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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
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.