What do you guys make of Yorkshires decision to get rid of Ajmal Shahzad? I always had shahzad down as a knuckler and hard-worker giving his all, he certainly does that when he’s bowling. So what if he voiced his concerns over tactics, isn’t that a positive rather than a negative? Another county will now benefit enormously at the expense of Yorkshire.
Lets face it Yorkshire are hardly oozing with a line of quality pace bowlers and were woefully short last season. Now that shahzad is fit and raring to go they get rid because he spoke up about tactics. What a joke. Just to add to the nonsense, they’ve brought in the Aussie bowler starc, who isn’t fit enough to pick shahzads nose, let alone his potential as a bowler.
I’d dread to think how this Yorkshire management would have dealt with players such as sehwag, Gayle, Akhtar, KP, Dilshan and the like….. Disappointing. Very disappointing.
Yorkshire Clueless??!
posted on 4/5/12
Good chatting fellas but have to dash. Lunch break over and there is over 100 tonns with oil drilling pipes that need to be moved to an oil rig, and they ain't gonna deliver themselves
Catch you laters and hope Leicestershire are dead and buried by then
posted on 4/5/12
Maksi,
Shahzad isnt the best bowler on earth - far from it. He's a quality bolwer and if he knuckes down, he has the potential to be a world-class bowler, good enough to get in the england set up... But starc is no-where near shahzad yet...
Point is if Yorkshire wanted rid, fine. But at least replace him with a renoun quality and experienced quickie, and not some wishwashy unproven folk. Lets hope it doesnt cost us this season
posted on 4/5/12
Afridi
There's a difference between questioning tactics and refusing to carry them out, which is implied as being the case here.
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posted on 4/5/12
Afridi
There's a difference between questioning tactics and refusing to carry them out, which is implied as being the case here
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Agree that’s a fair point. Not sure that any examples have been given regards to this though? If Man city can see the bigger picture and allow Carlos Tevez to bounce back after refusing to even play – then surely Yorkshire could have put up with it for at the very least this season and then assessed it again come September? Then again, moxy did say this has been an on-going issue for 12 months now…. Who knows!
posted on 4/5/12
Afridi
I don't think they'd have got rid of him if he'd said to the coach 'I think I should be allowed a bit more freedom, but I'm willing to be more disciplined if that's what you want', so I think it's pretty clear that what he has said is 'I think I should be allowed more freedom, so that's how I'll bowl, whether you like it or not.'
posted on 4/5/12
Hoggy,
If that was the jist of the conversation, then fair enough. The correct call has been made.
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posted on 4/5/12
"Yorkshire Clueless"
And its people!
posted on 5/5/12
We just won without him at our very first attempt, and by an innings to boot