Pakistan v Zimbabwe | 1st T20I | Rawalpindi | 7th November, 2020 | Zimbabwe innings

It's not just about coaching. You need to have the desire to want to improve your fielding. Rauf is 27 and fielding like he has just started playing cricket.

The same Haris is made to put effort in the field while playing BBL.
Complacency has been hurting our cricket for decades.
 
What we really need and say what you want about Afridi but man we really need someone who can come in and just launch from ball 1 like he used to.

I honestly would much rather have Shahid Afridi over Shadab Khan. (Not saying right now as Afridi is retired but I'm just speaking hypothetically) I'd much rather take a number 7 who averages 18 @ 150 and can hit with ease than someone who averages 14 @ 125 and has to heave and ho to just get the ball over the infield. Plus Afridi was a better bowler as well. For all the hate Afridi he got he'd be pretty useful in the side right now.
Afridi the bowler was reliable but the batsman less said the better. Even Wahab can occasionally produce spectacular hitting display. I would take the new Shadab over Afridi the batsman. Here we are not talking about Shadab position but Faheems.
 
They have a very good chance infact. Our batsmen, bar Hafeez, are under tremendous pressure after the last game they threw away.

Pakistan should still make this but Chigumbura has given Zimbabwe some hope and momentum.
 
The same Haris is made to put effort in the field while playing BBL.
Complacency has been hurting our cricket for decades.

Lack of quality is what has been hurting. Other than Babar , no one in this rubbish team should be complacent.
 
Yeah he was always a little too lean as far as fast bowlers are concerned, however, I believe he's just a bit rusty as he's barely played any cricket this year. He's only 28 so I would have got him in the side for the T20I's at least to get him back into some form.

Officially 28, but Amir is on interview saying he was in Grade 8 in 2003. If you do the math, that makes him about 30 right now.

Add on top of that 1 year lost due to bodily wear and over bowling, and 2 years of an untrained body not bowling for 5 years, he’s near the end of his peak unless he manages his workload well similar to someone like Anderson or Akram.
 
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I'm interested to see how Rizwan and Haider do. Rizwan hasn't done anything with the bat so he needs to step up. Haider did well against England, this is a weaker opponent so a chance for him to get another score and cement himself in the T20 team.
 
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