IICRC, in last decade, PAK has won six Tests outside Asia excluding Bobby Mughabe’s Zimbabwe & Ireland. Two against WIN, three against ENG & one against NZ (that too almost 10 years back).
In those five Tests (I exclude the NZ one, which was before Yasir’s debut), Yasir has played four .... and has taken 31 wickets at an average of 21 in those four wins, with four 5fors & one 10for. A performing Yasir is that important for PAK out side Asia.
He is over aged, over weight & unfit, hence I see some people had the guts to pull him down, otherwise in last 6 years, without Yasir how many Tests PAK could have won in and outside Asia could be a research topic.
Fantastic leg spinner, the best of his generation who was drafted at least 6 years later than it should have been, otherwise guy could have been first Pakistani bowler to take 500 Test wickets. In PAK domestics where they play less FC overs than even BD domestics, he was debuted after 270+ FC wickets and probably into his 12th year of FC career, which was punishable crime.
Most people don’t have much clue how a leg spinner works - I give just one clue as food for thought: in his career Yasir has bowled over 80% overs against the wind for a predominantly 3+1 bowling combination, which allowed PCT management to keep their pacers in one piece. I read lots of rubbish about his 1-200 sort of figures ..... in batting innings over 500-600 runs where batting side declared - it only tells me that in a rubbish bowling effort these guy kept bowling tirelessly from one end. Otherwise, when you play three pacers, unless they are rubbish, you don’t expect your leggi to bowl 40% overs in first innings.
[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] - I understand he lost the Old Trafford Test in 2016 for his 54-6-213-1 effort in a first innings of 589-8d - there were three other pacers bowling in that innings that including the guy England “fears” - Mohammad Amir ..... what the f*** those three did using the fresh OT track on first two days and why should a leggi bowl 54 overs out of 152, in first innings for a 3+1 combination including 31 overs on day 1 itself?
Yasir playing his 40th)
I am interested to see if both leggies will bowl together, not sure that will be ideal for Pak, but it would certainly be a great spectacle, not seen two leggies bowl in pairs for a while
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my bad.
