was already in fine print.

Some are deluded enough to think Hafeez will drop down the order, hell, he's come down a spot to accommodate Shehzad, he's done the nation - a favor. It's a pity, they fail to understand the dynamics of Pakistani cricket. A captain-elect being dropped is hard to fathom, especially when his presence is pivotal to their bowling attack, as damaging as it might be to their batting lineup.

It begs the question..who can give Mohammad Hafeez, the oh so untouchable Mohammad Hafeez - the wake up call, he so dearly needs.

almost 6 years ago..how time flies

 

[Pete Rose]

Not much has changed. A success rate of one performance every five games.

 

[Hasan123]

Needs kicking out after the WC.

 

[Rellu_Katta]

Misbah on Hafeez --

As far as Mohammad Hafeez is concerned, he has a NOC and he is playing in CPL, we will consider him later - no one is out of our plans

 

[Danyaalr01]

He clearly is out of plans if he wasn't called back from CPL like all the other players were.

 

[Rellu_Katta]

Misbah on Hafeez --

If it was about friendship with Hafeez then we should have seen the effects of that now; We have to be professional about this and plan things properly; Hafeez is still playing cricket but we had a chance to give an opportunity to one or 2 guys who were not getting a chance, to utilize them

"Hafeez and Malik are both there and we have to go to Australia and a few T20s are also coming up so before World Cup we have many chances so after looking at everything we need to make a balanced side for the World Cup"

"You cannot write off Hafeez and/or Malik as in the past few T20 games they have had good performances"

 

[OMB]

Mohammad Hafeez - not out (27 off 18) with 5 fours
Hafeez is leading the way today

Old is gold?

 

[SangasCoverDrive]

Hafeez’s golf club membership has expired now

He was in some amazing form in T20s in 2020 even though it could be said that the most of the runs he scored was against substandard attack if you take out the NZ series but now it seems like his purple patch is over. Shamsi landed him back on earth and after that he failed against club level bowling of Zimbabwe.

The only question is for how long will Pakistan continue to carry him?

 

[TeamPak95]

Hafeez's 2020 t20 form has booked him this year's world t20, regardless of his 2021 form up until now. Besides, if folks really want him gone then who are you gonna replace him with?