Next generation of Pakistan's batting

[Abdullah Rabbani]

Pakistan is famous of producing great face bowlers in the world but we have seen one of the all time greats in batting also like,
Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Saeed Anwar, Mohammed Yousaf , Younas Khan And Inzamam ul haq many other players shown there talent to become greats but after 2 or three years they fade away at the present time Pakistan team is looking good but there are much room to improvement in bowling and batting

India, England And New Zealand are top 3 teams at the moment in limited overs and there bench strengths is also good, Many teams are struggling these day's if there prime players are not in the team there replacement is not capable to fill the gap like Sri Lanka, West Indies, Australia and South Africa.

But Alhamdulillah Pakistan Have Great Talent In Domestic To Fill Gap In Every Position If You Need Problem is Like Dislike's And Wrong Unmerit Selection.

Following Young Player's Shown Some Talent In Pakistan Domestic And U19 Tournament's To Become One Of The Greats...

Note: Mostly These Days In Domestic Pitches Are Green Top Paradise For Fast Bowler's

Under 20 Players are.

Omair Bin Yousaf: Age 19
FC: 4M Average: 51.00 Runs:357 Hundred:2

LA: 5M Average: 29.00 Runs: 141


Rohail Nazir: Age 16
FC: 3M Average: 36.86 Runs 206 Hundred: 1


Anas Mustafa: Age 18
FC: 4M Average: 40.45 Runs: 310 Fifties: 2

LA: 5M Average: 30.80 Runs: 154 Fifties 1


Nabu Gul: Age 20
FC: 2M Average: 67.45 Runs: 264 Hundred: 2

LA: 7M Average: 33.85 Runs: 237
Fifties 2

Imran Rafiq: Age 20
FC: M8 Average: 45.23 Runs: 588 Hundred 2 Fifties 2

LA: M6 Average: 59.50 Runs: 238
Fifties 3

Saim Ayub And Mohammed Taha Has Also Shown Potential But Not Debut In Domestic.

Under 24 Player's Are Following.

Saad Ali Age 24
FC Matches: 54 Runs: 3607 Average: 45.08 SR: 51.15 Hundreds 9 Fifties 18

LA Matches: 45 Runs: 1528 Average: 46.30 SR: 84.09 Hundreds 1 Fifties 10


Saud Shakeel Age 23
FC Matches: 27 Runs: 1893 Average: 45.39 SR: 50.21 Hundreds 6 Fifties 12

LA Matches: 41 Runs: 1746 Average: 52.90 SR: 84.75 Hundreds 3 Fifties 13

Sami Aslam Age 22
FC Matches: 58 Runs: 3457 Average: 37.01 Hundred 10 Fifties 14

LA Matches: 75 Runs: 3520 Average: 50.22 Hundred 11 Fifties 20

Sahibzada Farhan Age 22
FC Matches: 14 Runs: 898 Average: 32.07 Fifties 8

LA Matches: 23 Runs: 1228 Average: 53.39 Hundred 4 Fifties 8

Khushdil Shah Age 23
FC Matches: 22 Runs: 1242 Average: 30.33 Hundreds 2 Fifties 7

LA Matches: 37 Runs: 1637 Average: 50.34 Hundreds 6 Fifties 9

Zeeshan Malik Age 21
LA Matches: 5 Runs: 352 Average: 70.40

All These Players Are Look Very Promising Hope PCB Took Care Not Mishandle Them That We Have Seen In The Past...

What's Your Prediction Which One Make Big ????????

 

[Ahmed216]

Under-20's - umair yousuf
Under-24's - saud shakeel

 

[Saj]

I don't blame them but the vast majority of our youngsters are more inteested in the PSL than the QEA Trophy and that is worrying.

 

[mastersaan10]

Well honestly, how can you blame these players? We All need to do what's best for our family. Playing qea honestly has done nothing for Sadaf and fawad, and they were the best so as a youngster why would I exert my body for 5 days to perform and get 0 recognition and ok money.

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

I don't blame them but the vast majority of our youngsters are more inteested in the PSL than the QEA Trophy and that is worrying.

That’s the only thing that makes sense. Players like Fawad Alam, Khurram Manzoor, Sadaf Hussain or any other performers in first class cricket don’t make the cut for the international cricket. One night wonders like Shahdab Khan gets to play all three formats with not enough to show for it. So why would a youngster waist his time in the scorching heat of four day matches if he can make quick bucks and a hell of a lot more fame in the international cricket via PSL?

