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Sarfraz Ahmed performance since 2015 World Cup; Should Pakistan stress over Sarfaraz Ahmed’s performance?

by Aqeel Shehzad Sawan
October 8, 2019
in Sports, News, Sri Lanka in Pakistan
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Sarfraz Ahmed performance since 2015 World Cup; Should Pakistan stress over Sarfaraz Ahmed's performance?

Sarfaraz Ahmed

Table of Contents

  • Sarfraz Ahmed Performance since 2015
  • Sarfraz Ahmed performance in Recent matches
  • Sarfraz Ahmed performance SINCE THE 2017 CHAMPIONS TROPHY
  • Sarfraz Ahmed performance in Batting and Fielding

On Wednesday at the National Stadium in Karachi, Sarfaraz Ahmed accomplished something uncommon, something he’d just done twice since he progressed toward becoming ODI captain: he came in to bat at No. 4.

To begin with, he had said unequivocally toward the beginning of the series that he would bat at No. 5. The two events that required him coming up the request as of late happened in the Asia Cup a year ago when Pakistan had lost two early wickets. Furthermore, Sarfaraz’s apparent hesitance to bat higher up the request has been an issue that is foamed away beneath the surface for over a year; in any event, batting at five has been an ongoing wonder. Before May 2019, Sarfaraz Ahmed had batted at that position only once in the previous 35 ODIs, and higher on just the two previously mentioned events. Below Sarfraz Ahmed average in international cricket:

Sarfraz Ahmed Performance since 2015

 

Year Mat Inns NO 100s 50s 0s HS Runs Avg S/R Ca St
2015 22 18 2 1 2 0 101* 551 34.44 86.50 21 6
2016 11 11 2 1 3 0 105 492 54.67 92.83 11 4
2017 13 7 3 0 1 0 61* 152 38.00 85.88 21 2
2018 18 14 4 0 2 0 64 244 24.40 78.71 15 1
2019 18 17 6 0 2 0 97 408 37.09 94.01 18 3
Overall (12) 116 90 22 2 11 1 105 2302 33.85 87.80 114 26

 

Sarfraz Ahmed performance in Recent matches

 

Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
1c/0s, 26 Pakistan v Sri Lanka Lahore 7 Oct 2019 T20I # 922
0c/0s, 24 Pakistan v Sri Lanka Lahore 5 Oct 2019 T20I # 914
1c/0s, 23 Pakistan v Sri Lanka Karachi 2 Oct 2019 ODI # 4212
8, 3c/0s Pakistan v Sri Lanka Karachi 30 Sep 2019 ODI # 4211
44*, 3c/0s Sindh v Balochistan Karachi 14 Sep 2019 FC
3*, 1c/1s Pakistan v Bangladesh Lord’s 5 Jul 2019 ODI # 4186
1c/0s, 18 Pakistan v Afghanistan Leeds 29 Jun 2019 ODI # 4177
3c/0s, 5* Pakistan v New Zealand Birmingham 26 Jun 2019 ODI # 4174
2*, 1c/0s Pakistan v South Africa Lord’s 23 Jun 2019 ODI # 4171
2c/0s, 12 Pakistan v India Manchester 16 Jun 2019 ODI # 4161

It was the reason the advancement to four for the third ODI was eyebrow-raising. He had raised himself above Haris Sohail, who midpoints 46.11 in ODIs, and more than 50 since the beginning of the year, and has demonstrated structure since being reviewed halfway through the World Cup. Pakistan had lost their second wicket at 181, and it wasn’t yet 30 overs.

In the event that it was an endeavor to set out a marker of the idiosyncratic, streetwise batting smarts Sarfaraz Ahmed still feels Pakistan require, it would fall to some degree level. The Pakistan chief searched for 23 off 33 balls, with simply the one limit falling off a spinner’s full-hurl. In the mean time, 43 runs had been included by the batsman at the opposite end, which, amusingly, was Haris for quite a bit of Sarfaraz’s remain. At last, Pakistan won serenely, so the move got away an excess of investigation.

Presently Sarfaraz Ahmed’s riposte may legitimately be that he cops stick for batting both excessively low and excessively high, which is reasonable enough. Be that as it may, what should stress Pakistan supporters, and Sarfaraz himself the majority of all, is any place he appears to bat, it simply doesn’t appear to be very right. He has hit only two sixes in his last 26 ODIs, so whenever after the 35th over is typically past the point of no return. Be that as it may, with the present top four, exiting prior appears to be illsuited to Pakistan’s needs.

