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[VIDEOS] Abdullah Shafique - International performance watch

Hi, I do not think you understand or know how to appreciate test cricket [MENTION=147292]RedwoodOriginal[/MENTION]

he is batting time...so pakistan can score 650 plus at the end of day 3.5 then bowl bangladesh out.
 
Solid innings so far. Insha'Allah he will score a ton tomorrow.

He is a solid opener/top order batsman. A very good decision by PCB to give him a debut (at last!), I got a feeling he will grab this chance with both hands!

He has faced 162 deliveries and has had a control of 94%. You can't get any more solid than that. One can say this is a weak bowling attack but BD spinners at home are very strong.

PS: That 6 to bring up his 50 was so suave smooth!
 
I saw bits of his innings and concur what others have said that he looked solid. As he develops his game and confidence he will have to show more. At this stage a good start
 
He has better 6 hitting ability than Babar. If nurtured well he will become a great too
 
At least he is a good looking batsman to watch unlike talunts like Imran Butt and Shan Masood.
 
Definitely looks a good prospect was too slow but that's understandable because it was his 1st innings in a test match, his defense was pretty solid albeit vs a pathetic Bangla bowling attack, his footwork was really impressive as well. I hope Australia comes to Pakistan so that he can play vs a great bowling side at home & could score some runs. Definitely would love to watch more of him in tests & ODI's.
 
Good start but has been way too slow.

52* from 162 balls against an ordinary Bangladeshi attack (strike rate of 32.09).

Good prospect though.
 
Sad to see him play......

He should not be playing. Even if he becomes the highest scorer of this series. He has played 3 first class games only and is the most inexperienced player ever.

Fans will get happy and jump around this performance, but if he performs here he will eventually get selected for tougher series and when he will fail Pakistan would be losing matches.
Than the argument would be presented and fans would be asking questions that why do selectors selected inexperienced players.

Same happened with Naseem Shah and the same is gonna happen with this kid.
 
Looked solid and compact. Good concentration levels and foot work, yes hes batted slow but on this pitch its important to get big 1st inns runs so hes doing his job. glad he was picked instead of imam.
 
Major said:
Sad to see him play......

He should not be playing. Even if he becomes the highest scorer of this series. He has played 3 first class games only and is the most inexperienced player ever.

Fans will get happy and jump around this performance, but if he performs here he will eventually get selected for tougher series and when he will fail Pakistan would be losing matches.
Than the argument would be presented and fans would be asking questions that why do selectors selected inexperienced players.

Same happened with Naseem Shah and the same is gonna happen with this kid.
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Your hero rates him very highly too. If I remember correctly he said something along the line that he’s technically the best in Pakistan after Babar. He clearly has the ability now we need to give him game time as much as we can and how we developed Babar.
 
He is technically sound enough and can bat long like today he does have the big shots like he showed today.however his strike rate should be more towards 40-45.

Overall I am really happy that he is looking to bat long and not give a sniff to the opposition.
 
trickyone said:
Not impress with his batting, he is way too nervours. He will get out sooner or later, Bangladesh already saved him by not taking a review.

Nobody cares how well you can stop the ball, you need to score runs
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He is scoring runs even thoug its slow but I'd take that anyday of the week.
 
trickyone said:
Noone was expecting a 50 ball hundred but he was doing tuk tuk without any intention of scoring runs and he was out earlier too (Bangladesh didnt take the review :Facepalm:)
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So it's Abdullah fault that they didn't take the review.
 
Major said:
Sad to see him play......

He should not be playing. Even if he becomes the highest scorer of this series. He has played 3 first class games only and is the most inexperienced player ever.

Fans will get happy and jump around this performance, but if he performs here he will eventually get selected for tougher series and when he will fail Pakistan would be losing matches.
Than the argument would be presented and fans would be asking questions that why do selectors selected inexperienced players.

Same happened with Naseem Shah and the same is gonna happen with this kid.
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Not sure if this makes sense.if he fails Pak will be losing matches??

Name me a Pak Opener in last ten years or so who actually has WON matches for us. I think we have tried numerous openers all failed
 
Pakistan will have to find new openers.Abid is 34.Shan looked good in couple matches only.Imam is vulnerable against the short ball.Butt is not international standandard.It was right to play Shafiq against BD.Omair and Banglzai look promising.They should be ready in a couple of years.Nasir Nawaz is another one who can open in future.
 
