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Looks like a confident lad and seems to be showing little or less nerves
 
Felt like he would struggle but seems to just start playing like just another game!
 
Tough situation for the lad today.

I hope they play him in the next match maybe batting at number 3.
 
should have bat at #4; Arthur does not know which batsman is suited for which position
 
He should bat at 3 in place of haris sohail who is frustrating to watch he plays 1930's brand of cricket
 
Can't judge him by today.

Very tough situation for anyone let alone a debutant who is not even known for the power game.
 
Very limited batsman. Pakistan have many nudgers and one dimensional players like Imam, Babar, Abid Ali, Rizwan , Harris and Sarfraz. Their power hitter Akmal is brianless tulleybaaz . Pakistan miss the experience of Mallik and Hafeez. Only these 2 can finish off matches for pakistan. Rest are all usless
 
He's not a No.6 batsman more like No.3 or 4. He's a very much like a anchor type batsman. I really want to see him bat and bat for long. Saad must be tried after the World Cup.
 
very tough situation today. The lad is all bones though. Can we ask him to bulk up a bit.

Looked decent, i hope he plays the next game too and bats at 4.
 
Pakistani captains and coaches don;t know how to bring out best of a talented young players.
 
mak36 said:
Even for tests? Scoring daddy hundreds on tough pitches is not to be scoffed at.
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Unless he performs in a televised game - any televised game, I will not rate him.

Saud Shakeel is by far the better batsman.
 
He must have been tried in the test format. In LOIs we have so many accumulators so he needs to wait for his turn there. But I would like to see Abid and Saad in our next test line up. Let him settle in test format and then perhaps we can see if he could be tried in LOIs.
 
Saj said:
Tough situation for the lad today.

I hope they play him in the next match maybe batting at number 3.
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Agreed - but full marks to him to play as positively as he could.
 
He is best upcoming youngster along with Usman Salahuddin in test cricket

He scored 900+ runs in most difficult domestic season when no one was even close to him with dukes ball and green pitches. He has already 11 FC hundreds and double century on green pitch

But i doubt he is a ODI player he has just 1 ODI hundred and its again same old story wrong people selected in wrong format. Adil Amin was better choice

I hope he proves me wrong as ODI player but he shouldn't bat lower than 3 otherwise there is no use of him in ODI
 
I’d like to see him at number three instead of Mr “never been dropped due to performance”...
 
Lacks confidence and came across as an extremely dheela player.

Not sure which game OP was watching.
 
gazza619 said:
very tough situation today. The lad is all bones though. Can we ask him to bulk up a bit.

Looked decent, i hope he plays the next game too and bats at 4.
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Umm why? As an athlete you have to fit and sorry to break it to Pakistanis FAT does not = fit.
 
b.lesner said:
He is best upcoming youngster along with Usman Salahuddin in test cricket

He scored 900+ runs in most difficult domestic season when no one was even close to him with dukes ball and green pitches. He has already 11 FC hundreds and double century on green pitch

But i doubt he is a ODI player he has just 1 ODI hundred and its again same old story wrong people selected in wrong format. Adil Amin was better choice

I hope he proves me wrong as ODI player but he shouldn't bat lower than 3 otherwise there is no use of him in ODI
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Same mistake again

What will he do at 6 , he isn't that player

Mickey just can't get it , he doesn't know what he does if he is a bowler or batsman
 
Had Saad Ali won the last game, he would had been a confirmed pick. He has another chance today, if this guy pulls off a win, he will get his ticket to England.

Pakistan is looking for Finisher, they have tried Umar akmal, iftikhar and Asif Ali, and if Saad Ali performs here, all of a sudden Hafeez's spot will be a problem
 
well its obvious babar will bat at three, haris at four for the world cup, so saad has to do it in the middle, lower middle order.

either he takes his chance and pumps a few or out he goes, the team make up doesnt allow for another accumulator in the xi.
 
b.lesner said:
Same mistake again

What will he do at 6 , he isn't that player

Mickey just can't get it , he doesn't know what he does if he is a bowler or batsman
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whats the point of selecting Saad if he is not going to bat at #3/4/5? #6 is too low for his game; #6 is for some one who is explosive like Umar Akmal
 
srh said:
whats the point of selecting Saad if he is not going to bat at #3/4/5? #6 is too low for his game; #6 is for some one who is explosive like Umar Akmal
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akmal is more implosive than explosive these days tbh
 
ElRaja said:
akmal is more implosive than explosive these days tbh
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correct but at least in this squad he is the only one who can take on the bowlers; Saad Ali should have batted at #4 instead of #6
 
This guy just does not have the strength in his forearms to get the ball to go anywhere, compare this with the physique of the Aussies.
 
