[PICTURES] Shan Masood: Performance Watch

[gazza619]

I urge PCB to give up on him. They have wasted a decade on someone who never was and never will be good enough for international cricket.

One can hope that this would be the last time he will represent Pakistan in any format.

For a change I agree with you.

Shan is the worst to happen to our T20 XI. He hardly takes any risks as such he would occasionally chip in with a 30 ball 35 to keep his spot.

 

[Ozeirk]

For a change I agree with you.



Shan is the worst to happen to our T20 XI. He hardly takes any risks as such he would occasionally chip in with a 30 ball 35 to keep his spot.

Shan Masood proves himself again.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Shan Masood proves himself again.

There is old observation in cricket and it does have some truth ... two negatives become one positive. A terrible batsman plays well on a terrible pitch. And that's exactly what happened today.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Shan Masood proves himself again.

There is an old observation in cricket and it does have some truth ... two negatives become one positive. A terrible batsman plays well on a terrible pitch. And that's exactly what happened today.

 

[asadee]

His boundaries made a big difference otherwise we could have panicked again

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

Shan has been decent in this tournament. And in a ideal world we would have someone better. However what his haters don't get is he was one of the top players in both PSL and National T20. He is in this squad on merit, its not like we had better options at the moment.

 

[Ozeirk]

Shan was exactly what we needed in the situation he came in. Someone like Iftikhar would have tried to go for hits and would have bottled it. Shan knew singles, doubles and odd boundaries is what we needed and that's exactly what he got. He is a good player to have in the team.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Shan Stokes

 

[Grunge101]

Played at a miles better SR than the openers. And that too without taking huge risks.

 

[Rana]

Bad news for Pakistan

He’s sealed his spot for the Semi Final

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

This was his best performance by far, but the issue remains that he is completely out of palace in this line-up and will cost us when setting a score, or chasing any remotely challenging total.

We are stuck with him now, so I hope he proves me wrong for Pakistans sake

 

[IMMY69]

He needs to open in the Semi with Rizwan....

 

[Kianig89]

If you leave out Rizwan and Babar then Shan is ideal for this time but 3 players of same calibre just weakens the side

 

[Rana]

If you leave out Rizwan and Babar then Shan is ideal for this time but 3 players of same calibre just weakens the side

All 3 should not be in the side

I honestly would bring in KHA (Khushdil, Haider and Asif) for these three and just go hell for leather like we did against SA

 

[MenInG]

Liked the way he played today and got us through in the end.

 

[moghul]

Played well today , Haris and Shan played a big role in taking the team home. Babar and Rizwan had made it very difficult.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Liked the way he played today and got us through in the end.

Played well today , Haris and Shan played a big role in taking the team home. Babar and Rizwan had made it very difficult.

He can't, and probably won't be able to play like this against NZ.
Easy to bash minnow bowlers but we all know his worth against top quality bowling.

 

[Rana]

He can't, and probably won't be able to play like this against NZ.
Easy to bash minnow bowlers but we all know his worth against top quality bowling.

This is the concerning issue

Pakistan will walk in the semi final with three liabilities who are sponsored by Grey Nichols

 

[shamaan]

He played well against Bangladesh but he must show the same intent against New Zealand

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Liked the way he played today and got us through in the end.

He is quite cool headed. Limited in talent, but knows his own game very well and plays according to the situation. Reminds me a bit of Shoaib Malik.

 

[MenInG]

Shan will likely replace Imam-ul-Haq as he is out of the 3rd Test due to injury

 

[MenInG]

Poor shot! Looked set to me

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[Amjid Javed]

Mediocre player failed again, time to move on from recycling rubbish.

 

[msb314]

Shan needs to be booted out ASAP

 

[Mamoon]

Congratulations to Masood.

His brilliant 30 took his home average against England to 17.60 from 14.50.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pakistan need to move on from TTFs like Shan for next series vs New zealand.

 

[MenInG]

I know we had to be positive but this?

