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Sarfaraz Ahmed : A brilliant tactician?

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Since the U19 days, he's known to be a brilliant tactician, having one of the best cricketing minds in Pakistan.

He has won us one U19 world cup with his captaincy.

And today in the inaugrual match of PSL, his field placings and bowler selections have been brilliant.

Completely stranded Islamabad United, even though I'm supporting United.
 
Agreed. But people saying he should be captain? Thats just stupid. He wont be in the ODI team for too long believe me. In tests hes ben great but shouldnt be captain
 
Brilliant field placings, got probably the best batsman in IU. Amin caught at point.
 
aliasad1998 said:
Agreed. But people saying he should be captain? Thats just stupid. He wont be in the ODI team for too long believe me. In tests hes ben great but shouldnt be captain
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He's already VC in ODIs.

I don't want Azhar to go yet, just saying Sarfraz would've been a very good choice.

Azhar needs time to settle, so we'll see how he fares.
 
aliasad1998 said:
Amin the best in Isl united? Are you serious?? Azam, Misbah and Watto are all better
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I forgot Babar Azam. :usman

Amin is 2nd best.

Not counting Misbah, he's an intitute in himself. Best T20 hitter.
 
So far so good Sarfraz. Interesting field changes and the right bowler at the right time.

Islamabad under a lot of pressure.

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Another similarity between him and Miandad. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] has something to say about this I'm sure.

Umar Amin is also a top order batsman according to him. Well he semi-opened today.
 
aliasad1998 said:
Agreed. But people saying he should be captain? Thats just stupid. He wont be in the ODI team for too long believe me. In tests hes ben great but shouldnt be captain
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ODI's has become more tactical than ever. Kamran Akmal will not be expected to find tactical solutions to problems. He only has 'hoick it down to deep point' mode and 'apology' mode for dropped catches.
 
waleed88 said:
ODI's has become more tactical than ever. Kamran Akmal will not be expected to find tactical solutions to problems. He only has 'hoick it down to deep point' mode and 'apology' mode for dropped catches.
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Did I mention Akmals name. Sarfraz is just not good enough to be in the ODI team unless opposition is playing 4 spinners or medium pacers
 
I like Sarfraz, i even made the first sarfraz possible future captain thread here, but if im honest i get the impression KP is running the show
 
Don't want to take any credit away from Sarf but from what i noticed KP was also doing the field placement in this match just like he was doing in BBL.
 
aliasad1998 said:
Did I mention Akmals name. Sarfraz is just not good enough to be in the ODI team unless opposition is playing 4 spinners or medium pacers
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Yea lets just play without a wicket keeper. Play a batsman who can keep, like Junior akmal, oh wait remember 2015 word cup?
 
Other options for wicket keeping are Mohammad Rizwan, but he is basically a tailender parading as a batsman.
His last 5 scores he has failed to cross the 20 run mark..
 
King Cobra said:
Next Pakistan Odi Captain and Test Captain after Misbah retires.
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No, PCB will nominate somebody who is not even in the team as the Captain when Misbah retires. If not then then Ramiz has already threatened to jump into Ravi if he lives to see the day when Sarfaraz is made the captian.
 
Misbah ki Qismat kharab hai Jis team say khailta hai woh team underperform ker jati hai :))) now people will say this is also fault of Mibah`s Tuk Tuk
 
StreetSmart said:
Misbah ki Qismat kharab hai Jis team say khailta hai woh team underperform ker jati hai :))) now people will say this is also fault of Mibah`s Tuk Tuk
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LOL SERIOUSLY MAN.

Misbah again to rescue 1122!!
 
Hawkeye said:
Yes, Babar is better. The difference in potential is not that much though.



Sarfraz has been calling the shots, heard him calling players shout at them, 'idhar aa etc etc'.
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keepers always do that, look at who's setting the field, whose talking to the bowlers, its KP

Sarfraz will obviously learn from this, i already think he is a good captain, this will make him better
 
Hawkeye said:
LOL SERIOUSLY MAN.

Misbah again to rescue 1122!!
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How about this novel and most brilliant idea that I am sure nobody has ever been able to think of so far...

Why doesn't Misbah ever come 1 or 2 down to prevent any collapse from happening in the first place?????

In that case there won't be any need for rescue 1122.
 
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pakistanigoneaussie said:
keepers always do that, look at who's setting the field, whose talking to the bowlers, its KP

Sarfraz will obviously learn from this, i already think he is a good captain, this will make him better
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I think you should give it up and drop this dream of him ever captaining Pakistan...he can't do anything about his domicile.
 
HaiderAbbasRizvi said:
How about this novel and most brilliant idea that I am sure nobody has ever been able to think of so far...

Why doesn't Misbah ever come 1 or 2 down to prevent any collapse from happening in the first place?????

In that case there won't be any need for rescue 1122.
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Bhai, who'd stop the batsmen getting out from other end? :murali 2 batmsen go out to play.
 
