bro, i have seen him play in PSL. he was just a medium pacer that had nothing to offer.
Maybe he has improved, i dont know. But when i saw him with Peshawar Zalmi, the guy had nothing to offer.
stats wise he looks good
Then, he should have been double faster tracked to Test squad. This is one fundamental of cricket I wrote many times here and if you have contacts with Misbah, you can pass it to him:
Bowling philosophy in T20 and FC (Test) cricket is completely opposite. In T20, basically you are to bowl 24 balls at least cost, whatever wickets come is a bonus; therefore bowlers are forced to do all sorts of naughty things - constantly changing pace, line, length, grip .... and do staffs like cross seem, knuckle ball, reverse palm release, finger grip release ... what not. This destroys the fundamentals of any bowler, most to the young pacers. You don’t need to search for examples for this - follow Hasan Ali.
In Test cricket, you get batsmen out by working out - plugging out his scoring shots, restricting him on one side (off or leg), one foot (front or back foot), keeping him honest outside off and then bowl an effort ball as a surprise element. Here, the key is consistency - without a perfect stock ball that a bowler can bowl at least 4 times out of six in an over, he won’t create any pressure and unless batsmen are from same school, he won’t get them out.
Now, a good FC bowler should vulnerable in T20 cricket because he is easily available (for slogging) - as he should be bowling on enticing line & length, which is easily reachable (for bat swing). A great FC bowler like Hadlee will be extremely predictable for T20 as he could land 5 balls out within 6 inch of good length spot. The fundamental difference in two philosophy is that in FC game you want batsman to go after you, in T20 you want him to miss you - dot balls are king there.
The Sameen Gul I have seen in last Emerging Asia Cup, on those dead wickets of Mirpur with machine stitched white Kookaburra, he should have troubled the Pom openers with a red Dukes more than Abbas in first spell because of his 4-5” height and 10-12 K pace advantage, and would have been far more effective with older balls - now, he is not picked so I can’t prove anything. But, you pick players on his types and the conditions you are going to counter, not for what he did on a completely different game on a different surface.
This is like Hoja Nasiruddin’s logic - lost my ring in bedroom, but searching it in kitchen, because there is light in kitchen and bedroom is dark......
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