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[VIDEOS] Has Haris Rauf proved himself to be a worthy member of the Pakistan side?

gazza619 said:
Counter argument is that he was too hot too handle and made sure Miller remained off strike. Isn't that good?

One will need to be seriously biased to criticise Rauf’s performance today.
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Yeah I wish he was this smart and had such high bowling IQ.

If you would have said that Miller was scared of facing our speed demon, it would have been slightly more believable.

You don’t need to be biased to conclude that Rauf isn’t and will not be good enough, but I guess our fans will learn it the hard way as always.
 
He has the x factor and passion as well as decent skills Hes exactly the type of pace bowler pakistan needs Someone with character and 90mph bowling

He ll have bad days in this day and age with flat tracks and 300 plus runs ten a penny Who wont?

But he will come back with good performances Lets back him Hes bowled well today

Good on him
 
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Do not get your hopes high. He is a very ordinary bowler. No swing, no line and no brain!
 
Yeah I am still not convinced

Ok he is a good death bowler
But so are a bunch of t20 mercenaries but they're not good bowlers are they?

There's more to bowling than just bowling two good death overs

:jimmy
 
Has the best seam amongst the PK bowlers but isn't making the best use. He needs to bowl fuller( and I am not talking about 1/2 volleys) and threaten the outside edge. He needs to stop bowling the short stuff because it's harmless rubbish.
 
He bowled well today.hopefully he will become more consistant when he plays more games.
 
After a brilliant performance in the 2nd ODI (3/54), Haris picks up where he left off in the 3rd game. A powerplay maiden to start.
 
I guess only people with limited knowledge of cricket rate Harris Rauf...
 
Excellent work by Haris today - game could have drifted away
 
Has looked better when he has included a few slower balls into his repertoire. Unlike the same old predictable crap that he resorts to bowling.
 
Def improvement, if only he stops bowling these crappy short balls to top order batsman. He has the best seam amongst the PK right armers and needs to attack the outside edge. He could learn alot from watching Mohd Shami
 
Pakistan's best bowler again today.

Not many loose deliveries and didn't try to be too clever either.

Great effort.
 
Mamoon said:
Only delusional people thought this street cricket could cut it at the professional level.

As I have said many times, the more he plays, the more he will get exposed. I don’t care about Qalandars but Pakistan needs to cut its losses.

He is a match-loser at this level.
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Aha

Tell us more at this level...
 
Haris Rauf keeps improving. Best bowler again today and provided the most crucial breakthrough.

Some posters here will keep calling him a "street cricketer" but then again they don't have any credibility to begin with.
 
He can become a very useful bowler for us in future.

An attacking option during middle overs and death overs' specialist. Invaluable.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Haris Rauf who was very impressive in the series particularly in the last 2 ODIs:<br><br>Overs 29<br>Wickets 7<br>Runs Conceded 171<br>Average 24.42<br>Strike-rate 24.80<br>Economy-rate 5.89<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SAvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SAvPAK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1379831617502507008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rana said:
Aha

Tell us more at this level...
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Rauf is a loose cannon who is always on the cusp of getting smashed. He has no control, no bowling intelligence - he just runs without any thought and throws rocks at the batsmen.

Every now and then, he might fluke a couple of good spells, but if Pakistan is banking on him to become a regular in the white ball teams, it is going to suffer a lot of thrashings.

Indian, English and Australian batsmen will rip him apart. I am waiting for the day the likes of Rohit, Kohli, KL Rahul, Dhawan, Pant, Pandya, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler, Warner, Finch etc. get hold of him.

It is best for Pakistan cricket in the long run if fans don’t put too much stock into performances against this South African team. However, it is not going to happen.
 
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Mamoon said:
Rauf is a loose cannon who is always on the cusp of getting smashed. He has no control, no bowling intelligence - he just runs without any thought and throws rocks at the batsmen.

Every now and then, he might fluke a couple of good spells, but if Pakistan is banking on him to become a regular in the white ball teams, it is going to suffer a lot of thrashings.

