Sarfaraz Ahmed, Naseem Shah, Mohd. Amir, Shan Masood & Faheem Ashraf Name Pakistan’s Dream Opening Pairs

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Pakistan's Dream Opening Pairs
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Sarfaraz Ahmed, Naseem Shah, Mohd. Amir, Shan Masood and Faheem Ashraf named Pakistan’s dream opening pairs while responding to Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) campaign on social media. So, here is a look at how the current lot of cricketers in the country went about while selecting country’s all-time great opening pair.  

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Apart From Naseem Shah Every One Else Selects Saeed Anwar

 Pakistan's Dream Opening Pairs
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Rookie Naseem Shah named Test skipper Azhar Ali and Shan Masood as the country’s best ever however, all others selected Saeed Anwar while naming Pakistan’s dream opening pairs. Hence, former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shan Masood picked Hanif Muhammad to partner the south-paw; Mohd. Amir preferred Amir Sohail while Faheem Ashraf opted for Mohd. Hafeez.

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Start Of The Campaign

 Pakistan's Dream Opening Pairs
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The entire exercise marks the start of PCB’s campaign which aims to invite fans to select their favorite Pakistani cricketers for different roles from across generations. It is also worth mentioning here that owing to COVID-19 cricket like all other games has been hit hard and thus, boards across the globe have been busy engaging the audience via similar online campaigns.

PCB’s website suggests that the short-listing has been made possible while keeping in mind the following criteria:

Opening batsmen (position one and two) with minimum 1,000 Test runs as openers
Middle-order batsmen (position three to seven) with minimum 2,500 Test runs in the middle-order positions
Fast bowlers with minimum 75 Test wickets
Spinners with minimum 75 Test wickets
Wicketkeepers with at least 50 Test dismissals
So, who in your opinion picked the right opening pair as Pakistan’s all time great? Sarfaraz Ahmed, Naseem Shah, Mohd. Amir, Shan Masood or Faheem Ashraf?