It doesn’t take much for our fans to get excited. Not long ago, they distributed mithai when Abid scored a century on debut against Sri Lanka and thought a new star was born, but then we saw how he fared against quality attacks.

Even Imran Butt would have looked good against this attack on this pitch. Let’s wait and see how he does against proper bowling before getting carried away.
 
If Australia does tour Pakistan, his real test will come there. I don't think we can make any judgement on this performance or this series.

A steady start but nothing more than that.
 
Mamoon said:
It doesn’t take much for our fans to get excited. Not long ago, they distributed mithai when Abid scored a century on debut against Sri Lanka and thought a new star was born, but then we saw how he fared against quality attacks.

Even Imran Butt would have looked good against this attack on this pitch. Let’s wait and see how he does against proper bowling before getting carried away.
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Bar 1 or 2 no one is getting carried away. He’s young in his career and a long way to go.
 
He has looked solid and a great prospect in every innings so far in domestic cricket. He has shown the same on his test debut today.
 
A good patient knock from Shafique, he's build a good foundation to attack the Bangladesh bowling attack.
 
Just hope he doesn't turn out to be like Asad Shafiq.
 
Amazed at some of the comments on here. Clearly some major lack of understanding of test cricket.
The guy played exactly the kind of knock required in the circumstances and considering it was his DEBUT - even more credit to him.
Looked solid. Good technique and temperament. I don’t think he was nervous at all. You don’t play 57 overs being nervous. He was clearly following the obvious instructions from his captain to a debutant. ‘Don’t throw your wicket away. Don’t get out. Let Abid do the scoring’. This is test match cricket not a T10.

Some people are just impossible to please.
 
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muqarrab said:
Looks compact and ok. But how come he has played so few first class matches?
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Because after his first appearance he was travelling with Pakistan squads instead of playing first class matches.

I feel he is very serious about his game so him not playing many first class games doesn't bother me as much as it does with other players. I am sure he always works hard.
 
The Googly said:
Amazed at some of the comments on here. Clearly some major lack of understanding of test cricket.
The guy played exactly the kind of knock required in the circumstances and considering it was his DEBUT - even more credit to him.
Looked solid. Good technique and temperament. I don’t think he was nervous at all. You don’t play 57 overs being nervous. He was clearly following the obvious instructions from his captain to a debutant. ‘Don’t throw your wicket away. Don’t get out. Let Abid do the scoring’. This is test match cricket not a T10.

Some people are just impossible to please.[/QUOTE

Hit the nail on the head . He played one false shot all innings and that was going back the spinner when he should have been lbw. I dont think he was nervous either
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arif_2021 said:
Hi, I do not think you understand or know how to appreciate test cricket [MENTION=147292]RedwoodOriginal[/MENTION]

he is batting time...so pakistan can score 650 plus at the end of day 3.5 then bowl bangladesh out.
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Hi, I do understand and appreciate test cricket and I don't need you (who doesn't even know me besides one comment) to tell me otherwise.

His innings is forgivable, because he is a young kid playing only his second first-class match. And he has played an innings in which he has looked very good technically.

But this is a pancake of a pitch with absolutely nothing in it and a fairly poor bowling attack on the other end. If you want to score 600-650 you need openers to be striking at atleast 50.
 
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A. Ali is batting at a strike rate of 50. Shafique is slower but if he remains will improve the strike rate. Scoring 600-650 is ambitious but a lead of 200 would be daunting for BD, batting a second time after a long time in the field.
 
Mamoon said:
It doesn’t take much for our fans to get excited. Not long ago, they distributed mithai when Abid scored a century on debut against Sri Lanka and thought a new star was born, but then we saw how he fared against quality attacks.

Even Imran Butt would have looked good against this attack on this pitch. Let’s wait and see how he does against proper bowling before getting carried away.
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Mamoon said:
If we didn’t pick him and some other youngster would have flopped instead of him, then Abdullah Shafique would have been the right selection while the other player would have been the wrong selection.

This is what happens when fans cannot accept that we are just above minnow level and 99% of the players coming through our not international class.

And no, nothing will change when messiah Mohammad Wasim takes charge.
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Seems you have changed your a little bit on him. From no other option but failure for him to should not getting too excited.
 
shah_1 said:
For a test opener that will be world class if he can show decent performances against quality bowling.
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Historically our openers rarely go above 42 and if you take out the minnows then its much lower, most are in the 30s against decent teams.
 
