Yes Shaheen was a tricky one, wickets but not at his best with the ball.
Good analysis and fair ratings overall.
Yes but he failed every single game that followed in a row. His keeping was also terrible in this cup. Which is a suprise since in asia cup it was solid. His drs reviews are also bad.
This is a great point. Everyone immediately goes to long-term problems and doom and gloom. Yes domestic structure has issues, coaching has problem etc but even small tweaks could have made a big difference.
Exactly. With an ICC tournament every year now, we need solutions that you have described
As far as t20's are concerned Iftekhar, Rauf & Shadab are perfectly suitable. They should be persisted with in this format.
I think you meant Fakhar & Shaheen, specially when you are talking about match winners. As far as white ball formats are concerned Fakhar is the biggest match winning batsman & nobody is even close.
Spinners were without any doubt terrible throughout the WC but you are mistaken if you think batsmen & fast bowlers did reasonably well.
Reason for 4 was that he flopped in key matches, his constant wasting of reviews also and he was a part of the leadership group that was clueless. In addition his keeping was very average.
Again key moments, Abdullah didn't produce:
Haha, yes maybe some could have been lower
Good review overall but Abdullah and Saud warrant higher ratings. We need to consider this is their first world cup. More importantly they weren't first choice players when they came for the world cup either. They were thrown into the middle and they did well considering all the factors. They are for the future and it's a promising start.
Abduallah's 4 flops I've mentioned above.
What needs to be considered is if there was a senior batsman like Babar or Rizwan was on the other end when he was dismissed. If thats the case, its reckless. At this stage of their careers, they need guidance from the other end especially during pressure matches like in a world cup. The art of building an innings after getting a start doesn't come naturally to batsmen unless they play a lot of innings under guidance. The guidance typically is how to target certain bowlers and play out the rest. The scoring areas and building partnerships.
you cant pick and choose games.... every game is a key game in WC. Abdullah had a century which set up a game and can be called match winning... he also created impact in a lot of games while he was batting with Imam who was a dud. In short, he created more impact that Saud who only had one good innings against SA; thats it!
maybe they are just protecting their good reputation as a star Pakistan cricket player
We can nitpick, but in my opinion failing in 4 matches against stronger teams isn't great. Only scoring 33 runs in those 4 matches is poor.
Yeah I second you. Rizwan wasn't that bad. A 5 rating would have been more justified.
