Mohammad Abbas...

[express bowling]

25 minutes ago, Adi BB said:

 

What I don't understand is how the pak fans who love phassst boilers and taunt the Indian fans about fast bowling culture have come down from that to this ?

 

Because Pakistan has not been able to introduce a single genuine fast bowler in their international team who started playing cricket in this decade, the 2010s.

 

Wahab Riaz and Amir both started in the 2000s decade and Amir has lost pace in test matches and lost form in ODIs.  While Wahab is wayward.

 

They have introduced some fast medium bowlers in LOIs like Usman Khan, Shaheen Afridi and Hasan Ali ... but none of them are consistent 140+ genuinely quick guys.

 

And in test matches, most of their pacers,  like Abbas and Hamza,  are 126 k to 136 k seamers.

 

No fast bowlers ...  so support the good medium pacers.

Edited October 18, 2018 by express bowling

[express bowling]

Md. Abbas is a seamer on the taller side and bowls with metronomical accuracy.   He hits the seam from a high release point and gets movement with consistency. 

 

Such pacers, who combine decent height with great accuracy and hit the seam, have always done well.

 

He is not a run of the mill short trundler ...  and  seamers with such accuracy are not easy to find.

 

 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

19 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

Ironic that he is the kind of bowlers Indians idolized through the 90s and Pakistanis made fun of, while today Pakistanis are singing songs of this guy and Indians are all about 'what speed did XYZ bowl at IPL?!'

Only ICFers do that. Not Indians in general.

[Straight Drive]

5 wickets in innings on UAE wicket by a pacer is an achievement. Dead track bully 

Edited October 18, 2018 by Straight Drive

[Asim]

23 hours ago, Adi BB said:

A very boring bowler and an out and out trundler but boy he does hit the perfect length almost 70 percent and has a good seam position .

What I don't understand is how the pak fans who love phassst boilers and taunt the Indian fans about fast bowling culture have come down from that to this ?

However these (kind of) threads have always been a regular feature at ICF:

 

Speed watch thread for WI tour

Watching speed of our (non) speedy bowlers in XYZ Cup

Speed and (may be) Performance watch Thread

Speed (and who cares for) accuracy checking thread

Will speed of our Spinners increase? thread

 

 

 

[Adi BB]

10 minutes ago, Asim said:

However these (kind of) threads have always been a regular feature at ICF:

 

Speed watch thread for WI tour

Watching speed of our (non) speedy bowlers in XYZ Cup

Speed and (may be) Performance watch Thread

Speed (and who cares for) accuracy checking thread

Will speed of our Spinners increase? thread

 

 

 

Yes but how does it relate to what I said about pak fans ? At least we never taunted you guys about speed 

[Asim]

1 hour ago, Adi BB said:

Yes but how does it relate to what I said about pak fans ? At least we never taunted you guys about speed 

u sure?

[Asim]

Most wickets by any pacer in 2 Match UAE series, 15 by Abbas nw

[Frustrated]

Abbas is indeed a very promising bowler.  Good consistent line and length , always probing the batsman.   Why doesn't he play in the LOI ?   Any Pakistani poster,  can you throw some light   ?

[Chaos]

dont hype please. this is one piss poor batting order for aussies in asian conditions. even afghans would beat them in asia.

[Asim]

7 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

Abbas is indeed a very promising bowler.  Good consistent line and length , always probing the batsman.   Why doesn't he play in the LOI ?   Any Pakistani poster,  can you throw some light   ?

Pak was preferring couple of all-rounders along Amir and Hassan in LOIs which was working great overall but since recently Hasan performance slightly decreased and Pak just dropped Amir from upcoming T20s as well, so... may be he get some chance soon...

 

[rtmohanlal]

Abbas main strength is his relent less 'wicket to wicket' accuracy and skiddy action. But his strength can also become his weakness if batsmen adopts  unorthodox approach in   unfavorable conditions and also in future too. There in lies his main challenge, i suppose.

If batsmen alter their stance at the last moment, he would find extremely difficult to adjust his line and length accordingly  much harder than other normal bowlers because of his skiddy action. 

[Franco Vazquez]

If teams try to counter attack him then he will be useless. He’s one injury away from becoming useless 

[rtmohanlal]

8 minutes ago, Franco Vazquez said:

If teams try to counter attack him then he will be useless. He’s one injury away from becoming useless 

spot on .. then he can't resort to adjust  easily  and also do not have the pace to  aid  him  for the same purpose.

[Vk1]

He bowled decently but this Aussie batting made it look like playing Anderson in headingley.

[Adi BB]

1 hour ago, Asim said:

u sure?

Not for quarter of a century ,but yes In the last few years we have because we have genuine quicks in front of your trundler brigade 

[Asim]

 

 

[Asim]

3 hours ago, Adi BB said:

Yes but how does it relate to what I said about pak fans ? At least we never taunted you guys about speed 

 

11 minutes ago, Adi BB said:

Not for quarter of a century ,but yes In the last few years we have because we have genuine quicks in front of your trundler brigade 

 

[Lannister]

The way he is bowling on dead UAE tracks, he will find it more easy in SA, and he has already performed in England. He could become no. #1 if keeps this up for one more year. 

[Iconoclast]

19 hours ago, Straight Drive said:

5 wickets in innings on UAE wicket by a pacer is an achievement. Dead track bully 

Back to back 5 wicket hauls now