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Inzamam or Pietersen
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Satyanash89
Banned
Voted Pietersen. Has the ability to tear apart any bowling attack, regardless of quality in any conditions, which is very very rare. Has a record comparable to Inzi's and has done better against the very best. Already has 22 hundreds, which is just 3 less than Inzamam, amazingly... and he's played 25 fewer Test matches. Both top quality batsmen though
2) Inzamam was hardly the lone warrior ala Chanderpaul/Lara you're making him out to be. He had some top quality batsmen with him throughout his career. Saeed Anwar, Mohd. Yousouf, Younis Khan etc. are all batsmen worthy of being included in an AT Pakistan XI.
1) Inzamam probably played against more great bowlers, but that only meant he got more opportunities to fail against them. Inzamam struggled against the best bowlers of the 90s and even against not-so-great bowlers in conditions even slightly favouring swing or seam. That he played with lazy elegance masked the simple fact that he was quite poor in swinging conditions. KP's faced McGrath, Warne, Steyn n co, and done very very well... played some great knocks against them
2) Inzamam was hardly the lone warrior ala Chanderpaul/Lara you're making him out to be. He had some top quality batsmen with him throughout his career. Saeed Anwar, Mohd. Yousouf, Younis Khan etc. are all batsmen worthy of being included in an AT Pakistan XI.
Satyanash89
Banned
Yup. And Sohail and Anwar were a decent opening pair.
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
Good Point.
smash84
The Tiger King
I think I'll take Inzi just over pieterson for now.
Inzy did reasonably well in WI when the WI weren't quite as spent a force as they are now i.e. his batting against them during the early 90s (just writing from memory cbf looking it up)
Inzy was just horrible against Aus and SA (away) though.
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
genuinely surprised this post wasn't a laughing emoticon.
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
Smali is capable of displaying other emotions from time to time.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Inzi or Pietersen?
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
^^^^ Inzy
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Evil Scotsman
awta
Furball
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sledger
Spanish_Vicente
AaronK
State Regular
Saeed was good till 98.. yousuf didn't peak until 2003.. while younis peaked 2005.. around 2000 to 2004.. he couldn't even keep his place in the team..
When inzi arrived maindad was all done.. he was way past his prime while malik was involved in match fixing controversy...
between 94 to 2004 inzi was was the backbone of a team that struggled with on and off field controversies.. I don't know if KP would have survived these controversies.. knowing how he reacted to just a simple issues in his team a few months ago.
inzi only struggled in aus and south Africa.. just like many subcontinent batsman of his time.. before dravid and laxman.. I would say sachin was the only batsman who did well in SA and Aus..so for the standard of that time.. I would say inzi did pretty well against those bowlers specially outside aus and sa.. he also played well against WI when they had ambrose, walsh and soo on..
again both yousuf and younis peaked later on.. saeed was the only player with him but he struggled with his form more often than inzi..