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Sami Aslam - sink or swim

What I really liked with how measured his reaction was when he was sold out by Azhar who was trying to get off strike a bit selfishly.

And how composed he was after the initial nerves.

Really happy to see an opener we have who looks like he belongs at this level at his tender age.
 
Great innings, sami.
He played really well, showed people like Masood and Hafeez how its done in England.
Hope he continues his form throughout the year, Pakistan will need this sort of performance in new Zealand and Australia.


Inzi has been spot on with his selections first it was Jahid Ali then Sohail khan and now Sami Aslam, all three of them were being criticized on being selected for the respective teams but everyone performed well, he seems to have a plan and knows how to chose players based on parameters aparts from the espncricinfo stats.

Well done Inzi
Well done Sami

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Hope is being able to see that there is
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Chief Destroyer said:
Alright, quote me when we tour.
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Remember seeing him play some impressive pulls and drives on ODI debut. I think some people may be underestimating his stroke-making talent. Main worry before today was regarding his technique, but I can't recall when I last saw a Pakistani opener with such impressive off stump awareness. Was in total control apart from a couple of loose shots which easily evaded the fielders, and he's a treat to watch against spin, Masha Allah.
 
Got to remember that this is his weaker format. He's a monster in List A. Will be a travesty if we don't play him in the ODIs.
 
Muhammad10 said:
Remember seeing him play some impressive pulls and drives on ODI debut. I think some people may be underestimating his stroke-making talent. Main worry before today was regarding his technique, but I can't recall when I last saw a Pakistani opener with such impressive off stump awareness. Was in total control apart from a couple of loose shots which easily evaded the fielders, and he's a treat to watch against spin, Masha Allah.
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His driving ability was never in question. You'd have to be a pretty poor player to be unable to drive from the position he gets himself in.

Judging the off stump line was never going to be a problem because of the shuffle across the stumps but that made him a candidate for LB because his front foot went too far across leaving him in an imbalanced stance. That problem he's rectified with the coaches. The shuffle is much smaller now and feet/body alignment better.

The reason he's a candidate for short pitched deliveries is because of the crouch he does to gauge for the ball. Getting in such a low, cramped stance puts his body in a bad position to get on top of the ball and doesn't allow for much leverage with the bat. The weight is fully on the front-foot which means he won't have enough time to go back.

This is what happens in this position, watch at 5:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRXWS4MNdvk

There's no doubt in my mind Australia will exploit this. And if England pick it up, they will as well.

To rectify this he'd either have to plant, rock back and pull, in other words, become a front-foot puller or shorten the period he crouches to gauge and stand up quicker or the best option which understandably might not be ideal for him, simply reduce the crouch and stand up taller.
 
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Chief Destroyer said:
His driving ability was never in question. You'd have to be a pretty poor player to be unable to drive from the position he gets himself in.

Judging the off stump line was never going to be a problem because of the shuffle across the stumps but that made him a candidate for LB because his front foot went too far across leaving him in an imbalanced stance. That problem he's rectified with the coaches. The shuffle is much smaller now and feet/body alignment better.

The reason he's a candidate for short pitched deliveries is because of the crouch he does to gauge for the ball. Getting in such a low, cramped stance puts his body in a bad position to get on top of the ball and doesn't allow for much leverage with the bat. The weight is fully on the front-foot which means he won't have enough time to go back.

This is what happens in this position, watch at 5:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRXWS4MNdvk

There's no doubt in my mind Australia will exploit this. And if England pick it up, they will as well.

To rectify this he'd either have to plant, rock back and pull, in other words, become a front-foot puller or shorten the period he crouches to gauge and stand up quicker or the best option which understandably might not be ideal for him, simply reduce the crouch and stand up taller.
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Whats your take on him as an ODI cricketer? I think we need to give Sharjeel a consistent chance in ODIs first tbh. Our batting lineup is pretty monotonous otherwise.
 
aliasad1998 said:
Whats your take on him as an ODI cricketer? I think we need to give Sharjeel a consistent chance in ODIs first tbh. Our batting lineup is pretty monotonous otherwise.
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Also in ODIs these days you literally have to clear the inner field in the power play with 2 guys outside and one or both mostly at third man/fine leg
 
aliasad1998 said:
Whats your take on him as an ODI cricketer? I think we need to give Sharjeel a consistent chance in ODIs first tbh. Our batting lineup is pretty monotonous otherwise.
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I wouldn't mind. He's a pretty good timer of the ball.

Sharjeel should be a constant in our LOI lineup. It would be a shame if we're unable to develop a player of such immense natural ability.

