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Should Malik be in the plans for the 2019 WC?

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*Fake Injury* see how things workout, and come back for the 2nd test. Score 20s. Come back in the next series.
 
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godzilla - POTW :14:

Sadly, people have finally learned to hate which is strictly haraam. Why can't people just chill, and enjoy the cricket? I will never know :|
 
But check the live scorecard for the game and there they have the news from their own sources
 
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Nagraj Gollapudi, ever a man for a conspiracy, has a hunch that Shoaib Malik has been dropped for this match. He's not been taking part in fielding drills, and seems to be a man apart at the moment. We shall see soon enough. Yasir Hameed could be coming in instead.

it seems shoaib maliks honeymoon period over...
 
Maliks playing so expect the usual 20 and 15 in the two inns he plays.
 
Can't wait for Moonshine man to emulate the average player named YK and I will be recording the great double century to keep as a memento for the future generations when a great player took his first steps towards unmatched greatness!
 
Come on Malik, now is your chance to prove your worth in the team!
 
Come on Malik, I am fully behind you in this test! Get us pass the follow on!
 
Malik has played and missed and edged quite a few times, but what hes done well is play with soft hands and drive at the really full balls.

For Pakistan's sake I hope he can carry on
 
Anwaar said:
Malik is THE REAL Fighter.
All he can do to give his best.
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Relax begum. He still has a job to do.

But by real fighter, you meant infighting...then by all means I agree with you.
 
Anwaar said:
Malik is THE REAL Fighter.
All he can do to give his best.
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Unfortunately his best is not good enough.

What is he doing at number 6 when you have novices batting infront of him?

He is suppose to be the senior batsman protecting them, not the other way round.
 
miandadrules said:
Unfortunately his best is not good enough.

What is he doing at number 6 when you have novices batting infront of him?

He is suppose to be the senior batsman protecting them, not the other way round.
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can't comment atm, "watching" on cricinfo.
 
good knock I guess, but still matched his average (or just over) as he usually does. If he saw us to 150 perhaps. Having said that, his 38 runs were much needed. Too many balls Aamer faced, but Aamer was batting well, so perhaps it doesn't matter.

It's so obvious that if this guy plays, he needs to bat at 3 or 4. He's good at getting a decent score, preventing further collapse. No point him batting lower down like this, as at that position, what's the point of stopping the collapse, when really only tailenders are left.

I am sure Malik said he was happy playing at any position, so just put him there. Amin isn't going to score many runs at no.4, he clearly can't handle the pressure. If we make Amin and Malik swap places, let's face it Amin's not going to be affected that much.
 
Malik had a good mindset today, but like the rest, he is technically deficient

In his knock of 38, I recount 3 edged 4s, and plenty of plays and misses

Not singling Malik out before the loverboys come and attack me.
Our entire batting is technically incapable of handling the moving, bouncing, spinning, nipping, seaming, quick, slow and even the straight ball
 
malik failed again..a fancy 38 but ultimatley a failure..yes you can say he batted better than three 20 year olds but then that should be a given..hum pay ehsaan nahi hay..thats the elast he should be doing..the whole mafia brigade are useless..baap ki jaagirdarri banai hoi hay!!..

but this innings will keep him in the squad till 2020 now!!..pathetic!!
 
Malik did well today. Not saying it was a great innings, but was helpful nonetheless. We could have all been out for less than 100, heck maybe even less than 50 for all we know with such a batting line up. Anyone who thinks Malik overall failed today, needs some psychological help.
 
cryptkeeper* said:
Malik did well today. Not saying it was a great innings, but was helpful nonetheless. We could have all been out for less than 100, heck maybe even less than 50 for all we know with such a batting line up. Anyone who thinks Malik overall failed today, needs some psychological help.
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38 is not a successful innings in a test match

Yes Malik was playing better than the rest, but that does not make his effort a success, both in terms of the scoreline and how he looked (he played and missed and edged a lot)
 
*sallu* said:
38 is not a successful innings in a test match

Yes Malik was playing better than the rest, but that does not make his effort a success, both in terms of the scoreline and how he looked (he played and missed and edged a lot)
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Pak fans are nothing but nitpickers when it comes down to Malik.