Saad Ali in the 2 matches he has played:

4th ODI - Sent in at number 6
5th ODI - Sent in at number 6 again, with the team needing 90 off 62 balls

Is this really giving a new player a proper chance?
 
srh said:
correct but at least in this squad he is the only one who can take on the bowlers; Saad Ali should have batted at #4 instead of #6
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to one dimensional from what little ive seen im afraid, not doubting he has batting ability, but pak dont need more accumulators in the odi line up. hes not gonna bat at 3 or 4 in the world cup and if you bat at 5 or below you need a hitting game, and 15 sixes from 50 list a games says he aint really got that.
 
ElRaja said:
to one dimensional from what little ive seen im afraid, not doubting he has batting ability, but pak dont need more accumulators in the odi line up. hes not gonna bat at 3 or 4 in the world cup and if you bat at 5 or below you need a hitting game, and 15 sixes from 50 list a games says he aint really got that.
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exactly and thats the reason I was mad that Arthur continue to send Rizwan at #4 instead of Saad :facepalm: Arthur is clueless
 
Saj said:
Saad Ali in the 2 matches he has played:

4th ODI - Sent in at number 6
5th ODI - Sent in at number 6 again, with the team needing 90 off 62 balls

Is this really giving a new player a proper chance?
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Not ideal conditions but that doesn't mean he can't even show a glimpse of what he's made of. No one expects him to win the game but even a decent 35-40 would tell us that he has it in him.

The guy struggled to even middle one ball. There wasn't even a single impressive stroke that he played in either of the innings. He looked ordinary from the first delivery till he got out.

We pamper these youngsters so much and want them to play cricket in the easiest and most friendly conditions. I'm sorry, but that doesn't happen in international cricket. You'll get tough situations where you'll have to prove yourself.
 
Saj said:
Saad Ali in the 2 matches he has played:

4th ODI - Sent in at number 6
5th ODI - Sent in at number 6 again, with the team needing 90 off 62 balls

Is this really giving a new player a proper chance?
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Ideally i would have liked to see him up the order at 3/4 however, he got two chances, no matter the kind of chances, he was unable to show anything of substance in those two chances. (At the same time, i am not saying that this should be the end of him), post world cup we should see him getting another shot at it.

PCB have majorly failed in their attempt of finding bench strength, as it was done at the wrong time, in the wrong fashion. You do this against the zimbabwe, bangladesh, and other weaker or dead rubber games, not with the world cup around the corner. Ideally, we should have been testing players all along, one at a time until we were getting locks for positions (+ bench strength), this series should have been our main side with the strongest bench batter and bowler plugged in, and then adjusted/rotated the other main players or the bench players around accordingly. As now, we are unsure of anything through this series if the given players have it in them or not. Oh well, hopefully they take shinwari, junaid, abid and rizwan to england with the main side, and we need to try out a spinner, yasir shah is pathetic in odis and that was never a secret.
 
He doesn't have the footwork to survive in any form of international cricket. Hope he proves me wrong.
 
From first impressions, doesn’t look like he has the game to hit big shots or even fours. Looks like a nudger. Sending him at #6 is an absolute joke from mickey and co. Guy should not even be in ODI and if he was selected, they pretty much destroyed his career by sending him in a position he is not built for.

I am seriously disappointed in our batting talent. Why do these guys not have the muscle to get some power in their shots? Asif Ali would have been a much better prospect at #6
 
If you can’t work out in gym and build muscles to get strength, then get onto Harris Sohail’s paratha with desi ghee diet at least to bulk up in some way and get some power in those forearms.

Saad Ali looks like he might fall over due to the weight if he had to bat an over with Chris Gayle’s heavy bat.
 
Majid Khan said:
If you can’t work out in gym and build muscles to get strength, then get onto Harris Sohail’s paratha with desi ghee diet at least to bulk up in some way and get some power in those forearms.

Saad Ali looks like he might fall over due to the weight if he had to bat an over with Chris Gayle’s heavy bat.
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It's not about lack of muscles. It's about a lack of ability. He can't bat at that rate as he doesn't have the shot range. Our fans need to learn the difference even if he had Gayles bat but was still the same person the bat size wouldn't make a difference.
 