Already ruined Umar, his lack of brain cells is also to blame. But Sharjeel from his interviews seems a thinking cricketer albeit aggressive when batting.
 
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Chief Destroyer said:
I wouldn't mind. He's a pretty good timer of the ball.

Sharjeel should be a constant in our LOI lineup. It would be a shame if we're unable to develop a player of such immense natural ability.

Already ruined Umar, his lack of brain cells is also to blame. But Sharjeel from his interviews seems a thinking cricketer albeit aggressive when batting.
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Who do you want to be our 2 openers against England in the first ODI? Im a huge fan of Sharjeel as well.
 
Very good innings but don't get too excited .. His bigger test will be in the next match when England will come against him with a proper plan and watching all the footages..remeber shan scoring a quick 75 vs SA on debut and than was exposed big time in next 3 innings


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Babar Azam should come in for Younis Khan who is worse than Amir only better than rahat and sohail with the bat ...Harris Sohail once fit and misbah retires should come in for king misbah

Sami
Opener
Azhar
Harris
Babar
Sarfraz
Hasan ali
Yasir
Amir
Rahat / Junaid
Wahab / sohail / Asghar / imran


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Chief Destroyer said:
His driving ability was never in question. You'd have to be a pretty poor player to be unable to drive from the position he gets himself in.

Judging the off stump line was never going to be a problem because of the shuffle across the stumps but that made him a candidate for LB because his front foot went too far across leaving him in an imbalanced stance. That problem he's rectified with the coaches. The shuffle is much smaller now and feet/body alignment better.

The reason he's a candidate for short pitched deliveries is because of the crouch he does to gauge for the ball. Getting in such a low, cramped stance puts his body in a bad position to get on top of the ball and doesn't allow for much leverage with the bat. The weight is fully on the front-foot which means he won't have enough time to go back.

This is what happens in this position, watch at 5:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRXWS4MNdvk

There's no doubt in my mind Australia will exploit this. And if England pick it up, they will as well.

To rectify this he'd either have to plant, rock back and pull, in other words, become a front-foot puller or shorten the period he crouches to gauge and stand up quicker or the best option which understandably might not be ideal for him, simply reduce the crouch and stand up taller.
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Certainly encouraging that he's improved more in a year than Hafeez has in a decade. Hopefully he can rectify his remaining technical deficiencies in time for the Australia tour, In shaa Allah.
 
I heard he left the ball well today which frustrated all the bowlers. He doesn't look the most technically sound batsman, i saw a few drives away from the body. But someone to do well in his debut innings against England, will do his confidence a world of good. He looked more solid compared to Shan Masood.
 
He was just amazing and showed everyone how to bat in these type of conditions. The way he was leaving the ball outside of his offstump was beyond everyone expectations. All you need to know is thats what hardwork can do for you. Also credit to Grant Flower , he has done a tremendious job here to make pakistan batsman more consistant than ever.
 
LegbreakGoogly said:
He was just amazing and showed everyone how to bat in these type of conditions. The way he was leaving the ball outside of his offstump was beyond everyone expectations. All you need to know is thats what hardwork can do for you. Also credit to Grant Flower , he has done a tremendious job here to make pakistan batsman more consistant than ever.
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Probably easier for Flower to work with younger players as they dont have set ideas but then Masood should have also improved!
 
AlphaFighter said:
I heard he left the ball well today which frustrated all the bowlers. He doesn't look the most technically sound batsman, i saw a few drives away from the body. But someone to do well in his debut innings against England, will do his confidence a world of good. He looked more solid compared to Shan Masood.
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Right now, this is all we need. Altho towards the end of his innings he was playing some nice shots
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">82 in the 1st innings & now a half century in the 2nd innings. Fantastic effort from a young man playing his 1st Test outside Asia <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/762283112541847553">August 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sami Aslam batting with Misbah-ul-Haq. Sami was just 3 years old when Misbah made his first class debut <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EngvPak?src=hash">#EngvPak</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/762284909952114688">August 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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I was always in favor of playing Sami Aslam and Babar Azam in both test and ODI formats.Sami is the 2nd highest runs maker in under 19 ODIS after Nazmul of Bangladesh and he possess impressive batting average in list A cricket. He was unfairly dropped after just 2 tests and one ODI in which he made 45 runs against Bangladesh.

It's time to include in ODI also and give him extended run. He is more valuable than Shehzad and Hafeez together.
 
Mainul said:
I was always in favor of playing Sami Aslam and Babar Azam in both test and ODI formats.Sami is the 2nd highest runs maker in under 19 ODIS after Nazmul of Bangladesh and he possess impressive batting average in list A cricket. He was unfairly dropped after just 2 tests and one ODI in which he made 45 runs against Bangladesh.

