Pakistan v New Zealand | 1st T20I | Lahore | 14 April 2023 | Pakistan innings

Golden opportunity for Saim.

Babar looked in unusual touch throughout.
 
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Allah ka Fazl hai

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Summa Alhamdolillah

This is great. Now Saim and Fakhar can rescue us showing us that they are the perfect back up plan when RizBab don't score.
 
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Allah ka Fazl hai

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Summa Alhamdolillah

And you still spend your "amazing life" hating on a guy who doesn't even know you exist.
 
This is great. Now Saim and Fakhar can rescue us showing us that they are the perfect back up plan when RizBab don't score.

You don’t send openers when you have lost two wickets in the powerplay for a recovery

You need specialist middle order batsman

Guys who are brooded to deal with this situation
 
Saim and Fakhar need to score big today, and build a partnership, its a good chance for them to score.
 
And you still spend your "amazing life" hating on a guy who doesn't even know you exist.

This is the power I hold for being an anonymous poster here. That’s the purpose of this forum

Or am I supposed to be an ex cricketer who couldn’t make it to post here?
 
Strange shot by Babar. Why would you walk down to someone bowling 145+? Babar was quite late on that.
 
What are you doing Saim :facepalm

They will never ever let you bat in your actual position now!
 
How easy did that free hit shot look?

Just tells you that batting is much easier than our scardy cats make it look. It’s all about intent
 
This is the power I hold for being an anonymous poster here. That’s the purpose of this forum

Or am I supposed to be an ex cricketer who couldn’t make it to post here?

The power of hating someone who doesn't know about your existence, right....

...and then dissapearing when that guy proves you wrong to appear again when he does poorly.

Amazing life. They call it joblessness in our language.
 
Lowest number of balls played and highest number of runs. Saim Ayub among the top 4
 
The power of hating someone who doesn't know about your existence, right....

...and then dissapearing when that guy proves you wrong to appear again when he does poorly.

Amazing life. They call it joblessness in our language.

Babar never proves me wrong. Never

9 off 7

50 off 40

70 off 55

As an opener. @40 balls per six

He never proves me wrong
 
Fakhar Zaman 13 off 11 in the Powerplay.

Incredible how this guy never ever gets called out for his Powerplay Strike-Rate.
 
Babar never proves me wrong. Never

9 off 7

50 off 40

70 off 55

As an opener. @40 balls per six

He never proves me wrong

"Babar never proves me wrong."

Goes on to select 3 innings out of 100.

Genius.
 
The power of hating someone who doesn't know about your existence, right....

...and then dissapearing when that guy proves you wrong to appear again when he does poorly.

Amazing life. They call it joblessness in our language.

Why does Rizwan need to know about his existence in order for him to criticize him? Weird thing to say.

Rizwan has been useless for a long time now. I think we’ll see a lot of Rana here :)
 
Fakhar Zaman 13 off 11 in the Powerplay.

Incredible how this guy never ever gets called out for his Powerplay Strike-Rate.

When he opens

We will talk. Not when he comes at 1 wicket down, where the best batsmen in the world come and not hackers or bludgeoners
 
Haris should have been selected instead of that toxic girl Imad.

Pakistan team isn’t a teenagers club where players get selected and dropped based on how “toxic” they are :)))

Imad has been miles better than several in the team.

Also, you do know Haris is a top order wk batsman. I’m sure you know who is occupying that spot ;)
 
Milne is a class act.

Such a shame he has suffered so many injuries during his career.
 
Pakistan team isn’t a teenagers club where players get selected and dropped based on how “toxic” they are :)))

Imad has been miles better than several in the team.

Also, you do know Haris is a top order wk batsman. I’m sure you know who is occupying that spot ;)

Pakistan cricket is run by player agents
 
Pakistan team isn’t a teenagers club where players get selected and dropped based on how “toxic” they are :)))

Imad has been miles better than several in the team.

Also, you do know Haris is a top order wk batsman. I’m sure you know who is occupying that spot ;)

Imad is better than several in the team based on what ?

A PSL season ?
 
Saim and fakhar should be opening . Wrong to play them out of their positions
 
On what grounds Haris was dropped? If he is not injured, then this team deserves to be punished for this decision.
 
Isn’t that your premier domestic T20 tournament?

And Iftikhar/Nawaz haven’t really been setting the stage on fire either

It is our premier domestic T20 tournament indeed.

But, you previously called out Rizwan for being "useless for a long time now" while he recently was the top scorer of that same tournament.

Looks like we don't judge every player in the same manner.🙂
 
Muhammad Harris and Ihsanullah should have been in the playing XI.

Iftikar should not be in the squad at all and Zaman should be back up for Ishanullah.
 
What did Shan Masood do wrong to get dropped from No.3 position?

He scored a 50 at the MCG in the final last time he played at 3
 
It is our premier domestic T20 tournament indeed.

But, you previously called out Rizwan for being "useless for a long time now" while he recently was the top scorer of that same tournament.

Looks like we don't judge every player in the same manner.🙂

But Rizwan had been playing for Pak during that time, so why would I rate his performance based on a domestic tournament when I have the international stats to go off of.

I can’t say the same for imad though
 
I feel like saying it

The Mayor…

But I don’t have the energy to
 
How are people rating this lovely anchoring by aggressive Fakhar
 
I know pitch is good for batting, and i know its not the strongest NZ team, but Saim and Fakhar should open for PAK
 
We are being robbed of exciting opening from fakhar and saim . Babar and riz need to come down please !
 
Shadab at 5 and Iftikhar at 6 is an absolute joke. Needed Haris in there and another proper batsman.
 
As I have said several times, if there is one player between Babar and Rizwan who has to go to make way for Haris or Saim, it has to be Rizwan.

These two young guys are too good to be kept out for too long.

No matter how good Rizwan has been over the last 2 years, he is naturally not as gifted as Babar and never was on his level even after scoring more runs than him in recent years, which is visible in the struggling way he scores his runs, compared to Babar who looks at ease 9 out of 10 times.
 
Never change Rizbar. 17 off 17 balls against a depleted NZ bowling attack :)))
 
Why are sky sports not showing the game? It says they are supposed to show the match..

Where are you guys watching this?
 
But Rizwan had been playing for Pak during that time, so why would I rate his performance based on a domestic tournament when I have the international stats to go off of.

I can’t say the same for imad though

Rizwan was poor in the WC.

He was the best we had in the 2 years before the WC.
 
When he opens

We will talk. Not when he comes at 1 wicket down, where the best batsmen in the world come and not hackers or bludgeoners

Yeah Brilliant SR of 132 in the Powerplay in his career. That comes to less than 8 RPO in the powerplay. If he plays 20 balls, he's scoring an average of 26 runs. Amazing isn't it.

Now please go and change the goalposts for him.
 
Yeah Brilliant SR of 132 in the Powerplay in his career. That comes to less than 8 RPO in the powerplay. If he plays 20 balls, he's scoring an average of 26 runs. Amazing isn't it.

Now please go and change the goalposts for him.

Isn’t that higher than both Babar’s and Rizwan’s?
 
Saim has carried us to a 100 in 11 overs despite the failures of Rizwan, Babar and Fakhar.

Fakhar has massively under-achieved in this format, given his "agressive" and big-hitting image.
 
You are forgetting Asia Cup

Yeah, I forgot that.

Still doesn't change the fact that he was the best for 2 years.

They both were poor in both tournaments which was an unexpected surprise, and goes against them, even if they did have a stellar WC in 2021.
 
"Omg the middle order will be exposed if these 2 get out need to play very slow" hahaha
 
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