Bewal Express said:
If Abdullah scores and we win, then we have made huge strides. At this point in time your point is churlish
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I could care less how many Abdullah makes as long as we score 650 with more than enough time to bowl them out. Cricket is not about individual performances. This is a road and there is no telling how long Bangladesh will hang around if the pitch does not deteriorate.

If he keeps striking at 30 (which is even lower than Boycott on his worst day) than I don't see us reaching 650.

He is well-set on a pancake of a pitch. There is no excuse to not put the foot on the accelerator now.

And if he's thinking I'm going to crawl my way to a century and then think about scoring quickly than that's selfish batting.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I could care less how many Abdullah makes as long as we score 650 with more than enough time to bowl them out. Cricket is not about individual performances. This is a road and there is no telling how long Bangladesh will hang around if the pitch does not deteriorate.

If he keeps striking at 30 (which is even lower than Boycott on his worst day) than I don't see us reaching 650.

He is well-set on a pancake of a pitch. There is no excuse to not put the foot on the accelerator now.

And if he's thinking I'm going to crawl my way to a century and then think about scoring quickly than that's selfish batting.
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Its the individual performances that make up the team performance.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Not always. If you are not playing according to the situation of the match and the requirement of the team than all you are doing is padding up your average.
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And what makes you think that he isnt on the 2nd day of the test? The challenge is to get level and then look to take a lead, he is helping to do the 1st and will IA help to the next part once he has done. If the guy had been playing for a year then my expectations would be much higher, at this stage, he has done everything asked of him.
 
i didn't see all of his innings, but from what i saw he played 150 balls and made maybe 2 mistakes, which is not bad for your first test innings. also held two slip catches which is always a plus.

just needs to keep playing the way he is, if theres one position where you can justify batting with a lower strike rate, its opening, azhar should make way for saud to have a more attacking leftie at three in the long run tho.
 
Omer2002 said:
Not sure if this makes sense.if he fails Pak will be losing matches??

Name me a Pak Opener in last ten years or so who actually has WON matches for us. I think we have tried numerous openers all failed
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you completely miss the point.

a batsmen who has plauyed 3 first class matches is not gonna do much. You can enjoy his performance agaisnt Bangladesh all you want, but he aint test ready
 
Mamoon said:
It doesn’t take much for our fans to get excited. Not long ago, they distributed mithai when Abid scored a century on debut against Sri Lanka and thought a new star was born, but then we saw how he fared against quality attacks.

Even Imran Butt would have looked good against this attack on this pitch. Let’s wait and see how he does against proper bowling before getting carried away.
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These same people celebrated Naseem Shahs hatrick in test aswell. The fans seem to forget that experience matters. Test experience matters alot.

Abdullah might be good, but he needs to be selected on merit. Needs to perform in domestic and have expeirnece under his belt to be playing out there.

These performances agaisnt Bangaldseh and West Indies will end up getting him a tour against a good side, and than when he will get exposed due to lack of experience, we will be losing the game and the fans who are today celebrating this performance will be lashing out on him,
 
Bangladesh and windies aregood at home they beat aussies and kiwis..its not like abid ali..imran butt or imamul haq who had chances against zimbabwe
 
Credit where it's due, you can critique him all you want for his slow pace but at the end of the day he's scoring runs when he's being expected to score runs. Even though the opposition isn't the best he's still doing his job.

Don't want to make any final conclusions until he faces quality bowling on harder conditions but so far so good.
 
Major said:
you completely miss the point.

a batsmen who has plauyed 3 first class matches is not gonna do much. You can enjoy his performance agaisnt Bangladesh all you want, but he aint test ready
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Experience is over-rated. If you are good enough, you should play. If you are not good enough, you should not play. We carried a lot of useless players in the squads in the name of experience who failed multiple times. Even in this test match, there was another debutant from Bangladesh with 50+ FC matches experience. Please remind me how much did he score in the first innings in his home ground?
 
Major said:
These same people celebrated Naseem Shahs hatrick in test aswell. The fans seem to forget that experience matters. Test experience matters alot.

Abdullah might be good, but he needs to be selected on merit. Needs to perform in domestic and have expeirnece under his belt to be playing out there.

