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Adnan Siddiqui

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If we look into the current T20 team, played against Srilanka, it was good fielding unit with few excellent and some good fielders.

Anwar Ali, Rizwan, Shoaib Malik, Immad, Umar excellent fielders.

Shahzad, Mukhtar, Hafeez, Afridi good fielders.

While, Irfan and Sohail Tanvir poor fielders.

Will addition of Sohaib Maqsood, as hearing reports, weaken our fielding unit?

Will he be 'odd one out' among the youngsters in fielding unit?
 
1 guy doesnt make that much of a difference if the rest are decent/good and chances are that he will become better if he hangs around a good fielding unit.
 
Ajmal used to be a bad fielder but he improved tremendously through hard work and practice. Same thing can happen for Maqsood. His hitting power will be vital for our ODI and T-20 teams.
 
AlphaFighter said:
Ajmal used to be a bad fielder but he improved tremendously through hard work and practice. Same thing can happen for Maqsood. His hitting power will be vital for our ODI and T-20 teams.
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The fact is, you can accept liability in one department, if the player is outstanding in other.

Like Ajmal, Irfan stay in the team but if Anwar fielding standard drop, no one can accept him in the team.

So, with such fielding, Sohaib has to perform very good with the bat.
 
He wouldn't be a liability, he'd just not be as good as the person dropped for him.

He's got safe hands, and a good arm.
 
The hack is not going to be selected. The selectors are intelligent. The agenda propagators can rest easy; this is not going to bear fruit.
 
Adnan Siddiqui said:
If we look into the current T20 team, played against Srilanka, it was good fielding unit with few excellent and some good fielders.

Anwar Ali, Rizwan, Shoaib Malik, Immad, Umar excellent fielders.

Shahzad, Mukhtar, Hafeez, Afridi good fielders.

While, Irfan and Sohail Tanvir poor fielders.

Will addition of Sohaib Maqsood, as hearing reports, weaken our fielding unit?

Will he be 'odd one out' among the youngsters in fielding unit?
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I like how you clubbed Mukthar (unfit) with Shehzad and Afridi (who are excellent fielders) :))
 
hes never gonna drop a catch. very safe hands and well be alright if he fields on the boundary
 
I think so. And also he doesnt deserve to be selected without any domestic cricket under his belt. As he was not in a good form before injury.
 
He's not a poor fielder. He's got a good arm and has a safe pair of hands but I'm not certain of his diving skills as compared to Malik, Shehzad, Anwar, Rizwan etc. We need a good power hitter in the team and Maqsood will make our batting a lot more stronger. Our batting is deep but it could do with a bit more.
 
Maqsood is a overrated batsman ...he should be no where near the Odi squad....add to that he is a poor fielder

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Mushtaq Muhammad, former Pakistan Captain, was very disappointed to see his technique during World Cup.

He said with this technique his most of the shots will be in air. More probability of getting out.
 
Actually no.

Difference between ODI & T20 in batting is - in T20 teams don't win with singles, it's a power hitting game while in ODI the entire batting philosophy is based on rotation & running. In T20, a single is almost taken for granted.

That's exactly what determines the fielding needs. In ODI, fielders need to be quick on feet, sharp throwers (obviously safe catchers) & very good chaser of the ball. In T20 you need that as well, but here you can hide a couple of fielders with safe pair of hands & very strong arm. Maqsood can be converted into a handy sweeper cover or deep mid wicket fielder like Inzi.

The potential that Maqsood brings at No. 3 in T20 is unparalleled in PAK - could be the difference between PAK finishing in SF & winning at Eden in 2016. This guy was lofting spinners to extra cover crowd on dead slow & low PAK wickets on wristy back-foot punches; on Indian wickets, on his day, he can get a 150 in a T20. I do rate him as arguably the best power hitter in sub-continent - I hope PCB's THICK TANK doesn't plan to use him at 6 to chase 75 in last 6 overs.
 
Mukhtar is a good fielder? LOL! He is equally bad se Maqsood in ground fielding. In fact, Maqsood is better than Mukhtar in terms of catching.
 
It might but players should primarily be judged on their batting and bowling, not their fielding. Besides, you can put him at slip, where he is very good or ask him to field in some of the easier positions, like long-on/off or third man. :rahat
 
Shahzad and afridi both r not gud fielders they both r excellent ...i dont know y people at this forum have so much hatred for both of them and in normal life most of them would have been dieng to meet them lol 😃
 
His not athletic as someone like a Rizwan or Anwar, but definitely not a bad fielder and a liability at all.

If he was like Irfan then I would agree with the op, but that is not the case and he is a good catcher, plus has a strong arm.

His hitting is worth more than Rizwan's fielding in T20's and would be a much better option in this format over him.
 
Lazy fielding by Maqsood today.

And a catch dropped or not taken

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Kind of a fielder you place on short fine leg and forget about him.
 
I am a fan of the batsman but his fielding and fitness worries me. If he shows no signs of improvement, he has to go!
 
Seems dropping catches for fun in the National T20!

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Sohaib Maqsood, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Azam Khan, Sharjeel Khan, and Iftikhar Ahmed.

All of them are the supposed "explosive talented" players, yet all of them are pathetic fielders.

Azam Khan and Sharjeel Khan roll around in the field and are serious liabilities.

Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, and Sohaib Maqsood are lazy fielders and have butterfingers.

Iftikhar Ahmed is generally useless in slips yet he always finds a way to get put in the slips, quite absurd.

That being said, Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah are still better fieldmen than batsmen, which sums up our hitting capabilities in the shortest format.

I rate Maqsood as a player, shouldn't have been dropped so early in his career. He needs to either open or bat at 3.
 
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Seems dropping catches for fun in the National T20!
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One of the laziest fielder along with Azam Khan.

Both of them will be a liability in the T20 WC

That was a simple catch for his height. Nawaz went on to score 50 in the match and they won it.

Also I watched the match, Maqsood was the captain , the match went to the last over with 5 runs needed with 5 wickets in hand. and he gave the ball to Khusdil shah who never bowled in the match and the match is over in 2 balls. Certainly if wants to show some fight should have given the over to one of Ilyas, Yamin or even Umer Khan.

Naseem shah the brainless fast bowler gifted the match with his atrocious bowling, Shadab hit 3 sixes in his over lol, shows how good a bowler this guy is.
 
UzmanBeast said:
Sohaib Maqsood, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Azam Khan, Sharjeel Khan, and Iftikhar Ahmed.

All of them are the supposed "explosive talented" players, yet all of them are pathetic fielders.

Azam Khan and Sharjeel Khan roll around in the field and are serious liabilities.

Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, and Sohaib Maqsood are lazy fielders and have butterfingers.

Iftikhar Ahmed is generally useless in slips yet he always finds a way to get put in the slips, quite absurd.

That being said, Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah are still better fieldmen than batsmen, which sums up our hitting capabilities in the shortest format.

I rate Maqsood as a player, shouldn't have been dropped so early in his career. He needs to either open or bat at 3
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Yes, he was constantly pushed down the order by MisQar till no. 7 in the batting line up

If u want to see a player get destroyed give it to MisQar, they will ensure it’s done smoothly.
 
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