Indian, English and Australian batsmen will rip him apart. I am waiting for the day the likes of Rohit, Kohli, KL Rahul, Dhawan, Pant, Pandya, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler, Warner, Finch etc. get hold of him.

It is best for Pakistan cricket in the long run if fans don’t put too much stock into performances against this South African team. However, it is not going to happen.
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Thanks


I’ll refer to this post later as well...
 
Shaheen, Hassan, Hanain, Rauf are all average bowlers. Amir remains the best white ball bowler in the country
 
Rana said:
Thanks


I’ll refer to this post later as well...
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Sure. You can write my name on a piece of paper just like you did last year when I told you that Naseem will flop in England.
 
Mamoon said:
Sure. You can write my name on a piece of paper just like you did last year when I told you that Naseem will flop in England.
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I’ve got that in my pocket, just like I’ve got you right there as well..
 
Mamoon said:
Rauf is a loose cannon who is always on the cusp of getting smashed. He has no control, no bowling intelligence - he just runs without any thought and throws rocks at the batsmen.

Every now and then, he might fluke a couple of good spells, but if Pakistan is banking on him to become a regular in the white ball teams, it is going to suffer a lot of thrashings.

Indian, English and Australian batsmen will rip him apart. I am waiting for the day the likes of Rohit, Kohli, KL Rahul, Dhawan, Pant, Pandya, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler, Warner, Finch etc. get hold of him.

It is best for Pakistan cricket in the long run if fans don’t put too much stock into performances against this South African team. However, it is not going to happen.
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"Throws rockets at the batsmen" lol...Did u watch the match and see his slower balls? Pollock was very impressed with his speed from mid 140's dropping to 120's and deceiving the batsmen.
 
ataullah said:
"Throws rockets at the batsmen" lol...Did u watch the match and see his slower balls? Pollock was very impressed with his speed from mid 140's dropping to 120's and deceiving the batsmen.
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Shawn Pollock is part of the 99% of delusional cricket fans
 
I was skeptical about Rauf but he is improving.If he learns to swing the ball both ways then at his pace he can trouble batsmen.He didn't bowl any yorkers either.We have lots of quicks but most of them are young and raw.
 
A good ODI series for him and I believe he exceeded expectations of most. SA is not an easy place to adjust to straight away and he wasnt much of an established bowler in ODI cricket to start with as well. Much better control in last 2 matches than we saw against Zim and if he can build it upon from here it will be good for his career.

Highest wicket taker in series with 7 wickets in 3 matches along with Nortje who took them in 2 matches.
 
He did well in this series. Not sure about him for ODIs, but as I have said I don't mind him for T20s as he can just concentrate on bowling fast and doesn't need to over think things in that format.
 
silent ischemia said:
Shaheen, Hassan, Hanain, Rauf are all average bowlers. Amir remains the best white ball bowler in the country
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Shaheen has more pace, more venom, more swing, better control than Amir. Remember WC 19. Shaheen was 19 and Amir was 27.
 
Pakistani fans are too obsessed with pace and aggression. We don’t need bowlers who scream like a mad man and wears gold chains.

We need bowlers who have intelligence and control. This has been Pakistan’s biggest problem in the fast bowling department for ages, even though we have had the likes of Wahab to fulfill the pace and aggression quota.

I watched Bhuvneshwar Kumar against England in the recent LOI series and his intelligence and control was incredible to watch.

He was swinging the new ball and kept bowling a length that the likes of Roy, Bairstow, Buttler, Morgan, Stokes etc. couldn’t get under.

He was the main reason England won both the ODI and T20I series.

He cannot scream like Rauf and would probably get knocked out by him in a few seconds, but Rauf against those English batsmen on those Indian pitches would get hit for boundaries harder than he can scream.

Take Rauf to IPL and he will regularly go for 50+ runs.

In recent years, Amir and Shaheen are the only two Pakistani bowlers who have shown intelligence. Even Hassan Ali, who is a genuine wicket-taker when on song, appears to be clueless whenever the batsmen take him on.

Pakistan needs to swallow its pride and get Amir back in the team. He has plenty left in the tank if his workload is managed. He has retired from Tests and there is no need to him playing him in every T20, but he should be a fixture in the ODI side.