These performances agaisnt Bangaldseh and West Indies will end up getting him a tour against a good side, and than when he will get exposed due to lack of experience, we will be losing the game and the fans who are today celebrating this performance will be lashing out on him,
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Two completely different scenarios. Also add Shaheen in the list too. Babar too given his FC record before debut.

If anything the blame should be on Misbah and now Wasim for actually selecting these people before they are ready. Naseem is missing out on the whole FC season again while sitting on the bench against BD.

We all knew what we were getting with Naseem and to be fair to him apart from the NZ series, where he was carrying a small injury or recovering from (again on Misbah-Waqar for playing him through that), he was solid.

Abdullah will have done the same today, had he not been selected. Given the choice between him playing no cricket at all and playing test cricket, especially when the other options are Abid, Butt and Imam, I will gladly take him playing tests. He is the best upcoming batsman we have. If anyone has watched yesterday's innings, the difference between him and Abid couldnt have been clearer. This would have been his second FC season carrying drinks, and that would have been criminal.

Lack of experience is also not a argument with this Pakistan team. Abid, Imran and Imam will be exposed even more against better teams, infact they have been. Abdullah has better batting fundamentals so he has a much better chance of repeating good performances against the likes of Australia. He might fail but who else is going to do better?

I have no issues with him playing a season of FC before his test debut, and in general I would agree with you. Abdullah is at a point, where he will crush it in FC(2 centuries in 3 games is a good indicator). But he needs to be in Pakistan for that to happen, not on tours with the T20 teams of all things. And we can't keep on not playing him, using experience as an excuse, while denying him the chance to get the said 'experience' in the first place.
 
Very happy to see finally selectors made a bold move to select Abdullah and gave him a test debut. Some time if you see some exciting talent, you play the gamble by throwing the young guy in deep . Ik discovered Waqar, Akram and Aaqib the same way .

We havn't done this kind of experiment much with any batsman , Hasan Raza's was fa ailure but it was not less than a stupidity to give test debut to a 14 year old ( reportedly ) kid.

Babar did not play much FC cricket and I think had only one FC ton ( a tripple ) before playing for national team. I'm not at all comparing Abdullah with Tendulkar and not hyping him up, but as an example, he was also given a test debut after someone saw something very special talent in that school boy.

Abdullah's rise to the top, so far, is just like Babar.
 
Geez, all this negativity around not test ready, no FC experience, minnow bashing, flat pitch, and what not.

You guys really need to start enjoying life as it is too short.

All I would say is that the quality of some of the strokes that Abdullah Shafique played were really impressive. Time will tell how he does against better oppositions but lets not discredit him here.
 
Major said:
Sad to see him play......

He should not be playing. Even if he becomes the highest scorer of this series. He has played 3 first class games only and is the most inexperienced player ever.

Fans will get happy and jump around this performance, but if he performs here he will eventually get selected for tougher series and when he will fail Pakistan would be losing matches.
Than the argument would be presented and fans would be asking questions that why do selectors selected inexperienced players.

Same happened with Naseem Shah and the same is gonna happen with this kid.
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I agree. Pakistan domestic cricket is not at that level any more that you insert a 3 FC match inexperienced player into test matches . I think it's a big gamble. Even a double ton against this bad attack doesn't prove that he is going to survive against quality attack or in abroad.

Pakistani selectors didn't have any kind of patience regarding a proven customer like Sami Aslam but they have immense faith on a 3 matches player. Surprise!
 
Mobashir said:
Seems you have changed your a little bit on him. From no other option but failure for him to should not getting too excited.
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Pakistan has no talent, so I won’t be wrong to assume that he is the same. If he is different and proves to be different in the long run, good for Pakistan cricket and Pakistan cricket fans.

Besides, I didn't watch him play in this Test. I don’t care about this series between two poor sides when India vs New Zealand is happening at the same time. A series between two top sides is always worth watching.
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistan has no talent, so I won’t be wrong to assume that he is the same. If he is different and proves to be different in the long run, good for Pakistan cricket and Pakistan cricket fans.

Besides, I didn't watch him play in this Test. I don’t care about this series between two poor sides when India vs New Zealand is happening at the same time. A series between two top sides is always worth watching.
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Lol you don't care but yet you can't resist posting about the poor side.
 
