3rd ODI Pakistan v Sri Lanka (Commentary thread Pakistan's Innings) [22/5/07]

[DM]

He's certainly behaving like one at the moment. He's got the quality of innate brutality

 

[cricketcrazy]

I didnt saw Fawaad batting was driving to my office.. out on first ball wht gonna happen to him now ?? will he gets another chance??

 

[DM]

He'll get another chance

 

[Easa]

this guy is immediately approaching beast status. He needs to bump UP his bowling average a bit though, his batting is going the right way too

I think he needs to be officially beast-ified, his RAW power makes him a semi-beast.

 

[Monsee]

Rao has a higher batting average than Malik...that take you Lassi Maker erm,... sorry Skip

 

[Easa]

What a BEAST - smashed over cover for a brutal 4

 

[Rob H]

He's tee-off time was late but that was straight up the fairway

 

[Easa]

Moves on to 15*, with that brutal stroke.

 

[MIG]

What was Maliks strategy ? He wasted the spinners over for big shots - now he will want to play big shots against the quicks ?

 

[Easa]

150 comes up, only 147 to win.

 

[JammydodgA]

well, we're half way there. its a shame we've only got just under 13 overs left

 

[DM]

What a BEAST - smashed over cover for a brutal 4

) well he's already forcing us to employ the Afridi vocabulary

I like where this is going


RAW

 

[the true passionist]

What was Maliks strategy ? He wasted the spinners over for big shots - now he will want to play big shots against the quicks ?

Nah! i think defeat has been accepted. It's just matter of playing 50 overs and adding some respectability to score. Try and push it to 200.

 

[cricketcrazy]

Nah! i think defeat has been accepted. It's just matter of playing 50 overs and adding some respectability to score. Try and push it to 200.

and I think so this is the right approach too. atleast try to play all 50 overs

 

[DM]

well, we're half way there. its a shame we've only got just under 13 overs left

Don't worry sam, RAW is in the middle. He's a man who frankly knows no boundaries in ferocity

 

[MIG]

Nah! i think defeat has been accepted. It's just matter of playing 50 overs and adding some respectability to score. Try and push it to 200.

That is a defeatist attitude - he is a young man and there is no bonus point to be earned here - shameful display of batting from a good player.

 

[Big Mac]

Big straight six from the skipper.

 

[Rob H]

lovely straight shot down the ground for 6. Bit too late though.

 

[MIG]

Big straight six from the skipper.

Maliks the man - wow what a player

 

[cricketcrazy]

also malik can make a century here too if he play with some aggression

 

[DM]

Go on Malik, go for the win

 

[Big Mac]

50 partnership up with that single

 

[DM]

Be Pakistan and go for the win

 

[Amjid Javed]

50 partnership (Shoaib Malik 32, Iftikhar Anjum 18) took 67 balls....

 

[MIG]

Then they go back into their shell - possibly waiting for the second new ball ? I give up - this is too complex a game for my little brain...

 

[DM]

Who would definitely go for the win from this position?

Afridi
Nazir
Razzaq perhaps
Hafeez?

Anyone else?

 

[Big Mac]

Rao is gone, top edges the sweep right up in the air

 

[Amjid Javed]

Rao gone top edge!

Pakistan 8 down now..

 

[MIG]

What is Malik doing !!! I feel like chucking a chair at my TV!!!! he has missed out on all spinners and Rao felt that he had to do something!! I want some courage from Malik.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Who would definitely go for the win from this position?

Afridi
Nazir
Razzaq perhaps
Hafeez?

Anyone else?

None of them would win this game from this postion thou!

 

[Monsee]

Maliks the man - wow what a player

How old are you...13?

 

[Farrukh]

if they think they can win, they can. otherwise they cant

 

[DM]

What is Malik doing !!! I feel like chucking a chair at my TV!!!! he has missed out on all spinners and Rao felt that he had to do something!! I want some courage from Malik.

Seconded. We have nothing, nothing to lose but individual averages. We're Pakistan, not India or England. We should always be going for the win, and never let a match peter out into a draw

 

[MIG]

How old are you...13?

Once you become senile....

 

[the true passionist]

RAW must not be given another chance to play for Pakistan again.

What a pathetic display of batting! All hype but no substance.

 

[cricketcrazy]

oh now there no chance beast is gone

 

[siddharth]

if they think they can win, they can. otherwise they cant

At last some one is relieved

 

[SUPERSAMI]

How bad of a bat is najaf that Asif bats before him.

 

[Farrukh]

first think pak need??? a coach!!

 

[the true passionist]

Asif smartly played that one through the hands of Mahela at slip.

 

[161]

ok RAW is gone but now the real best steps in.

Its Asif the Animal ... what a beast he is !

What a record he has .. scoring 27 runs in 25 matches so far !!

In fact he is so lethal that the ICC had to reprimand him becuase of the beastliness he displayed after bowling Jaywardene in the last macth !!

 

[Farrukh]

At last some one is relieved

so sad not to see team batting second putting up good show

 

[DM]

Asif smartly played that one through the hands of Mahela at slip.

incredible placement and prediction by Asif of Mahela's existing awareness at the time

 

[Farrukh]

ok RAW is gone but now the real best steps in.

Its Asif the Animal ... what a beast he is !

What a record he has .. scoring 27 runs in 25 matches so far !!