Of course it's not a successful inning. I thought I made it clear that it wasn't a great innings, but a helpful one in such circumstances nonetheless. You have to look at the overall picture here. Yes, he could have gone to score more, but he didn't. Whatever he did offer was better than everyone else, which includes seniors like Farhat, Butt and Kamran. We could sit down for hours and argue, he could've played like this, he could've played like that, and bla bla bla... but he showed more of a fight in such conditions than any other batsman out there, despite having the slight flaws that he does have. For a no. 6 in such a miserable scenario he did decent and deserves credit for that.

Would you have wanted us to have gotten out for < 100 because of Malik? I think not, so I'd suggest people to find another hobby instead of the Malik nitpicking on PP 24/7.
 
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cryptkeeper* said:
Pak fans are nothing but nitpickers when it comes down to Malik.

Of course it's not a successful inning. I thought I made it clear that it wasn't a great innings, but a helpful one in such circumstances nonetheless. You have to look at the overall picture here. Yes, he could have gone to score more, but he didn't. Whatever he did offer was better than everyone else, which includes seniors like Farhat, Butt and Kamran. We could sit down for hours and argue, he could've played like this, he could've played like that, and bla bla bla... but he showed more of a fight in such conditions than any other batsman out there, despite having the slight flaws that he does have. For a no. 6 in such a miserable scenario he did decent and deserves credit for that.

Would you have wanted us to have gotten out for < 100 because of Malik? I think not, so I'd suggest people to find another hobby instead of the Malik nitpicking on PP 24/7.
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Malik had a good mindset today
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what hes done well is play with soft hands and drive at the really full balls.

For Pakistan's sake I hope he can carry on
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atleast hes giving a fight (from the other thread)
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So you see, I've given him the credit thats due to him,
but some of you loverboys are saying "he looked a class apart"which is rubbish really.
He edged and missed as much as the other, he was lucky enough not to edge one of those.
The only thing he did well was to play with a decent enough mindset and soft hands.
But hes still technically and mentally very dificient.
 
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*sallu* said:
So you see, I've given him the credit thats due to him,
but some of you loverboys are saying "he looked a class apart"which is rubbish really.
He edged and missed as much as the other, he was lucky enough not to edge one of those.
The only thing he did well was to play with a decent enough mindset and soft hands.
But hes still technically and mentally very dificient.
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When I say his inning was helpful, he fought better in these conditions than anyone else, that's straightforward. I didn't say anything more or anything less.

Also, like I said before, would anyone have wanted us to add another <100 total to the "lowest totals by Pak in a test match" list? No, so end of story.
 
ads101 said:
good knock I guess, but still matched his average (or just over) as he usually does. If he saw us to 150 perhaps. Having said that, his 38 runs were much needed. Too many balls Aamer faced, but Aamer was batting well, so perhaps it doesn't matter.

It's so obvious that if this guy plays, he needs to bat at 3 or 4. He's good at getting a decent score, preventing further collapse. No point him batting lower down like this, as at that position, what's the point of stopping the collapse, when really only tailenders are left.

I am sure Malik said he was happy playing at any position, so just put him there. Amin isn't going to score many runs at no.4, he clearly can't handle the pressure. If we make Amin and Malik swap places, let's face it Amin's not going to be affected that much.
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Can't agree more.
 
like i said before!

They are shell shocked
Lack a bone and a back
Yet we were bashing Malik
Without knowing what's in the stock
say sorry to him all the haters
and say we want him Back
:malik:malik:malik:malik:malik

our management and selection committee is worst than ever before, fawad alam is a test player, they put him in t20's, shoaib malik is odi/t20 player they put him in tests.
 
I think the ground work is being prepared for yet another return of Shoaib 'Houdini' Malik.
 
Oh Dear God

A Shoaib Malik support thread bumped. Took long enough

Let me make it clear for you guys. Shoaib Malik is not the answer. He can not play anything over 87 mph and all 3 of England fast bowlers hit above that.

Play anyone you like Malik, Hafeez, Shahzaib etc etc they will all be flops
 
Predcitably....calls for Malik to return, a classic case of going round in circles (though I must admit that Shahzaib and Hafeez make Malik look like Tendulkar)
 
*sallu* said:
Oh Dear God

A Shoaib Malik support thread bumped. Took long enough

Let me make it clear for you guys. Shoaib Malik is not the answer. He can not play anything over 87 mph and all 3 of England fast bowlers hit above that.

Play anyone you like Malik, Hafeez, Shahzaib etc etc they will all be flops
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Well then Australian must have "mis-calibrated" speed guns for tait n nannes then.
 
Free Hit said:
like i said before!

