Australia v Pakistan | 1st Test | Brisbane | Dec 15-19, 2016 | Day 4

[MMHS]

I think he'd have been and gone before dark!

I'm just very conscious not just of Umar Akmal's Test record in Australia, but also his A Test record here. He likes the extra pace and bounce.

That Umar Akmal has died boss, you are watching his clone - unfortunately Lord has goofed up the gins & made this one with every bad habits that the original one had. I do watch his batting - last probably was 2013, I saw him playing a proper cut shot - now he plays every thing to squire leg crowd, at least try for that ..... on top of that, for some reason, now he watches 2 balls from left-arm spinners - always picks the fake one..........

 

[boomboom6]

Sarf makes strike rotation look childs play ... #MakeHimCaptain

 

[ali ray]

next away tour is westindies.

I am talking about big away tours

 

[JibranAnsari]

Wait.......What ????

Just an idea. After misbah and yk retire , one replacement i guess will be haris sohail/usman salahuddin and there still will be a place open. For number 6 guys like rizwan/umar akmal will be trying and i think shehzad too can try his luck at 6.

 

[JibranAnsari]

I am talking about big away tours....

we have never won a series in west indies , its a big tour.

 

[Sidilicious]

Why Sarfaraz bat so low? He seems so positive and can play some genuinely good looking proper strokes.

 

[MMHS]

can shehzad bat well at number 6?

Definitely can - yesterday batted for 45 balls as opener to score 11; may be his is trying his luck for the opposite end of batting line up.

 

[JibranAnsari]

swing......

 

[ali ray]

Why Sarfaraz bat so low? He seems so positive and can play some genuinely good looking proper strokes.

You stole my words.....

 

[ali ray]

Pakistan are actually touring Australia and new zealand again in 2019.....

 

[Abdullah719]

Definitely can - yesterday batted for 45 balls as opener to score 11; may be his is trying his luck for the opposite end of batting line up.

In a 50-over game...

 

[JibranAnsari]

looks like sarfraz will be our top scorer in the series. will end up scoring about 250.

 

[Sidilicious]

You stole my words.....

He just needs to tighten his defence a bit more. I think he can easily do it, since he has a brilliant temperament. Could then come in at 4 or 5.

 

[JibranAnsari]

dinner.

pakistan has exceeded my expectations. I expected us to fold before 200.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

It would be great if we can take this to day 5.

 

[MMHS]

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Marsh brothers in for India with Khawaja (who couldn't even pick Azhar at the Gabba) and Maddinson out.

1. Warner
2. Renshaw
3. Smith*
4. S.Marsh
5. Handscomb
6. Wade/Nevill+
7. M.Marsh
8. O'Keefe
9. Starc
10. Hazlewood
11. Lyon

imo

That's probably best unit, but a big issue is the number of Lefti, something I mentioned categorically before Poms toured BD & then to IND. In fact, our fat selector missed the trick by not picking couple of offies, other wsie we would have won the ODI series.

No Wade - he'll not survive against Ashwin; Nevins FC record is better & he is far better WK. Probably, I'll drop Renshaw for a right hander & play him in middle order (Shaun to open); rest team is possibly best available.

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

It would be great if we can take this to day 5.

I'd say that would be a genuine morale boosting effort to say the least....

Playing at down under in after more than half a decade and you get to a day five at the paciest wicket in Australia. Would be quite an effort tbh

 

[Uzair Gooner]

I'd say that would be a genuine morale boosting effort to say the least....

Playing at down under in after more than half a decade and you get to a day five at the paciest wicket in Australia. Would be quite an effort tbh

That too after batting under lights 3 days in a row

 

[boomboom6]

If only our team took the same approach as Sarf as a whole ...

 

[MMHS]

37 overs left with 2 overs old ball under light & 5 wickets down - these are win win situation. ...... Day 5 was scheduled on Sunday night ..

 

[Indiafan]

This is a lovely batting pitch.

In my opinion, Misbah and Younis both need to be retired. Misbah averages 22.10 outside Asia in his last ten innings while Younis, who was always a classier batsman, has lost his consistency.

I recognise that Shafiq has lost it psychologically too.

Is the question whether Umar Akmal would have thrown it away here?

Probably. But Misbah is no longer capable and Younis just threw it away.