 

[Syed1]

That’s the only thing that makes sense. Players like Fawad Alam, Khurram Manzoor, Sadaf Hussain or any other performers in first class cricket don’t make the cut for the international cricket. One night wonders like Shahdab Khan gets to play all three formats with not enough to show for it. So why would a youngster waist his time in the scorching heat of four day matches if he can make quick bucks and a hell of a lot more fame in the international cricket via PSL?

Well said. Although I don't agree with the use of Khurram Manzoor as an example since he has been given more than enough chances at international level to prove himself and he has failed spectacularly.

Not even one-hit wonder, Shadab Khan had two good matches in PSL 2 and he has been a part of our side in all three formats ever since all thanks to Inzi the revolutionary

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

Well said. Although I don't agree with the use of Khurram Manzoor as an example since he has been given more than enough chances at international level to prove himself and he has failed spectacularly.

Not even one-hit wonder, Shadab Khan had two good matches in PSL 2 and he has been a part of our side in all three formats ever since all thanks to Inzi the revolutionary

Khurram Manzoor was never in this type beast mode when he was given a chance at the international level. His PSL performances are disappointing though.

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

That’s the only thing that makes sense. Players like Fawad Alam, Khurram Manzoor, Sadaf Hussain or any other performers in first class cricket don’t make the cut for the international cricket. One night wonders like Shahdab Khan gets to play all three formats with not enough to show for it. So why would a youngster waist his time in the scorching heat of four day matches if he can make quick bucks and a hell of a lot more fame in the international cricket via PSL?

Yes Pakistan Cricket Never Improve Until We Select Players On There Long Domestic Performances Like Fawad Alam, Sadaf Hussain, Usman Salahudin And Tabish Khan,
From Selecting PSL They Destroy Our Cricket Like What Imran Nazir And Afridi Did It...

 

[Justcrazy]

Saud Shakeel should be in the squad straightaway .

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

It’s frustrating to see the lack of defensive technique in the next generation of Pakistani batsmen. Just saw the under 19 pentangular cup. Batsmen looked very uncomfortable in their defence and their response to good bowling were ugly cross batted shots.

 

[MMHS]

It’s frustrating to see the lack of defensive technique in the next generation of Pakistani batsmen. Just saw the under 19 pentangular cup. Batsmen looked very uncomfortable in their defence and their response to good bowling were ugly cross batted shots.

You expect to see defensive technique in a T20 tournament!!!

I think, there are few very good names in OP, I'll add Badar as well. Apart from Anas, I have seen at least clips of others (I think it's Nabi, not Nabu Gul), and some of them are quite natural. But, most of these players are not moving to next level from their U19 state, which is the biggest concern. They can't learn much from Domestic cricket after a certain level and unfortunately isn't picked for National/A team at right time. By now, at least Saud in squad of longer 2 formats & Khusdil in T20I, should have been regular.

 

[enkidu_]

even if he still doesn't have the stats to back him up as of yet, I think Nasir Nawaz (20) would be a good prospect as well.

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

You expect to see defensive technique in a T20 tournament!!!

I think, there are few very good names in OP, I'll add Badar as well. Apart from Anas, I have seen at least clips of others (I think it's Nabi, not Nabu Gul), and some of them are quite natural. But, most of these players are not moving to next level from their U19 state, which is the biggest concern. They can't learn much from Domestic cricket after a certain level and unfortunately isn't picked for National/A team at right time. By now, at least Saud in squad of longer 2 formats & Khusdil in T20I, should have been regular.

You need a solid defensive technique in all formats. Not every ball can manoeuvred for a single or struck for a six. Sometimes a solid block can send a message to the opposition.
Players like Saif Badar and Khushdil Shah don’t have any future. They are just overrated stat pedlars of flat tracks in domestic cricket. They would occasionally play a good knock on a difficult track and PPers would go gaga on them. But they are never going to be consistent enough to merit a place in the senior team.

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

You need a solid defensive technique in all formats. Not every ball can manoeuvred for a single or struck for a six. Sometimes a solid block can send a message to the opposition.
Players like Saif Badar and Khushdil Shah don’t have any future. They are just overrated stat pedlars of flat tracks in domestic cricket. They would occasionally play a good knock on a difficult track and PPers would go gaga on them. But they are never going to be consistent enough to merit a place in the senior team.

