This is not true. He doesn’t want to replicate them. The guy who wants to replicate them is Abdullah Shafique. He is the one who is consciously zoning out from the match situation and staying mentally in his bubble
Saud on the other hand is struggling this year. Maybe he feels at ease or overwhelmed with Finn Allen on the other end…so it’s confused him a bit. Otherwise the guy knows for sure that there is no anchor role in T20s for openers.
Saud shakeel is a test player, problem is test specialists usually want the bowlers to bowl according to their strengths.
For example Steve Smith will never go from anything on the offside in test cricket. You wanna get him out? Then bowl wicket to wicket, that's it.
Saud is similar in that regard. Before his debut, he had only ever hit 6 sixes in domestic cricket including FC, List A, T20.
Those who had been following him since his early days would know that he would avoid pace and target spin.
That's not the case in t20 and odi cricket. You gotta loft, you gotta attack pace and you gotta get out of your comfort zone.
With that being said, the reason i don't hate Saud is cause he's good in one format which is test cricket. It's thanks to him Pakistan beat England otherwise we'd be getting a 2-1 on the cards.
Babar and rizwan are techincally inept in test, odi and t20. In saud case he's techincally solid but has to play out of his comfort zone. In babar's and rizwan's case they can't play left arm pace, anything that angels away from them, Spin etc etc for the life of em.
You need spray gun rauf or ngidi to help them.