[VIDEO] Aaliyan Mehmood - 16 year old off spinner from Karachi

[Titan24]

He is someone who has come through U16 cricket. Recently graduated to U19 cricket where he was 3rd highest wicket taker in one day as well as 3 day tournament this season. Now he has got get selected for Sindh’s main XI for Pakistan Cup 2021.

Looks to have a decent action with repeatability and gets good revs on the ball.

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[Rana]

He is someone who has come through U16 cricket. Recently graduated to U19 cricket where he was 3rd highest wicket taker in one day as well as 3 day tournament this season. Now he has got get selected for Sindh’s main XI for Pakistan Cup 2021.

Looks to have a decent action with repeatability and gets good revs on the ball.

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Good height and physique for a spinner. Beautiful action although he should get it checked just in case.

 

[Titan24]

Good height and physique for a spinner. Beautiful action although he should get it checked just in case.

Looks to have bit of Raza Hassan (If he would have been right handed) and kind of load up and a finish kind of like Swann.

Aliyaan’s load up

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Raza Hassan’s load up

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[Bewal Express]

If his action is clean and it looks clean, then we have something to work with.

 

[Titan24]

If his action is clean and it looks clean, then we have something to work with.

Would be interesting to see how many opportunities he gets in Pakistan Cup as Sindh also have Asghar, Abrar and Hassan Khan. Wickets might not be as supportive as they are sometimes at junior levels so would be a good test.

 

[gazza619]

Love that action. Annoyed he is only 16. Need him now.

 

[Rana]

Looks to have bit of Raza Hassan (If he would have been right handed) and kind of load up and a finish kind of like Swann.

Aliyaan’s load up

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Raza Hassan’s load up

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So from what I can see, his body is skinny/nimble and looks like it has the flexibility required to make the pivots that would add more zip, drift and sharper spin that would be very useful especially in red ball cricket. He must be a good fielder also? At least he looks sharp, wily enough to be one. Also I doubt he is 16, looks mature for a 16 year old spinner.

 

[Bewal Express]

Would be interesting to see how many opportunities he gets in Pakistan Cup as Sindh also have Asghar, Abrar and Hassan Khan. Wickets might not be as supportive as they are sometimes at junior levels so would be a good test.

Asghar has gone backwards, lacks any control and unless his control improves dramatically, he is on borrowed time
Abrar hasn't sorted out the pace to bowl at the FC level, so who knows where this lad fits in.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Streaks of Greame Swann's bowling action.

He looks good and can be trained by none other than Saqlain Mushtaq to see if he can show response and has the passion to learn, work hard and focus to march forward, OR if he takes the modern trend of Pak players where they raise collars after being hyped by some knee-jerk fans, and performs sajdas on the wicket after taking 5 wickets against Afghanistan?

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Excelled in the U19 one day tournament. Third highest wicket taker after Faisal Akram and Mubasir Khan. 24 wickets in 11 matches at an average of 15.67.

Him, Adeel Meo, and Zeeshan Zameer led the Sindh bowling attack to win the Cup.

Third best bowler in the three day tournament after Arham Nawab and Mubasir Khan. 20 wickets in just 6 matches at an average of 25.55.

Sindh won the three day cup too with him as their highest wicket taker, again followed by Adeel.

 

[Titan24]

Looks like he got unfit during the match as he only bowled 3 overs with figures of 1-12.

 

[UzmanBeast]

If his action is clean and it looks clean, then we have something to work with.

I paused a lot on the bowling, and it looks good. Arm is straight upon the release of the ball and it bends after the ball is released.

He looks a decent prospect, and he gets some pretty good turn and loop. Needs to go into domestic for a few years though, as he needs to develop more variations and learn how to set up a batsman. The only reason I like having a leg spinner in tests is because of the ability to challenge both edges of the batsmen, but we have no other good leg-spinner apart from Yasir, so it's fair to more to a finger-spinner.

I'd like to see him develop the top-spinner, slider, arm ball, and a mystery ball if he wants to survive in white ball cricket. Something like the carrom ball, or even a leg-break could do the trick.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Looks like he got unfit during the match as he only bowled 3 overs with figures of 1-12.

Fitness is a concern, and that doesn't sound good that he couldn't continue bowling at that young age.

The last thing he'd want is to get an injury to keep him out of the domestic system, he's getting a really good chance in this Pakistan Cup to show what he's capable of.

 

[Bewal Express]

I paused a lot on the bowling, and it looks good. Arm is straight upon the release of the ball and it bends after the ball is released.

He looks a decent prospect, and he gets some pretty good turn and loop. Needs to go into domestic for a few years though, as he needs to develop more variations and learn how to set up a batsman. The only reason I like having a leg spinner in tests is because of the ability to challenge both edges of the batsmen, but we have no other good leg-spinner apart from Yasir, so it's fair to more to a finger-spinner.

