So he has now officially retired?
Yes! from Domestic Cricket
Great decision from him something for khurram manzoor etc to learn from. There is no point playing domestics at the age of 40. Give a youngster a chance. Respect to Asad Shafiq for this.
He played 77 test matches and never won a match for Pakistan. How underwhelming is that, he helped draw a match in start of his career that's where he got his only player of the match award. He had talent but could not handle pressure of the international level. He would crumble whenever the team was in pressure.
Shafiq’s problem was that he wasn’t good enough to be consistent, his problem wasn’t handling pressure.
I still think Shafiq deserves more credit than he gets. I believe he was integral for the many victories we scored in the UAE. Batting with the tail is an art. He did that job well and would take a 350 score to a 500+ with the tail.
He really needed to step up when Misbah and Younis retired. But couldn't.
Maybe he was never good enough to handle that mantle which is why he failed. It's fine not every batter can be a great. But I think he played 25 tests too many for Pak. Still believe Fawad would have won us more matches had he been in Asad's place but Fawad was Australia's bunny.
Definitely. In fact I remember Fawad's ODI knock in Asia Cup against Bangladesh that helped won us the game. People remember Afridi's inning
He might be better suited to that position. He's played every domestic season for over a decade. Knows majority of players first hand.
He scored a good 100 in the final of Asia Cup as well even though he was striking at 35-40 for the first 80 balls or so. Right after that Asia Cup Fawad ran into Australia in that 3 ODI series which spelled the end of his ODI career.
Asad Shafiq has no ODI century.
I first saw him in 2011 World cup, at the time, i thought he was going to be a solid ODI batsman for Pakistan, turned out Test Cricket is where he played the most, and had some success, however I felt his ceiling was higher, and did not do justice to what could have been an awesome test career. I always liked him, and did enjoy his batting when he was on song. I was talking about Fawad's century in Asia Cup Final.
In President's Trophy 2023-24, Asad Shafiq Scored 81(85) for SNGP against Ghani Glass in first innings, Day-1Not completely or yet it seems!
At the toss of the President Cup
All forms of proper cricket. He sees this as the equivalent of club cricket
That is surprising considering how he's behaved as a player. Are you able to elaborate a bit without being too incriminating?
Happy birthday but his only impressive record is that no 6 record where he scored 9 centuries at that no.