HaiderAbbasRizvi said:
How about this novel and most brilliant idea that I am sure nobody has ever been able to think of so far...

Why doesn't Misbah ever come 1 or 2 down to prevent any collapse from happening in the first place?????

In that case there won't be any need for rescue 1122.
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No seriously I just thought Same score under 50 four players out and now Misbah bhai will get all the blame that he was the slowest one
 
HaiderAbbasRizvi said:
How about this novel and most brilliant idea that I am sure nobody has ever been able to think of so far...

Why doesn't Misbah ever come 1 or 2 down to prevent any collapse from happening in the first place?????

In that case there won't be any need for rescue 1122.
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And Novel Name should be " Akhir main hi kiyon " :misbah:maqsood
 
KP is the real captain. Its good for Sarfraz too; he will learn more from KP.
 
Hawkeye said:
Since the U19 days, he's known to be a brilliant tactician, having one of the best cricketing minds in Pakistan.

He has won us one U19 world cup with his captaincy.

And today in the inaugrual match of PSL, his field placings and bowler selections have been brilliant.

Completely stranded Islamabad United, even though I'm supporting United.
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hahaha It took you just over 5 over of watching the game to declare his captaincy brilliant technician...lol

You love him more than his mother does.......Just 5 overs...lol
 
Bouncer said:
hahaha It took you just over 5 over of watching the game to declare his captaincy brilliant technician...lol

You love him more than his mother does.......Just 5 overs...lol
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I was expecting you to show up here.

The perfect anti fahadshah. :najam

Anyways, not sure if people have been watching the match. He's calling all the bowlers and setting the field.
 
I am at the ground, thought he did well, but he should have kept spin on till 19th over. Enough options. Might have cost him the game.
 
HaiderAbbasRizvi said:
No, PCB will nominate somebody who is not even in the team as the Captain when Misbah retires. If not then then Ramiz has already threatened to jump into Ravi if he lives to see the day when Sarfaraz is made the captian.
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Lol, its a win-win :steyn
 
Bullet Drive said:
I am at the ground, thought he did well, but he should have kept spin on till 19th over. Enough options. Might have cost him the game.
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Misbah was carting spin away, Russel also hit a six. He had to trust his premier pacer to deliver, who is sadly part-it now
 
Think it's really a ton of involvement from KP. And that's great really for Sarfraz to learn from
 
Also seems like a selfless captain, could have batted himself at 4 and gotten some soft runs but promoted Nawaz ahead of himself.
 
Much better than useless Azhar ali

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Lol KP was captain people here have completely ignored other posters who said this and went on showering praise on him.:srt
 
A major heart ache for folks from Lahore and surrounding cities seeing Sarfaraz succeed and putting their utterly clueless local boy Azhar to shame when it comes to captaincy...
 
Hawkeye said:
He's already VC in ODIs.

I don't want Azhar to go yet, just saying Sarfraz would've been a very good choice.

Azhar needs time to settle, so we'll see how he fares.
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I agree that newbies need time to settle. But why does the PCB give that time to newbies who look like they will never be very good.

What about Azhar suggests that he will become a good captain, let alone decent ODI batsman? Sarfraz is certainly doing better with the bat recently.
 
I don't know how much credit Sarfraz deserves considering KP was extremely involved in leading.
 
StreetSmart said:
Misbah ki Qismat kharab hai Jis team say khailta hai woh team underperform ker jati hai :))) now people will say this is also fault of Mibah`s Tuk Tuk
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It's all Misbah's fault. If he didn't play for Pakistan we wouldn't perform that bad. #Misbah'sfault
 
i liked the thing when wright had taken away the game after 2nd wicket he could have easily come and scored some runs as situation was very easy but instead he sent Nawaz . good way of giving confidence to upcoming players
also his energy and regular communicating with bowlers is good to see
 
hussain.r97 said:
I don't know how much credit Sarfraz deserves considering KP was extremely involved in leading.
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+1

It was as if KP was the captain.

One thing in particular i got immensely impressed with was that whenever the first 4-5 balls of the over went for just 5-6 runs or less ,the fielders would drop to the boundary ropes to prevent the last ball from going to the boundary even if a single is conceded. Not sure whose idea it was but it was great to see that brains are being used on the field.
 
HaiderAbbasRizvi said:
A major heart ache for folks from Lahore and surrounding cities seeing Sarfaraz succeed and putting their utterly clueless local boy Azhar to shame when it comes to captaincy...
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Currently both shouldnt play limited overs. Please dont turn this into karachi vs lahore
 
KP was in charge in the whole 1st innings he was doing all the field placing. didnt see sarfraz making any decision on the pitch.
 
Sarfraz Ahmed's captaincy performance with the Quetta Gladiators

Too premature to say.

But some brilliant field placements and choice of bowlers. Alan Wilkins paid complements to his captaincy too.