I suspect that Umar Akmal would have made 20 in the first innings and 80 in the second innings here. Which is more than Younis and Misbah combined.

For the record, in four innings here Younis and Misbah have contributed 74 runs.

Umar simply doesn't have the temperament, he would have thrown his wicket charging Lyon after 30 runs

 

[Uzair Gooner]

Umar simply doesn't have the temperament, he would have thrown his wicket charging Lyon after 30 runs

30 is too much for Umer

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

30 is too much for Umer

more like a decimal place too many....

 

[JaDed]

Could that be a costly drop!

 

[Uzair Gooner]

Could that be a costly drop!

We are not gonna get close to 490 lol...

 

[JaDed]

We are not gonna get close to 490 lol...

Getting to day 5 I would say Pakistan has created doubts in mind of Aussies,they are not going to be pushovers as it seemed in first innings,also MCB and SCG are usually flat,this might end up being the best Pakistani tour to Aus in a while.

 

[itsme]

Best thing you can do now is to play as many overs as you can and tired theirs bowlers for the next matches.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Could that be a costly drop!

Yes, Sarfaraz to score 150 and win this game.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Need to make Starc and Hazlewood bowl 30+.

 

[Uzair Gooner]

Getting to day 5 I would say Pakistan has created doubts in mind of Aussies,they are not going to be pushovers as it seemed in first innings,also MCB and SCG are usually flat,this might end up being the best Pakistani tour to Aus in a while.

Yeah i am happy that we battled it out today, but 490 is beyond our reach... though getting 300+ will be a morale booster for sure

 

[Zeshan547]

I have seen enough to say this with a bit confidence that it will be the bowling and fielding which will be main culprit and not the batting, even though this batting isn't ideal but it's the bowling and fielding which is more mediocre.

 

[Uzair Gooner]

Out of his 162 deliveries 141 are dots... that is crazy stuff from Hazlewood

 

[Zeshan547]

If we somehow end up around 300/5 will you guys think the unthinkable? I defo would have if we don't had the worst tail in the world, even a single sher khan would have given me enough confidence.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Beauty from Starc to bowl Sarfraz.

 

[QalandarFan]

Bowled as soon as I come back to watch 2 balls later Sarfraz is gone!

 

[Zeshan547]

But their goes the last hope, sorry guys i think i was expecting too much on my birthday and got a bit high.

 

[itsme]

Now it's time for some fun

 

[Slog]

So can we take this to tomorrow now?

 

[JaDed]

Wasted chance for Sarfaraz,

 

[JibranAnsari]

beauty by starc.

 

[QalandarFan]

I don't know weather I should keep watching or go to sleep....

 

[Hamza_]

Just as I turned on. He is out bowled

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Awful batting performance again apart from that partnership between Azhar and Younis

 

[Junaids]

In my three days at this match I found that the toughest time for batting was from 6 pm (after Dinner) through to 7.30 pm, as the last bits of natural light were replaced by total floodlight illumination.

7.30 pm to the 8.30 pm close was not too hard.

Unfortunately Sarfraz just got bowled at 7.27 pm!

 

[Markhor]

It may have not prevented this defeat but the fact our batsmen have improved the more time they've spent at the crease shows a couple more practice matches would've been massively beneficial.

Its criminal how little time there was between the end of the end of a WI series, NZ series and Australia series.

WI series should've been 2 Tests, 3 ODIs and 1 T20 to allow us more preparation time for these Southern Hemisphere tours.

 

[QalandarFan]

Well looking at the batting performance in the second innings I think we will do much better in the second test.

 

[Junaids]

Awful batting performance again apart from that partnership between Azhar and Younis

Are we watching a different match?

I saw Azhar and Younis edging an awful lot of balls in broad daylight.

I think the three best batsmen have been Babar Azam, Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz.

 

[JaDed]

That was a beauty,good over from Starc has bowled better this spell.

 

[QalandarFan]

Starc bowling well here.

 

[QalandarFan]

We should just try to stretch the match as long as we can now.

 

[Junaids]

Floodlights and a new ball.

This is tough.

Poor Pakistan have had to bat in the Night session on 3 of the 4 days.

 

[itsme]

Amir still playing starc with ease even his jaffas

 

[Slog]

We should just try to stretch the match as long as we can now.

