Should Usman Khan Shinwari and Mohammad Rizwan have been selected for the 2019 World Cup?

[hadi123]

i know its hindsight but Shinwari should have been here instead of SSA

SSA was our best bowler past year. He should have been here in place of Hasnain

 

[Hasan123]

Shinwari is poor but Rizwan would have done better than Malik . Pathetic decision to drop a player who had 2 100s in 5 games against Australia .

 

[Kianig89]

Shinwar n Rizwan coukd have been easily in for hassan/ssa n malik heck even Nawaz deseerved to be here instead of rubbish Malik

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Not a fan of Shinwari, he looked like a slightly slower version of Wahab. Certainly looked the inferior bowler when going head to head in the PSL.

Rizwan I rate, but I guess he was never going to find a place as an accumulator type batsman wicketkeeper, but it's a shame because he is by far the better all round batsman between him and Sarfraz. In the end we relied too much on scrappy bits and pieces players who made no impact with the bat anyway.

 

[shahidbhai]

Shinwari's inclusion can only be commented on after Hasnain's performance should he play in this World Cup, since its essentially he took his position. Regarding Rizwan, the only way he shouldve made the team was in place of Sarfraz, in reality there is no way the PCB was going to agree with a backup wicket keeper, especially if your current wicket keeper is the captain. And there was no way to predict that Malik would've failed so badly in this tournament, plus there was the case for Malik being a senior player and the team would be too unbalanced with only Hafeez/Sarfraz being the senior players. plus he can give you a couple overs in between (which he did fairly effectively against Eng)

Im not saying he is a better batsman than Rizwan but just that the rationale for picking Malik made sense at the time.

 

[Captain caveman]

No!
We needed haris rauf, ahsan ali, umer khan and umar akmal!
Oh what the heck, i take usman khan shinwari as well, but NOT rizwan.