The Most Inexcusable Droppings by Selectors

[Silver Silva]

Pakistan have a surfeit of pace bowlers all of a similar standard, ie borderline international class. Very easy to pull the next one of the rank if you have misgivings about an incumbent

I don't think PCB manages their talent , there is way too many examples of players who get discarded like trash or aren't supported when they have injury, or aren't given a proper opportunity in Pakistan ..

For example take Sufiyan Muqeem the left arm wrist spinner..

He takes 4/52 on ODI debut vs South Africa in South Africa yet doesn't get picked for tri series and champions trophy squad ..

Muqeem has 16 wickets @11.63 in T20 cricket before the series vs NZ , he only ends up playing the last T20 in the series vs NZ and gets 2/6 ..

When he goes through a rough patch he too will be discarded.

 

[Athlai]

Mohammad Abbas of Pakistan..

He did not deserve to be dropped in 2021 with a career bowling average of 23 , he waited 3 years for another test call up .

Abbas then takes 10 wickets @24 vs South Africa in 2 tests on his return and is then dropped for West Indies series in Pakistan which Pakistan fail to win.

No Pakistani seamer has taken 200 test wickets in the 21st century , yet Abbas has only played 27 tests for his 100 test wickets .

Pakistan and fast bowlers is genuinely absurd mistreatment. Constantly trying to chase some mythical new Wasim/Waqar and not actually letting some potentially ATVG players have a full career.

 

[Daemon]

In the current domestic season in Pakistan

Abbas has played 5 matches 24 wickets @18.45

Also different pitches to the absolute roads before the recent 360 to pitches that turn.

There’s a guy with 38 wickets at 9.8 in 5 games lol.

 

[Athlai]

Pakistani domestic cricket is definitely a mixed bag for digging into the stats

The only real takeaway is that Fawad Alam is pretty good

 

[subshakerz]

Mohammad Abbas of Pakistan..

He did not deserve to be dropped in 2021 with a career bowling average of 23 , he waited 3 years for another test call up .

Abbas then takes 10 wickets @24 vs South Africa in 2 tests on his return and is then dropped for West Indies series in Pakistan which Pakistan fail to win.

No Pakistani seamer has taken 200 test wickets in the 21st century , yet Abbas has only played 27 tests for his 100 test wickets .

They ruined his career.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Mohammad Abbas of Pakistan..

He did not deserve to be dropped in 2021 with a career bowling average of 23 , he waited 3 years for another test call up .

Abbas then takes 10 wickets @24 vs South Africa in 2 tests on his return and is then dropped for West Indies series in Pakistan which Pakistan fail to win.

No Pakistani seamer has taken 200 test wickets in the 21st century , yet Abbas has only played 27 tests for his 100 test wickets .

It is said pm imran forced pcb to drop him since he was trundler and imran hated trundlers. Also lmran was reason why sarfraz was striped of captaincy

 

[subshakerz]

It is said pm imran forced pcb to drop him since he was trundler and imran hated trundlers. Also lmran was reason why sarfraz was striped of captaincy

Huh? Imran was a fan of Sarfrazs captaincy tho.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Huh? Imran was a fan of Sarfrazs captaincy tho.

Nah after if you remember before ind vs pak group game in 2019 wc imran advised team to bat first if they win the toss but sarfi choose to bowl on a flat deck on which pak lost. Imran criticized sarfraz and team management on tv interview of not paying heed to his advise

 

[slowfinger]

Nah after if you remember before ind vs pak group game in 2019 wc imran advised team to bat first if they win the toss but sarfi choose to bowl on a flat deck on which pak lost. Imran criticized sarfraz and team management on tv interview of not paying heed to his advise

definitely **** stirring with this post

 

[govinda indian fan]

definitely **** stirring with this post

Sorry if it hurt your sentiments but what i wrote is Truth if you dont believe you can check pak passion

 

[Starfighter]

I think @Silver Silva is forgetting that at the time Abbas was originally dropped, not only had he lost pace but batsmen were figuring him out by standing out of the crease, negating the movement he relied on. It didn't look sustainable. When I saw him on a flat wicket at Adelaide, he was accurate but completely impenetrative. The generally more difficult pitches around the world recently are the main thing that'll let him back in at test level.

With Pakistan domestic cricket, the numbers and pitches there have little relation to what happens in international cricket, even home tests. During the 2010s the pitches tended to be very friendly for medium pacers. The perception, which has some truth to it, that you need some pace to succeed in internationals is probably partly why Sadaf Hussein was never picked despite cleaning up for a decade. The pitches got flatter, but the President's Trophy numbers this year are a reversion to type. Mir Hamza is averaging 13.6 and his test outings have shown he isn't up to it.

 

[Athlai]

Imagine if James Anderson was dropped after every bad series

 

[govinda indian fan]

Pcb for sure are incompetent board but their handling of shaheen is mind boggling. Dude is 25 but is rested for tests and odis

 

[Chin Music]

Pcb for sure are incompetent board but their handling of shaheen is mind boggling. Dude is 25 but is rested for tests and odis

I'm utterly perplexed that after being a leading country for producing brilliant fast bowlers (possibly behind Aus/SA but still good enough) they now have so completely fallen away and seem like India in the 90s and 00's in turning potential fast bowling talents into trundlers.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Jimmy yet!

I think it's because there are fast bowlers out there from yesteryear that genuinely believe that they would have taken double ,triple maybe even quadruple their wicket tallies if they had the opportunities that Anderson did in test cricket , averaging over 30 after close to 100 test matches and still being able to get 700 + test wickets despite a bang average Ashes record ?
Sign me up they would say !

 

[kevinw]

Pcb for sure are incompetent board but their handling of shaheen is mind boggling. Dude is 25 but is rested for tests and odis

Shaheen looks pretty broken to me.

 

[Coronis]

I think it's because there are fast bowlers out there from yesteryear that genuinely believe that they would have taken double ,triple maybe even quadruple their wicket tallies if they had the opportunities that Anderson did in test cricket , averaging over 30 after close to 100 test matches and still being able to get 700 + test wickets despite a bang average Ashes record ?
Sign me up they would say !

Thats really nice to him.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

I think it's because there are fast bowlers out there from yesteryear that genuinely believe that they would have taken double ,triple maybe even quadruple their wicket tallies if they had the opportunities that Anderson did in test cricket , averaging over 30 after close to 100 test matches and still being able to get 700 + test wickets despite a bang average Ashes record ?
Sign me up they would say !

And yet, at 42 he was playing far better than his early career…

 

[Starfighter]

I'm utterly perplexed that after being a leading country for producing brilliant fast bowlers (possibly behind Aus/SA but still good enough) they now have so completely fallen away and seem like India in the 90s and 00's in turning potential fast bowling talents into trundlers.

It's because (as your post demonstrates) the outstanding nature of Pakistan's leading lights has meant overlooking the fact their pace bowling has usually had the depth of a puddle.

 

[slowfinger]

And yet, at 42 he was playing far better than his early career…

he was bowling 78mph trundlers, got the same treatment as Robinson so don't understand the criticism