Umar Akmal is the most talented batsmen in the World today. There is a reflection of Kamran Akmal, Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, and Dean Jones in his batting. Darren Bravo is another immensely talented young batsmen. You can see the shadow of Brian Lara in Darren Bravo. Everything about Darren Bravo reminds you of Brian Lara. There is no cricketer similar to another cricketer as much as Darren Bravo is similar to Brian Lara.
One has to see more of Darren Bravo in order to make concrete judgement about caliber. If he can play like he did against South Africa consistently, we might in for the second Brian Lara. As for Umar Akmal, the first time I saw him, I told to the people sitting around me watching the game that Umar Akmal has the talent to be the greatest batsmen of all time. He played all kind of shots in that particular innings. He rarely played a false shot. He played all the clean shots that easily cleared the boundaries.
What is affecting Akmal's games is the state of Pakistan cricket. I feel that Umar should open the innings in all formats of the game, especially in shorter format of the game. Just see the way Tendulkar rose to another level of stardom after being promoted as an opener. If younger Akmal is promoted as an opener and lasts the entire innings he can score a double hundred every time he plays for the entire innings.
Tendulkar has never scored a hundred before he was promoted as an opener for the first time in his first 79 games. It took only a couple of games for Akmal to register his first one day hundred batting in the middle order. Umar Akmal is definitely a more capable batsman than a Sachin Tendulkar and can match Brian Lara with his performances.
I am looking forward to many delightful and entertaining innings from both Umar Akmal and Darren Bravo. They will be the biggest stars for this entire decade-and-half. I hope the overall states of these two teams Pakistan and West Indies improve so we can see the best of these two extremely talented batsmen in Umar Akmal and Darren Bravo.
One has to see more of Darren Bravo in order to make concrete judgement about caliber. If he can play like he did against South Africa consistently, we might in for the second Brian Lara. As for Umar Akmal, the first time I saw him, I told to the people sitting around me watching the game that Umar Akmal has the talent to be the greatest batsmen of all time. He played all kind of shots in that particular innings. He rarely played a false shot. He played all the clean shots that easily cleared the boundaries.
What is affecting Akmal's games is the state of Pakistan cricket. I feel that Umar should open the innings in all formats of the game, especially in shorter format of the game. Just see the way Tendulkar rose to another level of stardom after being promoted as an opener. If younger Akmal is promoted as an opener and lasts the entire innings he can score a double hundred every time he plays for the entire innings.
Tendulkar has never scored a hundred before he was promoted as an opener for the first time in his first 79 games. It took only a couple of games for Akmal to register his first one day hundred batting in the middle order. Umar Akmal is definitely a more capable batsman than a Sachin Tendulkar and can match Brian Lara with his performances.
I am looking forward to many delightful and entertaining innings from both Umar Akmal and Darren Bravo. They will be the biggest stars for this entire decade-and-half. I hope the overall states of these two teams Pakistan and West Indies improve so we can see the best of these two extremely talented batsmen in Umar Akmal and Darren Bravo.
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