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Originally Posted by beshideshi
If you look at Al Furqaan's analysis about speed of bowlers, you can see how unimportant pace can be. Mohd. Asif, one of the slower one in the lot causes the most trouble amongst batsmen, swinging the ball both ways and getting wickets.
I would rather have three bowlers in mid 120s with loads of swing/accuracy/venom.
PS: The above WITH pace would be devastating, but if we are to chose between pace or Swing/accuracy we should choose the latter
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this is true, but a balance is the best thing.
Pakistan's attack when on point is easily the best pace attack from the Subcontinent and one of the best in the world. Asif gets the ball to seam off the wicket, gets good bounce due to his height, even though he normally operates at just 130 k. But he has the capability to crank it up to 135-138, which is always useful. Aamer has the pace, and is a lefty. Not sure if he can reverse swing it, but he can swing it conventionally. Then there is Gul is who is off form now, but on his day is a very good bowler. He too has some pace, tho not quite at Aamer's level. But he has the reverse swing.
What we have to do is get Shafi, Rubel, some refinement. Right now it seems that Shafi is more polished than Rubel in terms of putting the ball in the right place. But we need that tearaway bowler like Shahadat who can snap up wickets in quick time, and no pay too much attention to his economy rate. Hopefully Rubel can be a another striker, while Shafi keeps things tight.
You see a guy like Mortaza had to have a good economy rate, because he only took wickets every 65 balls, and that was when in prime condition. Now its dropped to eveyr 76 balls. But Shahadat strikes basically every 60 deliveries, and if he can keep it the late 50s, he can afford to go for some runs every now and then. Even this match, his middle 10 overs were quite miserly, with only the first and last 2 overs being expensive.