He averages 18 with the bat in Pakistani domestic cricket. He's played almost a hundred games and never hit a ton. He's a bowler. And even if he was classified as a bowling allrounder, that doesn't mean he's good enough to bat 7.. especially when you have Gayle already. Weird pick IMO.
I follow Indian domestic cricket and he is not too good. Numbers are not too good too. Though now i have said that, he will probably gun it.
Code: Phoenix 1st Innings CH Gayle b Nannes 0 7 0 0 AJ Strauss ct Sehwag b Pollock 76 157 7 1 DPMD Jayawardene ct & b Sidebottom 3 12 0 0 IR Bell ct Hodge b Nannes 2 3 0 0 SS Tiwary ct Broom b Sidebottom 3 10 0 0 PA Patel ct & b Muralitharan 17 28 2 0 A Rehman run out 6 17 1 0 AR Adams b Sehwag 39 79 3 0 D du Preez ct Broom b Muralitharan 8 8 1 0 SW Tait not out 3 10 0 0 GD McGrath lbw b Pollock 2 4 0 0 Extras (byes 4 leg byes 1 no balls 6 wides 2) 13 Total (10 Wkts 54.5 Overs) 172 Fall of Wkts 5 12 19 36 74 90 149 160 166 172 Sidebottom 16 2 40 2 4 1 Nannes 11 1 36 2 0 0 Pollock 11.5 1 33 2 2 1 Muralitharan 15 1 51 2 0 0 Sehwag 1 0 7 1 0 0
Even if you thought he had a simming average of say, 30 with the bat, I still don't understand why you'd pick him to bat 7 given the rest of your lineup.
Code: El Damo0003 1st Innings V Sehwag ct Gayle b McGrath 0 1 0 0 SP Fleming ct Gayle b Adams 29 55 4 0 BA Sumanth ct Patel b Tait 4 14 0 0 BJ Hodge ct du Preez b Tait 7 22 0 0 NT Broom ct McGrath b Adams 80 168 10 0 KS Williamson ct McGrath b du Preez 89 203 8 0 K Akmal ct Jayawardene b Adams 22 36 3 0 SM Pollock ct McGrath b Adams 28 76 2 0 RJ Sidebottom not out 17 30 1 0 M Muralitharan ct McGrath b Adams 0 1 0 0 DP Nannes lbw b Adams 0 3 0 0 Extras (byes 1 leg byes 10 no balls 10 wides 2) 23 Total (10 Wkts 99.5 Overs) 299 Fall of Wkts 0 5 37 52 198 231 262 299 299 299 McGrath 17 1 47 1 2 0 Tait 20 3 62 2 3 1 Adams 23.5 5 68 6 3 0 du Preez 19 1 60 1 2 0 Rehman 20 2 51 0 0 1
Great start with the ball, wtf are you doing top order though, Sehwag first ball And Akmal only let through 4 byes first innings
