- Pakistan captain Shaheen Afridi

seeing is believing, but at the very least he and mike know we are weak against the short ball, we still have 12 months to get used to these surfaces, its not like these batters can not bat in bouncy conditions, we saw the performance in aus, sa, but dead pitches and rank turners for a long time will affect anyone, i hope instead of another panic button "surgery" this team is allowed to learn to bat as a unit together, there will be failures like today yes but i think they are going in a positive direction

furthermore pakistan batting coach mike smith confirmed fakhar will be playing the final and says he is not worried about him at all and expects him to come good soon

Rauf leaks runs after runs in matches , releases pressure almost always .

Please don’t say he brings pace, most white ball batters like pace .

Naseem, the Rolls Royce, has never even had the engine started it seems. He has been playing for so many years yet learns nothing , displays no sensibility.

And then this is the so called “pace-trio” as if they can only be compared to trio of Starc Hazlewood and Cummins .

Can you folks stop hyping these mediocre players?

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MIT

SALMAN KHAN

HUSNAIN NADEEM

MUHAMMAD IMRAN

MUHAMMAD FAROOQ

ATIQ UR REHMAN

ABUZAR TARIQ (WK)

SLAMAN ASLAM

KHALID USMAN (C)

AITIZAZ HABIB KHAN

MOHAMMAD ISMAEEL

SBP

MUHAMMAD ABBAS

SHAHID AZIZ

FAHAM UL HAQ KHAN

SARDAR HASSAN RAZA KHAN

ABDULLAH FAZAL

MUBASIR KHAN

KAMRAN GHULAM

MUHAMMAD KASHIF BHATTI

SIRAJ UDDIN

RAMEEZ AZIZ PANJARA (C)

AFAQ AHMAD AFRIDI

Scorecard

Broadcast

We are 12th! So our top order averages 19.81 which means they score around 20 runs per dismissal. The top order is supposed to provide a solid foundation for us, for the rest of the batting lineup. If they’re averaging 19.81 in ODIs, they’re basically not doing their job at all. Middle order ka bhi ye masla hai. Aur ye hamara bohot baraa masla hai because we’re not going to have someone from the lower order come through for us all the time like Shadab did yesterday. And we’ve seen this tragedy way too many times.

One player can’t play a clutch inning time and time again and neither should they have to because it’s a team effort. Our batting always ends up with the bowlers coming to finish. Our batting gets better when the top order stays on the crease for a long time and puts a solid score on the board. Rant over.

This is gonna be a long post but im gonna do my best to explain why am i so horribly displeased with this squad and management

Babar Azam (c) - Dummy captain, basket case batsman, should he be out of the team? no, but do i have any expectation from this man to show the grit, resilience shown by world class batters like temba, gill, root, smith. The answer is that i dont even expect him to be able to play a similar innings on the flattest track on planet earth, he has shown no upward trajectory from his test fall, in fact its his downwards trajectory that has plateaued giving fans the illusion of a "comeback", he wont get a test century any time soon, hes an average player on par with anyone else in the squad, 2 fifties is what i expect from him, hes useless as a captain, maybe hes fine on field from a tactics pov when fielding but he cant back his players, hes spineless, he has no self respect for taking the captaincy in the first place and when push comes to shove and pakistan has another shambolic tour they will dispose of him without as much as a second thought.

Abdullah fazal - replacing imam ul haq, im fine with it abdullah fazal is class he deserves the rope and hes fully fit he should ideally be playing both tests, hes a gritty player i wanna see a maiden ton from him this series but will the pcb back him when the going eventually gets tough for him? no, shafique is the motm in our only test away win in ages, had a bad england series (along with literally everyone else) and got disposed off, in todays test day and age you have to be a player of great innings who can get ur teams to big totals in conditions that are tough around the world basically, abdullah fazal will have 2 bad matches, he will then be disposed off

ali usman - back in here, hes a good intelligent operator, decent batter in the subcontinental conditions, never should have come to the point where he was released from the squad just because he wasnt able to compensate for an already horrendous batting line up, they have as the theme goes disposed of sajid khan and hes their latest spin toy, once again, 2 bad matches and hes gone

Arafat minhas - 17 first class matches, hes good on the eye test. he is raw in this format, he doesnt have the volume of matches, once again he will do ok in this series with bat and ball, he will not be up to it in wobble seaming conditions away from home for which u need to not only have variety of pitches in domestic, but u need to be on fc away tours in different countries, play county stints, which arafat hasnt done

Azan awais - same thing as abdullah fazal, how many bad matched till he is disposed off

abbas - forced the pcb basically to have to keep him in the team

Sameer - This management is absolutely shit, like genuinely have no clue how to handle talent, sameer minhas has 1 season of fc in him, let me repeat that one season, he was not even absolutely generational in this season, he was outdone by a massive margin by his captain tayyab arif also making his debut, the reason why sameer is in with the debut is under 19 and psl, which is absolutely horrid by the management, sameer is a massive talent but he is 19 years old, he is not test cricket level, he is another placeholder, will he be in the squad in march? depends on how he does in the game hes given, because that is the pcb, these guys have no plan or clue on how to build up a test team

The rest is ok, even taha and suleman are exceptionally talented, but then its the same question of when are they gonna be disposed off, mike hesson and aqib javed are a match made in hell and will continue to ruin our test cricket with inconsistent selections, supposed "eye test" picks, and not letting players properly develop in domestic cricket, the cycle will repeat, we will never reach anywhere close to being a world class test team under this management despite the player pool being there

Apparently, he himself asked to be released from the squad to focus on domestic. Good and rarely found mindset in Pakistan cricket if true. Sahibzada Farhan has been selected as his replacement. Hopefully, Maaz sadaqat is selected in the XI as his replacement and Farhan only if fakhar is also rested.

Congratulations to Pakistan 🇵🇰 team and Shadab Khan.

When he was given LBW this was the clip played in my head …. Was I the only one ?

Could the British Empire survive the reign of Dictator Shadab Khan? The British conquered nations, but prime Shadab might just be their greatest historical threat. History books would never recover from this one.

Dear ECB and english cricket team fans,

If you are going to play poor cricket like this please do not tour our country again. We want good teams that actually give us competition not teams who conceded 430 to srilanka or can't take the last wicket with 90 runs remaining. /S

Hesson saw something none of us did. I know it’s early but shadab the batter is genuinely special, please never make him bowl again. I normally don’t view bilaterals in high regard, but this was England’s main 11, and Shadab just beat them single-handedly.

Also what a great day to play this kind of innings. Pink kit to raise awareness for breast cancer🙌🙌🙌. My exams just ended and I feel happy today