Clueless batsmen should have milk the runs in session 3 of day 2 after seeing session 1 of day 1 & 2 favoured the bowlers instead he was tuk tuking that's why expirence matters
 
Arsal_AK said:
Two completely different scenarios. Also add Shaheen in the list too. Babar too given his FC record before debut.

If anything the blame should be on Misbah and now Wasim for actually selecting these people before they are ready. Naseem is missing out on the whole FC season again while sitting on the bench against BD.

We all knew what we were getting with Naseem and to be fair to him apart from the NZ series, where he was carrying a small injury or recovering from (again on Misbah-Waqar for playing him through that), he was solid.

Abdullah will have done the same today, had he not been selected. Given the choice between him playing no cricket at all and playing test cricket, especially when the other options are Abid, Butt and Imam, I will gladly take him playing tests. He is the best upcoming batsman we have. If anyone has watched yesterday's innings, the difference between him and Abid couldnt have been clearer. This would have been his second FC season carrying drinks, and that would have been criminal.

Lack of experience is also not a argument with this Pakistan team. Abid, Imran and Imam will be exposed even more against better teams, infact they have been. Abdullah has better batting fundamentals so he has a much better chance of repeating good performances against the likes of Australia. He might fail but who else is going to do better?

I have no issues with him playing a season of FC before his test debut, and in general I would agree with you. Abdullah is at a point, where he will crush it in FC(2 centuries in 3 games is a good indicator). But he needs to be in Pakistan for that to happen, not on tours with the T20 teams of all things. And we can't keep on not playing him, using experience as an excuse, while denying him the chance to get the said 'experience' in the first place.
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Shaheem was rusty when he came. After staying in international cricket for two years did he started to improve.

What we did with saheen was wrong. He was succesful and we got lucky. Not every player is gonna be like that.

Naseem shah, musa, hasnain are the best examples of inexperienced coming in.

Babar azam has loads of experience. He had been part od domestic set up since 2009 before making his debut in 2015.

His fundamentals mean zilch when he has no domestic experience. Unless and until he plays domestic games, does a season or two he aint gonna be a success here. Bowling the likes of bangladesh, zimbabwe is easy.

Throw him against a quality side and his lack of experience will come forward. Than when he gets exposed we will be complaining that another pakistani player was wasted
 
cricketerB94 said:
Experience is over-rated. If you are good enough, you should play. If you are not good enough, you should not play. We carried a lot of useless players in the squads in the name of experience who failed multiple times. Even in this test match, there was another debutant from Bangladesh with 50+ FC matches experience. Please remind me how much did he score in the first innings in his home ground?
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No point in arguing with someone who thinks experience doesnt matter.
 
Mainul said:
I agree. Pakistan domestic cricket is not at that level any more that you insert a 3 FC match inexperienced player into test matches . I think it's a big gamble. Even a double ton against this bad attack doesn't prove that he is going to survive against quality attack or in abroad.

Pakistani selectors didn't have any kind of patience regarding a proven customer like Sami Aslam but they have immense faith on a 3 matches player. Surprise!
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Sami aslam was himself to blame for his u healthy diet and than making a tantrum. Someone on his fb page jokingly asked did you eat karhai and he replied last week.

This is the attitude of the guy.....

Haider ali got a 50 on debut...... And yet we all know how he is standing in the team. A walking wicket.
 
He wasted too many balls when pitch was good for batting. Had he out early we could score another 50+ runs. I think even Sami Aslam had better ability than him.
 
Major said:
Sami aslam was himself to blame for his u healthy diet and than making a tantrum. Someone on his fb page jokingly asked did you eat karhai and he replied last week.

This is the attitude of the guy.....

Haider ali got a 50 on debut...... And yet we all know how he is standing in the team. A walking wicket.
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Sami Aslam was the best prospect for Pakistan . He was out and in without giving him a proper long run in the team. He should have been Pakistan's permanent opener for the next decade both in tests and ODI. Just check his record in FC, List A and under 19 level. Pakistan is the looser at the end of the day.

