Australia v Pakistan | 1st Test - Day 3 | MCG | 28/12/09

[Imy]

Poor bowling for Ajmal and Rauf, I just pray that the geniuses in Pak team dont play Ajmalin seccond test, Feel sorry for Amir and ASif, and why the hell is MOyo over bowling Amir, this kid already has a had a stress fracture he will break down if they keep bowling him as a workhorse

 

[insaaniyat]

thank you insaaniyat, same here too. loved your comments. see you tomorrow. Good night.

good night

 

[Big Mac]

We badly needed Gul and Kaneria, Ajmal and Rauf just weren't threatening at all

Pitch is totally dead without the new ball, if Gul came on after 18-20 overs like Rauf did he'd have been harmless too.

 

[sali]

We need to preserve Ameer. No need to over bowl him. There is no way we can draw or win this game

We lost this with poor selection, bad catching and negative batting.

Let's look forward to next test

 

[amar1212]

We need to preserve Ameer. No need to over bowl him. There is no way we can draw or win this game

We lost this with poor selection, bad catching and negative batting.

Let's look forward to next test

still 2 days left...if Pakistan takes 7 wickets by lunch and restricts the lead to somewhere around 370, then there's still chance..
:aamir

 

[truth]

still 2 days left...if Pakistan takes 7 wickets by lunch and restricts the lead to somewhere around 370, then there's still chance..
:aamir

too optimistic ..........

 

[TurkishCricketFan]

I think draw is still on the cards here. Very hard but possible.
The key is to get some early wickets tomorrow and check the run rate,
besides: Aussie spin bowling isn't that threatining.

 

[ShehryarK]

We need to preserve Ameer. No need to over bowl him.

For tomorrow morning, agreed.

There is no way we can draw or win this game

There are many 'theoretical' ways we can do both. Realistically, Aus should win but we might just salvage a great draw.

We lost this with poor selection, bad catching and negative batting.

Selection was fine; Kaneria was injured, Gul was debatable and the rest are not even in the squad.

Catching might have made a difference, might not - we dropped two crucial ones, but no way can we say that they would have changed the match.

Batting was not negative, and hence we didn't 'lose' because of it. IF we do lose, it will be firstly because Australia are a far better team!!!

Secondly, it would be because of an injury to one of our two main wicket takers - he was main both in our last series this year vs NZL, and our last series in Aus 5 years ago.

And thirdly, as always, it will be because of our poor batting. Not negative, but poor. Most of the guys bar Misbah and Aamir and maybe Butt and Yousuf threw away their wickets. Kamran's dismissal was the worst but Farhat, Faisal, Umar all under-performed or had brain freeze moments.

Let's look forward to next test

Let's finish this one first, please

 

[pak4life]

Poor bowling for Ajmal and Rauf, I just pray that the geniuses in Pak team dont play Ajmalin seccond test, Feel sorry for Amir and ASif, and why the hell is MOyo over bowling Amir, this kid already has a had a stress fracture he will break down if they keep bowling him as a workhorse

Ajmal bowling far too quick and flat this is not t20
I read somewhere kaneria said he will be fit for the next match.

 

[Milo]

Good fightback by Pakistan with the ball but one suspects too little, too late. It was great to see Aamer looking a real prospect out there today.

 

[Uncle Sam]

^^ On the contrary, Temperament, and ability to score singles, doubles and putting bad balls away to the rope (which also frustrates the bowlers and fielders equally) is EXACTLY what test cricket is all about. Well played by Clarke and Watson who held their nerves and pulled Australia off the edge just when they were about to fall into a hole. I hope our young batsmen will learn a thing or two from Clarke and Watson.

 

[Uncle Sam]

still 2 days left...if Pakistan takes 7 wickets by lunch and restricts the lead to somewhere around 370, then there's still chance..
:aamir

Nothing is impossible they say, so I will give 0.001% chance of your prophecy coming true.

 

[cricket_fever]

Is There any chance of rain in Australia

i have been praying for rain.......even after the 10th muharram iftar time dua

 

[insaaniyat]

i have been praying for rain.......even after the 10th muharram iftar time dua

Don't worry Insha-Allah we will draw the test, rain or no rain

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

I agree with you gize, we need to bundle them out quickly, and inshallah then we will have a chance of winning. I think a draw will most certainly be a win for our team, but im very hopefull that if we play attacking cricket, and put Australia on the backfoot that the result is very much possible.

In total if we get them all out before the lunch break, then we have around 150 overs remaining, and i think we should go for the kill, cause if we play defensive, neither will we get the runs, but also lose wickets.

If we get them out for say around 370-400, then the required run-rate would be 2.5-2.7 runs per over, which is very much possible. Inshallah i hope that Pakistan can achieve this.

 

[insaaniyat]

I agree with you gize, we need to bundle them out quickly, and inshallah then we will have a chance of winning. I think a draw will most certainly be a win for our team, but im very hopefull that if we play attacking cricket, and put Australia on the backfoot that the result is very much possible.

In total if we get them all out before the lunch break, then we have around 150 overs remaining, and i think we should go for the kill, cause if we play defensive, neither will we get the runs, but also lose wickets.

If we get them out for say around 370-400, then the required run-rate would be 2.5-2.7 runs per over, which is very much possible. Inshallah i hope that Pakistan can achieve this.

To do that, we can not go on defensive. We need to show some guts and let Australia know we are here to win. Hopefully M

 

[Uncle Sam]

Many of our batsmen are busy fighting within themselves... they are fighting with an inner fear. Fear of losing their spot in the team, fear of not being able to impress selectors, fear of losing all the money if taken off from the central contract...these guys have actually lost the vision and goal of actually fighting the battle against team Australia.

Our guys must break the mantel shackles and become street fighters.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Many of our batsmen are busy fighting within themselves... they are fighting with an inner fear. Fear of losing their spot in the team, fear of not being able to impress selectors, fear of losing all the money if taken off from the central contract...these guys have actually lost the vision and goal of actually fighting the battle against team Australia.

Our guys must break the mantel shackles and become street fighters.

 

[Wassixpakistani]

We can't just push all the trash under the rug , we gotta take it out now .

We got 3 wickets but a deadly partnership is developing between Watto and Pup . Gotta finish the job and quick .

Cmon boy , let em have it :aamir

 

[Chuffed]

Many of our batsmen are busy fighting within themselves... they are fighting with an inner fear. Fear of losing their spot in the team, fear of not being able to impress selectors, fear of losing all the money if taken off from the central contract...these guys have actually lost the vision and goal of actually fighting the battle against team Australia. Our guys must break the mantel shackles and become street fighters.

Absolutely correct. An issue we rarely mention for consideration.

There's more talent in the top order than we think, the Oz commies have seen it and so should we. There's no lie in saying our management is possibly the worst on the planet. They have no systematic approach to building a team and all seems ad hoc, and there's little to suggest their man management is any better.

We've spoken about the fear factor before, the board is entirely responsible and it is the biggest hurdle to our success.

 

[saeed-sohail]

Balle balle my first pakistan match thread. No need to worry guys get ready for a hundred by misbah ul haq.

Shame on Kamran rauf and Asif for letting misbah down when he was on the verge of a test hundred.