Basit Ali wants Mohammad Hafeez to bat in the middle-order – Cricket News Update
In anticipation of the forthcoming http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898 to drop himself down the batting order, to accommodate some gifted stroke-players.
The opening batsman from Sargodha replaced http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746
and then the mega event, which will be played in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in September/October.
Selectors announced the 15-man squad for the illustrious event yesterday, recalling some of the senior players like Kamran Akmal, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Razzaq-c41623 and Imran Nazir.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Iqbal-Qasim-c76980 and company included four regular openers in the squad, questioning Hafeez’s place in the batting order.
While expressing his views to Pakpassion, the former batsman said that the Green Shirts require aggressive players to face the new ball, but considering the captain’s recent form in international cricket, Basit thinks that
he should not open the innings.
“http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the T20
World Cup and has the ability to cope with batting in the middle order,” he said.
One of the reasons why Basit wants Hafeez to play in the middle-order is that the Men in Green need more experience in the latter half of an innings, in the absence of two of their prolific performers, Misbah ul Haq and Younis Khan,
who no longer play T20 cricket for the country.
The former batsman further added that the right-hander can guide youngsters like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asad-Shafiq-c46208, while batting lower down the order.
Basit expressed, “The team also needs him, given Misbah and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325 no longer play the shorter format. Umar Akmal and Asad Shafiq will play and two more batsmen are needed in the middle order so Hafeez will have to find a slot
somewhere.”
Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Nazir-c64248 and Kamran Akmal will compete for the two places at the top of the batting order in the World T20.
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