At his prime, Saeed Anwar was a classic right-half who as a person had the manners and style more suited to a mafia don. Highly competent, he had marvellous speed, great control and good initiative in attack.
In defence, he was a different kind of a half-back as he did not believe in blocking the winger or marking him. His anticipation was so good that he tool care of the winger without really devoting all his energies to it. Instead, in the meanswhile he would go up front, creating space to move with the inside-forward.
In essence, he was an attacking player who had such tremendous reserves of stamina that he could fall back and cover up for the defence, failing back at full speed.
Incidentally, as a half-back he was seldom beaten and the only people who could in fact get past him were allow pakistanis, like Shahnaz Sheikh, in domestic hockey.