In fact he is so lethal that the ICC had to reprimand him becuase of the beastliness he displayed after bowling Jaywardene in the last macth !!

u r a hyper terminal!! ) )

 

[cricketcrazy]

do u think we still have chance? can malik do the impossible?

 

[the true passionist]

incredible placement and prediction by Asif of Mahela's existing awareness at the time

the battle between mahela and asif is alive and kicking.

 

[Farrukh]

atleast shoaib justified his batting

 

[DM]

ok RAW is gone but now the real best steps in.

Its Asif the Animal ... what a beast he is !

What a record he has .. scoring 27 runs in 25 matches so far !!

In fact he is so lethal that the ICC had to reprimand him becuase of the beastliness he displayed after bowling Jaywardene in the last macth !!

Great by malik, his fourth SIX!! What a wild team we're blessed with. Is there no end to the violence? Someone call the police

 

[the true passionist]

do u think we still have chance? can malik do the impossible?

no

 

[siddharth]

Asif the Glenn mcgrath of Batting.................

 

[Monsee]

Asif 3 runs off 4 balls...take that you haterz

 

[DM]

Come on Malik, the run rate is achievable. Go for it

 

[Farrukh]

do u think we still have chance? can malik do the impossible?

impossible is nothing. only ones thinking makes some thing impossible

 

[cricketcrazy]

no

come dont be so negative...

 

[inzamam_1]

Another run out
Asif gone !

 

[siddharth]

Great by malik, his fourth SIX!! What a wild team we're blessed with. Is there no end to the violence? Someone call the police

Blessed with some ''wild'' fans also

 

[the true passionist]

Ramiz predicted 3 runouts in this Pakistan innings. He got it.

 

[Farrukh]

Asif 3 runs off 4 balls...take that you haterz

a true cricket lover would wish akhtar would have been here. he can give few lusty blows

 

[Farrukh]

Ramiz predicted 3 runouts in this Pakistan innings. He got it.

wot if he had predicted none??

 

[siddharth]

impossible is nothing. only ones thinking makes some thing impossible

Socrates Alert!!!

 

[Big Mac]

Bloody hell that's one of the worst decisions I've seen in a long time

 

[Rob H]

Well that was pretty emphatic. Waqar says a caught behind even though the ball went over the keeper

 

[the true passionist]

Waqar as usual contradicting himself within a sentence.

 

[siddharth]

a true cricket lover would wish akhtar would have been here. he can give few lusty blows

shoaib Akhtar .the King Viv of batting .

 

[DM]

Akhtar can belt the ball, he would have helped

Come on Malik!!!!! Beat the leather out of if

 

[DM]

Socrates Alert!!!

it had more of a Confucius ring to it

 

[161]

Ok now that Asif is gone our real secret weapon steps in .. there is a reason we are hiding Najaf at the bottom and it's not because he can't bat even if his life depended on it. It's because we want to lull the lankan's into a false sense of security before we release Najaf. His brutal hitting out of 11 will once and forever break there team mentally. they will never be able to feel safe again even ...

woops .. hold up...

oh crap he's out.

well this was a waste.

 

[Monsee]

a true cricket lover would wish akhtar would have been here. he can give few lusty blows

....and be injured after that for a century or two

 

[cricketcrazy]

why the hell Malik took the single? he exposed Najaf Shah..I think so he wanted to increase his batting average by staying not out...

 

[DM]

Ok now that Asif is gone our real secret weapon steps in .. there is a reason we are hiding Najaf at the bottom and it's not because he can't bat even if his life depended on it. It's because we want to lull the lankan's into a false sense of security before we release Najaf. His brutal hitting out of 11 will once and forever break there team mentally. they will never be able to feel safe again even ...

woops .. hold up...

oh crap he's out.

well this was a waste.

Regardless, I like the intro

 

[down4whatever]

lol najaf, that was the worst lbw decision ever btw.

 

[Pathan007]

it wasn't out. poor decision from tippin

 

[the true passionist]

Well that was pretty emphatic. Waqar says a caught behind even though the ball went over the keeper

Waqar can make more money by starting his own comedy show. He only has to commentate on crickat matches.

 

[siddharth]

....and be injured after that for a century or two

But think abt those match winning innings he played .I am jealous of u guys!!

 

[Farrukh]

shoaib Akhtar .the King Viv of batting .

some fans believe in favoritism. if a player in their thinking is bad, even if he makes 100 and takes 10 wickets, they r gonna talk about their fav player who made 30 and got hit around in the same match.

 

[iZeeshan]

there was no way in hell that was out.

malik cud have gotten his 100!

 

[siddharth]

some fans believe in favoritism. if a player in their thinking is bad, even if he makes 100 and takes 10 wickets, they r gonna talk about their fav player who made 30 and got hit around in the same match.

when did that happen?

 

[Farrukh]

....and be injured after that for a century or two

atleast he does best for things which r in his hand fielding, batting or bowling. not like inzi who only just put fingers in the nose while fielding and get talked about by fans "o wot great player n asset he is"

 

[Farrukh]

when did that happen?

the way fans post in pp , this is gonna happen pretty soon.

 

[siddharth]

atleast he does best for things which r in his hand fielding, batting or bowling. not like inzi who only just put fingers in the nose while fielding and get talked about by fans "o wot great player n asset he is"

Agreed .Why Akhtar is not playing?