A group where the commander hasn’t nailed down his place is once in a while a settled unit. It is the reason most sides hand the position of authority over to their best batsman, in any event, when unmistakably predominant strategists and strategists live inside. It is, let’s face it, the main support for giving Babar Azam the bad habit captaincy. Babar, other than his commander, is the main player ensured a spot in every one of the three configurations, and as his skipper would let him know, that is something worth pining for.

Sarfraz Ahmed performance SINCE THE 2017 CHAMPIONS TROPHY

Since the day he scored an unbeaten 61 to get Pakistan through to the 2017 Champions Trophy semi-last, Sarfaraz Ahmed has captained Pakistan in 44 ODIs. In 18 of those games, he has either not batted or completed unbeaten for under 15. In a further 12, he’s overseen less than 15 runs, and scored only three fifties. Meanwhile, his wicketkeeping hasn’t exactly been doing the hard work to compensate for his batting troubles either.

Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan’s subsequent option guardian, has been breathing down Sarfaraz’s neck, in spite of his practically complete nonappearance from any playing XIs in the course of the last more than two years. The main occasions Rizwan has played for Pakistan since January 2017, back in those practically strange days when Azhar Ali was ODI commander, were the five constrained overs coordinates in South Africa while Sarfaraz was serving a boycott, and a further five ODIs against Australia that Pakistan utilized as an analysis in front of the World Cup. Rizwan would score two centuries in that last arrangement, the same number of as Sarfaraz has in his whole ODI vocation.

Sarfraz Ahmed performance in Batting and Fielding

 

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50
Tests 49 86 13 2657 112 36.39 3743 70.98 3 18
ODIs 116 90 22 2302 105 33.85 2622 87.79 2 11
T20Is 57 40 12 795 89* 28.39 625 127.20 0 3
First-class 150 236 44 7667 213* 39.93 10 54
List A 196 156 39 3805 105 32.52 3 19
T20s 183 136 43 2614 89* 28.10 2046 127.76 0 10

So what makes Sarfaraz so irreplaceable to Pakistan? Basically, there isn’t, at present, any individual who can take over as Pakistan chief and direction almost as much authority as the 32-year-old does.

Sarfaraz Ahmed is well known enough in the side for the players to get behind him, regardless of his on occasion tyrannical nearness on the field, and the steady reproaches that can fall off looking oppressive on TV.

Off camera, he can be happy and self-deploring, with even huge numbers of the most youthful players ready to collaborate with him as an associate and a companion.

Mickey Arthur said a lot of the equivalent in an ongoing meeting. “Saifi’s a great chief, and you judge the pioneer by the regard the players have for him.

Saifi can be this hard tyrant on the field and resemble he’s in the players’ appearances, yet he falls off the field and he resembles their elder sibling. He’s in their corner, snickering and kidding with them.”

A loose Sarfaraz is an awesome Sarfaraz; it’s presumably why the best we’ve seen of him in the previous three years has been in the purple and gold of Quetta Gladiators, the establishment he prompted PSL magnificence this year.

There might be intermittent hatred from the odd player about his direct, yet no certifiable threatening vibe.

Furthermore, he is definitely not a horrible skipper either. That arrangement Pakistan played without Sarfaraz in March? They lost 5-0.

Indeed, he can give games a chance to float now and again, and start making a cursory effort when under strain – giving the last over to Wahab Riaz in spite of the pathetic day he’d had on Wednesday was an unmistakable sign of that. Yet, Pakistan, halfway through their own folly, haven’t prepared a skipper standing ready to dominate.

It is the reason even individuals who concur Sarfaraz’s captaincy days are numbered can’t exactly unite behind a substitution. It is the reason in any event, when the PCB got rid of the whole private alcove staff, from lead trainer to boss selector,

it stayed with a similar chief for each of the three configurations. For the present, he is presumably the best Pakistan have.

Be that as it may, the occasions, as Bob Dylan nearly said of the PCB 55 years prior, they are a-changin’.

In the course of the most recent year or somewhere in the vicinity, the PCB has seen its executive supplanted, the local structure updated, the mentors and boss selectors discarded;

even the media office has been totally patched up. In the midst of this insurgency, Sarfaraz figures out how to stand firm as Pakistan commander.

He’s a sketchy cricketer who got to where he is by declining to give up, and for the time being, Sarfaraz hangs on.

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I am from Sangla Hill, Faisalabad Pakistan. I am full time content writer and loves to write the articles related to sports.

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