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[Mamoon]

[MENTION=147292]RedwoodOriginal[/MENTION]

Time for a new thread, please. “Shan Masood is not good enough”

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

[MENTION=147292]RedwoodOriginal[/MENTION]

Time for a new thread, please. “Shan Masood is not good enough”

I'll make that thread as soon as you make a thread about how "India has the best T20 bowling attack in the world".

 

[SpiritOf1903]

But speaks eloquent English yaar.

He said such beautiful British words.

He's tripe

 

[amvbfm]

He never was international material and at his age never will be. Unfortunately don't see him going anywhere and with Azhar gone he will most likely hog the one down position for another year at least.

 

[Mamoon]

10 years, 33 years old, 26 Tests, average less than 30. I think there should be a study on the mental health of the people who vouch for his inclusion in the side & think he will come good.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Garbage batsmen, another one that should retire.

 

[James]

I can’t see a reason why Shan cannot be successful in Tests.

He has loads of red ball experience having played 140+ FC games with a decentish record, he looks like a comfortable enough starter, and he is going to be a big success at Yorkshire where he will pile up the runs and lead from the front.

In both innings of this Test he seemed to look entirely untroubled and then just gave it away with a careless shot.

Surely the issues here are mental.
He can sort this out. Or should be able to.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

I can’t see a reason why Shan cannot be successful in Tests.

He has loads of red ball experience having played 140+ FC games with a decentish record, he looks like a comfortable enough starter, and he is going to be a big success at Yorkshire where he will pile up the runs and lead from the front.

In both innings of this Test he seemed to look entirely untroubled and then just gave it away with a careless shot.

Surely the issues here are mental.
He can sort this out. Or should be able to.

Ramprakash was ten times the cricketer and failed at Test level.

At least he's guaranteed a Sky Sports interview

 

[James]

Ramprakash was ten times the cricketer and failed at Test level.

At least he's guaranteed a Sky Sports interview

Funnily enough I was thinking about Ramprakash, and Hick, and James Vince (etc) when I was typing up the post.

There is something about Test cricket that just mentally defeats certain perfectly good players.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

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[SpiritOf1903]

Funnily enough I was thinking about Ramprakash, and Hick, and James Vince (etc) when I was typing up the post.

There is something about Test cricket that just mentally defeats certain perfectly good players.

England has a full squad in last ten years. Most perfectly good cricketers not even given a chance.

Stoneman, Borthwick Lyth, Ballance, Jennings etc

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

The soft dismissals aside, he looked in very good touch. He was confident while taking on the spinners and using his feet, and looked assured against the short ball too.

His only issue was that he was a little too proactive for his own good, which brought about his downfall on both occasions. It may be the idiotic 'try to be like England' garbage being peddled by Ramiz, but he needs to understand that he is not Ben Stokes or Harry Brook. As a top-order batter scoring big is more important than scoring quick.

 

[shamaan]

If I was to pick him It would only be in SENA conditions.In Asian conditions I will pick Hurraira or Kamran Ghullam.

 

[Mamoon]

Hardworking & gutsy 3 runs today, spoke great English while he was at the crease. Please make him captain.

He now averages a hardworking 2.75 against New Zealand over the last 3 years.

 

[Officer Barbrady]

Unfortunate that we are stuck with him. Sounds like Afridi is a fan as well so this nightmare might continue for a while.

 

[jupiter2007]

Hardworking & gutsy 3 runs today, spoke great English while he was at the crease. Please make him captain.

He now averages a hardworking 2.75 against New Zealand over the last 3 years.

Who said he should be Captain?

I think he should play both tests so he can finally be removed from test team.

 

[rajulakhpati]

Hardworking & gutsy 3 runs today, spoke great English while he was at the crease. Please make him captain.

He now averages a hardworking 2.75 against New Zealand over the last 3 years.

He's the GOAT of grammar!

 

[Mamoon]

Who said he should be Captain?

I think he should play both tests so he can finally be removed from test team.

There are at least a dozen posters on this forum who are adamant that he should be captain.

 

[Amjid Javed]

As expected replaced garbage player Azhar at 3 with Shan, nepotism runs supreme in Pakistani cricket.

Nothing will change, I knew Kamran Ghulam wouldn't get picked.

