Pakistan have lost too many series in the past 2/3 years. Once the most feared side, are we gradually turning into minnows of ODI cricket now?
This team needs more from Shahid Afridi with the bat. Last 11 innings in ODIs only 127 runs
Pak's record in ODIs when batting second against SA : Won 8 Lost 26. Also lost 5 out of the last 6 ODIs v SA when chasing
7 Pakistanis who've made at least 50 on ODI debut : S Elahi, Ramiz Raja, N Jamshed, M Yousuf, Younis Ahmed, K Manzoor & now Sohaib Maqsood!
Sohaib Maqsood's average in domestic cricket is a shining example of the fact that such averages do matter!
Most teams dont get the reviews right. But Pakistan seems to be the worst team in using the reviews (whether its bowling or batting)....
Pakistani players always ask for a review, when its a close call (which could have gone wither way). Aren't the players aware of the fact that without the use of snickometer and hotspot, any faint edge will probably will be a wasted review. Similarly for any lbw decision, if ball is clipping part of stumps, the umpires call will remain.
But our players keep on repeating same mistake again n again. DRS should only be used for howlers / plumb lbw (where the ball is probably going to hit middle stump), and other straight forward mistakes by umpire...
Now for everyone who has been following him (yes there have been countless threads on him, many are one sided, the other are completely opposite sided), I think we need a thread looking at his stats and his opportunities. Let us break him down from the start of his career to this point taking into account everything and move from there (I will focus on ODI).
How easily Pakistan brushed aside its last world class and genuine batsman, the last of its kind (Hanif, Zaheer Abbas, Miandad and Inzamam) for an okay batsman like Misbah who was older than Yousuf is beyond me.
Come to think of it, the man who was in the top 3 batsmen in the world, hardly got to play after 2007.
Since January 2011, Pakistani batsmen have managed to make 11 ODI centuries. Virat Kohli has in the same time period made 13 ODI hundreds. What is the problem with Pakistan's batsmens?