They are shell shocked
Lack a bone and a back
Yet we were bashing Malik
Without knowing what's in the stock
say sorry to him all the haters
and say we want him Back
:malik:malik:malik:malik:malik

our management and selection committee is worst than ever before, fawad alam is a test player, they put him in t20's, shoaib malik is odi/t20 player they put him in tests.
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The solution is to replace mediocrity with proven mediocrity?

And thats PAKISTAN for you in a nutshell!
 
Malik fans pray to God this current storm passes without anymore casualties.Remember he was another client of Mazhar Majeed.
 
Well Shoaib Malik does not deserve selection, but as I have said before, replacing him with Hafeez is no answer to our problems. Anybody is better than Hafeez. Selection is muddled just like the minds of the players. Nobody would dispute that Malik is more suited to t20 cricket than Fawad and Fawad is more suited to test cricket than Malik. Yet both were selected in the wrong squads.
 
Malik The Menace was always always garbage, is garbage and will always be garbage.
 
Shoaib Malik is not really needed, he is a mediocre player, but because there are no strong players in the side, he will take advantage of the situation, and create more fitnah to promote his captaincy/agenda.

The reason he has to do that is because he not a good enough player to be in the team consistently on merit alone.
 
TigerJat said:
The reason he has to do that is because he not a good enough player to be in the team consistently on merit alone.
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Breaking NEW: He is highest Ranked ODI player for Pakistan at the moment and got dropped.

He was second highest scorer in CT and in result got dropped by YK
 
saeed-sohail said:
Malik fans pray to God this current storm passes without anymore casualties.Remember he was another client of Mazhar Majeed.
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Remember what? Stop posting nonsense in regards to Malik for no reason.

I have yet to see a single article that states that Malik was ever a client of Mazhar Majeed, if you have a legitimate source that states otherwise, would love for you to post it here.
 
lol...somebody had to keep this thread alive because nobody mentioned shoaib malik in a while:))) hard that though considering he was dropped :D
 
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Shoaib Malik is a good utility player. He can not be a core batsmen who anchors your innings (which is batting 3 or 4) nor a full time bowler.

He's good in the field for Pakistani standards, a useful part time bowler and a solid batsmen especially in the South Asia countries.

Him not being in the next World Cup squad will be a mistake.
 
^ he was your core batsman under Inzamam's captaincy.
 
Ahmed Zulfiqar said:
^ he was your core batsman under Inzamam's captaincy.
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We were lucky to get lots of matches in pancake conditions

As soon as we've moved onto tougher conditions, the results are in front of the world

As I've said, if its a pancake pitch, Malik should be in the LOI international side
 
Ahmed Zulfiqar said:
^ he was your core batsman under Inzamam's captaincy.
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Thing to understand is team's read scouting reports or have coaches who do them.

Malik has some good shots and talent with the bat but his technique is flawed, especially against swing bowling. I think he'll do well at #5 or 6 especially in India/Sri Lanka/Bangladesh where the next world cup is.

We need to get Younis at 3 and Yousuf at 4. See how they play. If they can't perform, find replacements. Azhar Ali perhaps can fill one of those spots if the oldie's fail.
 
In subcontinent, SM and YK are must cause these kids can't play quality spin.
You just can't leave your best players of Spin out against big teams.
 
Anwaar said:
In subcontinent, SM and YK are must cause these kids can't play quality spin.
You just can't leave your best players of Spin out against big teams.
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I agree, I have also said the same earlier

In LOI in flat/turning pitches SM should be in the side

Younis should be in the test and ODI side on all conditions
 
lol had we won this thread would be nowhere to be seen

Malik sucks, period.

result would be the same, u think he would have won us the game? lol
 
Shoaib356 said:
lol had we won this thread would be nowhere to be seen

Malik sucks, period.

result would be the same, u think he would have won us the game? lol
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Maybe we will have the same result, but that wont be this embarrassing for sure.

Team is full of players who just got not clue how to play spin. They are fully exposed. Period.
 
Embarrassing bump!

Just because 11 players lost, doesnt make a medicre player (and person) like Malik into superman the saviour!!!

Unless someone can post me his batting/bowling stats (from domestic games he played since he was dropped)
 
Malik is a superior FTB, play him on the flat pitches and with teams who don't have real quickies, and he will deliver ie Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and India

Everywhere and anywhere else, no need to play him
 
You can not afford to have a side full of the itsy bitsy players

We can not play Hafeez and Malik in the same side.

Hafeez has performed, no reason to drop him. I'm sorry Malik
 
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