Australia (204/8) beat Pakistan (203) by 2 wickets in a low-scoring thriller in the first ODI

[khyberlion]

Where has he played outside SC?

I meant to say he will be pretty awful outside SC.

 

[Dr_Bassim]

Australia is way too professional for a leg side hack like Rizwan to get away and score useful runs.

He is going to end up scoring runs @SR of 50 or 60 odd entire series with no impact.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Lets change the pitch for 2nd and 3rd ODI. Call Aqib bhai and have a rank turner made. Fly Sajid and Noman

 

[PakFan2010]

Shameful cowards

117/6 after 30 overs.

How is Shan Masood not good enough for this team?

 

[Farabi]

I meant to say he will be pretty awful outside SC.

How do you know

 

[emranabbas]

And Babar has played 300+ domestic T20s only. Another why I said no one is half of what he is. These players like Sahibzada etc are not even 10% of Babar's quality. As I said earlier, stop deluding yourself.

You can't deal with dimwits like yourself idiot. Now that your ego has been hit, it would be hard recovering from it from you

What ego your just exposing what an idiot you are comparing someone whose not played international with someone who has

 

[Bilal Ahmad15]

It wasn’t “great” but acceptable for this team for sure

As a number 7 he made like 3 tough 50s, and some scores of 40, if I remember correctly, but I get what you mean

 

[mango_bite77]

All the batters except Babar fell to bounce. Even Rizwans ball bounced slightly more than expected to get the top edge.

 

[khyberlion]

How do you know

Just look at the way he plays pace. He's getting out to the short stuff in Pakistan where he's late on the ball. Look at his innings today he looked so uncomfortable.

 

[Rana]

Rizwan Gone too.

Pakistan has becomes real minnow .

They were not minnows with him batting at 4?

 

[ask_analyse_act]

This is Rizwan's stats at No.4 for Pakistan in odi cricket :

37 innings - 1455 runs @48.50 , SR - 91

Please tell me any player in Pakistan history with a better record than this at no.4 ?

Pakistan lost 4 wickets, of course there has to be a rebuild its not easy out there against a World cup winning bowling attack even Salman is struggling, so please be fair with the critic you can't just hate Rizwan for no valid reason

His inns will serve exactly what u commented here.. the avg and keeps going unharmed...

In the context of the game , such an ugly inns serves nothing to the team... Babar scored 40 runs effortlessly and Rizwan batted like a tailender in the same pitch for his 40 odd runs..

 

[gazza619]

Wasn’t this the strategy deployed during the T20 World Cup IN AUS. And Pakistan lost the final marginally because they don’t post a competitive total?

Back then we were carrying Shadab & Nawaz as our spinners. Though they were pretty much useless.

If we have picked Arafat & Minhas in the squad, we have got to play at least one of them.

 

[Dr_Bassim]

All the batters except Babar fell to bounce. Even Rizwans ball bounced slightly more than expected to get the top edge.

Babar falls to anything nowadays thats not Nepal or Uganda.

 

[shah_1]

Pakistan cricket is a joke when you have Rizwan and Salman jokers as captain and vice captain

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Fakhar and Imam can't find a place in this pathetic lineup like seriously...

 

[Bilal Ahmad15]

Pakistan cricket is a joke when you have Rizwan and Salman jokers as captain and vice captain

Salman isn't a joker, why do people just forget about all the good performances a player has done?

And who would you have as captain then?

 

[Devadwal]

They were not minnows with him batting at 4?

Rizwan is not suitable for number 4. He has to either open or bat at 6 .

 

[mango_bite77]

Babar falls to anything nowadays thats not Nepal or Uganda.

Yeah unfortunately gets out to any random bowler nowadays.

 

[Dr_Bassim]

Australia is enjoying changing the bowlers.

Are they even serious?

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Pakistan cricket is a joke when you have Rizwan and Salman jokers as captain and vice captain

100%

 

[batandballbattle]

Wasay and Iffy bhai will be on fine form today

 

[mango_bite77]

Fakhar and Imam can't find a place in this pathetic lineup like seriously...

Exactly, we all blamed Imam, but I think that was best Pak had.

 

[volcyz]

Wasim Akram commentary is a total joke

 

[RidiculousMan]

You need players like Shan and Jamal to play well against Short balls in Australia

 

[shah_1]

Salman isn't a joker, why do people just forget about all the good performances a player has done?