Yes You Are Right Palyers Which Have FC Average Near The LA Are Good Like Saud Shakeel, Saad Ali , Imran Rafiq, And Sami Aslam.

Saif Badar , Khusdil Shah, Nauman Anwar, Sahibzada Farhan, Husain Talat And Mukhtar Ahmed Very Poor In First Class Cricket

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

Best young batsmen in Pakistani domestic cricket

Pakistan Team Struggle To Beat Good Teams Regularly Our Main Problem Is Batting Department Where We Struggle Many Time We Need Consistent Young Batting Lineup Like Top 3 Teams,

Pakistan Need Consistent Performers In Pakistan Domestic We Have Good Batsman Problem Is Like And Dislike Of Selectors Many Batting Spot Need To Replace With Best Domestic Players...

Following Are Best Averaged First Class Batsman Under 24 !

Nabi Gul 62.45

Omair Yousaf 51.00

Saad Ali 47.00

Saud Shakeel 45.39

Imran Rafiq 45.23

Sami Aslam 40.65

Anas Mustafa 40.45

Rohail Nazir 38.86

Following Are Best Averaged List A Batsman !

Zeeshan Malik 60.40

Imran Rafiq 59.50

Sahibzada Farhan 53.39

Saud Shakeel 53.25

Khushdil Shah 50.34

Sami Aslam 50.22

Saad Ali 46.30

Which One Make Big In International Cricket What's Your Prediction ????

 

[Bullet Drive]

Seen Nabi Gul play, he's good against spin but terrible against pace.

Saad Ali needs to work on his foot movement, very static against fast bowling.

Zeeshan Malik looks most complete to me. As does Saud Shakeel & then Saif Badar.

Zeeshan Malik, Saud Shakeel & Saif Badar - the three to take us forward.

 

[Hamza_]

Ahsan Ali, Nasir Nawaz and Nauman Anwar.

 

[fluke]

Zeeshan Malik (mere city ka)

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

Ahsan Ali, Nasir Nawaz and Nauman Anwar.

These All Averaged 20's In Domestic

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Saud Shakeel in odis and tests should make it big.

Nasir Nawaz in t20s. Where is the guy now ?

 

[Hamza_]

[MENTION=147778]Abdullah Rabbani[/MENTION]

No Problem.

 

[Fahdi]

Saud Shakeel in odis and tests should make it big.

Nasir Nawaz in t20s. Where is the guy now ?

People on this forum mentioned he is another victim of politics in Pakistan cricket. Apparently he criticised the organization of a tournament and that was the last of him.

 

[Fahdi]

Saud Shakeel for Tests and ODIs.

Zeeshan Malik for ODIs and T20s.

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

Saud Shakeel for Tests and ODIs.

Zeeshan Malik for ODIs and T20s.

Saud Shakeel Is Also Good For T20's

 

[Ahmed216]

Sami Aslam, Saud Shakeel and Zeeshan Malik can make it big in odi's if given the opportunity

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Ideally Saud should be in the test squad over Asad Shafiq(not a fan of Asad) and Saad, Usman and Saud should compete for 2 places.

Secondly Saud is someone who can be groomed as future captain. I saw him captaining once in u-19 match and was impressed. Also heard good things about his captaincy. I see a future captain in him. May be in 5 years time he will be leading Pakistan as I honestly don't see any other good captaincy options apart from Sarfraz and Zohaib Khan (who wont get into the team). That being said would like to see more of Saud leading hia team in televised matches to make a better judgement. Haven't seen Zeeshan Malik who is also praised as a captain in u-19.

PCB has invested years into Asad Shafique. He is highly rated by those who matter hence he won't be dumped. Yes if he has 1 or 2 bad series than he will be dropped so if that happens than there will be a chance for youngsters to block his re entry if they can.


I don't see Asad blocking Saud's place to be honest.


With Hafeez gone (Alhamdoulillah) Pakistan must open with Azhar Ali. Shan or Fakhar should partner Azhar.

This way Haris, Asad, Babar & Saud can all play in playing eleven.


Now as I had shown my concern about Haris's knee couple of weeks back because of the SA grounds his weak knee is haunting him again.


