Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, and Younis Khan all have scored six ODI centuries in their career to date.
Here's how they compare:
Hafeez
2 v ZIM 1 v NZ 1 v IRE 1 v IND 1 v WI.
Afridi
2 v IND 2 v SL 1 v BD 1 v NZ.
YK
3 v IND 1 v HK 1 v WI 1 v ENG
How do the above stats relate to their respective successes in this format?
With the big series vs South Africa not far away, who would be in your Test/ODI/T20I squads?
With our current openers (Jamshed & Shehzad) struggling to score and Shahid Afridi bowling poorly to go along with his unpredictable, inconsistent batting, we are in search of both - an all-rounder and an opener (or maybe a couple of openers). Now, Sohaib Maqsood has impressed in the only T20I he's played, and he's also impressed in domestic cricket.
How about playing Sohaib as an opener and as a batting all-rounder who can play the 6th bowler's role in the side?
In the 2nd ODI vs Zimbabwe, Shahid Afridi reached the personal landmark of scoring 10,000 runs in international cricket.
Here is how they have come by across the formats:
Tests: 1716 runs in 48 innings at an average of 36.51
ODIs: 7353 runs in 334 innings at an average of 23.56
T20Is: 939 runs in 59 innings at an average of 18.05
6284 of those runs have come in boundaries.
Saeed Ajmal may not have lived up the high expectations many have from his bowling. As a result, many fans have started to question how much cricket he has left in him?
As a spinner, can he still play for Pakistan till the 2015 World Cup? At the very least, should he continue to play Test cricket and focus solely on that?
A good comeback by Pakistan after the fiasco that took place in the 1st ODI. Hafeez's inning was instrumental in getting Pakistan a score which eventually put too much pressure on the Zimbabwean batsmen. Also Misbah's decision to play an extra bowler paid dividends in the shape of Abdur Rehman's performance.