Saeed Anwar Made Cricket Look So Easy: Inzamam-Ul-Haq

The former skipper of Pakistan Inzamam-Ul-Haq showered words of praise on Saeed Anwar, for his incredible ease in scoring runs for Pakistan. Inzamam stated that he votes Anwar as the best ODI player – Pakistan cricket has ever-produced in the cricket history.

Hailing his hard-hitting abilities, Inzamam stated Anwar used to play shots which others could only dream of and that made him one of the best players in white-ball cricket.

We wished to play like Saeed Anwar: Inzamam-Ul-Haq

Anwar had a stellar career for Pakistan where he captained the side as well. He played 55 Tests, making 4052 runs with 11 centuries. But he was more proficient in ODI cricket where he made 8,824 runs in 247 matches.

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The southpaw slammed 20 centuries including the then world record score of 194 runs.

His career lasted from 1990-2003 with a break in between from 2001.

“Saeed Anwar’s batting was such that we wished to play like him,” Inzamam said in a YouTube video as quoted by PakPassion.

“The shots that we’d dream of at night, he would play them in the morning,” Inzamam added.

“Out of all the Pakistani batsmen, people say I had a lot of talent and I didn’t perform according to my talent, but I believe that the talent that Saeed Anwar had, no one else had,” Inzamam explained.

Inzamam-ul-Haq Enjoyed Batting Alongside Saeed Anwar:

Inzamam-ul-Haq further stated that Saeed Anwar has got the calibre — to make things happen with his strokeplay and gives enormous confidence for the non-striker to play freely in the middle.

“When he was batting, it looked like cricket was very easy. The ball didn’t seem to be seaming or swinging. When I batted alongside him, I enjoyed it a lot. He would put the bowler under pressure, making it easier for the others,” he added.

Despite such high praise for his former teammate, Inzamam remains the top-spot holder in the list of most runs scored by a Pakistan cricketer in ODIs. He takes the numero uno spot with 11739 runs and is also the only batsman from his nation — to score in excess of 10,000 runs in ODIs.