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[VIDEOS] "In Pakistan I am famous as a finisher" : Iftikhar Ahmed

Once again out just at the wrong time.

To be fair he did try, but when will we see that explosive 50 off 25 or 30 balls from him.
 
You can’t really say he got out at the wrong time as he got out in the last over . So 28 of 17 could have been 40 of 20 but one can say he was a bit unlucky . at least he went swinging which is what you expect in the final over unlike Khushdil shah .
 
Saj said:
Once again out just at the wrong time.

To be fair he did try, but when will we see that explosive 50 off 25 or 30 balls from him.
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This is not possible against good teams. The top 2 who are rated world wide should try to produce these results.
 
I am seriously doubting whether Ifthi has the temperament for international cricket.

40 international matches and he continues to look unconvincing.
 
If his role is as a finisher he should be sent lower down the order. Can't depend on him in the middle overs
 
Given a good account of himself as a bowler today, Iftikhar
 
To be fair to him, very tidy figures today.

4 overs for just 23 runs
 
Another innings where he got in and then threw his wicket away.
 
These 'apney munh mian mithu' cricketers struggle to differenciate between domestic and international cricket.
 
Due to a lack of quality coaching and a lack of accountability in the domestic structure, Pak players seem to require a higher number of international matches to become international ready. They seem to be a work in progress and require on the job development to get up to par even 20 to 30 matches after debut.
 
To be honest, if Iftikhar can give us a couple of overs each game, I don't mind him in the team. We need a sixth bowler and it helps that Iftikhar is an off-spinner.
 
Having a great series with the ball Iftikhar.

1/16 in 4 overs
 
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MenInG said:
Having a great series with the ball Iftikhar.

1/16 in 4 overs
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Important wicket to take

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if it was between khushdil and iftikhar, i would pick iftikhar

atleast he bowls and gets you 25-30 runs instead of getting out under 5. i agree that the strike rate needs to be better, but all of his dismissals have been trying to play aggressively...you cant fault the guy for that.

he has been a little unlucky too.
 
No one can deny him a place in the Pakistan squad for Australia! Has to be!

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Chacha calling Shadab 'bhai' :yk
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This guy is a bit underrated I feel. Yes he looks about 40 rather the 30's he's down for, but unlike a lot of the new breed hitters, he does actually hit through the line. Even if his game is mostly onside, at least he plays according to where the ball is pitched. Plays the short ball a lot better than most of the Pakistan team.
 
He needs to continue playing his shots don't worry about loosing your wicket.
 
He has some very good shots. If does manage to get his confidence on the international level he'll be a very big asset.
 
He needs to get a 50 soon.

He has shown glimpses at times but he must bat longer.
The moment he starts looking good he gets out.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keep repeating - the problem with Iftikhar Ahmed seems to be that he bats steadily, gets himself settled in, but just when the team needs him to start attacking he gets himself out <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PAKvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PAKvENG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1576616677520728064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another poor series:

Innings 5
Runs 99
Average 19.80
Strike rate 132
 
This guy needs to go. Might as well make room for someone who has upside in the future. Chacha ji needs to make way for someone else.
 
gazza619 said:
The only player today who showed some intent Saj.
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Intent is a waste of time if you cant translate it into any runs

Asif shows a lot of intent What good is his intent doing to the score?

When r ifti n the likes gonna actually put a score on the board
 
Chacha is too old to play any substantial knocks in the future. At his best day he'll get you 30 off 25.
 
When is the last time this guy scored a 50? He gets himself settled and then gets out, when his team needs him the most. Absolutely useless player and a massive age fudger to make things worse.
 
Finisher finished off by England. People who quote his performance in Australia 3 years ago need to realize that 3 years is a long time when you are in your late 30s.

He is at retirement age and your reflexes decline rapidly. He is clearly not capable enough anymore. When you watch him play you can tell that he is better than Khushdil and Asif but that is not an achievement because those two are probably the worst players in international cricket right now.
 
He should be signed in the Prestige 2 by Cristopher Nolan! What a great showman he is, he is the famous finisher who can go missing at the time when Pakistan needs him!
 
Looks like a odi player who once gets set can make it up quickly. Odi wc is in India and I think he can be very handy with both bat and ball. Can’t judge people on lottery T20. There is something about chacha
 
He might be old, but he still looks better than the rest of the middle order, that is the frightening thing. He does actually hit through the line even though he is primarily a leg side player. That doesn't mean he's a good player though, he's just slightly less bad than the rest.
 
He gets himself in but doesn't really continue on which is the problem, especially since he fits the role of a hitter and that too coming in at No.4 for Pakistan.
 
The only thing that Chacha seems to be finishing these days, is Pakistan's chances of winning a match.
 
In Pakistan he is famous as an undeserving international cricketer and selected purely on nepotism
 
I think if Ifthi has a poor T20 World Cup the only thing he will be finishing is his own international career.
 
