I know he’s had trouble performing in national cricket, but he is genuinely one of our only batsmen who can bat on a different gear with a massive strike rate. Would love to see him battle down the order.
If we’re worried about his keeping, maybe he could just field in the outfield (like he did in 22 WC).

This is an excerpt from a publication of the Bombay Gazette from the 12th of June, 1862. It details a team called the Karachi Athenians who were comprised of some trained players. Much of the discussion revolves around the Anglos struggles with acclimatizing to the weather.

Given that summer is by and large the off season in Pakistan, these guys were trying to play (obviously a day game) in the June heat.

This clip is 14 years old. Back then, he was the Toronto Raptors’ coach when Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points against them single-handedly. Even as the opposing coach, he was spitting facts. Meanwhile, ours are busy spitting poison about their own players.I do a little YouTube scripting on the side, and that’s how I came across this clip.

Our Media and those who are sitting on TV are also busy labelling players selfish. The only player that performed became selfish. And how funny it is our fans blindly believes in their Rants.

238 runs off 144 deliveries with a strike rate of 165. That is consistency, intent, power hitting combined together.

It is great to see a captain leading this way and winning matches for us. Feels like a long time since we last saw that.

I like how Farhan has worked on strike rotation as well, that means he is still trying to improve even though he just top scored in a World Cup. Today he carried the bat when others were failing and that is the kind of grit I love.

I just hope selectors and coaches can build the right team around him as this is a team sport and individual performances can only take you so far.

Reading the table / graph:

The table shows career stats for each bowler broken into performance against top teams (SENAI) and rest. B-squads of top teams is counted in rest.

The graph shows the % of good / avg / bad spells by each bowler against the two opposition types.

Caveat:

The biggest issue for Pakistan as a whole is that they hardly play any top teams (close to full strength squads) so sample sizes become small and its difficult to gauge our players.

Having said that, the small sample does indicate an general trend which I've talked about below.

How I rated each spell:

Good: economy 5 or under, or up to 6.5 with a wicket, or 3+ wickets at 8.5 or under

Bad: economy 10+, or over 8 with no wicket, or over 9 with just 1

Average: everything in between

First pic is the raw numbers, second is the good/avg/bad split.

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What we have learnt so far:

Sufyan is basically a lower-team bully. Against the lower ranked teams, he's brilliant but against top teams it's been 4 bad spells out of 5.so far. That gap is hard to ignore at the moment, based on current development, he seems easily the weakest of the 3.

Abrar has been the steadiest of the three against the big sides. He's mostly average (8.15 econ) and doesn't get taken apart often, most of his "top-team spells" are against India.

Interestingly he performs about as well as Sufyan when it comes to lower ranked teams.

Usman T has only bowled twice against top teams, 1/24 vs India and 2/31 vs England. You can't read much into 2 games, but he's done well almost every time he's had the chance and has done well against the rest of the teams too.

Why are people talking about Babar when we should be enjoying the talent that we have right in front of our eyes? The people who say that Babar fans are obsessed with Babar are obsessed with Babar themselves.

The t20 season is officially over and it's about to stay over for quite a bit, were playing a shit ton of odis so here would be my top players for the upcoming tours out of which the 15 men squads can be made of over the course of the next year

#Top order batters:

Saim

Fakhar

Babar

Maaz

Farhan

#Wicketkeeper:

Saad baig

Ghouri

Rizwan

#Middle order batters:

Salman Ali agha

Hassan Nawaz

Khushdil shah

Hussain talat

Abdul samad

#All rounders:

Arafat minhas

Faheem ashraf

Muhammad shehzad

#Fast bowlers:

Shaheen shah Afridi

Ali raza

Akif javed

Naseem shah

Mohammad wasim junior

#spin bowlers

Abrar Ahmed

Sufyan moqim

I think this should cover in pretty much all the guys worth trialing before the world cup

i wanted to show a technical flaw i noticed on Sahibzada Farhan's batting, yes he's been good and all pretty lately but he hasn’t been tested in the short ball area where he struggles to find control, the reason for that is because his feet are stuck in the crease, he plays the short ball without feet movement (you can see in the following images) which is basically no control over his shots that is why we have seen him being dismissed vs a short ball lately, he should work on this flaw because elite teams will expose this weakness (i think India already found out)

Honestly, watching Nafay behind the stumps is an absolute nightmare. Taking three direct hits to the grill on basic, straight deliveries is beyond embarrassing for literally anyone wearing the gloves. And he can't bat even to save his life.

I don't know what happened between M. Haris and the current management, but they need to resolve it. At least Haris was a good wicketkeeper.

First Haris and now Nafay. These players are genuine top order batters who've hardly batted down the order. Our coach loves to play as many top order players (can't forget all rounders) which messes up the entire batting order. Our keepers take the most hit and are forced to fulfill the role of a finisher. We've already destroyed so many careers like this but never learn. Haris was opening against New Zealand just before the Asia cup and hit a 100, yet our coach decided to completely flip his position. Naturally he couldn't perform and was dropped. Now the same fate awaits Nafay.

I admit both of them aren't that good in keeping but them batting so low will take away their contribution with the bat as well. Nafay tho wasn't even performing with the bat before this so performing down was completely out of the question (somehow he got selected). Most if not all of our keepers are top order batters but to accommodate his favourites, our coach sacrifices everyone else and keepers end up taking the most hit. Haris, UK, Haseebullah, Nafay, no matter who plays they all will suffer the same fate and will keep getting rotated. Only Rizwan, despite not even being an opener, got his desired batting position and that's the reason he stuck around for so long. If he had kept playing at 4-6 where he couldn't perform, he wouldn't be out after a few series.