Pakistan needs to get rid of battering rams like Rauf who is a captain’s nightmare because he could go off the rails at any given moment and cannot be relied upon - at any given instance, he could completely lose the plot and show no regard to the field positions or match situation.

Core cricket skills are learned in FC cricket. Rauf is just a tape ball bowler who got fast-tracked on the basis of a few white ball games.

You cannot expect intelligence and control from someone who has only 7 FC wickets in his career.

He has no idea how to set the batsmen up, how to maintain control over long spells etc. He is just a bowling machine with no thought-process and his calibration is usually off.

We keep hearing that domestic pitches are now improved and batting-friendly, so this is the time to reward young bowlers who have done well in both FC and LA and also have reasonable experience.
 
If he can keep improving his control then i belive he has the wicket taking ability.i like his aggression.
 
Mamoon said:
Rauf is a loose cannon who is always on the cusp of getting smashed. He has no control, no bowling intelligence - he just runs without any thought and throws rocks at the batsmen.

Every now and then, he might fluke a couple of good spells, but if Pakistan is banking on him to become a regular in the white ball teams, it is going to suffer a lot of thrashings.

Indian, English and Australian batsmen will rip him apart. I am waiting for the day the likes of Rohit, Kohli, KL Rahul, Dhawan, Pant, Pandya, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler, Warner, Finch etc. get hold of him.

It is best for Pakistan cricket in the long run if fans don’t put too much stock into performances against this South African team. However, it is not going to happen.
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You forgot to add Klassen and Markham lol.
 
Looks like another one of those bad days for Rauf today

2 overs for 31 so far.
 
bujhee kom said:
To suggest you (who are not a cricketer) understand the game better than all the cricket professionals in the Pk establishment is rank arrogance.

Rauf is clear useless but with his pace I can see why Pk gave him a go. The experiment needs to end, however.
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He’s having a bad game. Part and parcel for cricketers
 
He's poor. As simple as that. On paper he had a decent ODI series but those dismissals were pretty average if you watched it. He served up some dross that was caught on the boundary - against better batting lineups those balls would have been dispatched to the boundary. Looks to be Mohammed Sami V2 really.
 
Most of pakistans bowlers have been taken to the cleaners today including rauf whos been poor

He ll be back
 
This is a 200 + wicket even top edges and mistimed shots are sailing to the small boundary.

Pure batting pitch
 
Good comeback from Rauf (and Pakistan) - taken 1/35 so far
 
Third over was excellent. Yorkers which are his strength and in that over he didn't try to be too clever.
 
Patience is the name of the game. A great over under pressure and Pakistan have a decent score to chase.

Well done Rauf!
 
Rauf needs to improve needs to develop variations and use more intelligence .

The bigger worry is shaheen who has been absolute crap for a while for all the hype he's pretty average
 
Rauf won't last too long in international cricket, lacks game intelligence and skill a fast bowler needs . He is promoted from street cricket to international cricket , bypassing club cricket and FC cricket, will take its toll.
 
Rauf out of todays game. he was ok in the last game for one spell.
 
I thought he was the best of our pacers today considering it was one heck of a road today
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistani fans are too obsessed with pace and aggression. We don’t need bowlers who scream like a mad man and wears gold chains.

We need bowlers who have intelligence and control. This has been Pakistan’s biggest problem in the fast bowling department for ages, even though we have had the likes of Wahab to fulfill the pace and aggression quota.

I watched Bhuvneshwar Kumar against England in the recent LOI series and his intelligence and control was incredible to watch.

He was swinging the new ball and kept bowling a length that the likes of Roy, Bairstow, Buttler, Morgan, Stokes etc. couldn’t get under.

He was the main reason England won both the ODI and T20I series.

He cannot scream like Rauf and would probably get knocked out by him in a few seconds, but Rauf against those English batsmen on those Indian pitches would get hit for boundaries harder than he can scream.

Take Rauf to IPL and he will regularly go for 50+ runs.

In recent years, Amir and Shaheen are the only two Pakistani bowlers who have shown intelligence. Even Hassan Ali, who is a genuine wicket-taker when on song, appears to be clueless whenever the batsmen take him on.

