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Goodbye Misbah Younis and Afridi from the ODI arena???


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Younis is not a good ODI batsman. Misbah may have failings as an ODI bat, but he at least has good stats. Younis and Afridi should be dropped from the ODI squad, if they don't retire by themselves.

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Misbah will be hard to replace. Even today after those early losses he steadied the ship. Misbah calls it quits and 20% of Pakistan's runs are gone...

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Who are going to replace them' date='Pakistan needs Afridi for his star value.[/quote'] next world cup will be in England and they need a good pair of openers
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Fawad Alam will replace Misbah in ODI team ... similar reliable batsmen but also does more than just block or blast. Hopefully we will find a true all rounder to replace Afridi ... maybe it will be Yasir Shah ... he can bat quite well.

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Pakistan bowling is well stocked. Junaid etc should be there. But their batting i feel is weak. Re allrounder i feel Hafeez can play that role. He should be old enough to play the next WC

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Fawad Alam will replace Misbah in ODI team ... similar reliable batsmen but also does more than just block or blast. Hopefully we will find a true all rounder to replace Afridi ... maybe it will be Yasir Shah ... he can bat quite well.
I'm not a big Boom Boom fan, but Afridi is a much better "batsman" than Shah is. Look at his Test record for instance - I think Shah should play, but it's not a like-for-like replacement. How about Hammad Azam? Got a very good FC and List A record on the whole, hasn't he? Fawad Alam should have been playing throughout. Good fielder, very solid and versatile batsman and useful part-timer as well.
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I'm not a big Boom Boom fan, but Afridi is a much better "batsman" than Shah is. Look at his Test record for instance - I think Shah should play, but it's not a like-for-like replacement. How about Hammad Azam? Got a very good FC and List A record on the whole, hasn't he? Fawad Alam should have been playing throughout. Good fielder, very solid and versatile batsman and useful part-timer as well.
Hammad is a very good pressure batsmen and bowls at a decent pace ... he's been kept out because we had Afridi and Hafeez but hopefully he will get a few chances now. And yes it was a travesty that Fawad was not included in the World Cup squad.
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Afridi with the bat did nothing for many years and with the ball he is average at best. He won't be missed by anyone other than opposition teams. Misbah will be missed, his value to the team is great right now. Younis was and is a crap ODI player, so Pakistan won't suffer much. It's not that difficult to replace 1 good player and 2 crap players with 3 average players. If you do the simple map it is currently 1+0+0 = 1 (Misbah + Afridi + Younis) to potentially having 0.5+0.5+0.5 = 1.5.

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