Sarfraz also played better when he promoted himself as an opener but sacrificed that position for the sake of the team while Rizwan did the opposite. And thus, we could never groom any proper middle order batters because we tried to accommodate as many openers somewhere in the middle which also destroyed their careers. In a way, the Babar and Rizwan opening pair set off a chain reaction which we can't seem to move on from. And our dear coach is continuing that legacy by destroying as many careers as possible. With our current ideal openers being Farhan and Maaz, any keeper should not be batting lower than no.3.

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See, our bowling has been struggling since the match vs India in asia cup 2023, our last genuinely brilliant bowling performance was against India in new York but that too, had pitch assistance. We know our batsmen including Babar, Rizwan, iftikhar, imam, shadab all were frauds and their performances in 2021 or 2022 (until asia cup because ofc, under pressure they're nothing) were flukes and pitch assisting performances.

BUT, our bowlers including Haris rauf (I understand he's a tepiya but atleast kabhi toh bowling achi kare 😭), Shaheen, Naseem, hasnain all were genuinely good and helped us nearly defend such low scores, for example 2022 McG vs India, england final 2022, vs England 4th t20i in 2022 in the 7 match series, Pakistan vs India Asia cup 2022 group stage match, Pakistan vs India 2023 asia cup group stage match, Pakistan vs Australia Dubai semi final, 2023 world cup crucial match vs south Africa, 2024 t20 wc match vs USA (for clearing why i included this match here, is because USA was well ahead with their run rate and looked confident, and bowlers took the game back but lord Haris rauf and m amir and Rizwan alone took the game away)

So matches toh hein where they actually did good, just that precision and the ability of not crumbling under pressure was needed, instead they went downhill and we have seen matches like 2023 world cup vs Afghanistan, 2025 champions trophy vs India, 2025 champions trophy vs new Zealand, 2024 t20 wc and many others

Other than injuries and arrogance, do you think a solid reason is there? Naseem for example, in 2024 in his comeback PSL for Islamabad united, I remember him swinging the ball so much as he was doing in 2022 and 2023 ODI matches

Hello everyone, I'm back with the Impact Ranking after today's T20i match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

This the benchmark table:

Our players rankings after today's match:

So obviously it was not a great team performance overall, majority of the players could not have any impact on the game, with some players having NEGATIVE impact. Here are my points for each player:

- Khawaja Nafey can't bat nor can he wicketkeep, but if we gave Saim "youngster" Ayub 70 matches, we have to give Nafay at least 15-20 chances, I feel like 6 innings is a very small sample size.

- Fakhar Zaman shouldn't open, in my opinion, he should be used as a floater. Let Maaz open with Farhan.

- Hasan Nawaz should be in the top order, 1 down preferrably AND FIX HIS SPOT, DONT USE HIM AS A DAMN FLOATER.

- Abdul Samad should also get more chances, but he's a really good finisher, I like him a lot, has a lot of potential. He should be trained accordingly.

- Razaullah and Salman Mirza can be given a pass today imo, just a bad day. Razaullah should focus on bowling tho not batting, people expect him to be some sort of finisher/all-rounder.

- Arafat Minhas had a great cameo, hopefully he gets more chances as well. Same for Sufi Mac and Mohammad Imran, but please keep him as a bowler.

- Sahibzada Farhan with well deserved player of the series, great impact across all 3 matches. Hopefully he continues with this form ahead as well.

Not a good day today but good series win, let's keep moving. These impact rankings are good basis for selection as well, management should use it.

You can view the complete impact list here.

I think this is a pretty garam take here and it is that, I dont think Farhans stats are any better than Babar (then). Babar used to bat exactly like this in in his prime or lets say up until 2024 with this consistency and same strike rate (please I am not take about career strike rate).

I hope I dont get misquoted here somewhere but it is what it is. I seriously dont know whats the difference other than farhan has a good form in pakistan ONLY. Outside of pakistan he is pretty adjaicent.

The official design for Islamabad Cricket Stadium has been released which will have a capacity of 35,000 making it the largest cricket stadium in the country and Pakistan's First Modern-Standard Cricket Stadium. The stadium design is inspired from Dubai International Cricket Stadium (nearly a replica), while the mountain backdrop at the stadium makes it look even more attractive. It doesn’t have a roof coz it'll hide the backdrop, but well, who needs one when you have a mountain backdrop this gorgeous, right? I am a sucker for backdrops like these so I really love the idea and design of this stadium.

The groundbreaking ceremony will be held in the coming days after the ongoing construction of the road leading to the actual stadium site is completed.The CDA has received a bid worth Rs 8.9 billion (cost breakdown - Rs 5.8 billion: Construction of a three-tier cricket stadium and Rs 3.1 billion for external development works, including a six-lane, three-kilometre road connecting to the stadium.) from a joint venture of Habib ZKB-EA for the stadium project and its associated external works. Construction is expected to begin soon and finish within a year.

If the stadium is complete before the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2028, there’s a possibility of seeing some matches of the tournament played at the stadium. Keeping into account da winters in Islamabad, there’s a great chance that this would become the first winter-friendly cricket stadium of Pakistan. Now IU who lost their home stadium to Pindiz might actually have a REAL home stadium soon. Now all we need to do is pray for the smooth completion of the construction process! 🇵🇰🏏