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What was the point of replacing Ahmed Shahzad from the T20I side?

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Whilst Rizwan continuously is allowed to play an anchor role (as an opener for God’s sake) in T20

Shahzad was discarded, ousted from T20 and rightfully discarded at the time because of his dot ball consumption. Rizwan having played so much and for so long is doing just the same thing!

His strike rate since the Asia cup in all T20s has been shockingly poor as an opener! Today he scored 55 of 47 carrying the bat through for Comilla Victorians in the BPL. Who is he trying to fool? Can you all not see that he is playing for himself and not for the team with these terrible knocks!
 
shezad doesnt know how to score runs.

rizwan does and has an icc award for it
 
Rizwan’s Peak > Shehzad’s Peak

This is for t20s only. And it’s true.

We can talk about how flawed the rankings are that Rizwan leapfrogged t20 batsmen that are superior players to him, but Shehzad never reached top 3 of the rankings iirc. Both have faced similar opposition throughout their careers too.

I don’t condone opening with both Rizwan and Babar in t20s, for what it’s worth. but it doesn’t take much to win Vs Shehzad as competition.
 
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Rana said:
Whilst Rizwan continuously is allowed to play an anchor role (as an opener for God’s sake) in T20

Shahzad was discarded, ousted from T20 and rightfully discarded at the time because of his dot ball consumption. Rizwan having played so much and for so long is doing just the same thing!

His strike rate since the Asia cup in all T20s has been shockingly poor as an opener! Today he scored 55 of 47 carrying the bat through for Comilla Victorians in the BPL. Who is he trying to fool? Can you all not see that he is playing for himself and not for the team with these terrible knocks!
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The post is a bit of a rant to be honest. You should have just started a thread saying " I HATE RIZWAN"

You are speaking about T20i but using a knock from half of a BPL game an an example.

You also mention Ahmed was rightfully discarded at the time but then ask what was the point in discarding him.
 
Suleiman said:
Rizwan’s Peak > Shehzad’s Peak

This is for t20s only. And it’s true.

We can talk about how flawed the rankings are that Rizwan leapfrogged t20 batsmen that are superior players to him, but Shehzad never reached top 3 of the rankings iirc. Both have faced similar opposition throughout their careers too.

I don’t condone opening with both Rizwan and Babar in t20s, for what it’s worth.
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rankings not flawed
 
Bad se badnaam bura

I am only speaking the truth here. If you don’t want to see it, then stay blind to it!

Shahzad was a crap T20 opener. Rizwan is just emulating him
 
How are the two even comparable ?

Rizwan averages 49 with a SR 126.6
Shezad avearges 26 with SR 114.7
 
Major said:
you should go on his profile and see all threads started by him. 80% of the topics are directly or indirectly related wirh Rizwan where he tries to compare and bash him. So predictable and nothing to offer.

He should just stay on one thread and type his daily rizwan addiction there
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Major you are just a hypocrite. The only reason you defend him is because it protects Misbah’s blunder too

Don’t try to act holier than thou.
 
Ahmed Shehzad out for 19 today in BPL - back after injury
 
Rana said:
Major you are just a hypocrite. The only reason you defend him is because it protects Misbah’s blunder too

Don’t try to act holier than thou.
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not a blunder.

icc award
 
If Rizwan drops a catch:

What was the point of replacing Kamran Akmal from all the three formats?
 
My job is to continue to expose the reality

I will not give up on something I truly believe in. If you want to stay blind and purposely ignore the truth, then you are answerable to your Lord
 
Sadly Rizwan and Babar fans are culpable in the destruction of Pakistan cricket in the past year.
 
I agree with [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] and appreciate him for continuously exposing rizwan. I wish we had a device which could find and tell the world the truth that rizwan has given more harm to the team than good in past two years.
 
Sunny_majoka said:
I agree with [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] and appreciate him for continuously exposing rizwan. I wish we had a device which could find and tell the world the truth that rizwan has given more harm to the team than good in past two years.
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It’s not just Rizwan

Pathum Nisanka is on my hit list too. I am a cricket lover, not a player hater
 
You need an anchor for a fragile batting line up like Pakistan. To be fair Rizwan’s career T20 strike rate is 127 which is not bad for a wicket keeping allrounder.

The problem is not having an achor. The problem is that we have 3 anchors in Rizwan, Babar & Shan at no.1, 2 & 3.
 
gazza619 said:
You need an anchor for a fragile batting line up like Pakistan. To be fair Rizwan’s career T20 strike rate is 127 which is not bad for a wicket keeping allrounder.

The problem is not having an achor. The problem is that we have 3 anchors in Rizwan, Babar & Shan at no.1, 2 & 3.
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Ok, have your 1 anchor at number 3. That’s what Afghanistan do with Ibrahim Zadran. It works for them

Why have two anchors opening the batting?? Moreover, why does that Anchor not explode or go hard once the job of guiding his team to the 15th over is done?!
 
Rana said:
Ok, have your 1 anchor at number 3. That’s what Afghanistan do with Ibrahim Zadran. It works for them

Why have two anchors opening the batting?? Moreover, why does that Anchor not explode or go hard once the job of guiding his team to the 15th over is done?!
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This is the crux of the matter. No T20 outfit anywhere has two anchors opening the innings, and it totally imbalances the side.

And the fact fans keep boasting about ICC rankings shows us exactly what our cricket is reduced to - celebrating individual milestones over team success. This opening combination flopped on the big stage.

Reminds me of when Brian Lara was breaking records yet WI kept losing series after series.
 
