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Yasir Shah strong candidate but for me its Misbah.
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Yasir Shah strong candidate but for me its Misbah.
Misbah - top scorer in the match.
Batmen are heavily favored while awarding MOM.
Do you think Misbah's innings was more impactful than the spells of Amir and Yasir?
Amir, surely. He broke the back of the West Indian battling line up.
This is a difficult one, as it was a whole team effort.
Giving a MOTM to anyone is like robbing the credit from another player.
Its because of matches like these i believe that a top 3 award should be given out and not a man of the match award only.
The MOTM candidates are obviously Amir, Yasir and Misbah.
But if we have to cut the candidates down, then it has to be between Yasir and Misbah.
Yes Amir took 6 wickets in an innings and 7 overall, but that performance didn't really changed our fortunes to a win, as the score went quite high.
Misbah played a very good innings, he hanged on in their while others departed. Everyone scored, but Misbah stayed in their till we not only got a lead, but the lead got over 100. Remember, if we gave no lead and were chasing 150+, it would had been very tricky as you could see right now how we lost 2 wickets for 10 runs.
But then again, after Misbah came back scoring the runs, the draw was more likely then a win.
Yasir bowled really well, it was his 4 wickets from yesterday what made this match a result one. Then took 2 to wrap things up.
I think Yasir deserves the MOTM, Misbah comes in second while Amir in Third.
Though, i would love it if Misbah gets it.
And before Amir fans start attacking me. I'm not taking anything away from Amir, but realistically its Yasir who has a chance.
A good bowling performance is dismissing a team for about 200. So aamir did ok, as any good bowler should on a first day pitch.
A legspinner is supposed to take wickets on the last day.
misbah's innings came at a critical time: he took match from even to pakistan's favor. hence he should be MOM
If you're gonna count Misbah, then count Babar and YK too. Because they all did same thing.
In what world are bowlers expected to take 6-fers?
What did Yasir do then?
babar and yk departed with the match even they did not take it forward: misbah took it forward. its not just about any performance. its about what that performance does in the context of the game. I dont think aamir taking 6 wickets and west indies scoring 278 is particularly impactful
It was always between the 2 bowlers, but they went for the highest wicket take - fair enough.
But the big question brother, who was your MOM?
amir - the game was set on day 1. They way pak other bowlers bowled, without amir wi would have reached 450 ............ The way pak batted on 2nd innings, you would have seen the fun after that.
Once pak had 100+ lead, it was only a matter of time that hacks will crumble against yasir (you can check my post on day 3). It was that 1st morning that won the test, rest contributions are just solidification of won grounds - inch by inch. In that regard, babar & yk's contribution was also significant - they neutralized the wi pace attack, when they were fresh.
babar and yk departed with the match even they did not take it forward: misbah took it forward. its not just about any performance. its about what that performance does in the context of the game. I dont think aamir taking 6 wickets and west indies scoring 278 is particularly impactful