I'd like to see him develop the top-spinner, slider, arm ball, and a mystery ball if he wants to survive in white ball cricket. Something like the carrom ball, or even a leg-break could do the trick.

All he needs is the ball that spins sharply, bowled at decent pace and with flight, and the one that doesnt. Too much variation means that they forget the basics.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

Saeed Ajmal action hopefully without the elbow bend. Clean action lets see how he gets on.

 

[UzmanBeast]

All he needs is the ball that spins sharply, bowled at decent pace and with flight, and the one that doesnt. Too much variation means that they forget the basics.

True, but having variations doesn't harm anybody as long as you use them sparingly. It's good to have these variations because batting styles can be unorthodox at times, and if the pitch does not support spinners, you need to make it look like the ball is doing something so that batsmen play the wrong shots.

I'm not a big fan of bowling variations unnecessarily, but I like when players have these variations at their disposal, it makes batsmen second guess themselves. Players like Shadab use variations too often instead of taking time to set up a batsman, whereas other spinners slip in variations very subtly once a batsmen is set up for a particular delivery.

 

[Bewal Express]

True, but having variations doesn't harm anybody as long as you use them sparingly. It's good to have these variations because batting styles can be unorthodox at times, and if the pitch does not support spinners, you need to make it look like the ball is doing something so that batsmen play the wrong shots.

I'm not a big fan of bowling variations unnecessarily, but I like when players have these variations at their disposal, it makes batsmen second guess themselves. Players like Shadab use variations too often instead of taking time to set up a batsman, whereas other spinners slip in variations very subtly once a batsmen is set up for a particular delivery.

Saqlain was destroyed by his variations. In the age of DRS, variation arent needed as much, sharp spin and flight will more than suffice

 

[Shafi]

Waqar/Misbah may select this kid for S Africa series and later blame him for whitewash.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Saqlain was destroyed by his variations. In the age of DRS, variation arent needed as much, sharp spin and flight will more than suffice

Successful spinners in modern cricket have an air of mystery to them. The most successful are even called mystery spinners. Kuldeep, when he started playing initially, had a unique style that earned him the title of mystery spinner. Rashid Khan is a mystery spinner and perhaps the best in the world. Mujeeb ur Rahman is a successful finger spinner who is also a mystery spinner, same with Ashwin, though he isn't a mystery spinner, rather a spinner with heaps of variations. Saeed Ajmal was a mystery spinner, and also a finger spinner.

I'm not saying that it is fundamental that a spinner has all of these variations, that's incorrect. You are right to say that what is needed is sharp spin, flight, and drift, but having variations also boosts your ability to improvise in situations where batsmen are very settled on the crease. On a flat pitch in some place like Australia, the ball isn't going to spin much, and batsmen are accustomed to playing for flight and drift, so that's when having that mystery ball can be so helpful. It doesn't have to spin wildly, it just has to straighten or bounce in a different manner to get a mistake out of a batsman.

I have a place for variations in white-ball cricket, but they should be kept away from test cricket, where the art is about setting up batsmen and bowling with persistence and intelligence. Variations are the last step to becoming a very good spinner, one must first master the ability to bowl the stock delivery with ease and understand why variations are there in the first place.

 

[shamaan]

Saqlain was destroyed by his variations. In the age of DRS, variation arent needed as much, sharp spin and flight will more than suffice

In sena it hardly spins so you need variations whilst in asain conditions spins who can spin the ball more would most likely be successful but would be an advantage to have more variations

 

[shamaan]

Looks quite tall for a spinner.beatiful action but i would get it checked before he starts playing more tournaments and competitions.One concern is that he only bowled 3 overs he must improve his fitness now rather than later

 

[Bewal Express]

In sena it hardly spins so you need variations whilst in asain conditions spins who can spin the ball more would most likely be successful but would be an advantage to have more variations

As Nathan Lyon has shown you can be more than a bit part bowler if you spin the bowl and bowl with flight. The variations can help but most of the bowlers use them to a point where they actually do more damage to their own action than they do the opposition. In the shorter formats variations are very important and can be very effective but again they have to be bowled well.

 

[Saj]

Action looks good.

Nice loop, flighting the ball very well too.

Looks a decent prospect.

 

[guldozer]

He only bowled 3 overs. Did he get injured or did captain decide to bowl others instead.

 

[Saj]

He only bowled 3 overs. Did he get injured or did captain decide to bowl others instead.

Injured.

I'm making enquiries regarding the injury.

 

[b.lesner]

Injured.

I'm making enquiries regarding the injury.

Is he still injured because i can't see him in any of 6 teams in domestic or U-19.

If he remains injured for long Pakistan may loose a future Offspinner who could serve for long.

 

[Major]

Depends if he is an actual spinner or just another mohammad nawaz type bowler that bowls line and length and only gets few balls that turn.

He looks nothing like swan. Swann had a very clean action, infact a very beutiful one

The kids action is good, not bad. But i wonder if he could spin the ball, because the video is of the psrts where he did get break on his ball