Diet is not a big factor unless u perfom
 
Shafi said:
He wasted too many balls when pitch was good for batting. Had he out early we could score another 50+ runs. I think even Sami Aslam had better ability than him.
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Calm down bro its his debut thats why he was circumspect and remember he has only 3 first class games under his belt..this lad will be a superstar no doubt. He has better six hitting ability than babar azam
 
Shafi said:
He wasted too many balls when pitch was good for batting. Had he out early we could score another 50+ runs. I think even Sami Aslam had better ability than him.
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Pitch looks pretty flat to me..
You saying after the start openers gave you regardless of slow playing we should be in this position?
 
ataullah said:
Calm down bro its his debut thats why he was circumspect and remember he has only 3 first class games under his belt..this lad will be a superstar no doubt. He has better six hitting ability than babar azam
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What has six hitting ability got to do with this .. it’s not the benchmark of being a successful test batsman .
 
Shafi said:
He wasted too many balls when pitch was good for batting. Had he out early we could score another 50+ runs. I think even Sami Aslam had better ability than him.
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Pakistan team, as a whole played way too slow. Even Babar, who likes to play his shots, played very slow. They need to get out of this tuk tuk mindset and play like a modern day team with more than 3 run rate.
 
Mainul said:
Sami Aslam was the best prospect for Pakistan . He was out and in without giving him a proper long run in the team. He should have been Pakistan's permanent opener for the next decade both in tests and ODI. Just check his record in FC, List A and under 19 level. Pakistan is the looser at the end of the day.

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Lol at not giving him a proper long run, he played 13 test matches with 31 average...
 
I hope Pakistan doesn't make the same mistake with Abdullah they need to keep him in the side whether he performs or not because it's not like we have Hayden, Shewag etc waiting to fill up his spot.
 
trickyone said:
Lol at not giving him a proper long run, he played 13 test matches with 31 average...
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Sami definitely deserves some more matches out of 13 he played 6 matches vs Eng, Aus & NZ.

Babar when started his test career he was utterly pathetic as well but he kept getting chances and finally played atleast 2 very good years of test cricket, don't know what happened to him in 2021. But yes Sami was hard done by the selectors.
 
Why is this poor kid being blamed for the abysmal show of the middle order
 
trickyone said:
Lol at not giving him a proper long run, he played 13 test matches with 31 average...
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He was dropped 2 times within this 13 test periods. And almost all the tests were outside UAE and Pakistan. How many test matches were Asad Shafique the Bradman were given?
 
trickyone said:
Lol at not giving him a proper long run, he played 13 test matches with 31 average...
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He was dropped 2 times within this 13 test periods. And almost all the tests were outside UAE and Pakistan and against top opposition. How many test matches were Asad Shafique the Bradman were given?
 
If PCT can give 25 test matches to Shan Masood, and see the bench strength of quality openers in domestic cricket. Just give him a proper chance.
 
shah_1 said:
If PCT can give 25 test matches to Shan Masood, and see the bench strength of quality openers in domestic cricket. Just give him a proper chance.
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Guess it's all over for him. Already got Imam and other players in the line. So I think it is too late for him to make his comeback. He should focus on T20 franchise game. I do believe he can do well there, specially in PSL. He was way better than other majority of openers in the whole tournament
 
Today Abdullah is playing positively.His strike rate is better than Abid’s.People were criticising him for being slow in his first innings.This is his first match.People should show some patience.
 
Artaxerxes said:
Today Abdullah is playing positively.His strike rate is better than Abid’s.People were criticising him for being slow in his first innings.This is his first match.People should show some patience.
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People have no patience mate. I have been saying since I saw his range of shots in the first innings that this kid can go miles.

He just need to remain focussed and keep up the hard work.
 
Artaxerxes said:
Today Abdullah is playing positively.His strike rate is better than Abid’s.People were criticising him for being slow in his first innings.This is his first match.People should show some patience.
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People have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone who's seen Abdullah bat before would know that he has pretty much every shot in the book and can play quite aggressively. I think that he has the potential to play more aggressively than Babar, even. To be very honest, he has more shots than Babar Azam had when he started his career.
 
There's a reason I've been so excited about this guy. He's the most exciting batting talent in Pakistan at the moment. He has every shot, a very solid defensive technique, and more importantly, he's a very smart and ambitious cricketer. Very far from being the Umar Akmal type.

And I'm not saying this simply because of his performances against Bangladesh. I've not even watched the game.
 
No body is hyping him up..second innings with the pressure what we are used to he looked solid.

Only snag is lack of first class experience but whose fault is that he has been carrying drinks for two years didnt even get a chance against zimbabwe when Butt abid and imam played. Playing away in bangladesh is pretty hard
 
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