Pakistan needs to swallow its pride and get Amir back in the team. He has plenty left in the tank if his workload is managed. He has retired from Tests and there is no need to him playing him in every T20, but he should be a fixture in the ODI side.

Pakistan needs to get rid of battering rams like Rauf who is a captain’s nightmare because he could go off the rails at any given moment and cannot be relied upon - at any given instance, he could completely lose the plot and show no regard to the field positions or match situation.

Core cricket skills are learned in FC cricket. Rauf is just a tape ball bowler who got fast-tracked on the basis of a few white ball games.

You cannot expect intelligence and control from someone who has only 7 FC wickets in his career.

He has no idea how to set the batsmen up, how to maintain control over long spells etc. He is just a bowling machine with no thought-process and his calibration is usually off.

We keep hearing that domestic pitches are now improved and batting-friendly, so this is the time to reward young bowlers who have done well in both FC and LA and also have reasonable experience.
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Thanks for this. Great insight.
 
He's young, as is Hasnain. They are quick and have promise. Naseem too. Pakistan should ensure coaching and let them mature. No need to jettison them yet.
 
Babar hasn't been using him right. He should play the Umar Gul role in t20s by bowling 13, 15, 17 and 19th over.
 
Patience is the name of the game. This guy is developing well, and learning every game.
 
Waqar Younis:

"Haris Rauf is a match-winner as are the other bowlers individually. On any given day they can produce great results. I don’t see any weaknesses. In T20 cricket it’s a fast-moving game, you have good and bad days. On flat pitches it’s hard for the bowlers at times. I don’t have any fears about Haris Rauf’s bowling or that he has problems. You will see that he will get better and better in the coming days."
 
Yep, let’s casually ignore his performances when he is doing well,

But let’s bump this thread and call him a rock thrower, terrible bowler and what not when he goes for 4 overs for 40 or something like that
 
Rana said:
Yep, let’s casually ignore his performances when he is doing well,

But let’s bump this thread and call him a rock thrower, terrible bowler and what not when he goes for 4 overs for 40 or something like that
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This Rauf drama will end in tears. Don’t complain later that I didn’t warn you.

Take him to IPL and he will regularly go for 12+ RPO, and we will see that spectacle in the WT20 where he will get smashed like no tomorrow.
 
Mamoon said:
This Rauf drama will end in tears. Don’t complain later that I didn’t warn you.

Take him to IPL and he will regularly go for 12+ RPO, and we will see that spectacle in the WT20 where he will get smashed like no tomorrow.
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He won’t do any worse than your beloved Shaheen.
 
Rana said:
Tbh, no. Not from what I have seen recently. I don’t care if people crucify me for my view. Just like they do for not supporting Rizwan as much
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If Rauf played as many games as shaheen then you would see a decline in performance from him azwell.rauf is lucky he is only playing t20s.
 
Haris Rauf reached an impressive milestone today with his wicket of Shoaib Malik:

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YousafTheBeast said:
But look at the opposition, Quetta Gladiators are at the bottom of the table, they probably have the worst batting line up in T20 history.
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There's some good names there, it's not as if it's Namibia you are playing against. It's still intl level players.

You have good and bad days as a bowler. You need to support those types of bowlers that look for wickets despite getting spanked for runs. With his action as well it's tough at times to maintain a certain line but something that should be continually worked on, nevertheless he's a crucial member in the XI in my view.
 
It's true he has been very average since coming into Pakistan set up and he's selected for Tests too without any FC experience.
 
Single handedly loses games for his team. Currently getting hammered by Tanvir in his last over when Lahore were in a good position. He’s let them get past 160. Keep this guy out please
 
24 runs against Tanvir in his last over. Unbelievably bad bowler. He will single handedly lose Pakistan games against good teams
 
Once again, really poor effort with the ball.

A total lack of thought and planning.

Economy-rate of 9.67 in this PSL.
 
Another prophecy of [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] comes true. He is nothing more than a gully mohalla bowler. Unfortunately for LQ, they are carrying two of them.
 
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