Umar Akmal is a potential batting great

[riya]

I have nothing against Umar,wish him the very best.But i would count his centuries and would analyse if those are for the winning cause or the losing cause.

[S.Bond]

he is not even fit to carry drinks for Raina leave apart replacing him in the team.. Raina has already turning into a world-class player while Crapmal is only a chaprachi class cricketer right now :giggle:

hmmmmm, was that serious??? how you can turn into a world class playe when you ae not even playing test cricket?? youe only centuries in ODI's are agaisnt minnowss from 70+ odi's...

[Cricketics]

He was batting well today until pressure got to him and he played that shot to send him sell to pavillion. He is playing well

[urbestfriend]

He seems to suffering from nervous 49, always gets out at 40s and 50s

[Bumper]

If Umar wants to make any serious impact in Test cricket, he has to control his adrenalin rush. He has gotten out too many times after being set (infact this is the 4th time in 4 attempts) to call this a brain f@rt. A great talent though, but unless his talent is married with temperament, Umar will only be good for little cameos. Given the poverty in Pakistan's batting lineup, cameos wont cut it.

[Deleted_User_1]

I think if he curbs his impetous tendencies, he will score more runs. He certainly has the potential.

[DomainK]

I think he just could not deal with the pressure today especially given that he was fast running out of partners. He is just a boy after all, he will learn with experience.

[Bumper]

I think he just could not deal with the pressure today especially given that he was fast running out of partners. He is just a boy after all' date=' he will learn with experience.[/quote'] He has played a lot of cameos that could win games in T20 cricket. Test cricket is as much about batting time as scoring runs. Its criminal in these conditions for a set batsman to throw his wicket away. I can understand an edge to the slips, but not an over ambitious lofted off drive that is risky even in T20 cricket.

[The Outsider]

On the contrary, I think his idea was right. Ponting had brought the field up after 4 deliveries and he wanted to hit over the top for a boundary - yeah he played it wrong and messed up, but his intention was to score quickly because Asif, Gul, and Kaneria are all number 11s anyway. He was not just throwing his bat at everything - his strike rate was around 60 and defended well on a number of occasions.

[coffee_rules]

He is a future great, but is now stuggling to get past 40s.

[vvvslaxman]

Flat track era. World calss bowlers have exited. Feast for these new kids. Even half baked talents will get attention.

[Gambit]

Ends his tour of Australia with 1 50 from 6 innings at an average of 33.

[bhanu]

he is good batsman but not there yet mentally..needs to calm down and play a bit slow..would be exciting to see him in the odis since he likes to play fast

[akshayxyz]

He definitely has areas to improve, but with his current skills /talent - he could have scored more than what he has. For the reasons (some that are not in his control): In a team environment, overall result is not in your control, it is affected +ively or -ively by the team you are playing along with, the kind of situation you land up into because of (in)ability of your team mates, guided appropriately by your seniors. E.g. I doubt whether any one would disagree that Tendulkar would have ended up scoring more than what he actually did in his initial parts of career. And unfortunately, IMO- his future will be more controlled by such factors ( team's situation and quality of leadership/guideance from seniors) than his individual talent alone.

[akshayxyz]

To sum it up - individuals are only a face ( or carrier) of efforts of a bigger group of people/system (support staff). Even in an individual sport - federer wouldnt be 'federer' had he not have enough /quality support staff. And yes, there are exceptional individuals who manage to minimize the role/affect of system/support environment and be able to compete with those who have better support. Few of such examples - Prakash Padukone, Sachin himself (I would say he had more support than Prakash) - these are the true leaders..Who instead of being affected by the system - push the system out of comfort zones and make them improve.

[bhanu]

^^^ good point

[King Tendulkar]

Ends his tour of Australia with 1 50 from 6 innings at an average of 33.

Ouch! So much for the great. Look at greats like Lara and Tendulkar on debut in Oz, both bagged tons and were superb! May be over hyped

[jusarrived]

like i said , typical cross batted slogger from pakistan ...technique is very avg , to survive test cricket ..but obviously looks world class playing alongside the likes of Farhat , Mishba etc

[Anakin]

Too long way to go for Umar

[davidcooper]

so great that noone spent a penny on him for the IPL hahahahaha