Rizwan is crap. It’s well established now. Your cheerleading all those years ago was a hoax. And you were accusing me of hating him for being Pashtun. You got me wrong big time. I don’t even care about his ethnicity. All I see is a fraud T20 opener and a fraud white ball player in general.
Rizwan was a perfectly fine around a more dynamic batting line up. In the absence of such players he looks very poor. Thus, he’s not crap, he’s just not what’s needed for the team combination right now.
Which more dynamic batting line up does Rizwan make?
Read again. His batting style complements a more dynamic line up. It’s why Multan previously did so well. He could play the steady scoring anchor around impact players that could go from ball one. Pakistan doesn’t have those impact players, hence Rizwan doesn’t need to be in the t20 team.
I read it. Sohaib Maqsood who helped Multan Sultans win the PSL totally disagrees with this. He feels Sultans won the PSL because Rizwan got out early in some key games. Rizwan batting through in a dynamic line up will castrate the team too.
Rizwan's biggest issue is he cares too much for the time sometimes. He has stated in the past that he doesn't even want to play anchor but is forced to do it for the team even if it makes him look bad. It is a bit unfair to compare him to other pure batsmen. He is a keeper. Pant in ODI cricket is a mohalla level player see stats but you dont see Indians complaining about him.
How? He's not a bowler, hes a batting allrounder and as a captain he never allows himself to bowl. He has only bowled good spells on extremely spicy pitches in which case even nawaz and saim ayub have out bowled him their.
It’s not his choice though?
Agreed Rizwan doesn’t fit the ODI number 4 profile by any means.
Hafeez, especially the bowler, was so underrated. His economical spells built the pressure on one end for gul, ajmal, afridi to take the wickets on the other end.
More like Rizwan single handly lost them the game with his timid batting.Also he is the one who picks the team and playing 4 genuine bowlers cost him.
I want to apologize to Salman Agha for creating this thread
Both play too many dot balls for my liking. You don't have to hit every ball to the boundary, but at least try to rotate the strike when the going gets tough.
Well, he just showed why he is better than both Babar and Rizwan in the middle overs today
Rizwan is a very limited player. Being able to only hit on the leg-side just reinforces that notion. Babar may not hit many sixes, but at his best, he can still find gaps by playing proper cricketing shots. Rizwan feels more suited to ODI and Tests, though lately he has regressed considerably in ODIs aswell.
Hafeez was literally proper bowler in odis...always in top 5 odi rankings along with ajmal
that's just the Pakistani nature. You do well for a period of time. Then ego takes over, you become timid. once you have authority, you use it to make things easy for you which leads to your downfall.
They don't seem to have the character to bounce back from adversity.
Character has to be built. If a person thinks he doesn't need to improve or evolve, then that will cause his downfall. Babar and Rizwan were given way too much leeway without anyone challenging them to come out of their comfort zone.
It's a shame we couldn't see him perform to his fullest. After all even Agha knows he's been given too much to handle by PCB
and must do his solemn duty to return the mantle to Babar
Salman Agha has done nothing in his career so far to be made captain. What captaincy credentials does he have?
Talent will keep you up there. Sadly it's severely lacking in Pakistani cricketers these days. They are better off rotating the captaincy to a player who is in form in a particular year, and make their job to follow instructions of the coach onfield. Let the coach be the one incharge and take the heat like it is in football. As soon as the captain loses form which inevitably they will, replace them with someone else.
And what makes you think Agha will keep up his form?
I am not saying that he should be discarded. I have said many times that I am OK with him being in the team when you look at his own half-decent performance and the competition.
Shaheen has far more international experience than Agha and he has won the PSL thrice as captain, the only player to do so. What more maturity do you want?
But he is trying to ape Surya tryng to hit everything to fine leg. I don't think he has the skill to consistently execute that.he is trying to play attacking cricket with right mindsets because he has solid techniques. That's good sign for Pakistan cricket .
Today he was out due to lazyness . He has bright future ahead in all three formats
What on earth is this post? He is trying to do what he believes will net him maximum result, nowhere does that mean he is copying Suryakumar.
Absolutely correct. Agha is a proper team man who is trying to accommodate as per team's requirements. As a captain he is showing full confidence on his players instead of promoting himself. I am sure he will get better with time & experience. Pakistan has lost matches against Zimbabwe, USA, Afghanistan, Ireland, Bangladesh when Babar & Rizwan were there. So there is no issue if they loose 1-2 games like that
While I understand the reference given that Surya looks like an ape, I don’t think any batsman who hits sixes over fine leg is aping the ape.
