Post of the Week: W63L35

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In a series of posts one of our most respected members, [MENTION=2344]W63L35[/MENTION] lays out his case for why it is grossly unfair for Fawad Alam to be discarded for the upcoming Test series against England.

All the screenshots from his excellent analysis are in the original thread link below

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...mission-after-a-very-small-number-of-failures

Pakistani selectors have a very rich history of droping a number of players after very small number of failures. There are many examples.... Asim Kamal (dropped after two failures), Shan Masood (8 failures), Harris Sohail (4 failures), Fakhar Zaman (4 failures), Sami Aslam (3 failures), Ahmed Shehzad (dropped after scoring 70 and 14 in his last test in West Indies).... to list a few examples.

Fawad Alam is the lastest victim..... for the 2nd time in his career.

First time he was dropped after only 4 failures - when he had just scored a brilliant 100 on his debut vs Sri Lanka in very difficult batting conditions. He was dropping after posting these scores; 16, 168, 16, 16, 29, 5.

This time he has been dropped after "failing" in last last 6 innings. He had posted the scores of 0, 9, 13, 11, 24, 1 at an average of 9.66. Yes, that is a very low average in 3 tests. But in 7 innging prior to that he had an average of 76.60 with 2 hunders and 2 fifties in those 7 innings.

If we combine Fawad's last 10 tests and 13 innings, he has scored 400+ runs at a very healthy average of 40.09. How can you drop a batsman whio has scored 2 100s and 2 50s in his last 13 innnings???

I feel Fawad has been very harshly treated for the 2nd time in his career!

Then there is a history on many batting greats who have been given extened runs - even when they have failed in many more tests/Inngins than Fawad. I will post some examples later in the thread.

 

[Caved12]

Congrats brother.

 

[emranabbas]

Great Post as usual
Congrats

Pakistani cricket since the 2000's have turned into shaksiyat parasti (person worshipping) and egoism nobody wants to look at the bigger picture its all about proving your prediction about so and so player is correct or it will be the correct one day so failures will be keep given chances so that one the prediction comes true. Nobody wants to man up and put their hands up and own up my prediction about this player was wrong and let's give someone else a chance in this process players like fawad alam will only get a short play just so that it's can be proven look we are given others a chance but they have failed and then back to shaksiyat parasti again. The only time new players will get a chance is when the managment changes and new management will go through the same process buy inserting their favorites and it just repeats the same circle again.

 

[Saj]

Good analysis from a PP veteran.

Congrats.

 

[ElRaja]

disagree, mentioned it in the main thread as well, despite supporting his inclusion earlier its obvious his technique does not stand up to international level pace attacks, and at 37 what long term return does he offer versus saud shakeel?

yes he was hard done by for the ten years asad shafiq kept him out the team, but two wrongs dont make a right. selectors were right to let him go, he should go into coaching or managment, etc, cos his physical fitness, mental strength, etc would help other youngsters develop.

 

[W63L35]

Thank you all!

 

[moghul]

Don't agree with this post, but everyone has his opinion. Everyone of those players had more than enough chances .