And who would you have as captain then?

Salman can't play wrist spin or short ball

He is a limited cricketer, doesn't warrant to be a vice captain.

 

[Bilal Ahmad15]

Salman can't play wrist spin or short ball

He is a limited cricketer, doesn't warrant to be a vice captain.

Who is your ODI captain?

 

[mango_bite77]

Still not understanding on what basis Irfan Khan Niazi Sahab was selected. What has he done in domestic?

 

[batandballbattle]

Wasn't this Irfan guy supposed to be a hitter? Where did his shots go?

 

[Rana]

Salman can't play wrist spin or short ball

He is a limited cricketer, doesn't warrant to be a vice captain.

Have you seen the captain?

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Australia is enjoying changing the bowlers.

Are they even serious?

changing bowlers for fun really ?? but they are taking wickets by doing so...Not allowing Pak to settle with one bowler and cannot get them going....

 

[Devadwal]

Australia is enjoying changing the bowlers.

Are they even serious?

They will not take much risks due to Upcoming big series.

Australia is playing 4 ODI before champion trophy including this series , this is why they are playing with main team otherwise they would have not Play this useless series when outcome is already sealed before playing the series.

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan need to bring in proper middle order batters who know the art of building the innings with proper strike rate.

 

[mominsaigol]

Australia is enjoying changing the bowlers.

Are they even serious?

Lol, remember when Australia bowled 10 overs of Warner against a full strength pakistan in wc 2023 warm up games and still easily beat pakistan?

They can beat pakistan 24 days to Sunday

 

[batandballbattle]

Australia is enjoying changing the bowlers.

Are they even serious?

Wouldn't be surprised if Smudge rolled his arm over soon enough

 

[Maliq_Mudasir]

As expected Pak is not gonna win single game in this series.

Bdw I am more interested in Rizwan's post match presentation than his captaincy. Would be fun.

 

[FearlessRoar]

See who is there

Hint: Cold Play

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853282509863186857

 

[Ahmed216]

They will not take much risks due to Upcoming big series.

Australia is playing 4 ODI before champion trophy including this series , this is why they are playing with main team otherwise they would have not Play this useless series when outcome is already sealed before playing the series.

Starc has looked in good rhythm. Not good news for waning careers of Kohli Sharma

 

[Justcrazy]

I do not see any outstanding talent in Pakistan List A right now , who can play risk free cricket for 10 - 15 overs with rotation of strike.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Irfan needs to shield the strike lol

 

[Rana]

Afridi is fearless

Feel so sorry for this guy. Pointlessly not even given a chance to lead

 

[mominsaigol]

Starc has looked in good rhythm. Not good news for waning careers of Kohli Sharma

Starc is back in form. That's much ik.

 

[FearlessRoar]

Shaheen Shah Afridi plays better strokes than Pakistan's top-order batters

 

[Rana]

Starc is back in form. That's much ik.

Wouldn’t read into these performances against Pakistan

No one can safely say they are in form against Pakistan. They are so crap

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Wasn't this Irfan guy supposed to be a hitter? Where did his shots go?

pp fans say he is not cut for intl cricketer, cant play pace or spin.. shows why Pak or PCB can only find tailunts and dont have the eye for selecting or backing actual cricketers that have skills and talented.

Irfan is here to stay.. he is batting much better than Rizwan , Agha and Kamran like a normal ODI batter...

 

[Ali Active]

pak cricket is hopeless atm

 

[adi_62941]

Wondering if there is a public holiday in Australia as crowd came in decent numbers especially desis. Good to see that
Or maybe this is the opener of summers for aussies

 

[Devadwal]

Starc has looked in good rhythm. Not good news for waning careers of Kohli Sharma

First care about Pakistan player's ,they are playing like sissy .

We can talk about india - Australia series when they Play later this month's.

Btw anyone can back to form against Pakistan player's .

They are mediocre .

 

[mango_bite77]

Good shot by Afridi

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Shaheen having some fun

20 off 15

 

[Rana]

Just play like this!

Why did it take 6 wickets to get going like this?

 

[mominsaigol]

Wouldn’t read into these performances against Pakistan

No one can safely say they are in form against Pakistan. They are so crap

Against Rohit, Starc was bowling wide and full, He had no control, It was almost as if he couldn't even grip the ball.

