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How great was the Pakistani batting line up of the 1970's?

Harsh Thakor

By Harsh Thakor
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How great was Pakistani batting line up in test cricket ?  

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  1. 1. How great was Pakistani batting line up of 1970s in test cricket ?

    • Best ever
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    • Best of last 50 years
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    • Best of its time
      0
    • Amongst 3 best pf last 50 years
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    • Not even amongst the top 3 of last 50 years
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Harsh Thakor Contributor

Harsh Thakor

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The Pakistani batting line up of the 1970's towards the end was one of the strongest ever in the history of the game.In my view it was even better than those of West Indies and Australia of that time and similar to South Africa in 1970 with so many allrounders.To me the best batting line up of the last 50 years.

The likes of Majid Khan,Zaheer Abbas,Javed Miandad,Wasim Raja,Asif Iqbal ,Mushtaq Muhammad and Imran Khan all together made it like a mighty army.Majid and Zaheer were supreme stylists.Asif,Javed,Raja and Mushtaq were the ultimate street fighters with the bat.No doubt Javed was also a great craftsman and Asif and Wasim had a languid grace in their strokes.

At that time Majid was one of the finest batsmen against pace bowling while on flat tracks Zaheer was the best.Never forget Zaheer was prolific in Australia in 1976-77.Asif was brilliant in that very serise averaging over 78 with 2 centuries.Wasim Raja performed better than nay batsmen against West Indies averaging over 57.Mushtaq also had scored centuries against both Australia and West Indies.

Wasim Bari was no mug with the bat while Imran was one of the most handy.No team had as good a combination at no6,7 and 8 as Pakistan with Asif,Raja and Imran.

No team performed as well facing the great Carribean pace quartet in West Indies as Pakistan.


I rate this batting line up marginally ahead of India's in the mid 1980's ,Pakistan in the 1980's and 1990's or even India in 2001-2005 or Australia in the same period.


Majid Khan
Sadiq Muhammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Asif Iqbal
Mushtaq Muhammad (C)
Wasim Raja
Imran Khan
Sarafraz Nawaz
Wasim Bari (W)
Iqbal Qasim

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Gollum Grand Master

Gollum

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Best ever.....

 

Note: here '<' means by an order of magnitude

 

Majid Khan<Sehwag
Sadiq Muhammad<Gambhir
Zaheer Abbas<Dravid
Javed Miandad<Tendulkar
Asif Iqbal<VVS
Mushtaq Muhammad<Ganguly
Wasim Raja<Dhoni
Imran Khan was a mug with the bat in the 70s, so doesn't matter

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Above 2001-05 Aus as well you say, hmmmm nope. 

 

Spout your BS in green ghetto, those fools may even buy your abysmal analysis. 

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Straight Drive Newbie

Straight Drive

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Pakistan has produced only handful of world class test batsmen like Hanif Mohd, Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Younis Khan and Yousuf Youhana. Having watched them all I would say none of them would make the AT  world 11 though. The lineup mentioned by OP was average but has been hyped here for unknown reason.

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kirkutfan Explorer

kirkutfan

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With Shakoor Rana and Khizr Hayat- OP’s original line up was the best batting line up of all time. The same 2 all stars combined with Imran and Sarfraz to make them the best bowling line up of all time. In short, with these heroes created a winning combination, the likes of which won’t be seen again.

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