It's time to get Saud on the plane.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

PCB has invested years into Asad Shafique. He is highly rated by those who matter hence he won't be dumped. Yes if he has 1 or 2 bad series than he will be dropped so if that happens than there will be a chance for youngsters to block his re entry if they can.


I don't see Asad blocking Saud's place to be honest.


With Hafeez gone (Alhamdoulillah) Pakistan must open with Azhar Ali. Shan or Fakhar should partner Azhar.

This way Haris, Asad, Babar & Saud can all play in playing eleven.


Now as I had shown my concern about Haris's knee couple of weeks back because of the SA grounds his weak knee is haunting him again.


It's time to get Saud on the plane.

Saad or Usman should replace Asad or Fakhar at 6 (preferably in Asia).

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Saad or Usman should replace Asad or Fakhar at 6 (preferably in Asia).

Usman is too slow for Int Cricket. Not needed.


His SR is too poor. Here is the latest evidence and that too against an A team.


Modern Day Test Cricket does not require such blockers.


Even in last FC season his SR was poorest amongst Top run getters. Inzamam does not fancy him for this obvious reason and I endorse him.


Saud & Saad should be in picture. Fawad, Usman, Iftikhar etc are too slow and do not fulfil the needs of modern Test batting.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Usman is too slow for Int Cricket. Not needed.


His SR is too poor. Here is the latest evidence and that too against an A team.


Modern Day Test Cricket does not require such blockers.


Even in last FC season his SR was poorest amongst Top run getters. Inzamam does not fancy him for this obvious reason and I endorse him.


Saud & Saad should be in picture. Fawad, Usman, Iftikhar etc are too slow and do not fulfil the needs of modern Test batting.

He will do well outside Asia with a decent strike rate.

His technique is good and overseas i give more weightage to technique.

 

[Khan12]

Usman is too slow for Int Cricket. Not needed.


His SR is too poor. Here is the latest evidence and that too against an A team.


Modern Day Test Cricket does not require such blockers.


Even in last FC season his SR was poorest amongst Top run getters. Inzamam does not fancy him for this obvious reason and I endorse him.


Saud & Saad should be in picture. Fawad, Usman, Iftikhar etc are too slow and do not fulfil the needs of modern Test batting.

Will still be an upgrade over shafiq.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Yes he had a very poor tour in both formats. But he is the best batsman at u-19 level in pakistan followed by Abdullah Shafique.

I hope both of them score big in Pentangular cup. Zeeshan will be our captain in worldcup most probably unless a new name emerged after Pentangular cup.

Identified him almost 5 years ago as a future prospect and sadly he is not on the radar even now.



What is He made of ?



1. Very very dedicated, passionate Cricketer.


2. Speaks well.


3. Hard working.


4. Takes his training very seriously.


5. Disciplined.


6. Intelligent and good learner.




Batting Style :

Reminiscent of Virat Kohli & Babar Azam.

A Classical, Dynamic batsman who plays shots all around the wicket with finesse touch and timing both against pace and spin. He is destined to play for Pakistan.



Babar, Saud, Haider, Abdullah, Huraira & Haris (wk) should be in plans of NCA, Selectors & Coaches wrt Pakistan Odi & Test teams of future. Haider even for T20i due to his power game.


We need replacements of Hafeez+Malik, (Haseeb ur Rehman is ideal) Azhar, Asad, Haris.



Sharjeel, Azam & Ahsan also need to get into shape as early as possible to be in the mix. Ahsan Ali deserves atleast one more series before getting discarded without getting proper chance. QG treated him v bad this year despite his improved fitness to favour ShooperEstaar Ahmed Shehzad. Just 2 innings for Ahsan in whole PSl was ridiculous.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Not to forget Saif Badar.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Just looked at Abdullah Shafique, excellent innings of 133 on first class debut for Central Punjab in the 19-20 QEA Trophy. Also only 20 years old. Only got that one match though.

I'm impressed but want to see more. Hope he gets more chances in this next QEA season.

 

[Cric_lover4487]

Guys where is Hamaad Azam? I liked him when he came to international scene. I thought he could fill the boots of Razzaq. Anwar Ali also disappointed me big time. I remember his U19 spell vs India. He crushed us and I did't ate food for a day. He definitely had natural ability with both bat and ball.

