1) Fakhar Zaman
2) Saeed Anwar
3) Babar Azam
4) Mohammad Rizwan (WK)
5) Javed Miandad
6) Misbah Ul haq (VC)
7) Shadab Khan
8)Imran Khan (C)
9) Wasim Akram
10) Saqlain Mushtaq
11) Waqar Younis
12) Hafeez
Not a team that a lot of people would like.
Fakhar Zaman and Saeed Anwar would do great as opener. I wanted Imam ul haq in place of Saeed but I think Imam still needs to play more to be adjusted here. Fakhar Zaman has a 200 and an ICC mathcing winning final 100 against India.
Babar Azam at one down is a no brainer. While Rizwan is the best wicket keeper Pakistan ever produced.
Than we have Javed Miandad who was a great batsman and than Misbah ul haq aswell who was another great that could also change gears. His hitting against spinners was one of the best
Now alot of people would ask why I added Shadab. Well the batting needs to be deep and you need another good spinner in the line up cant have one. Saeed Ajmal was a chucker, while Shahid afridi and Mushtaq Ahmad took a wicket per match. Shadab Khan, accept it or not, but it the best spin bowling allrounder Pakistan has ever produced. Even his fielding is great.
There has been no better spin bowling allrounder in Pakistan. Hafeez comes up but Hafeez was a top order batsman.
Imran Khan is a no brainer, captaincy would be between him and Misab. Greatest allrounder of the game.
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis are no brainers. Saqlain Mshtaq the best spinner we ever had.
Hafeez 12th man. I wish he could be added cause in odi's you need a 6th bowler. You cant win an odi game with 5 bowlers only.
Yousuf and Inzamam omitted cause, Inzamam sucked at ICC tournaments and couldn't take pressure. Yousuf is hard to adjust as you either have to remove Miandad, Babar or Misbah. And all those 3 player were great at their position
You mentioned somewhere that you started watching cricket after 2010 so it somewhat makes sense because selecting Shadab over Afridi and Mushtaq and Misbah over Inzamam is utter madness.
Anyone who watch prime Afridi and Mushtaq bowl would tell you that Shadab is nowhere near them as a spinner in ODIs. Even if you started watching cricket in 2010, you should go for Afridi because the way he bowled in the 2011 World Cup is far beyond anything Shadab has produced in ODI cricket.
Shadab would be nowhere the team if he was from the same era. Afridi was better than him at everything including fielding. He was a proper athlete, not a walking injury like Shadab.
As a batsman he was obviously very inconsistent because of the way he played but in spite of his inconsistency, you look at his best ODI innings and Shadab is not remotely good enough to replicate that.
The wicket per game argument is flawed because it ignores other variables. Mushtaq and Afridi were sharing wickets with Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib and later Razzaq. Shadab would be also be taking less than a wicket per game if he was competing with these bowlers for wickets.
As far as Inzamam vs Misbah is concerned, it is like comparing Umar Akmal to de Villiers. Misbah was a decent ODI batsman who did a very crucial job in a very fragile lineup but he is not worthy of lacing Inzamam’s boots. The gulf between the two is humongous.
You just can’t have an all-time Pakistan ODI XI and pick Misbah over Inzamam, Yousuf, Zaheer Abbas and Saleem Malik. That is completely crazy.
As far as Inzamam and World Cups are concerned, it is true that he underperformed from 1996 onwards. However, the gulf between him and Misbah is too big for that to be a deal breaker.
