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*Official* South Africa in Pakistan, 2021

StephenZA

StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Ashraf did not have a clue of which way that ball was moving from Rabada. Probably just gonna miss everything for the next 6 overs.
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
SSA said:
It was during the Misbah - Younis UAE era when he was dominating the FC scene. There was only one slot in the available in the middle order and Asad was preferred by Misbah and the selectors for some odd reason.

Fawad was recalled briefly in the ODI team. Not his strongest format, and after an awful series against Australia, he was dropped again. There's always been media pressure here in Pakistan for his selection, and I suspect his latest recall to the side was just to get the media to back off. It's good he's making the most of it, but his best form is behind him sadly. Hasn't dominated the recent few FC seasons as he used to.
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Ah ok, thanks for this. Good to see him getting a score and hopefully keeping his place a bit longer.

I'm surprised to see he's never played county cricket. Surely someone saw the wisdom of signing a good red ball player who'd be available for an entire season.
 
SSA

SSA

Cricket Spectator
For anyone interested, there was bowling equivalent to Fawad as well. Sadaf Hussain. Left arm version of Abbas. His current record FC record is almost 500 Wickets @ 20, but for the majority of the last decade, that average was in the teen's. Never got selected despite us giving caps to the likes Rahat Ali, Imran Khan, Sohail Khan etc.

No one knows why. There was hardly any video footage of him during his prime, and many suspected he only thrived because the pitches were so poor back then. Still odd he was never tried at the international level. Closest he ever got was being picked in the ODI squad for the WI series after the 2011 WC (same series Junaid Khan made his debut), but never got a game and was never selected again.
 
SSA

SSA

Cricket Spectator
Aritro said:
Ah ok, thanks for this. Good to see him getting a score and hopefully keeping his place a bit longer.

I'm surprised to see he's never played county cricket. Surely someone saw the wisdom of signing a good red ball player who'd be available for an entire season.
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I'm not sure either. I guess he's not that well known internationally. He played club cricket there a few years ago though.
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
SSA said:
For anyone interested, there was bowling equivalent to Fawad as well. Sadaf Hussain. Left arm version of Abbas. His current record FC record is almost 500 Wickets @ 20, but for the majority of the last decade, that average was in the teen's. Never got selected despite us giving caps to the likes Rahat Ali, Imran Khan, Sohail Khan etc.

No one knows why. There was hardly any video footage of him during his prime, and many suspected he only thrived because the pitches were so poor back then. Still odd he was never tried at the international level. Closest he ever got was being picked in the ODI squad for the WI series after the 2011 WC (same series Junaid Khan made his debut), but never got a game and was never selected again.
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You lot really hate selecting good players
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Pertinent conversation there. No doubt that bouncers being banned in junior cricket is part of the reason people are so poor at playing it.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Good on the PCB for putting a high quality live stream on Youtube, but not having the over count visible on the overlay is a pretty basic production fail.
 
T

tony p

State Regular
Pakistan get 80-100 run lead, that will put a lot of pressure on S.A. Yasir might be in for a bag in the second innings.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
SSA said:
For anyone interested, there was bowling equivalent to Fawad as well. Sadaf Hussain. Left arm version of Abbas. His current record FC record is almost 500 Wickets @ 20, but for the majority of the last decade, that average was in the teen's. Never got selected despite us giving caps to the likes Rahat Ali, Imran Khan, Sohail Khan etc.

No one knows why. There was hardly any video footage of him during his prime, and many suspected he only thrived because the pitches were so poor back then. Still odd he was never tried at the international level. Closest he ever got was being picked in the ODI squad for the WI series after the 2011 WC (same series Junaid Khan made his debut), but never got a game and was never selected again.
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I remember following him in his early days, he put up some stupendous numbers. Trundler maybe, but they picked Abbas and Mir Hamza, as well as Ehsan Adil who was a bit quicker and averaging a couple more at the time, and Anwar Ali on the basis of some inswingers he bowled in an u19s match. He should have got a go.

Jeez Pakistan has had a wheel over the decade.
 
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