Umar Akmal should take a leaf out of Tendulkar’s book, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dean-Mervyn-Jones-c53391 – Cricket News Update
Australia’s former Test cricketer, Dean Jones, is of the opinion that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Akmal-c94595 is a very talented player but said that the right-handed batsman needs to improve his defensive skills if he wants to be consistently successful at the
highest stage of the game.
The budding cricketer from Lahore, having performed exceptionally well in domestic cricket and at the junior level, made it to the national team in 2009, impressing one and all with a hundred and a half-century in his very first series
against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
The stylish right-handed batsman made his Test debut in the same year and scored a fantastic ton in his very first match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at Dunedin. Quite unfortunately however, it remains his only hundred in the 5-day format, although
Akmal played 15 more Tests for the Green Shirts after that.
After a series of rash dismissals, the 22-year-old cricketer was dropped from the Test team last year and been restricted to the limited-over cricket only, where he has played a number of match-winning knocks for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the last
couple of years.
While speaking exclusively to Pakpassion, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar’s book, who remains a role-model for every emerging batsman. In order to construct big innings in international
cricket, the former Aussie cricketer believes that a batsman must have a sound defensive technique.
“Umar needs to improve his defensive form of the game. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 probably has the best forward defensive - back defensive that's ever lived,” Jones mentioned. “Does he like Sachin Tendulkar or does he prefer to play 'whiz - bang
- crack' and hit the ball all over the place.“
The former Victorian player understands that Akmal by nature is an aggressive batsman, who loves to intimidate bowlers; however, Jones said that all the players, who enjoyed success in international cricket in past, possessed a great
defence.
“He likes to hurt bowlers and smash fours, and that's great. Ultimately, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Syed-Zaheer-Abbas-Kirmani-c92392 - they had all the shots but let me tell you, it was the defensive part of their game that made them great, not so much the offensive,”
he added.
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