[Gowza]

Sabbir and riyad in 2016 played the same amount of innings, 9, and although riyad had a better average it included a not out which sabbir didn't have plus they scored a very similar amount of runs anyway. Now you might say Sabbir had more opportunity to a score runs as he batted more up the order (i didn't check this, basing it on other comments in the thread), ok fair enough, but then riyad should've had a significantly higher strike rate than Sabbir when in fact his strike rate was lower.

The fact is riyad just hasn't done that well, doesn't matter who you compare him to he hasn't done that well, what makes it worse is that he's a very seasoned senior player right smack dab in the middle of his peak years. It just isn't good enough, a replacement needs to be found, whether the team structure is changed or players are moved around, or a new player is brought in or a previous player is brought back, the bottom line is we need to find a replacement for riyad. He might've improved in t20s but he's not performing well enough in ODIs.

As far as Sabbir being questioned, people have been questioning him, imo i'd still give him more chances up the order but he's definitely been questioned recently.