I find him too selfish to be honest in Internationals, for his own good.
If one looks at Azhar, Shan or MoHa - people can see clear weakness (s). Azhar can't rotate, can't play on back-foot, hardly anything in off side and he has zero shot making ability against tight length-line; it has to be a rank long-hop or half-volley or leg slider ... MoHa times it brilliantly, but with static feet, almost bunny of anything that's moving off the track or in air ......; Shan has almost every weakness that's possible - he is just too ordinary for highest level; overall game is solid for Club or FC level at most but a poor batsman for International game ....
Looking at Ahmed, he times it brilliantly, has every shot in book, sometimes multiple shots, decent foot work against spin, not scared to short ball, can hit on either feet, either side. Might sound funny now, but if any one asks him, I am sure in younger age, he had seen (tried to copy) lots of Rickey Ponting (again, no comparison), because I saw a shed of copying young Panta, but I might be wrong. In Internationals (or PSL - means highest level), I find him not even trying to accelerate, or play desperate shots; to me that's from selfishness.
In last PSL, he played 9 innings, his stats only explains selfishness. 19/84 in 9 innings for a T20 batsman is statistical anomaly - I can bet, no one ever can show me such stats in a T20 tournament over 6+ innings.
That too for an opener is absurd - reason, that average & SR are contradictory. If he was out of touch (it can happen, Amarnath after that PAK/WI tour, next winter against same WI had scores of 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 before being dropped), his SR could have suffered, but Average would have come down to single digit (that's getting oyt for single digits inside 2/3 overs). If he was a middle order, that average can be justified with lots of not out - here he was dismissed 9 times as opener. For a tail-ender, that SR can be explainable - 19 runs in 4 innings, for 23 balls with 3 not outs ......
It's a clear cut case of selfishness for me - guy tried to make own fortune, using the opportunity of opening in PP. Why and where he had learned this - I have explained in other thread.
If one looks at Azhar, Shan or MoHa - people can see clear weakness (s). Azhar can't rotate, can't play on back-foot, hardly anything in off side and he has zero shot making ability against tight length-line; it has to be a rank long-hop or half-volley or leg slider ... MoHa times it brilliantly, but with static feet, almost bunny of anything that's moving off the track or in air ......; Shan has almost every weakness that's possible - he is just too ordinary for highest level; overall game is solid for Club or FC level at most but a poor batsman for International game ....
Looking at Ahmed, he times it brilliantly, has every shot in book, sometimes multiple shots, decent foot work against spin, not scared to short ball, can hit on either feet, either side. Might sound funny now, but if any one asks him, I am sure in younger age, he had seen (tried to copy) lots of Rickey Ponting (again, no comparison), because I saw a shed of copying young Panta, but I might be wrong. In Internationals (or PSL - means highest level), I find him not even trying to accelerate, or play desperate shots; to me that's from selfishness.
In last PSL, he played 9 innings, his stats only explains selfishness. 19/84 in 9 innings for a T20 batsman is statistical anomaly - I can bet, no one ever can show me such stats in a T20 tournament over 6+ innings.
That too for an opener is absurd - reason, that average & SR are contradictory. If he was out of touch (it can happen, Amarnath after that PAK/WI tour, next winter against same WI had scores of 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 before being dropped), his SR could have suffered, but Average would have come down to single digit (that's getting oyt for single digits inside 2/3 overs). If he was a middle order, that average can be justified with lots of not out - here he was dismissed 9 times as opener. For a tail-ender, that SR can be explainable - 19 runs in 4 innings, for 23 balls with 3 not outs ......
It's a clear cut case of selfishness for me - guy tried to make own fortune, using the opportunity of opening in PP. Why and where he had learned this - I have explained in other thread.
