its true Javed's strike rate is not the best for an ODI batsman. But face it guys, we don't have a solid middle order. unless he hangs in there, we have no way to stop batting collapse. its true some of u may say we need to learn to play aggressive openers, this and that, but we don't have batsmen of that class yet. until we have a solid batting line up, we need javed omar to stay at one end for as long as he can while others at the other end score runs. see ehat happened as soon as Javed lost his wicket today.... our batting collapsed. Javed provided excellent support to Ashraful, while ashraful was beating the hell out of english bowlers at one end, javed held on to his wicket at the other end. If Javed had played strokes and got out, Ashraful would've had to stop playing shots, and we wouldn't have reached 200. If he could rotate the strike a little more, i think that would've been better.
Edited on, June 22, 2005, 5:51 AM GMT, by howzatt!.
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