 

[Amjid Javed]

There are at least a dozen posters on this forum who are adamant that he should be captain.

All those posters should be named and shamed and banned

Clueless to say the least.

 

[Rana]

The way he has been hyped up recently is exactly the way Rizwan was being hyped up at around the time Sarfaraz was getting on everyone’s nerves.

Funnily, both Shan and Rizwan are integral members of Multan Sultans

 

[amvbfm]

He never was international material and at his age never will be. Unfortunately don't see him going anywhere and with Azhar gone he will most likely hog the one down position for another year at least.

Just as I feared. Looks set to keep out more deserving players till at least 2024.

 

[AAli98]

Can’t do any worse than Babar. Won’t make huge runs. But captaincy will mean he saves team 100 runs each inns. I really think he’s got to be interim captain. Sarfraz ‘joke of a player’… hope Pak get thrashed Babars doing damage every time he leads the team NZ all over Pak as we speak.

 

[Ashmal]

Can’t do any worse than Babar. Won’t make huge runs. But captaincy will mean he saves team 100 runs each inns. I really think he’s got to be interim captain. Sarfraz ‘joke of a player’… hope Pak get thrashed Babars doing damage every time he leads the team NZ all over Pak as we speak.

So you want a specialist captain....who doesn't even make the team on merit

 

[mazkhan]

It might be a better option in dropping shan and playing rizwan as a pure batsmen who slots in at 3.

Rizwan is definetly a better batsmen than shan masood.

 

[Ashmal]

It might be a better option in dropping shan and playing rizwan as a pure batsmen who slots in at 3.

Rizwan is definetly a better batsmen than shan masood.

Nah....Kamran Ghulam deserves a chance if Shan gets dropped

 

[Amjid Javed]

It might be a better option in dropping shan and playing rizwan as a pure batsmen who slots in at 3.

Rizwan is definetly a better batsmen than shan masood.

same rizwan who is averaging 23 in last 6 tests.

Neither Shan or rizwan should be in the team.

 

[Concerned]

Babar should step up and bat at 3.

 

[Salman4.]

Shan Masood's interview with Michael Atherton

Was listening to his interview and found some quotes which I found massively awkward (as he is supposedly PR trained as well).
(note it's not word to word)
Michael Atherton : How do you reflect on your test career?
Shan : It's been start and stop. 9 years and 25 matches. If you look at someone from England or Australia they'd play this amount in 2 years. So that's something that's not satisfactory.

Michael Atherton : What have been the main frustrations for you in that period?
Shan : My first 12 test matches, they came at 2 matches a piece, never played more than 2 matches in a row, probably once which was three, that's something I struggled with but when I came back into into the into the fold back in 2018-2019 after playing a lot of domestic cricket a lot of games, we went to South Africa first and in those two years I played another about 13 test matches and and most of those were in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand and England, at least I got a consistent run in that it was 13 test matches in a row but again it's not as many test matches as you hope to play. Pakistan on average plays six to seven so I think those are so I think those are the things that you want more and I've seen with my Cricket the more games I've played the better I've gotten.

Anybody else feel like he thinks as if he were the second coming of Sir Don himself and the selectors always drop him whenever he hits a 200?

 

[amvbfm]

Babar should step up and bat at 3.

Babar is fine where he is. He prefers this slot. Saud needs to be elevated to one down and Kamran should come in at 5.

 

[Saj]

11 ducks now out of 76 innings in international cricket.

Totally lost against that delivery today from Ferguson. Beaten all ends up.

 

[The_KING]

No matter the format, this rubbish player will remain rubbish.

 

[jupiter2007]

As expected replaced garbage player Azhar at 3 with Shan, nepotism runs supreme in Pakistani cricket.

Nothing will change, I knew Kamran Ghulam wouldn't get picked.

There are lobbyists who want certain players in the team. They will not allow Sarfraz to play as a pure batsman and they don’t want Kamran and Tayyab Tahir to succeed at international level. These will get the same treatment as Fawad Alam, Asim Kamal and Saeed Bin Nasir.