And he frequently did this throughout ipl, throughout t20 wc 2024.

He's bowling line and length now. Bit he isn't bowling that killer inswing like he once could

 

[mominsaigol]

Just play like this!

Why did it take 6 wickets to get going like this?

How is shaheen a better batter then the entire dugout? Unbelievable

 

[aboveandbeyond]

They will not take much risks due to Upcoming big series.

Australia is playing 4 ODI before champion trophy including this series , this is why they are playing with main team otherwise they would have not Play this useless series when outcome is already sealed before playing the series.

Get over it man. Kiwis beating was ruthless, but surely theres limits in dishing out your frustration on the thread.

 

[adi_62941]

Afridi is fearless

Feel so sorry for this guy. Pointlessly not even given a chance to lead

I feel the same, he has a good potential to be a good leader if stays fit. Winning 2 PSL titles is not a fluke

 

[mango_bite77]

Just play like this!

Why did it take 6 wickets to get going like this?

Rizwan, Agha, Abdullah took more than 15 balls to get off the mark

 

[batandballbattle]

wow it's almost like you can actually get runs if you don't bat like kittens the whole time

 

[G0rmintAunty]

Wondering if there is a public holiday in Australia as crowd came in decent numbers especially desis. Good to see that
Or maybe this is the opener of summers for aussies

It is a holiday in Melbourne.

 

[G0rmintAunty]

Boom Boom Afridi

 

[Ahmed216]

First care about Pakistan player's ,they are playing like sissy .

We can talk about india - Australia series when they Play later this month's.

Btw anyone can back to form against Pakistan player's .

They are mediocre .

That 'anyone' is raring to shred India into pieces

 

[Deewana Mastana]

The fun is over Shaheen

You miss I hit

 

[Rana]

Well

At least he tried

 

[Devadwal]

Shaheen is playing like his father in law.

 

[IAJ]

Same old story, collapse upfront, a guy down the order (typical Afridis) comes in, smacks a few, gets the commies and fans excited for a bit, then comes the next tail-ender collapse and Aus chase the score down comfortable.

 

[m.shah]

How is shaheen a better batter then the entire dugout? Unbelievable

It is all about mentality. That is why Shafiq should be dropped

 

[batandballbattle]

Well that was fun while it lasted
Now back to slow death drudgery

 

[mango_bite77]

Goo set up, U had just 2 balls to defend but Afridi being Afridi

 

[RidiculousMan]

Very useful runs these. But it won't be enough today

 

[Deewana Mastana]

How is shaheen a better batter then the entire dugout? Unbelievable

Because he was on a slog fest

 

[Rana]

Very useful runs these. But it won't be enough today

What are they useful for? Net run rate?

 

[shah_1]

Have you seen the captain?

I have called him a joker as well

We are hopeless in white ball cricket

 

[Devadwal]

That 'anyone' is raring to shred India into pieces

Yes that's why they were become world champion few month's ago.

And real champions were lost the match against Mighty USA( LOL)

 

[mominsaigol]

Because he was on a slog fest

He's a better batter then Abdullah. Genuinely lol

 

[adi_62941]

This is the issue, trying to become hero. Just play for the team man. If you are feeling good on crease then stay there

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Have these guys never faced a short ball?

they either have nets without short ball being bowled or play the same way in the nets as they do here...

 

[Sycamore]

Eyes closed, swinging away

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Irfan wants Naseem to play like Shaheen now

 

[RidiculousMan]

This is the issue, trying to become hero. Just play for the team man. If you are feeling good on crease then stay there

He's an Afridi

 

[Ahmed216]

Yes that's why they are become world champion few month's ago.

And real champions were lost the match against Mighty USA( LOL)

Don't deflect everything on to Pakistan. The anti- Pakistan rhetoric you guys have been brought up on has seeped into your hearts and minds.

Talk about Ro and Ko and tell us how they'll do

 

[Deewana Mastana]

He's a better batter then Abdullah. Genuinely lol

Than the entire team in this case

 

[Rana]

Pakistani awaam doing everything they can to bring down Saim Ayub


Listen to the Australians going gaga with excitement for Fraser McGurk! They want to watch him play and be fearless!