Take it to fifth day and win the moral victory prize

 

[JibranAnsari]

Shafiq at number 6 with this poor tail isnt compatible.

Shafiq needs to move up , we need someone who can play a little quick at number 6.

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

we need four 50 run partnerships now !!

Would be a very good confidence booster

 

[shaaik]

New hard shiny pink ball under lights becomes a different proposition all together. Huge disadvantage for the batting team.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Floodlights and a new ball.

This is tough.

Poor Pakistan have had to bat in the Night session on 3 of the 4 days.

How much time left for today?

 

[Belawal2014]

We should just try to stretch the match as long as we can now.

Bhai, ja kar soh jao.

 

[Slog]

New hard shiny pink ball under lights becomes a different proposition all together. Huge disadvantage for the batting team.

This is why rain has been terrible

Stop and start routine disrupted the batsmens momentum

Azhar certainly got out due to loss in concentration

And now the new ball is in the toughest part of the day.


If there hadn't been rain then new ball would have been used when it was sunny

Rain is useless unless it washes out a couple of sessions

 

[shaaik]

Shafiq at number 6 with this poor tail isnt compatible.

Shafiq needs to move up , we need someone who can play a little quick at number 6.

They tried him up the order it didn't work so I guess it's going to remain like this for the rest of his career.

 

[QalandarFan]

we need four 50 run partnerships now !!

Would be a very good confidence booster

Not possible with Wahab and Rahat.

 

[Junaids]

How much time left for today?

It was scheduled to finish in 25 minutes from now, but because of the rain they have been given an extra hour and a half!. So there could be up to 29 more overs left in 115 minutes!

It will finish tonight.

 

[Slog]

How much time left for today?

Lot of overs left

 

[QalandarFan]

Bhai, ja kar soh jao.

Don't feel like sleeping.

 

[shaaik]

This is why rain has been terrible

Stop and start routine disrupted the batsmens momentum

Azhar certainly got out due to loss in concentration

And now the new ball is in the toughest part of the day.


If there hadn't been rain then new ball would have been used when it was sunny

Rain is useless unless it washes out a couple of sessions

That's exactly what I was thinking when it started to rain. I was sure that this would only make it worse for us. Ball would hv already been 25 30 overs old by now and who knows what wd hv been the situation in the game.

 

[JibranAnsari]

They tried him up the order it didn't work so I guess it's going to remain like this for the rest of his career.

i think its the dip in form more than the number, he can still be tried at an upper number.

 

[Junaids]

This is why rain has been terrible

Stop and start routine disrupted the batsmens momentum

Azhar certainly got out due to loss in concentration

And now the new ball is in the toughest part of the day.


If there hadn't been rain then new ball would have been used when it was sunny

Rain is useless unless it washes out a couple of sessions

Correct.

Without rain, the new ball would have been taken at 4.30 pm, and it would already be 25 overs old now, with only 12 overs left today.

But the rescheduling due to rain means that it's only 10 overs old, and Australia will get another 29 overs tonight.

 

[JaDed]

Much to the dislike of [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] Amir's batting is improving.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Amir is quite decent with the bat,far better than most of our tailenders.

 

[QalandarFan]

Shot from Amir! Amir playing Starc with ease!

 

[Slog]

Starc is bowling wonderfully here

Hate to admit but Amir doesn't get this momentum, shape or speed

 

[Uzair Gooner]

How much time left for today?

23 more overs to go

 

[Zeshan547]

I guess if amir really work hard both on his batting he may still not end up as good as wasim akram as batsman and bowler, but he can be poor man's akram or a little inferior version of wasim akram, and that would be still great achievement. And he can end up as pak great.

 

[QalandarFan]

Up and over the top of cover this time from Amir!

 

[Uzair Gooner]

One positive from this match is that we won't see Wahab batting at no 8 for some time now

 

[Ellipsism]

Don't feel like sleeping.

Your up at 5:00 am to watch Pakistan collapse?

 

[QalandarFan]

Your up at 5:00 am to watch Pakistan collapse?

I guess if you wanna put it that way.

 

[Uzair Gooner]

Starc and Hazlewood had bowled 82 overs in this match till now, too much work load i think

 

[Belawal2014]

I guess if you wanna put it that way.

I'm up here with ya.

 

[JaDed]

The bounce of the Gabba wicket isn't that good as before not sure if some changes were done.