How did Inzamam fair against quality attacks?

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In just a few days time, a few associate teams being Scotland and the rising and impressive one Ireland will be competing with the giants Australia and England. But the question is with Cricket being one of the worlds leading sports certainly the best bat and ball game in the world, it still somehow played by only a select few mainly the 10 test playing nations. But why only them? why cannot it expand and add newer full members?

If so then what is the criteria for the leading associates to become a full member nation?

How did Zimbabwe and Bangladesh become full member nations given how still lets be honest pathetic they are? 

and despite Ireland doing clearly much better in terms of achieving their main ambition of becoming a test playing nation than the 2 weaker full members, it still not happening for them.

I don't know about you but I want teams like Ireland especially the game coming up to succeed as much as possible because Cricket is getting boring with very few teams and these few teams playing eachother over and over again.

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I collected the data for spinners against top 8 ODI sides, Ajmal is second on the list with his bowling average and strike rate.

 

Bowling Stats of Spinners in ODIs (Excluding Minnows)

And if you are interested to see bowling stats of spinners including their performances against minnow teams thn here are those stats...

 

Bowling Stats of Spinners in ODIs (Including Minnows)

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Discussion of some of the current bowlers that really look to outfox the batsman with variations and subtle tactics rather than flat out pace or aggression.

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A list of the Pakistani batsmen with the highest averages in ODI cricket.

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So the T20s and ODIs are over and the Test Series is going to start from Tuesday. Pakistan and Zimbabwe have played 15 Test matches in total. Pakistan won 9, Zimbabwe won 2 and 4 resulted in a draw. In last 11 years Pakistan and Zimbabwe played only 1 Test match that was in 2011, Pakistan won that match comfortably by 7 wickets.

Zimbabwe played last Test Series against Bangladesh which resulted in a draw 1-1 while Pakistan is coming from a lost Test series against South Africa.


Test Squad
Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Abdur Rehman, Adnan Akmal (wk), Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Ehsan Adil, Faisal Iqbal, Junaid Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Hafeez, Rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Shan Masood, Wahab Riaz, Younis Khan


Batting
From Pakistan current Test squad only Mohammad Hafeez got a Test century against Zimbabwe in his only Test match against Zimbabwe in 2011. In current tour Hafeez is looking in good form he scored a fifty in T20 series and thn a fifty and a century in ODI series.

In last Test match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan Tino Mawoyo was the key player for Zimbabwe. He scored his highest Test score 163* in that match against Pakistan which helped his team to post a total of 412 in 1st innings against Pakistan in 2011 Test match.


Bowling
In last Test match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe Aizaz Cheema and Saeed Ajmal were the highest wicket takers for Pakistan. Cheema got 8 wickets while Ajmal got 6 wickets in that match.

Ray Price was the highest wicket taker for Zimbabwe in that test match but he is already Retired from international cricket.


Trivia

* In current Test squad of Pakistan only Younis Khan is the player who played more thn 1 Test match against Zimbabwe and he was part of Pakistan Test team in 2002 Zimbabwe tour.

* Hamilton Masakadza is the only player from current Zimbabwe team who played more thn 1 Test match against Pakistan, He was part of Zimbabwe Test team in 2002 series against Pakistan.

* In last test match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, Mohammad Hafeez was man of the match he scored 157 runs and got 4 wickets in that match.

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What's your combined Indo-Pak all time XI?

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Do you think Sarfraz Ahmed deserves another chance after his showings in the ODI series?

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Do you think Nasir Jamshed's poor form will lead to the return of Imran Farhat?

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There are quite a few on this forum, who hype a player/captain as "aggressive", 
but in reality he is not aggressive in his cricket, rather in hot talk, media interviews and attitude.

A certain group claim Afridi's captaincy to be "aggressive" 
and miles better than "poor" and "pathetic" captaincy of Misbah Ul Haq.

Let's take a look at who in reality has won us more matches 
against non-minnows, and who has a better Win/Loss ratio against non-minnows.
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It is very clear that "pathetic" and "poor" captaincy of Misbah
is actually better than that of Afridi's.

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