 

[shamaan]

Rohail nazir
Haider ali
Omair bin yousuf
Imran rafiq
Zeeshan ashraf
Abdullah shafique
Hurraira
Shakeel

 

[Saj]

By and large the majority of young Pakistani batsmen were poor at the PSL.

Haider Ali showed promise, Khushdil played some nice shots, but other than that there wasn't much to shout about.

 

[Khan12]

By and large the majority of young Pakistani batsmen were poor at the PSL.

Haider Ali showed promise, Khushdil played some nice shots, but other than that there wasn't much to shout about.

Can you name the others please who are young?

 

[Rayyman]

Not to forget Saif Badar.

Saud should come in in Tests. He also has potential in ODIs.

Once Azhar is dropped, Pak. should play a middle order of:

3. Babar
4. Haris
5. Shafiq
6. Saud

In Tests

 

[Nasty Naz]

By and large the majority of young Pakistani batsmen were poor at the PSL.

Haider Ali showed promise, Khushdil played some nice shots, but other than that there wasn't much to shout about.

Pretty hard to play and perform when you don't even get selected. Saif Badar got selected and didn't even play a single match.

It's so laughable how Pakistan cricket has this mentally of "senior cricketers need to continuously get chances" while if a youngster fails in a match or two, they basically get permanently discarded. The opposite should be true considering we know exactly what "seniors" are capable of and have peaked and are unable to improve unlike a youngster.

Who knows, it may end up being a good thing for these youngster to not play in some meaningless T20 matches where they could potentially be discarded if they happen to perform poorly which could easily happen in a T20 game that has high amounts of variability.

 

[Junaids]

Sorry, but I am not seeing the problem.

Imran Butt and Sami Aslam are both 24 and scored a mountain of runs in the QEA.

You need 6 batsmen in a Test team, and Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan fill two of those positions.

So what’s the problem? Just give Butt and Sami a year in the team.

 

[Greenstorm]

We need accomplished foreign coach to improve our batting. Babar became world class due to Mickey. Haider Ali will end up worse then Harris, Akmal, Maqsood under Misbah the loser.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Abdullah Shafique
Zeeshan Malik
Saud Shakeel
Imran Butt,
Rohail Nazir
Omair bin Yousuf
Saif Badar
Mohammad Mohsin
Haider Ali

Plenty to work with.

 

[Titan24]

Some decent names have been mentioned. Saw Mohammad Hurraira when he played against Afghanistan in U19 WC, he looked compact with good temperament.

 

[TeymurBlake]

We have young and hungry upcoming options to choose from going forward. Play domestic and make the most of it and hopefully make the most of it. Hafeez, Malik, Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali will not last forever. The only issue I can see is the facilities and coaching provided needs to be up to standard.

 

[Zaz]

Again we are seeing some very poor batting talent in pakistan domestic t20s

It seems these tournaments are full of avge batsman who can make 10-20 runs and then get out

Very little skill, brains or apptitude on display once again

 

[The cricket enthusiast]

Very alarming i must say .

 

[Shaka81]

Again we are seeing some very poor batting talent in pakistan domestic t20s

It seems these tournaments are full of avge batsman who can make 10-20 runs and then get out

Very little skill, brains or apptitude on display once again

There's very little batting talent in Pakistan and I think we can clearly see the biggest talents Babar and Rizwan will be competing at the top of the run scoring charts by the end of the tournament with very little competition from anyone else.

 

[Titan24]

Very alarming i must say .

Issue is that while there aren’t many but, the ones we have are not getting enough exposure in domestic cricket or PSL. There are 3-5 batsmen that can be marked as future but, they should be playing all the domestic as well as PSL they can regularly.

 

[shamaan]

Again we are seeing some very poor batting talent in pakistan domestic t20s

It seems these tournaments are full of avge batsman who can make 10-20 runs and then get out

Very little skill, brains or apptitude on display once again

Each team has gone with older players instead of giving a go to the youngsters for example Abdullah shafique,Qasim Akram
Irfan Khan, Ali imran are just a few names.

 

[shamaan]

Issue is that while there aren’t many but, the ones we have are not getting enough exposure in domestic cricket or PSL. There are 3-5 batsmen that can be marked as future but, they should be playing all the domestic as well as PSL they can regularly.

Exactly like Muhammed Harris he's second keeper for Pakistan in the odi format but can't make the playing xi