Where has Shaheen Shah Afridi’s outswinger gone?

[Abdullah719]

It’s great to see that Shaheen started bowling inswingers to the right-handers since the past few months. He didn’t have that in his armory before. However, in the process, he seems to have lost the outswinger, due to which he’s become a little predictable with the new ball.

The commentators had also mentioned, during the previous match, I think, that the batsmen know how to set themselves up when he’s bowling, because they know the plan.

Once he gets it moving both ways, he’ll be a handful.

 

[Savak]

It’s great to see that Shaheen started bowling inswingers to the right-handers since the past few months. He didn’t have that in his armory before. However, in the process, he seems to have lost the outswinger, due to which he’s become a little predictable with the new ball.

The commentators had also mentioned, during the previous match, I think, that the batsmen know how to set themselves up when he’s bowling, because they know the plan.

Once he gets it moving both ways, he’ll be a handful.

He was moving the ball both ways against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh which is why he was less predictable and more dangerous. Even Amir had this problem where he kept on bowling inswingers and eventually quality batsmen prepare accordingly.

 

[Abid Z]

Nasser Hussain just pointing out that his inswinger to rhb starts around middle/leg and finishes outside leg. Instead of starting on off and finishing on middle which would be far more potent. Really disappointed to see a one dimensional bowler who can only swing it one way. It should be an absolute prerequisite for a bowler in uk to be able to swing the ball both ways. Especially a left hand bowler.

 

[hitthestump]

What has Waqar been doing with Shaheen all this time?!

 

[Saj]

2 problems

His line for the inswinger is wrong far too often. It's easy pickings for batsmen if the ball starts middle and drifts down the leg side.

The outswinger has gone altogether. It seems like he's rarely bowling it.

Over to Waqar......

 

[Bewal Express]

2 problems

His line for the inswinger is wrong far too often. It's easy pickings for batsmen if the ball starts middle and drifts down the leg side.

The outswinger has gone altogether. It seems like he's rarely bowling it.

Over to Waqar......

I watched him today and I think a line of attack that could work fir him is to attack the right handers leg stump with in swing and use a leg slip.

 

[Pacy with wisdom]

He is a bowler who tends to forget his rhythm if he has a layoff. He tends to get better the more he bowls.
Seems like he also struggles to switch between two different deliveries; outswing and inswing.
In the world cup, he relied only on outswing to the righties, and now he is only comfortable with the incoming delivery.
I understand two different grips are not easy to execute.
But he doesn't need to bowl the outswing to the right hander. He can try to bowl the wobble seam drifter that Amir bowls since even he doesn't rely on both swings.
With Shaheen, his action also changes slightly when he switches between the two deliveries. Amir didn't have this problem which is why he was so effective.

 

[Savak]

My other question is why aren't the pacers bowling bouncers at all. They have been very predictable with their outside the off stump, full strategy, not many bouncers have been bowled to keep the batsmen honest, to disrupt their footwork. Abbas might try the odd bouncer but he doesn't have the pace to do it consistently but the likes of Shaheen and Naseem should have bowled atleast 1-2 bouncers in an over to keep the batsmen guessing.

Very poor predictable stuff to be honest.

 

[Mueez]

What the hell is Waqar doing with the quicks...?

Azhar was doing much better.

 

[ataullah]

I think when they tried to bowl bouncer it wasnt short enough ended up a long hop which wasim akram mentioned on commentary. They needed to bowl extra short on slow pitch to make it reach throat. Its waqars fault as these bowlers are too young to know what to do themselves. Abbas and Azhar should have explained to them...SAD day today

 

[Abid Z]

Ssa looked awful today. Most of the batsmen have realised he can on bring the ball back in and that too on leg stump. Once the ball is old he errs in line and length and is just cannon fodder.

 

[sweep_shot]

Shaheen bowled much better before. He has been out of form during this series. COVID-19 break might have harmed his rhythm.

 

[Nervesofsteel]

Shaheen is a hit or miss bowler. He either bowls really well or just completely struggles like he did today.

 

[MenInG]

No real change it seems this morning - so far.

 

[Kenpachi]

Regardless of whether he has lost the outswinger, the first thing a bowler learns is how to set up a batsmen.

All he has to do is ball 5 straight balls and one inswinger or 5 inswingers and one that doesn’t swing to to test the batsmen.

5 short and one Yorker etc.

Basic stuff that you see at country cricket level but it seems to evade Shaheen et al

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Bowling too wide currently.

 

[Saj]

Not a very impressive start to day 2 from Shaheen.

Not making the batsmen play at all.

 

[MenInG]

Regardless of whether he has lost the outswinger, the first thing a bowler learns is how to set up a batsmen.

All he has to do is ball 5 straight balls and one inswinger or 5 inswingers and one that doesn’t swing to to test the batsmen.

5 short and one Yorker etc.

Basic stuff that you see at country cricket level but it seems to evade Shaheen et al

You can probably hear Waqar secretly screaming in the dressing room.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Holding and Wasim Akram talking sense on commentary about Shaheen Shah Afridi - the effort is there, the height is there, the skills are there, but he just lacks experience and that will come the more he plays for Pakistan <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvPAK</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/1297146322588512256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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[Hasan123]

Waqar has failed as a coach twice and captain. Pakistan answer is to bring him back again. An absolute joke.

 

[Majid Khan]

His outswinger , just like Hafeez’s front foot drives , are secret weapons only to be used against opposition teams starting with the letter B or Z.

 

[Abdullah719]

The last wicket of Broad was with an outswinger (inswing to the left-hander).

 

[Mueez]

The last wicket of Broad was with an outswinger (inswing to the left-hander).

It baffles my mind to think why he isn’t bowling his natural swing...

There is something wrong happening in the Pakistani dressing room!

 

[shamaan]

In the first spell and second spell seemed like he was trying to ball alot of inswingers which he should have bowled as a surprise delivery

 

[Ab Fan]

Shaheen has a better future than Naseem. He has everything to be successful in the longer arena of the game.

I predict 300 wickets for him at Avg 28-29.

 

[MenInG]

Interesting to see how he adjusts - guess another learning period for him