Rana said:
Ok, have your 1 anchor at number 3. That’s what Afghanistan do with Ibrahim Zadran. It works for them

Why have two anchors opening the batting?? Moreover, why does that Anchor not explode or go hard once the job of guiding his team to the 15th over is done?!
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Fakhar has diarrhoea when he plays T20s otherwise he was the natural choice for the T20 opening slot.

Haris is way way inconsistent but should defo play as we dont have any other options.

I think Babar needs to go.

My top 3 will be Rizwan, Fakhar & Haris
 
Rizwan is a fraud, but two wrongs don’t make a right. Moving on from Shehzad in LOIs was the right call but he was badly mistreated in Test cricket.

A thousand times better open than Masood but ended up playing half the games.
 
I am 100% agree with [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] views for both Rizwan and Babar.

But the problem I see is [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] bhai run kaun banaega Pakistan ki taraf se. These two are the only one's consistently scoring runs for Pakistan in almost all formats.

Maybe change the order and try new faces or proven one if any.

PS: my response here is offtopic.
 
mastermind_quad said:
I am 100% agree with [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] views for both Rizwan and Babar.

But the problem I see is [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] bhai run kaun banaega Pakistan ki taraf se. These two are the only one's consistently scoring runs for Pakistan in almost all formats.

Maybe change the order and try new faces or proven one if any.

PS: my response here is offtopic.
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Babar will score the same kind of runs at 3 as he does opening

You only need one anchor and that should be Babar
 
Rizwan is like ant mid table Spanish winger made to look Messi, don't waste your brain on PCB and their bizarre thinking, Shehzad axed why?, Fawad Alam axed why? Once that pace of the tourney winner Ahmed Jamal back in 2012 left in wilderness, Asad Shafiq after 10 yrs of investment whom did PCB fooled
 
Anothe day another anti rizwan thread from rana

Can he make his hate any clearer? the poor man must be having daily nightmares where rizwana is scoring t20 runs unabated
 
What who Shehzad lol? You got to be kidding Rana.
Rizwan does it better than Shehzad and keeps as well.
Ofcourse not the best but its lol to be compared to Shehzad post bouncer.
 
Sharjeel khan which u are dying to be included in t20 team avg 22 with sr of 133.
Meanwhile rizwan avg 49 with 126 sr.
I do see the gulf between them. Yes. Sharjeel is wayyyy below rizwan.
Idk which other opener we have who is half as consistent as rizwan. He is not in his purple patch still scoring more than everyone else. And if u are giving example of bbl then remind u sharjeel is dropped in bpl team too.
Shmad shehzad should ve continued playing test matches as i think he has temperament meanwhile he has no.place in lois as of now
Abdullah Shafiq
Imam
Ahmad shehzad
These 3 should be our openers in test ig
 
I have an issue with mediocre players who are holding my nation back in advancing as a modern white ball outfit

“Agar woh hamari team combination main nahi aata

Tou nahi aata”
 
Hyder said:
Sharjeel khan which u are dying to be included in t20 team avg 22 with sr of 133.
Meanwhile rizwan avg 49 with 126 sr.
I do see the gulf between them. Yes. Sharjeel is wayyyy below rizwan.
Idk which other opener we have who is half as consistent as rizwan. He is not in his purple patch still scoring more than everyone else. And if u are giving example of bbl then remind u sharjeel is dropped in bpl team too.
Shmad shehzad should ve continued playing test matches as i think he has temperament meanwhile he has no.place in lois as of now
Abdullah Shafiq
Imam
Ahmad shehzad
These 3 should be our openers in test ig
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Oh chal mama don’t give me averages

Rana knows his cricket and cricketers. Sharjeel is a proper T20 opener and not a Drameybaaz
 
Strike rate is no use if you do not score score more than 20/30,all it does is add pressureon the next batsmen,and if it isapakstani batsman gives them even more reason to play slower.than they normally would. It isno brainer you need one hard hitting opener with either of the current openers,but cannot replace them with hacks.
 
Rana said:
Oh chal mama don’t give me averages

Rana knows his cricket and cricketers. Sharjeel is a proper T20 opener and not a Drameybaaz
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avg shows the past performance.

You talk about strike rate all the time, there is not much difference in the strike rate of sharjeel and rizwan.
 
Rana said:
My job is to continue to expose the reality

I will not give up on something I truly believe in. If you want to stay blind and purposely ignore the truth, then you are answerable to your Lord
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Come on [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION]. We all know Rizwan is a terrible T20/ODI player.

But, Shehzad was way way worse. Both score at the same pace, and both are very similar, LIMITED batters.

However, even with low SR, Shehzad never used to score anything. That shows in his poor average.


So, he wasn't even good at stat-padding. While, Rizwan is great at stat-padding by scoring, albeit those runs are quite useless.

So, had Shehzad actually scored like Rizwan does, he might not have been dropped, but his runs too would have been as useless as Rizwan's.

So, Rizwan >>> Shehzad, and that shows how terrible Shehzad is/was when even a stat-padder like Rizwan is better than you.
 
Major said:
avg shows the past performance.

You talk about strike rate all the time, there is not much difference in the strike rate of sharjeel and rizwan.
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There isn’t much difference between Misbah’s ODI average from 2007 onwards when compared to Miandad’s strike rate from the 80s-90s
 
Shehzad was a gun Test player much better than the likes of Abdullah Shafiq Azhar Ali Shan Masood but his own antics and politics at PCB ruined his golden period Alas :69:
 
Rana said:
Oh chal mama don’t give me averages

Rana knows his cricket and cricketers. Sharjeel is a proper T20 opener and not a Drameybaaz
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Wah wah a proper t20 opener has 133 sr only??? 6 points ahead of rizwan??? With less than half of his avg woahhh man if only we had 5 more sharjeels
 
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