Pakistan always announced 11's late. Besides I don't think they should announced it until match time. I'm not a fan of announcing 11's early.
Showers are early morning. They'll be done by 10am max 11am. Adelaiade has a goat drainage system and match begins 2:30pm adelaide time.
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Yes. Nothing to worry about. The ghosts from Pakistan's past aren't playing so easy victory ahead.Ghosts from Pakistan's past a distant echo for Adelaide ODI
Pakistan can breathe a little easier ahead of the second ODI knowing past Australian tormentors aren't playing
For all the familiar names in Australia's imposing batting line-up, it's the couple of notable absentees that will potentially buoy the spirits of Pakistan's similarly impressive pace-bowling attack heading into Friday's ODI at Adelaide Oval.
While left-armer Shaheen Shah Afridi is the only member of the current quartet of quicks to have played at international level against Australia at Adelaide, the team's earlier visits remain etched into Pakistan's collective memory.
In the most recent Test encounter in 2019, Australia piled on a monstrous first innings of 3(dec)-589 on the way to victory by an innings and 48 runs, while the previous ODI at the ground three summers earlier yielded a 57-run defeat for the visitors.
The common feature in both those bat-dominated fixtures was former Australia opener David Warner who – mercifully for Pakistan's bowlers – will get no closer to the action tomorrow than his pitch-side commentator duties with Fox Cricket.
Warner flogged Shaheen and Pakistan's other bowlers to all parts of Adelaide Oval in compiling his highest Test score, an unbeaten 335 which included a second-wicket stand of 361 with incumbent ODI batter Marnus Labuschagne.
It was a haunting repeat of recent history for Pakistan after Warner (179 off 129 balls) and then-opening partner Travis Head (129 off 137) blasted an Australia ODI record first-wicket partnership of 284.
It was Head's second outing as opener in the 50-over format, a position he would be filling tomorrow but for paternity leave granted for this month's arrival of his second child with wife Jessica.
In place of that dynamic duo of left-handers will be equally destructive right-hand pair Matt Short and Jake Fraser-McGurk, but the revamped Australia batting order has offered hope for Pakistan's pace men.
Naseem Shah, who like Shaheen has been recalled for this current ODI and T20I tour after being axed from Pakistan's Test squad, believes his team will once again rely on their fast-bowling stocks in a bid to level the three-match series.
After Pakistan's batters posted a below-par total of 203 at the MCG last Monday, pacemen Haris Rauf (3-67) and Mohammad Hasnain (1-51) dragged their team back into the game by claiming 4-16 in 33 deliveries before Pat Cummins guided Australia home.
"We discussed all the things we did like mistakes in the batting and we will try to do better," Naseem said prior to Pakistan's training session at Adelaide Oval on Thursday.
"The bowling effort was fantastic and we will try to do it again.
"We learned lots of things from that game and we will try to utilise in the next game."
Should Pakistan look to their past visits to Adelaide for inspiration for Friday's encounter, they might focus on Babar Azam's century (off 109 balls) in the Warner-dominated ODI of 2017.
Facing potentially the same front line attack as Australia might field tomorrow – quicks Mitchell Starc, Cummins and Josh Hazlewood plus spinner Adam Zampa – Babar's hundred briefly raised the prospect of a remarkable Pakistan run chase.
Another casualty of the Test-squad cull during the recent home series against England, Babar scored 37 (from 44 deliveries) before losing his off-stump to Zampa in his international return.
However, he can expect friendlier batting conditions at Adelaide Oval after Australia wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis described the MCG track for last Monday's game as "a bit two-paced with indifferent bounce".
Naseem took part in Thursday's match eve training session after succumbing to cramp in his return to international cricket at the MCG, with a Pakistan team spokesman confirming all members of the touring party are fit and available.
"Our strength is our whole team," Naseem said today.
"We have to bat well and then bowl well.
"We have some quality batsmen and good bowlers as well, so we will fight in the next game and we will try and win.
"We always play for a win."
Ghosts from Pakistan's past a distant echo for Adelaide ODI | cricket.com.au
Pakistan can breathe a little easier ahead of the second ODI knowing past Australian tormentors…
It won't be an issue for any game.
Ghosts been replaced by the Devils, lots of fire power in Aussie batting.
Steve smith is still their as well. He was dominating pak in 2014-2015
Tbh pak managed to get those wickets because of the short ball ploy and long boundaries.Adelaide has short square boundaries so anything short will get tonked out of the ground by the aussies.IMO pak needs a min of 330 to have any thoughts of winning.
As per media speculations only one change, Faisal Akram to replace Hasnain. Quite logical as openers will need another opportunity to be fair to them, but Shafique in particular has poor technique, Saim needs to learn to combine the art of playing the situation and also playing to his strength.
Naseem said in an interview that they bowled short as length bowl was not doing much, and that they have learnt from the match. Let's see, after all they do have an Aussie coach to give them tips for Aussie pitches and grounds.
Abdullah shafique has a good technique in the sense that his grip strength, and footwork are good.
if abd shafique was in india he wouldnot have been even in a ranji team.Our state kashmir has better club level batsmen than abd shafique.
Well its same for australia bro do you think they will be able to play sajid and nauman in pak tests they will get nightmares just like so called english bazball got from them.
Yes and no. England is genuinely clueless against spin besides root and root didn't kick off.
Bro last test england batted first still lost the match i agree aus might play spin better than england but sajid and noman will still be dangerous on those kind of pitches.
Sorry my bad, You're right pak batted 2nd in the 3rd test.
And bro i want ask you one thing will pak play both sajid and noman in south africa tests these two will be quite handful there with bowling and lower order runs?
They normally announce a day before
Ashwin and Jadeja are 2 spinners who are fantastic in India but have horrible records in SA and get exposed because the pitch virtually offers nothing.
Whenever pakistan has lost a match, they don't announce it until last minute or very late in the day.
The only venue I've ever seen offer genuine help to spinners is Durban.
Ya fair enough bro great points as always india homemade bully ashwin would sit out on the bench in sa tests mostly.
Oh ok bro got it but i still think pak should take that gamble and play these 2 guys you never know south africa batting can crumble against spin anytime.
It also means Rizwan will be leaving very soon.
Your captain is throwing toys out of his pram lol
More like Aqib will be forced out just like Kirsten.
Sharjeel’s innings was bomb. Off 47 balls I think, he did justice to white ball standards. The kind of innings that earns you respect from the likes of Warner and Maxwell.
It seems like the team management which this Babar and Rizwan are very poor in selecting the team 11.
Adelaide is his favourite pitch
Which experienced batter have we got that I havent included ?
Saud isn't in the squad?
