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We all know how 'talented' Umer Akmal is and there is no doubt he is probably the most 'gifted' batsman of this Pakistani generation. However what started as a joke with [MENTION=134809]sensible-indian-fan[/MENTION] made me delve into some statistics on Cricinfo and to my surprise I stumbled on something which is rather 'not surprising' but completely eye opening for all the hypsters out there.
Umer Akmal for all the God Gifted Talent he posses has some pretty mediocre numbers even if we filter his results based on how he played under two different captains.
On Mar 30th 2011 Pakistan lost the Semi final to India and so did Afridi his captaincy so my benchmark for this comparison was how the bloke played under Afridi and how he played under Misbah.
For Matches that were played under Afridi (Until 30th March 2011 - Mohali Day
) these were his statistics.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...;spanval1=span;template=results;type=allround
In the above statistic UA has a mighty average of 36.06 in 37 matches which is a very good sample size to judge how a player is doing. Being one of the most talented batsmen in the setup an average of 36.06, no matter what the strike rate might be, isn't very impressive as a matter of fact its quite ordinary to be honest and nothing to write home about. In this period he only had his solitary hundred against SL in his debut series.
Under Misbah Junior had the following.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...;spanval1=span;template=results;type=allround
75 Matches under Misbah has him scoring 33.77 runs per game which is 3 points less than his Pre WC 2011 average. So technically speaking he regressed from were he was but the regression, as some people might suggest, wasn't that much to be honest. Another facet that we need to consider is UA was part of a brittle line up so on most occasions he would have come in early and had enough time to 'settle and build' an innings but even so in 75 matches; which is a hell lot of games for someone scoring at 33.77 he has only 1 century to show us and that too against Afghanistan I also remember they dropped him early in his innings during that game as well 
By the looks of the above it seems a sad state of affairs and it seems that what some posters make Umer ought to be maybe, just maybe he isn't like that. I don't understand that why can't our batsman be good, no future ATG crap and everything, and then work their way up like humble human beings ??? Why do we need to set up ourselves for disappointment with claiming OTT statements like once in a life time talent etc etc.
I want to know exactly what is it that's holding UA back, is it bad management ? Is it the captaincy ? Is it his own deficiency ?? I want to get to the bottom of this and this is based on empirical data I collected from Cricinfo. The links are there so anyone can review them for their convenience.
Umer Akmal for all the God Gifted Talent he posses has some pretty mediocre numbers even if we filter his results based on how he played under two different captains.
On Mar 30th 2011 Pakistan lost the Semi final to India and so did Afridi his captaincy so my benchmark for this comparison was how the bloke played under Afridi and how he played under Misbah.
For Matches that were played under Afridi (Until 30th March 2011 - Mohali Day
) these were his statistics. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...;spanval1=span;template=results;type=allround
In the above statistic UA has a mighty average of 36.06 in 37 matches which is a very good sample size to judge how a player is doing. Being one of the most talented batsmen in the setup an average of 36.06, no matter what the strike rate might be, isn't very impressive as a matter of fact its quite ordinary to be honest and nothing to write home about. In this period he only had his solitary hundred against SL in his debut series.
Under Misbah Junior had the following.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...;spanval1=span;template=results;type=allround
75 Matches under Misbah has him scoring 33.77 runs per game which is 3 points less than his Pre WC 2011 average. So technically speaking he regressed from were he was but the regression, as some people might suggest, wasn't that much to be honest. Another facet that we need to consider is UA was part of a brittle line up so on most occasions he would have come in early and had enough time to 'settle and build' an innings but even so in 75 matches; which is a hell lot of games for someone scoring at 33.77 he has only 1 century to show us and that too against Afghanistan
I also remember they dropped him early in his innings during that game as well By the looks of the above it seems a sad state of affairs and it seems that what some posters make Umer ought to be maybe, just maybe he isn't like that. I don't understand that why can't our batsman be good, no future ATG crap and everything, and then work their way up like humble human beings ??? Why do we need to set up ourselves for disappointment with claiming OTT statements like once in a life time talent etc etc.
I want to know exactly what is it that's holding UA back, is it bad management ? Is it the captaincy ? Is it his own deficiency ?? I want to get to the bottom of this and this is based on empirical data I collected from Cricinfo. The links are there so anyone can review them for their convenience.
ran out of time to edit it into my original one.
