Name the Pakistan player who should have played more games for the team

[MenInG]

Fawad Alam comes to mind in recent terms but likes of Asim Kamal and Basit Al, and Mohammad Wasim are some other names too.

 

[JattMaula]

Lala should have played more tests.

 

[Yasir_ch]

Umar akmal should have played more tests.He was dropped unfairly by team management and misbah the destroyer of Pakistan cricket

 

[FollowThru]

Saqlain Mushtaq

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Mohammad Yousuf - had another 2-3 years in him, and he should’ve got 100 test caps but instead we replaced him with mediocre players like Shafiq and Azhar Ali.

 

[Markhor]

Taufiq Umar and Shoaib Mohammad - they had to sit out for parchis like Imran Farhat and Ramiz Raja.

Usman Salahuddin - debuted at a gloomy Headingley of all places and never seen again. Fawad Alam also should've played from 2017 onwards.

 

[cricket4all]

Mohammad Yousuf
Asim Kamal
Fawad Alam
Basit Ali



Misbah should have been given oppurtunity earlier in his career

Mohammad Zaid (due to injury)
Javed Miandad (should not have been dropped in 1993 as he could have still given a few more years especially as captain but politics, conspiracies and injuries stopped that)
Waqar Younis (should have learned more with using the new ball and may have got more games between 1996-2000.)

Atta-ur-Rehman (scapegoated but was he that good anyway?)
Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, Salim Malik (but all these have themselves and their greedy actions to blame).

 

[Saj]

Mohammad Asif just 23 Tests is a travesty. We know there are several reasons behind that number, but what a tragedy.

 

[Jazx]

Mohammad Asif- Though he destroyed himself
Umar Kamal- Destroyed by team management by neglecting him from tests and playing him at inappropriate and unstable batting positions in LOIs.
Basit Ali- Unlucky he was a part of the most corrupt team.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Fawad, Tabish, Muhammad Yousaf and Asim Kamal come to mind.

Shazaib Hassan is another.

 

[hitthestump]

Junaid Khan. 22 tests at an average of 31.

Junaid got nowhere near as much care and attention as certain other left armers for some reason. In and out the side before firmly out before his prime, which was puzzling as in the meantime zero other fast bowlers were found til Shaheen.

We'll never know if he was one that got away due to poor management. Deserved much more rope to develop.

 

[gazza619]

Basit Ali should have played that 96 WC instead of Miandad.

 

[ChTab]

In no particular order.

M Asif
M Amir
Shoaib Akhtar
Imran Nazir
Saeed Anwar
Umar Amin
Mohammad Zahid

 

[Ahmed216]

Misbah in tests
Junaid khan
Saleem ilahi in odis
Rana naved ul hasan

 

[cricket4all]

Umar Akmal if he used his brain and behaved could have been nearly as good if not better than his cousin Babar Azam. Such a waste.

 

[Zeshan547]

Umar Akmal if he used his brain and behaved could have been nearly as good if not better than his cousin Babar Azam. Such a waste.

He was good but not Babar level good even if he was most sane person, never had defensive technique and all round game like babar.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Fawad Alam comes to mind in recent terms but likes of Asim Kamal and Basit Al, and Mohammad Wasim are some other names too.

Assuming that we are talking about players who were axed due to either, not been given enough chances, or had their careers prematurely ended, (both cases due to selection and politics of PCB), I would not include Asif in the list for obvious reasons.

Fazl-e-Akbar and Asim Kamal come to mind.
Akbar was unlucky cuz he was trying to get into the team when the 2 W’s were at their peak but PCB didn’t care groom or invest in him, n Asim’s career was butchered by incompetence and internal politics of PCB.

I think investment in Asim Kamal would’ve paid a lot better than what was yielded by Hafeez.

I think Yusuf also had another year or two left in him but thanks to the nightmare in the form of Ijaz Butt.

 

[Saj]

Mohammad Amir - in Tests.

In theory he should have played 60 or 70 Tests by now.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

I know the query is different but...

Every Pakistani cricketer should have played more games in all formats - from Hanif to Fazal to Mushtaq to Imran to Zaheer to Miandad to Akram to Younis to Inzamam to Shoaib, the list is endless.

Tests since 14th Aug 1947:

England 779
Australia 656
India 540
West Indies 532
Pakistan 437
New Zealand 431

Even South Africa has played 349 tests despite being banned for decades.

Pakistan has played nearly half the matches (56%) of England, 2/3rds of Australia and only 80% of India and West Indies. Give these players an extra 20-30% of tests and see their records.

ODIs is worse. Since 1973 (invention of ODIs)

England 694
Australia 786
West Indies 580
India 694
Sri Lanka 578
New Zealand 577
Pakistan 532

T20Is you'd think Pakistan rules. Wrong again

England 99
Australia 97
West Indies 95
India 108
Sri Lanka 91
New Zealand 107
Pakistan 92

All Pakistan cricketers would have played more matches than they have because the dice is loaded against them. One can look at any reason but facts are facts.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Lala should have played more tests.

Totally agree, he should have played as an all rounder.

Azhar Mahmood and Abdur Razzaq also should have played more tests. Had the skill to take 200+ test wickets and 4000 runs

Asif with only 23 tests is a very short one, should have played atleast 50 , same goes to Amir
Both had the potential and skill to take 300+ test wickets. Chose the wrong path and faded away.

Asim Kamal was unjustly dropped

Umar Amin played 4 tests in England during the 2010 spot fixing trio and then didn’t get a chance at all

Usman Salahuddin got one test in England , played well in the 2nd inns where he literally carried the entire batting to reach a 100+ score was thrown away.

Sami Aslam was one of the promising prospects gone begging

Umar akmal shouldn’t have been dropped from tests

Fawad alam should have been persisted with in tests , now his time is over but with his fitness he is still playing cricket

Zulqarnain Haider showed glimpses of talent in his debut tour, but somehow things turned out to be disastrous for him that he will never ever return

Ahmed shehzad was another good prospect when he came in, but turned out be a cricketer who doesn’t know how to hold the bat after the head injury.

Haris Sohail late introduction and should have played more tests.
Shafiq should have played more ODIs, both of them had the talent but shuffled way too often by the clueless captain Misbah and the management

Hammad Azam another victim of inconsistent selection.

 

[Jazx]

He was good but not Babar level good even if he was most sane person, never had defensive technique and all round game like babar.

He was a better batsman than babar, but with a terrible presence of mind and temperament. But if he was given more chances in tests that could have improved. Also he was used more as a slogger or a finisher which does not suits his style of game instead of being used as a top order batsman in LOIs. I have a gut feeling that he could have been very successful if used as an opener in shorter formats.