CricketDon
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The World Cup 2019 edition is in England. As of late Pakistan has done extremely well in English conditions. At times I feel Pakistan is better climatised to English conditions then they are to the UAE conditions.
Therefore I have come to the conclusion, Pakistan does not have a player skills conundrum. They have the right combination conundrum.
See as we speak. This is Pakistan’s best pace battery in English conditions. In my eyes the best pace battery in the world.
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Rumaan
Shaheen
This is the best pace battery outside of UAE. Which for me we should not even be even be playing in that place In the first place .
With 5 pacers and 2 AR and a keeper batsman, this only leaves us with 3 specialist batsman in:
Fakhar
Imam
Babar.
Which is scary considering how shaky our batting is. Also this is not even factoring in imad.
I think only one of imad, Shadab, faheem should be playing in the XI. I think faheem should miss out all together.
Also dropping one pacer to bring in another specialist batsman is needed seeing how shaky our batsman are and have the spin capacity in the AR selected.
We have to also factor in malik and Hafeez. It’s simple as this, they both can not play. Only the one. It hurts me to say this but it has to be Hafeez. Hafeez can play quality pace assuming theirs nothing in the pitch. Malik on the other hand can not play quality pace regardless of the pitch. So we must factor Malik out as he’s a liability and walking wicket.
As it stands the squad should stand at:
Fakhar
Imam
Babar
Hafeez
Malik
Sarfraz
Shadab
Imad
Faheem
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Shaheen
Rumaan
Asif Ali
Haris
This is the most plausible squad to travel to England. Factoring everything in, I feel this is the combination to play.
Fakhar
Imam
Babar
Hafeez
Malik
Sarfraz
Imad/Shadab
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Rumaan/Shaeen.
We must play more specialist batsmen and select specialist bowlers. Reduce the bits and pieces players as we have seen, they ain’t doing one trade in a specialist manner but average/mediocre in both facets.
Now our ODI record against top teams speaks volumes of this bits and players type xi. We all know what Einstein described insanity as.
I personally can’t see the squad going to England any different to what I have selected. Maybe, just maybe we may see Asif Ali out for Umar Akmal but that’s unlikely.
I honestly believe this is the biggest conundrum for the think tank right now and is causing a lot of late nights.
So put yourself in their shoes and select your combination from the plausible squad I have selected and explain why. Remember this ain’t your personal XI of your fave players but for the team and conditions.
Therefore I have come to the conclusion, Pakistan does not have a player skills conundrum. They have the right combination conundrum.
See as we speak. This is Pakistan’s best pace battery in English conditions. In my eyes the best pace battery in the world.
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Rumaan
Shaheen
This is the best pace battery outside of UAE. Which for me we should not even be even be playing in that place In the first place .
With 5 pacers and 2 AR and a keeper batsman, this only leaves us with 3 specialist batsman in:
Fakhar
Imam
Babar.
Which is scary considering how shaky our batting is. Also this is not even factoring in imad.
I think only one of imad, Shadab, faheem should be playing in the XI. I think faheem should miss out all together.
Also dropping one pacer to bring in another specialist batsman is needed seeing how shaky our batsman are and have the spin capacity in the AR selected.
We have to also factor in malik and Hafeez. It’s simple as this, they both can not play. Only the one. It hurts me to say this but it has to be Hafeez. Hafeez can play quality pace assuming theirs nothing in the pitch. Malik on the other hand can not play quality pace regardless of the pitch. So we must factor Malik out as he’s a liability and walking wicket.
As it stands the squad should stand at:
Fakhar
Imam
Babar
Hafeez
Malik
Sarfraz
Shadab
Imad
Faheem
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Shaheen
Rumaan
Asif Ali
Haris
This is the most plausible squad to travel to England. Factoring everything in, I feel this is the combination to play.
Fakhar
Imam
Babar
Hafeez
Malik
Sarfraz
Imad/Shadab
Amir
Hassan
Junaid
Rumaan/Shaeen.
We must play more specialist batsmen and select specialist bowlers. Reduce the bits and pieces players as we have seen, they ain’t doing one trade in a specialist manner but average/mediocre in both facets.
Now our ODI record against top teams speaks volumes of this bits and players type xi. We all know what Einstein described insanity as.
I personally can’t see the squad going to England any different to what I have selected. Maybe, just maybe we may see Asif Ali out for Umar Akmal but that’s unlikely.
I honestly believe this is the biggest conundrum for the think tank right now and is causing a lot of late nights.
So put yourself in their shoes and select your combination from the plausible squad I have selected and explain why. Remember this ain’t your personal XI of your fave players but for the team and conditions.
