He has a big time chance to turn the haters into Praisers. He needs to come good today.
Defo under used short ball as he is a sitting duck at the crease
Hard Luck
This mindset is the reason why he will never be an impactful ODI batsmen.
Should be dropped for the next one. cant afford him in the team now.
Imam didn't feature in the video at all; at least I couldn't spot him anywhere. The bespectacled guy in the video shown a few times was Abrar, not Imam.
Imam is in the video. 0:25
and still u get LBW
Yep. That’s him as well.
But he's good at performing theatrics in the nets to keep everyone convinced
That's an interesting observation. You think with such pathetic technic he would have survived in the 90's & 00's? Specially when some of the all time great fast bowlers & spinners were operating. I don't think his career would have survived, that was a much difficult period for batsmen in general. The only era I see him making name for himself is the pre fast bowlers era or post world war era. 50's & 60's era is probably the only period a guy with so much limitations could have thrived. Come 70's with those monstrous Caribbeans & Aussies, he is dead on the spot.
I have come to the conclusion that Imam is a fraud.
A fraud who is extremely well connected & was born with silver spoons.
Some of the greatest cricketers we have produced were no different. They all performed poorly or averaged in testing conditions or against potent bowling attacks. He might have thrived in the era of Misbah, Malik, Hafeez, and Younis.
A fraud who knows how to do just enough to keep his batting average to a level where he can't be dropped
These guys were all terrific players of spin though. Particularly Younus could eat any spinner alive with his sweeping & down the track hoik. Misbah too could morally destroy any spinner with his six hitting ability. Hafeez developed a unique power game in his later part of the career. Imam has no such qualities. Yes he handles spin better than pace & occasionally goes down the ground. But he doesn't attack spin, mostly nudges & sneaks for singles. Which is why I feel the guy wouldn't have survived in the previous eras.
Younis excelled against spinners in Test cricket but he struggled as a limited-overs player. Hafeez and Malik built their careers by performing consistently against average bowling attacks. In that era, Imam ul Haq might have become a superstar for our country.
He reminds me of Ramiz Raja when he used to open for PK.
Imagine he decided to open and step up and lead from the front. Then again he’s no Imran khan.
He ain't gonna last long in tests against Australia on the bouncy pitches....
That would be a bloodbath
I anticipate Inzi dropping his nephew for the Australian series, with everyone praising him, only for Imam to be called back for an easier series, allowing him to inflate his stats. Rest assured, Imam is here to stay as long as Inzi remains the selector. Whenever he scores runs, he open his mouth, 'I'm an automatic selection; there's no room for experimentation.' ' I should start a 'parchi' brand. Not to my surprise after the Aus game, he declared this team would be different. In my view, he's becoming the new Imran Farhat, a cancer that is hard to get rid off. He is still garbage after playing for like 7 years?.
