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Originally posted by fwullah
But Rafique's fitness is not at the world class level. If he was, then he might not had been run out.
Rafique is our best bowler, as well as a hard hitting batsman, but he has this weakness in the field (which he had tried to overcome in today's match, I am proud of him for that), and while running between the wickets, so obviously his hard hitting batting was not useful for us today.
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Whos fitness was world class for that matter is arguable, but Rafique was surely fit enough to be selected for today's ODI, or Whatmore wouldn't have taken the risk of playing Rafique.
Thr run out got nothing to do with his fitness, since anyone could get run out at this stage of play when the asking run rate was balooning high and high.
In fact, what Rafique did was a perfect display(26 runs off 18 balls) from a lower order batsman at that stage of play. We could expect no better than that from Rafique.