He needs to make sure he performs in the world cup otherwise its good bye to his international career.
 
Well one thing is for certain, the skipper is showing more faith in his bowling than his batting at the moment.
 
Saj said:
Well one thing is for certain, the skipper is showing more faith in his bowling than his batting at the moment.
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He does try hard with his tulla bowling and 3 out of 6 lands them in the right areas so I've got a soft corner for chacha there.
 
I always find it interesting that Rizwan cops 99% of the flak for our batting failures but guys like Ifti are kicking back, come to the crease for 10-20 deliveries, miss and hit a few and get out. Completely wasting the base set by the openers most of the time.

Now, am I saying Rizwan, and by extension, the opener pair with Babar are without their flaws? No, they have their flaws. But right now we have 2 batsmen out of 6-7 firing on a consistent basis.

As soon as Ifti’s bowling starts getting whacked, he’s out of the team.
 
Let's be honest, Iftikhar is super lucky people are referring to him only as chacha.

TBH chacha fits Malik, Iftikhar is more like dada or abba ji.

He's even older than Hafeez, someone who wouldn't retire for the longest time and finally now has been retired for more than a year.
 
He finishes other people's careers by pretending be a bowler.
 
It's quite visible his reflexes are ageing and the strength isn't there. Misbah was a beast in comparison he did have the muscle at that age you've got to give it to him.

Chacha will always play an anchor role and you can't expect him to bat at 150+ SR.
 
Energy said:
It's quite visible his reflexes are ageing and the strength isn't there. Misbah was a beast in comparison he did have the muscle at that age you've got to give it to him.

Chacha will always play an anchor role and you can't expect him to bat at 150+ SR.
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Babar. Anchor
Rizwan Anchor
Shan. Anchor
Iftikhar Anchor
Khushdil Anchor

How many anchors do you want?
 
LegendAli said:
Let's be honest, Iftikhar is super lucky people are referring to him only as chacha.

TBH chacha fits Malik, Iftikhar is more like dada or abba ji.

He's even older than Hafeez, someone who wouldn't retire for the longest time and finally now has been retired for more than a year.
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Tho on paper he is only 32 years old.

Mind-boggling how people can botch their ages in Pakistan.. He is at least 42 years old , IMO.
 
Dr_Bassim said:
Babar. Anchor
Rizwan Anchor
Shan. Anchor
Iftikhar Anchor
Khushdil Anchor

How many anchors do you want?
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Recipe for disaster. Things looks like will turn ugly in the world cup. Baber should have enforced killer mentality in the team. Rubbish tuk tuk selfish approach will get him sacked sooner or later.
 
MRSN said:
Recipe for disaster. Things looks like will turn ugly in the world cup. Baber should have enforced killer mentality in the team. Rubbish tuk tuk selfish approach will get him sacked sooner or later.
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It won’t as long as Ramiz is in charge

He loves to boast about stats and Rankings
 
Energy said:
It's quite visible his reflexes are ageing and the strength isn't there. Misbah was a beast in comparison he did have the muscle at that age you've got to give it to him.

Chacha will always play an anchor role and you can't expect him to bat at 150+ SR.
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Made a fool of himself

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MenInG said:
Made a fool of himself

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360 player
 
MenInG said:
Made a fool of himself

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Shot was on and he showed some imagination.

I wouldn;t be too harsh on him today.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Shot was on and he showed some imagination.

I wouldn;t be too harsh on him today.
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27/27 is poor regardless of this shot and before someone jumps that babr and Rizwan also have similar stats more often then not they will convert this score to 80/55 for chacha this is his cieling
 
Xoib said:
27/27 is poor regardless of this shot and before someone jumps that babr and Rizwan also have similar stats more often then not they will convert this score to 80/55 for chacha this is his cieling
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Small scores and a couple of overs with the ball. Occasionally he will come good.

Thats what he's in the side for sadly.

Can't blame individual players. We have created a system that has given these guys a long rope for a few years.
 
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Made a fool of himself

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It is a modern day shot and high risk one. if pace was faster then 4 was on cards moment it went above the fielders head.
 
Energy said:
He does try hard with his tulla bowling and 3 out of 6 lands them in the right areas so I've got a soft corner for chacha there.
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Fast becoming a bowling all-rounder is Ifthi.
 
LegendAli said:
Let's be honest, Iftikhar is super lucky people are referring to him only as chacha.

TBH chacha fits Malik, Iftikhar is more like dada or abba ji.

He's even older than Hafeez, someone who wouldn't retire for the longest time and finally now has been retired for more than a year.
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I think Iftikhar looks to be around 45.

He's probably 38-39 in reality and unlucky with his looks but either way he surely beats Afridi and Waqar's records when it comes to age fudging.
 
Anyone knows who exactly is responsible for bringing back chacha again and again after consistent failures..Is it M.Wasim or Babar ?
 
