meninblue wrote: Concern will be that whether he can bat even half good in tougher conditions. There has been a failure in that aspect of his batting and it will always stay as a blot on his career. Azhar Ali who has debuted much later for Pakistan than Professor, has managed to be a much more relaible batsman over the tenure of his career so far. But Prof. has always been a huge home track bully and has backing of the double ton against Peshawar in domestic match and his ability to bowl few overs on this slow wicket. Now he will stick to the team on basis of this possible good series and struggle again in South Africa. Cycle continues. Still another player should have been groomed considering this was home tests, opponents without Smith and Warner.One batsman should have been dropped to accomodate a specialist or a bowling all rounder. UAE since the ban by touring teams of other countries has been their first home and it's been 10 years since UAE is their homeground than Karachi or Lahore.
sussexpob wrote:meninblue wrote: Concern will be that whether he can bat even half good in tougher conditions. There has been a failure in that aspect of his batting and it will always stay as a blot on his career. Azhar Ali who has debuted much later for Pakistan than Professor, has managed to be a much more relaible batsman over the tenure of his career so far. But Prof. has always been a huge home track bully and has backing of the double ton against Peshawar in domestic match and his ability to bowl few overs on this slow wicket. Now he will stick to the team on basis of this possible good series and struggle again in South Africa. Cycle continues. Still another player should have been groomed considering this was home tests, opponents without Smith and Warner.One batsman should have been dropped to accomodate a specialist or a bowling all rounder. UAE since the ban by touring teams of other countries has been their first home and it's been 10 years since UAE is their homeground than Karachi or Lahore.
I think its one of those things that, the selectors should really sit down with the team and say when they go away, Hafeez is dropped and they try to find a stable opener, but if that doesnt happen, you have to think Hafeez record in the UAE is very good I believe, he loves these pitches, so it would be silly not to pick him with that record.
I have read a few things suggesting batsman in Pakistan are becoming hard to find, because the pitches are terrible. Lots of very low scores (someone I think got bowled out for 30 a couple of weeks ago), which occasionally get combated by trying to nullify pitches, and then you get a 1000 all out pitch sprinkled in every few round of games.
This makes finding bowlers who stand out difficult, because every averages ridiculously low figures.
Lets assume say if Pak domestic format schedule is modified and we start seeing flat road surfaces to bat on as well as groundsmen get more days between matches to repair the wickets, will Pak start to produce Cook, Amla, Clarke, Rahul, Sachin, Chet, Steven Smith, Virat etc. How will they fare on other wickets then which help even little bit of swing. Will they then start producing bad bowlers because bowlers will not get help. It is as much a problem of T20 influence like we see on Indian batsmen of this generation. Will Ehasan Mani be able to get into minds of someone like Umar Akmal to show proper test cricket temperament, shot selection, patience and determination. So it will need a lot at strategy from PCB as well as players themselves to get them converted into long time batsmen.
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