It's time to include in ODI also and give him extended run. He is more valuable than Shehzad and Hafeez together.
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Nazmul has a quite low average and played far more innings, too.

Sami is the highest century-scorer still, and has excellent average.

Proud of ma boy.
 
OMG it's like it is 1999 and Saeed Anwar is playing.

Has Pakistan found its second Anwar?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Holding "I'm very impressed & like Sami Aslam a lot. I'm just wondering why it took them so long to pick him" <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EngvPak?src=hash">#EngvPak</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/762290687878524928">August 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A well-deserved great ovation for Sami Aslam when he was out. Most of the crowd stood on their feet as he walked back <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EngvPak?src=hash">#EngvPak</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/762299622610067456">August 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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What an effort. Keep your head up, Sami.
 
Great innings ! A big slap on the face of those who say 'he's too raw' ' we don't have talent' take it losers!
 
2 excellent innings by him. Should be giving more chances to deserving youngsters who at least show guts unlike of these losers.
 
2 consecutive stunning knocks. Has looked head and shoulders above our senior players like the dancer
 
Bring in saud shakeel and babar azam for the next tour. Enough of younis and hafeez. Starting to lose my patience my Asad shafiq too.
 
Solid technique

very unlike the majority of Pakistani batsmen
 
His batch mates Imam-ul-Haq, Saud Shakeel and Babar Azam should also be given chances at test level. I have firm believe that these 3 young men can serve Pakistan cricket well.
 
Not giving chances to Saud, Imam and Babar (Tests) is hurting us big time.

People like Shafiq, Hafeez, Masood, yk can't make us a world beater like SA was in recent past .
 
Should be kept i the ODI team but not in the playing XI. Dropping him from the squad will damage his confidence.

Bring in Fakhar Zaman. Get rid of Hafeez, Azhar, Wahab, Malik.

Sharjeel
Fakhar Zaman
Umar Akmal
Babar
Sarfraz (WK) (C)
Yamin
Nawaz
Imad
Amir
Hasan
Asghar

I was trying to think of another pacer to put in instead of Imad but literally could not think of anyone.
 
Batted with some real grit but forgot that he is there to score runs.

These players need to learn that at the end of the day the thing that counts is scoring runs. Playing 100 balls for 22 runs is just not doing it, in contrast Sarfraz has scored 31 in a third of the deliveries.

Definitely has the grit and defense to make it at the international arena but has to learn to find runs.
 
The lad is way down the rung of problems for us right now. It's the much vaunted middle order of Younis, Misbah and Asad that is continually letting us down and is exposing the weakest tail in test cricket.

Sami and Babar need to persisted with and given this experience in challenging conditions. The team will be better for it in the long run.
 
Sami is one of the best Pakistani players. He and Babar will be the backbone of our team for at least 10 years.
 
Has the temperament and concentration to succeed at test level, just needs to learn to work ball around better and show more intent to score runs at times.
 
Sami is good but he is very Azhar-ish in the sense that he is looking more to survive than to score runs. Is he an opening batsman or a night watchman?
 
Most club level batters can defend 100 balls, yes international cricket isn't that high grade sport like other sports.

BUT majority club level batters can't score runs at international level. We keep producing cricketers who are not international level.
 
Another guy who has succembed to the Misbah doctrine "It is Gunaah to play your shots".
 
Syed1 said:
Sami is good but he is very Azhar-ish in the sense that he is looking more to survive than to score runs. Is he an opening batsman or a night watchman?
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Now Pakistani fans are over reacting. He has a very good defense, lot can be built upon that...His defense is better than YK, Misbah, even Anwar in testing conditions. You don't need 11 Warners or Haddin type batsmen. He needs to develop more shots, but for that he has lot of time. He is not going to learn that on green and wet wickets of NZ or at night in GABBA against Strac and HW, when he is facing them for the very first time... This is just completely wrong expectation... I still think Sami and Babar are Gem of new players we found, there is no need to punish them...

What we need to get rid of are these Old dudes, they are beyond ridiculous... PCB is doing opposite, extending their contract till 2020 :facepalm:


Get Out of UAE, its killing us

We we need to get out of UAE and stop playing cricket on sub standard pitches... Look at our ODI team in last 6/7 years, nobody can play shots, low and slow bounce is killing our batsmen big time. Its also killing our ability to produce fast bowlers.... Other than Amir and Wahab (both pre UAE fast bowlers), nobody in the entire FC circuit can bowl 140 AVG, guys with avg in teens in FC are very mediocre bowlers, no pace, swing or control...
 
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