 

[Amjid Javed]

11 ducks now out of 76 innings in international cricket.

Totally lost against that delivery today from Ferguson. Beaten all ends up.

I'm sure Shah senior was proud of his sons efforts and all other lobbyist pushing for this clown to keep being picked.

 

[Saj]

There are lobbyists who want certain players in the team. They will not allow Sarfraz to play as a pure batsman and they don’t want Kamran and Tayyab Tahir to succeed at international level. These will get the same treatment as Fawad Alam, Asim Kamal and Saeed Bin Nasir.

The issue is that we have to realise that it's not just the PCB and selectors and captain picking the squad or indeed the team. The players have to have outside backing and they put pressure on the Board and the selectors so it's a chain of command.

This happens at Under 16 level right up to the national team.

The players who don't have outside influence and backing, well they just don't get the same opportunities as others.

 

[Amjid Javed]

The issue is that we have to realise that it's not just the PCB and selectors and captain picking the squad or indeed the team. The players have to have outside backing and they put pressure on the Board and the selectors so it's a chain of command.

This happens at Under 16 level right up to the national team.

The players who don't have outside influence and backing, well they just don't get the same opportunities as others.

Interesting to know what these outside backers are getting by having certain players selected and they are failing and having a determental effect on team. Such a selfish attitude and culture.

 

[Saj]

Interesting to know what these outside backers are getting by having certain players selected and they are failing and having a determental effect on team. Such a selfish attitude and culture.

Sometimes it's family, sometimes it's business connections.

I scratch your back and you scratch mine scenario.

 

[MenInG]

Shan getting ready for a big season for him.

 

[MenInG]

Think its clear to me that Shan is not suited for T20s - struggling so much to score.

 

[MenInG]

Think its clear to me that Shan is not suited for T20s - struggling so much to score.

Things getting bad for Shan.

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[D/DAhmed]

Think its clear to me that Shan is not suited for T20s - struggling so much to score.

Isn’t suited for T20’s

Isn’t suited for Tests - lowest averaging batsman in Pakistani history after the number of innings he’s playedb

Isn’t suited for ODI’s - averages 18 in his international career.

Rather than embarrassing himself and Pakistan on the international stage consistently, he should be using his parchi to work at UBL alongside his father (since he clearly can’t get by without his help). Horrendous batsman and an absolute joke that he’s played at this level the number of times that he has.

 

[Concerned]

PCB: Time to make Shan captain.

 

[Rana]

Great player. I hope he stays as long as possible at the crease....





(If I were the opposition)

 

[Rana]

PCB: Time to make Shan captain.

Well they have Babar and Rizwan as openers so why not?

 

[Mamoon]

Think its clear to me that Shan is not suited for T20s - struggling so much to score.

He is not suited to international cricket or any platform that is close to international level. Always was and always will be a joke of a player, but PCB and some fans refuse to accept the reality.

 

[Zaz]

Hes definitely not good enough to be playing in t20s

 

[pakfan54588]

Since ramiz raja remarks he seems to be in alot of stress .Nevertheless he is not good enough to play for Pakistan in any format .

 

[Saj]

Players around him are doing very well which is bailing him out to a certain extent.

I'd be surprised if Sultans drop him just now.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Players like Masood are keeping the likes of Ayub and Haris out of the team. Think of how many special innings we’ve been robbed of witnessing as fans because some influential dude in the PCB wants his son in the team regardless of his performances.

The thing I find quite interesting is that he still has a lot of respect amongst his colleagues. Zero Performances, still gets picked and no one questions it.

 

[Rana]

Imagine Rizwan dropping him for being too slow in the powerplay

 

[Officer Barbrady]

Shan is good. He plays test cricket with a T20 approach and T20 with a test match approach. Unfortunately neither comes off for him.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Either everyone's asleep right now or too upset to post here cos the minute Umar and Sharjeel fail their threads are lit up instantaneously.

Andy Flower and Mickey Arthur see something in Shan that 7 billion people on this planet don't see.

 

[Saj]

Really struggling so far in PSL8:

Innings 4
Runs 61
Average 15.25
Strike-rate 93.84