Misbah-ul-Haq: “Once he starts to play attacking shots right from the beginning, then he easily gets out. If you look at his stats, he has quite a low average when he hits straight away from the first ball”
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Misbah-ul-Haq, the former Pakistan captain, said top order batsman Fakhar Zaman needs some time to get going as he has a tendency to get out early if he starts playing big shots right from ball one.
Misbah added that the 33-year-old Mardan-born batsman has a low average if he is overly aggressive from the start of his innings.
Instead, he needs to be given a little time to get his eye in before he can start scoring runs freely.
“Once he starts to play attacking shots right from the beginning, then he easily gets out. If you look at his stats, he has quite a low average when he hits straight away from the first ball,” the former Pakistan head coach and chief selector was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.
Zaman had been representing the Lahore Qalandars in the ongoing 2024 Pakistan Super League (PSL), but the defending champions failed to qualify for the playoffs as they only won one out of their 10 games.
In the eight matches he played, the attacking batsman scored 157 runs, which included a top score of 54, at an average of 19.62 and a strike-rate of 115.44.
Lahore Qalandars Squad for PSL 9: Shaheen Shah Afridi (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Rassie van der Dussen, Haris Rauf, David Wiese, Sahibzada Farhan, Sikandar Raza, Abdullah Shafique, Zaman Khan, Mirza Tahir Baig, Mohammad Imran, Ahsan Hafeez, Dan Lawrence, Jahandad Khan, Syed Faridoun, Shai Hope, Kamran Ghulam, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Tayyab Abbas
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