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00:00Why 7 players were dropped from Pakistan's squad for a series of two test matches against Bangladesh, and who has been unfairly treated, and which players are right to be dropped?
00:14We will analyze this, especially Noman Ali, who was successful in giving career-best performance in his last test innings of his career, has been dropped.
00:25Sam Ayub is now being prepared to sit as a test opener, and there is only one spinner in Pakistan's 17-man squad.
00:40Let's take a look at Pakistan's test squad.
00:48Shahan Masood will be the captain.
00:52Saud Shaqeel will be the vice-captain.
00:54He is the best test batsman in Pakistan so far.
00:59Amir Jamal is unfit.
01:02Abdullah Shafiq, Ibrahim Ahmed, Ibaad Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shehzad, Mir Hamza, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Huraira, Muhammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Sam Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed, and Shaheen Shafri.
01:20These are the players who have been included in Pakistan's test squad.
01:25Now the question arises that the seven players who were dropped, who were part of the Pakistan squad in the last period of Australia, let's first look at them.
01:37And after that, whether it is right to give Sam Ayub as a test opener or not.
01:45Now, if you look at Sajid Khan's entire career, then apart from the Mirpur test against Bangladesh in 2022, he did not have a big performance.
01:58If you look at his work from the beginning, then his first test debut against Zimbabwe, he was able to get only two wickets in two test matches.
02:08After throwing 101 wickets, he was getting wickets. He gave 57 runs for free wicket.
02:13Against Bangladesh, he scored 15 average and 33 strike rates, including 8 42.
02:20And this is the best series of his career.
02:23Then against the Australian team, the home series, he was able to score only four in three test matches.
02:29For free wicket, he gave 119 runs and threw 234 wickets.
02:34Apart from this, when he went on a tour of the Australian team, he got a chance to play in one test match.
02:39He was able to score three wickets, with an average of 40 and a strike rate of 74.
02:44In the series, he scored only 25 wickets in a total of 8 test matches, with an average of 38 and a strike rate of 75.
02:51That is, he kept getting wickets by going to every 75th game.
02:55So dropping Sajid Khan is not a big or wrong decision.
03:00However, it cannot be said about Noman Ali that he was able to score 7 wickets in his last days of his career.
03:09And he showed the best performance of his career of 77.
03:13And in this series, which was a tour of Sri Lanka, he scored 10 wickets in two test matches.
03:18Which was the best bowling performance with Ibrahim Ahmed in the series in Pakistan.
03:28And for free wicket, Noman Ali gave 20 runs, while Ibrahim Ahmed gave 23 runs.
03:33Despite this, he has been dropped.
03:35Which to some people seems to be more than understanding.
03:39If you look at his overall performance, he was not satisfied with his performance.
03:44If you see that in the tour of Bangladesh in 2022, he was wicketless.
03:49He could not get a single wicket in two test matches.
03:52Sajid Khan had won there.
03:54He scored 6 wickets in the first leg of the home series.
03:59But after that, he could not get more than one wicket in the next 7-8 legs.
04:05He scored 4 wickets in the Karachi Test against England.
04:08He scored 3 wickets in the Karachi Test against New Zealand.
04:11He scored 3 wickets in the tour of Sri Lanka.
04:14And in the last test match, he scored 7 wickets in the last leg.
04:17So he was not satisfied with his performance.
04:19But overall, his performance was not bad.
04:22Especially when there is no other test bowler in Pakistan's 17-man squad.
04:27But here it seems that Noman Ali has been dropped for the 38th time in his life.
04:36And because of his age, he has been dropped from the team.
04:40Otherwise, his performance was great in the last leg.
04:43Apart from this, it is understandable to drop Hassan Ali and Fahim Ashraf.
04:47One is that Hassan Ali is unfit.
04:49Secondly, he scored only 3 wickets in the last 3 test matches till now.
04:54Whereas Fahim Ashraf scored only 1 wicket in the last test match.
04:59His performance in batting is also not good.
05:02And apart from this, Muhammad Nawaz and Muhammad Wasim Jr.
05:06Their performance was also not very good.
05:08However, Muhammad Wasim Jr. has been dropped due to being unfit.
05:12And with him comes Imamul Haq.
05:15If you see their performance in the last 4 series,
05:18against England in 2022, they scored 121 runs,
05:21then 48, then 0, then 60.
05:23And against New Zealand in the home series,
05:26they scored 24, 96, 83 and 12 runs.
05:29In the Tour of Sri Lanka, which was in 2023,
05:32they scored 1 run in the first match,
05:3350 runs in the second innings, not out, then 6 runs.
05:36And in the Tour of Australia in 2024,
05:38they scored 62, 10, then 10 and 12.
05:41This has been their performance.
05:42In the last 9 innings of the last 5 test innings,
05:45they were able to score 3 50s.
05:47Their average was 30.
05:48And their strike rate was 41.
05:50That is, they were struggling to score runs.
05:53They were facing difficulties.
05:55And that is why they have been dropped.
05:58And Sam Ayub has been called.
06:00Now the question arises here,
06:02is it right or wrong to include Sam Ayub in the test team?
06:07It will be seen here that
06:09Sam Ayub is basically a player of Pakistan's T20 format.
06:14But he is not satisfied with his performance.
06:17Playing international cricket for Pakistan,
06:19he has flopped badly.
06:21Perhaps to give him temperament,
06:23he has been included in Pakistan's test squad.
06:26So that he can improve his shot selection,
06:29practice standing on the wicket
06:32and understand how cricketing shots are played.
06:35Don't just get involved in the New Look shot.
06:38But anyway, there is a risk that
06:40Sam Ayub, who is already in the T20 format,
06:44cannot play for a long time.
06:47He is being played in Pakistan's team
06:50where temperament is of great value.
06:53And along with that,
06:55Sam Ayub will also be used as an all-rounder.
06:58Because Pakistan's 17-man team has been announced.
07:02There is no specialist bowler other than Ibrahim Ahmed.
07:07Kamran Ghulam, Sam Ayub, Salman Ali Agha,
07:14Saud Shaqeer, etc.
07:16So overall, there will be only one spinner in Pakistan,
07:19which you can call a special spinner.
07:21So that's why Sam Ayub has been included in the team.
07:26And now the thing to think about here is that
07:29Sam Ayub, according to his cricketing shots,
07:33is from the T20 format.
07:36And whether or not he gets the gang,
07:39he loses his wicket in the New Look shot to please the fans.
07:44Now the important question will be
07:46whether he will be able to adjust himself in the test series.
07:50And this is also a big question for Pakistan's selectors.
07:53Especially the new head coach Jason Gillespie,
07:56that the series is taking place in his home conditions,
07:59where the spinners are very successful.
08:02And there is only one specialist spinner going there,
08:06who is Ibrahim Ahmed.
08:08So this is a big question that
08:10why was this type of selection adopted?
08:14Instead of giving so many passers or best men,
08:17if one more spinner had been included in the team,
08:22then it would have been best for the Pakistan team.
08:24But now the Pakistan squad has been announced.
08:28Now it remains to be seen how effective
08:31this new type of car is for Pakistan's test side.