Why not consider Sahibzada Farhan as wicketkeeper after Mohammad Haris’s poor run?

[prash88]

Riz Babar reached semis in 2021 and finals in 2022. Only 2024 was failure. The other two T20 WCs are overachievement for Pakistan. Can Hesson's tulla team reach semis playing all their games in shitheaps of Colombo? No chance I think...

 

[Rana]

Riz Babar reached semis in 2021 and finals in 2022. Only 2024 was failure. The other two T20 WCs are overachievement for Pakistan. Can Hesson's tulla team reach semis playing all their games in shitheaps of Colombo? No chance I think...

Yeah

RizBar are the reason for reaching Semis and final in the first place?

Get your perspective corrected first before you start throwing around your speculations.

You’ve got 55 posts. I bet you have some earlier writing off Hesson’s team against Afghanistan as well.

 

[mominsaigol]

Babar and Rizwan are part of the ODIs and they haven't changed their approach yet. In the CT matches against New Zealand and India, as well as the first ODI in New Zealand, at least one or both of them played too slowly while the batter at other end was going at a good rate (Saud/Agha), which cost Pakistan. In the first ODI in the West Indies, they operated at a strike rate in the low 70s while chasing 285. Fortunately, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Talat stepped up. They are extremely stubborn and bringing them back would result in them gaining control over the team, which would push Pakistan cricket further back in the limited overs.

Many of their fans say that Pakistan has only had mixed results in this format this year. However in ODIs, Pakistan has performed poorly. So, Pakistan is doing better in formats in which they have been dropped than in the ones they regularly play. It should also be noted that ODI format is more suited to their style of play than T20s.

I agree, my main point was only for babar in odi pre Misbah era though. While he was on the slower side he was improving day by day.

He got slower post misbah era though in all formats. He wasnt that slow from 2016-2020 infact he batted at higher sr's then Steve Smith, Root and Williamson at that point in time which was impressive as he was mostly playing in root's own den.

 

[Caved12]

In cricket, wicketkeeping is a specialist job. Before anything else, a keeper must be able to keep properly and give confidence to the bowlers that everything behind the stumps is safe. Batting comes after that. If a keeper can bat well, it’s a huge bonus. These days, teams want their keeper to be at least a decent batsman who can contribute with the bat too, but in the end it all depends on what options you have available.

Farhan is not a keeper, and Pakistan can’t just decide out of nowhere to play him in that role. He needs to work on his fitness and improve his keeping first before being considered. The other names people are suggesting are also poor keepers and simply not good enough for international cricket.

Rizwan is clearly the best choice. He’s not only the best keeper in the world right now but also a better batsman than all the other available options. The first step should always be picking the best keeper. Where he bats in the order comes later. It’s as simple as that.

Rizwan will return, but if that happens a year or two later, Pakistan cricket will have already wasted some of the best years of his career.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Farhan needs to wake up and accept the reality that he will not stay in the team if he does not do keeping occasionally... Like in tri-series, we needed him to open so we can drop haris but management showed too much support for haris and he played all games and failed badly... Farhan needs to occupy that spot and make it his own.