It should take a batsmen a couple of deliveries to realise what shots to make and which ones they shouldn't. Saad Ali just played one whole over from one of the spinners to the offside with the same cut/slice. He carried on doing it until he hauled out in the deep.

Yes he should've come up higher but that shouldn't hide the fact he didn't use his brain on how to accumulate runs when dot balls were killing us.
 
Why is he batting with such low hands. He can't hit the ball with this technique. He was better before. He has definitely changed his stance and technique.
 
Batted like a under 19 rookie his stats suggest he is better than what's he's shown so far.
 
Can't judge him when he's brought in to hit out. Judge him on 4th position or up the order
 
Approaching 50 , playing for Punjab in the Pakistan Cup
 
It's a shame we wasted five Tests v AUS/NZ on Mohammed Hafeez in the UAE on the basis he's an AR (yet bowled very little) and kept Saad Ali on the bench.

He looks more suited to Test format than ODIs where he's more of an accumulator - of which we've plenty already.

However no need to write him off after two ODIs batting out of position when RRR was above 8 and 9 RPO.
 
iRfaN_LA said:
From first impressions, doesn’t look like he has the game to hit big shots or even fours. Looks like a nudger. Sending him at #6 is an absolute joke from mickey and co. Guy should not even be in ODI and if he was selected, they pretty much destroyed his career by sending him in a position he is not built for.

I am seriously disappointed in our batting talent. Why do these guys not have the muscle to get some power in their shots? Asif Ali would have been a much better prospect at #6
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Has nothing to do with him batting at number 6. He's a cricketer, a batsman and selected as one of the top players in the country. You telling me he forgets how to bat if we send him in at number 6 lol?
 
Another Rizwan/Fawad Alam/Imad Wasim.

Add to the long list of accumulators.
 
Not Impressed at all. Saud Shakeel should have been tried in this series.
 
srh said:
whats the point of selecting Saad if he is not going to bat at #3/4/5? #6 is too low for his game; #6 is for some one who is explosive like Umar Akmal
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Looks like mgmt though knowing his game pushed him to #6. But if you are considered to be good should perform at any position. Remember the way how babar made his way to bat at no.3
 
Longton confirm signing of Pakistan international for 2021 season

North Staffs and South Cheshire League Premier Division club make their move for prolific run scorer


Pakistan international Saad Ali has agreed a deal to join Longton this summer.

The 27-year-old left-handed batsman and right-arm seamer links up with the North Staffs and South Cheshire League Premier Division club as they attempt to mount another bid for silverware success.

Ed Jones’ side narrowly missed out on winning the top-flight crown last summer in a shortened 11-game season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their final-day defeat at Meakins knocked them off the summit and allowed Porthill Park to clinch a fourth title in five seasons. However, Longton have moved to strengthen their squad with the acquisition of Ali, who has played two one-day internationals for his country.

He was also part of the Pakistan Test squad which toured England in 2018, but didn’t feature in the five-day games, instead being limited to warm-up matches. Ali represents Sindh in Pakistan’s first-class game and has also picked up honours at under-19 level on the international stage.

He was part of Pakistan’s team which contested the 2012 Under-19 World Cup. Ali boasts an impressive record in the professional game in his homeland. The Karachi-born player has scored 25 half-centuries and 11 tons in 74 first-class matches, averaging more than 44. He has a top score of 232.

His excellent form in the 2017/18 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, where he racked up 957 runs, earned him selection for Pakistan’s Test squad. And although he didn’t play, he went on to feature in a couple of one-dayers against Australia in Dubai in 2019.

Ali has previous experience of playing club cricket in England.
In 2016 he spent a season with Cumbria side Kendal, where he accumulated 754 runs and chipped in with 29 wickets. He has also been in good nick in Pakistan cricket this year. Back in January he chalked up a couple of half-centuries in one-day domestic matches, including an unbeaten 78 which enabled Sindh to knock off an imposing 349-run target set by Southern Punjab.

Ali’s arrival at Ripon Road adds further firepower to a batting unit which also includes Dan Ball, Tom Steele and Dave Wheeldon. Longton have also enhanced their bowling options with Staffordshire spinner Richard Williams making the move from fellow Premier Division side Checkley.

Longton are set to start their 2021 NSSCL campaign on Saturday, April 24 with a trip to Cheadle.

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...li-First-impressions-in-international-cricket
 
Was wondering why this guy isn't playing in the QEA. He has moved to the US like Sami Aslam and plays cricket there.
 
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