Chacha's super impressive PSL stats (which are often stated as the reason he's in the team)
50 matches, Average of 18, SR of 118 , 2 fifties.
 
This guy literally gets 25/25 0r 27/27 and then when it’s time to accelerate he perishes. There’s literally no need for him in the squad even if he does bowl a over or two his batting is not worth it.
 
Grunge101 said:
Anyone knows who exactly is responsible for bringing back chacha again and again after consistent failures..Is it M.Wasim or Babar ?
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Chacha is not exactly a left field selection. He crushes the domestic scene statistically and visually he smashes bowlers like a man amongst kids. In the 2021 National t20 he was MVP by a mile. His failures at international level have nothing to do with his selection.

I hate to break it to you also but we don't have Buttler's and Maxwell's sitting in domestics. Haider and Shan were supposed to be our saviours after the Asia Cup debacle...that hope was quickly extinguished and nobody even bothers naming replacements anymore because there aren't any.
 
T20 has no place for players with the strike rate of 120-130. You need people who can show enough intent so that when they are failing to strike big they are still managing a strike rate of 140 bare minimum. You have ten wickets in hand and only twenty overs to play. You are not taking those wickets in the next game. So theoretically speaking, you only need each player to face 20 deliveries. And if after facing twenty deliveries as a specialist batsman you haven’t scored at least 30 runs then you shouldn’t bother staying on the wicket and let other players try and slog it out. But no. Players like iftikhar will make sure that apart from themselves, no one else gets to play enough balls to get going. That’s the real tragedy of this team.
 
Grunge101 said:
Chacha's super impressive PSL stats (which are often stated as the reason he's in the team)
50 matches, Average of 18, SR of 118 , 2 fifties.
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PSL performances were never the reason for his selection. He has been one of the best domestic batsmen in the regular domestic scene - List A, FC and national T20. That was the reason for his selection. He had Misbahs backing, but he had big domestic performances to back it. It just shows you how bad things are at that level. Same with Khushdil, he can blast the domestic bowlers. The problem is that the best of our domestic level are pretty terrible at the international level. Shows the dearth of quality.
 
Let's look at it this way.

What if he is chosen as primarily a spin bowler who also bats fairly competently at no 9 and can hit a few sixes.

Can he replace Usman Qadir?

If he can, then this is his slot (no 9) when Pakistan choose to go with 3 spinners (Nawaz + Shadab + Iftikhar).

Doesn't belong up the order for sure.

But has a place in the team in specific conditions.
 
hitthestump said:
Chacha is not exactly a left field selection. He crushes the domestic scene statistically and visually he smashes bowlers like a man amongst kids. In the 2021 National t20 he was MVP by a mile. His failures at international level have nothing to do with his selection.
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Disagree with that claim entirely. Infact if you look at the complete record of the last few years, it shows the opposite

Your main evidence is one season of the national T20 cup, the one in 2021 when he was the 2nd highest scorer overall at a SR of 170.

Lets not restrict our analysis to one event and look at all other domestic T20 performances in the last 24-36 months.

2022
- PSL stats 138 runs of 9 innings SR 126

2021
-PSL 221 runs of 9 innings, SR of 123

-NT20 cup already given above

2020

-PSL 96 runs of 12 innings, SR 121

-NT20 cup 242 of 11, SR 155

2019

-PSL 82 runs of 6 innings, SR 146

-NT20 cup 123 runs of 6 innings, SR 117.

Take out that one event and it becomes quite clear his overall performance has been below average, mediocre even at the domestic level. Looking at those numbers, it should really be no surprise why his international numbers are so abyssmal.

I hate to break it to you also but we don't have Buttler's and Maxwell's sitting in domestics.
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I am well aware of that fact, but that doesnt mean we keep sticking with vain, hopeless cases like Chacha over and over again.There are 5-6 uncapped players in each of the events listed above that have done significantly better than him. The Prime example would be Sahibzada Farhan who has been top scoring the NT20 cup for years now and has never been given a chance after that one outing with the national team. If chacha can get in after failing year after year with one good performance in a domestic t20 cup, surely someone like Farhan has a much better claim?

Haider and Shan were supposed to be our saviours after the Asia Cup debacle...that hope was quickly extinguished and nobody even bothers naming replacements anymore because there aren't any
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Will prefer someone like Shan over chacha every single day of the week. Or Malik, Kamran Ghulam or Farhan. That ill atleast have a proper batsman who i can rely on to score 20-30 at a SR of 130 instead of Iftikhar whos been averaging under 20 at a SR of 110 lately.

No team deserves an Iftikhar.
 
Why is there a 42 year old playing T20 international cricket? :91:

Is there not even one decent early 20s batter? The cupboard really is bare.
 
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Jee oye chacha

Love you bro

Allah aapko lambi Zindagi aur khushiyaa ata farmaye!
 
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