Former national team captain and chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq has criticized the national team’s defensive strategy in the series against Zimbabwe, saying Pakistan needs “some kind of rude batsmen” in the batting line-up.
Commenting on the opening matches of the ODI series against Zimbabwe, Inzamam-ul-Haq said that Pakistan fed Imam-ul-Haq and Abid Ali who are both the same players. Had more and Imam plays full 50 overs.
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“Abid Slo plays. If it wasn’t for the Zimbabwean team, it would have been difficult for us because we didn’t manage to give Zimbabwe a good target in the first match. In the early overs, our average didn’t go above five, so both The same openers should not be fed.
“We need aggression in our top and middle order batting line. Imam played well but his strike rate was low and the strike rate of the Zimbabwean players in the first ODI was better than ours,” Inzamam said.
The former national team captain said that Babar Azam bats at number three and does not hit, Rizwan and Haris Sohail also play in the same way, so none of our first five players could play fast in the middle. Which could speed up the strike rate.
“These are all good players but there should be one to two rude types of players in the middle order who can play today’s cricket so that if we have to give a target of 300-350 runs and if all the same players have 300-350 runs,” he said. It will be difficult to target.
“I was thinking that Pakistan should have beaten Zimbabwe by a margin of 100 runs.”
Inzamam said that Iftikhar Ahmed has the ability to hit big shots but he is not in good form and even in the recent T20 event he was not in good form.
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He said that there should be a player like Haider Ali in the contingent order who can come and play fast, reduce the pressure and spoil the line length of the bowlers because if we don’t do that then maybe we will win against Zimbabwe but the big team will beat us. Defeated with this score.
Praising Shaheen Shah Afridi’s bowling, the former captain said that Shaheen is the only bowler in Pakistan who knows how to bowl both new and old because Wahab Riaz has a problem that as long as the ball is not old, he will do more.
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Inzamam did not look impressed with new bowler Harris Rauf and said that Harris does not know how to bowl a new ball, his temperament is four overs instead of ten overs and he does not know how to bowl 10 overs which is a matter of concern for Pakistan. And they will soon have to learn this under the supervision of Waqar Younis.