Azhar showed great improvement vs. Australia/New Zealand. He had a slump in 2013, but came back in emphatic fashion which is the sign of a quality player, in spite of people wanting him to be dropped for good, an idea no sane person has ever entertained, because Azhar has always been a good Test batsman with excellent technique against the new ball.
He didnt show any improvement. Same hundreds at 35 SR while being a no.3 bat. When the time came to do something flopped as usual.
As for him being dropped, majority of people, you included wanted to replace him with Haris at the start of Aus series.
One good series and all of a sudden he is the next best thing since sliced bread.
If anyone has shown improvement/promise its been Shehzad and Sarfraz.Three hundreds each in their first test year.Sarfraz scored his at a SR of 80 and Shehzad has the lowest score of 130 odd(Thats what you call emphatic).
One of the chief delusions these days is that Shehzad is the answer to our opening problems and we have unearthed a quality batsman. This guy is nothing against the moving ball, and is as much of an opener as Hafeez is.
Yet he averages 45 in SA and NZ with a SR of 85(two tons also). How mediocre vs the new ball and must be kicked out.
That Azhar and Asad wont be able to ever acheive this is another story.
Come the away tours of 2016 and he will be exposed brutally.
Lets see. If he manages to get even a single century on each of those tours, it will be miles better than what both Azhar and Asad acheived on their first tours.
If you call that exposed, I wonder what will you call the outings those two had.
Azhar is comfortably the best batsman against the new ball in Pakistan and he will be a consistent run scorer everywhere. Yes his strike rotation is not good, but it can't be worse than Shehzad whose SR for the first 50 runs hovers around 65 and consumes 70% dots in PP overs. It can't get worse than that.
No, Azhar is not the best player of the new ball. He can only keep it out, ask him to score against the new ball and he is all at sea.
His strike rotation is worse than Shehzad. Its pretty obvious if you watch them play.
I've watched him the Pentangular Cups and he batted superbly and showed flair as well. I won't be judgemental and pass my verdict without giving him a fair chance, because I do think that he plenty of potential.
Azhar has potential?? To be what exactly?? He can't score fast to save his life(no power hitting abilities), is mediocre against spin and horrible when it comes strike rotation as well. Which means he can never catch up unlike Shehzad and Misbah.
And lets not forget he is 30 already.
Its funny how domestic stats are used to defend certain favourites, yet people are turning a blind eye to the fact that he averages 50 in LA. Apparently he is not good enough after just 14 games where he averages 41.
And what about the SR??
Yes pathetic SR, but 14 games in 5 years is no sample - you can make a case for Shafiq being a proven failure in ODIs (I disagree personally, its more of a mental block in my view and there is still time for him to come good) even though he too has a LA average of 50, but he has played many matches.
Shafiq can come good, Azhar can come good, Amin can come good but Shehzad can't?? Despite him having a way better record than the three of them combined??
Shafiq, the more he plays the worse his record gets(currently the worst ever, even beating YK); same will be the case with Azhar yet they will come good.
BUT shehzad who has consistently gotten better (His average and SR went up from 25 to 35 and 64 to 73 in one year) won't??
Azhar hasn't had much of an opportunity.
And it should stay that way.
Anyhow, I commend you for showing utmost faith in Shehzad who will always remain a mediocre batsman and has been mediocre at every level he has played, barring junior. He has similar domestic stats to Umar Amin for crying out loud, who is supposed to suck in domestic cricket.
Shehzad averages around 45 in domestic FC as an opener something Amin and co can only dream of.
Shehzad's only problem is his lack of strike rotation. A skill than can easily be picked up. He has everthing else going for him( hunger to score big, has all the shots, runs around the world and perhaps the most mentally strong bat in the team).
If he can overcome that he can become a top ODI batsman.
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i agree with your statement that some posters should be ignored. one reason for that is many here have comprehension problems. 