A worthy candidate if Azhar Ali fails (providing, he hasn't failed already).

Discuss.
 
Have to say the field placings when Anwar was bowling were top notch.
 
Very good cricketing mind. You can hear how clever he is during tests behind stump mic. but.... (Dont want repeat the latter part of my sentence as I will be labelled as a Sarfraz hater)
 
Azhar Ali is already failed. Would like to see if he can bounce back and PSL is one big chance.

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Sarfraz is going to benefit immensely from KP running the show for the team. It was really good seeing how KP was changing the field and working closely with bowlers.

Both the fielders and bowlers responded to him very well and results are showing that.
 
lol brilliant tactician. Bet if he can solve 2+2 he'll be considered a brilliant mathematician as well.

His glory year was 2014 to early 2015. Things will go back to normal now, he was never in it for the long haul.
 
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Suleiman said:
lol brilliant tactician. Bet if he can solve 2+2 he'll be considered a brilliant mathematician as well.

His glory year was 2014 to early 2015. Things will go back to normal now, he was never in it for the long haul.
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you nailed it....as I pointed out in my first post that OP created this thread right around 5 over mark in the game. If you take some time to read some other posts from OP you will know exactly what he was trying to do here.


Check out how Mohammad Nawaz reacts on getting these two wickets.
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=113
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=127

He runs straight to guy who is actually the tactician on the field, the one who is responsible for field placements, interacting with bowlers, encouraging them on and telling them where to bowl to each batsman. Who the team is looking up towards as the leader of the team.

But why would [MENTION=134608]Hawkeye[/MENTION] admit that it is KP that is calling the shots when he can credit all of it to sarfraz?
 
Bouncer said:
you nailed it....as I pointed out in my first post that OP created this thread right around 5 over mark in the game. If you take some time to read some other posts from OP you will know exactly what he was trying to do here.


Check out how Mohammad Nawaz reacts on getting these two wickets.
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=113
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=127

He runs straight to guy who is actually the tactician on the field, the one who is responsible for field placements, interacting with bowlers, encouraging them on and telling them where to bowl to each batsman. Who the team is looking up towards as the leader of the team.

But why would [MENTION=134608]Hawkeye[/MENTION] admit that it is KP that is calling the shots when he can credit all of it to sarfraz?
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Lol dude, was gonna post smth about KP doing the brunt of the work but glad you said it. Every time Quetta Gladiators have decided to field, the camera moves to KP at least 5-6 times in the innings, waving his hands setting the fields, going up to the bowler, and changing the placements. You'd think KP was captaining this side tbh by watching a Gladiator game if you weren't told in advance that Sarfraz was captain.
 
Bouncer said:
you nailed it....as I pointed out in my first post that OP created this thread right around 5 over mark in the game. If you take some time to read some other posts from OP you will know exactly what he was trying to do here.


Check out how Mohammad Nawaz reacts on getting these two wickets.
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=113
https://youtu.be/hDpUbWhlkVU?t=127

He runs straight to guy who is actually the tactician on the field, the one who is responsible for field placements, interacting with bowlers, encouraging them on and telling them where to bowl to each batsman. Who the team is looking up towards as the leader of the team.

But why would [MENTION=134608]Hawkeye[/MENTION] admit that it is KP that is calling the shots when he can credit all of it to sarfraz?
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Suleiman said:
Lol dude, was gonna post smth about KP doing the brunt of the work but glad you said it. Every time Quetta Gladiators have decided to field, the camera moves to KP at least 5-6 times in the innings, waving his hands setting the fields, going up to the bowler, and changing the placements. You'd think KP was captaining this side tbh by watching a Gladiator game if you weren't told in advance that Sarfraz was captain.
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Pretty sure KP was not there when he took Karachi Dolphins to the final of Haier T-20 last time and won us the under 19 world cup.

Anyhow as far as making as a player is concerned he is still making more runs then the other captaincy candidate Malik who is a rabbit under highlights so far against better opposition.

Disclaimer: I dont want the captain to change now give Azhar a few more series.
 
I can spot a few hardcore 'Hare Krishnas' and Kami fans here, who in their delusions see no one but KP doing all the field placement, bowler changes and shouting at fielders to go to certain positions.

You need to start watching the actual games, and preferably take off those glasses where you see Sarfraz getting swapped with KP everywhere on the field.

By far he's been the best captain on the show. Very proactive and guiding everyone from behind the stumps. Was a bad day at the office for :malik fans though, yesterday.

Rameez was quite impressed at the presentation ceremony with his captaincy. :najam

Guess Quetta is winning the tournament if Misbah doesn't come back strongly. Was horrible in the first ISLU match.
 
Sarfraz should ask malik the greatest brain in Pakistan cricket for advice..forget kp etc..

Kp wasn't in total control. He was giving advice which the captain allowed him to do. Most of the time Sarfraz was the one who set things up. I've always rated him.
 
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