Draft: Pakistan All-Time Test XI Draft

[ahmedleo414]

@Aislabie has an hour to make his pick, otherwise its @Ahmad94 next pick

 

[Aislabie]

Mohammad Zahid

Test stats - 15 wickets @ 33.46 (1 5WI, best 7/66) in 5 matches
First-class stats - 128 wickets @ 26.00 (8 5WI, best 7/28) in 43 matches

Khan and Fazal are good, but every Pakistan team should have someone who bowls absolutely ridiculous gas.

1.
2.
3.
4. Babar Azam
5. Mushtaq Mohammad
6. Shahid Afridi
7.
8. Fazal Mahmood
9. Khan Mohammad
10. Pervez Sajjad
11. Mohammad Zahid

@Ahmad94

 

[Ahmad94]

1. Aamer Sohail
2.
3.
4. Zaheer Abbas
5. Fawad Alam
6. Asad Shafiq
7. Kamran Akmal
8.
9. Saeed Ajmal
10.
11. Mohammad Asif


Kamran Akmal - Hugely underrated player in my opinion. Often let down by his keeping ability in the past (mostly shockingly poor games then outright poor keeper). He is no Rashid Latif or Moin Khan but he is definitely a better batsman - and a Pakistan batting prone to collapse, Ill take that any day.

For me, he will always be one of the greatest wicketkeeper batsmen for Pakistan because he could hold his own with the bat after a generation of having a player just play the keeping role. He played an amazing inning against India with Razzaq after Pakistan collapse in the first innings, 40-6 when he came in if I remember correctly.

 

[CerealKiller]

Azhar Mahmood will be my all-rounder. Not an ideal pick, but can get the job done.

CerealKiller's XI
1. Shoaib Mohammad
2. Saeed Ahmed
3. Azhar Ali
4.
5.
6. Imtiaz Ahmed
7. Azhar Mahmood
8. Wasim Akram
9. Iqbal Qasim
10.
11.

@Na Maloom Afraad

 

[CerealKiller]

@ahmedleo414 can go ahead

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Moving on from one Mahmood to another, my pick is Mahmood Hussain. One of the OGs of Pakistan cricket.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

My next pick is express pace Mohammad Sami

Stats||Matches||Wkts||BBI||BBM|| Ave||Econ||5w/10w
First-Class | |178| |611| |8/39| |?| |27.3| |3.27| |33/?
Test | |36| |85| |5/36| |8/106| |52.7| |3.58| |2/0

His bio from cricbuzz

"Mohammad Sami is one of the most enigmatic players to have emerged from Pakistan. Another product from Pakistan's conveyor belt of quicks, Sami sets the speed gun on fire, clocking speeds north of 145kph on a consistent basis. The Karachi born pacer is a sound exponent of the yorker as well. However, he lacks accuracy and direction, serving batsmen up with 'hit-me looseners'. If the Pakistanis were Greeks they would have already scripted a tragedy on Sami.

He opened his Test career on a positive note, taking a match haul of 8 wickets (including 5-36 in the second innings) in his debut Test against New Zealand at Auckland in 2000-2001. Two Tests later, he bagged a hat-trick against Sri Lanka in the Asian Test Championship final. Later in 2002, he picked up his second hat-trick, this time in an ODI against West Indies, earning the distinction of only the second Pakistan bowler after Wasim Akram to claim a hat-trick in both Tests and ODIs."

ahmedleo414's playing XI:

1. Saeed Anwar
2. Majid Khan
3. Ijaz Ahmed
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. Abdul Razzaq
8. ?
9. Mushtaq Ahmed
   
10. Mohammad Sami
11. Waqar Younis

@AsadRM / @Bevab to make the next pick

 

[CerealKiller]

My next pick is express pace Mohammad Sami

Stats||Matches||Wkts||BBI||BBM|| Ave||Econ||5w/10w
First-Class | |178| |611| |8/39| |?| |27.3| |3.27| |33/?
Test | |36| |85| |5/36| |8/106| |52.7| |3.58| |2/0

His bio from cricbuzz

"Mohammad Sami is one of the most enigmatic players to have emerged from Pakistan. Another product from Pakistan's conveyor belt of quicks, Sami sets the speed gun on fire, clocking speeds north of 145kph on a consistent basis. The Karachi born pacer is a sound exponent of the yorker as well. However, he lacks accuracy and direction, serving batsmen up with 'hit-me looseners'. If the Pakistanis were Greeks they would have already scripted a tragedy on Sami.

He opened his Test career on a positive note, taking a match haul of 8 wickets (including 5-36 in the second innings) in his debut Test against New Zealand at Auckland in 2000-2001. Two Tests later, he bagged a hat-trick against Sri Lanka in the Asian Test Championship final. Later in 2002, he picked up his second hat-trick, this time in an ODI against West Indies, earning the distinction of only the second Pakistan bowler after Wasim Akram to claim a hat-trick in both Tests and ODIs."

ahmedleo414's playing XI:

1. Saeed Anwar
2. Majid Khan
3. Ijaz Ahmed
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. Abdul Razzaq
8. ?
9. Mushtaq Ahmed
   
10. Mohammad Sami
11. Waqar Youni

@AsadRM / @Bevab to make the next pick

He has a bowling average of 52...

 

[ahmedleo414]

I'm not using him to bowl a lot of overs. He's being used as an express place bowler. Plus he's got a much better average in domestic than international.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@AsadRM / @Bevab missed their deadline. @blockerdave has the next two picks

 

[Bevab]

Sadiq Mohammad, the youngest of the famous brothers' family will be my pick.

 

[CerealKiller]

Sadiq Mohammad, the youngest of the famous brothers' family will be my pick.

@blockerdave has missed his deadline, so you’re up again

 

[Verified Enigma]

Sign ups still open? :P

 

[blockerdave]

As I have 2 picks don’t I get 48 hrs?

nevertheless I’ll post mid-morning, needs a bit of research!

 

[CerealKiller]

As I have 2 picks don’t I get 48 hrs?

nevertheless I’ll post mid-morning, needs a bit of research!

Apologies, forgot about it. Unless you want Sadiq, it should be fine, though.[DOUBLEPOST=1607503724][/DOUBLEPOST]

Sign ups still open? :P