Australia vs Pakistan | Tri-Series: Final | Harare | July 8, 2018 | Pre-Match Thread

[alishahid]

Pakistan vs Australia | Final | 08.07.2018

Pakistan would be confident going into the finals but what I think is S Farhan would be making the playing for sure. Haris did himself no good by getting out first ball and being lazy in the field when the fielding standards are set so high in a team like pakistan.

Good ploy by the coach captain and management honestly. Gave hafeez a couple of games and then haris a couple of games but both of them failed. I am pretty sure this is a good plan to have farhan in the bench and unleash him in the finals. Im sure he will play. All of a sudden the line up looks good when u hve a guy like farhan to play alongside fakhar.

Fakhar
Farhan
Talat
Sarfaraz
Malik
Asif
Faheem
Shadab
Amir
Usman
Shaheen

Hasan Ali wont be playing. Hasnt been that great this series

 

[hadi123]

Keep the same team. Can't give Farhan a debut here.

 

[Syed1]

Keep the same team. Can't give Farhan a debut here.

Harry is failing like no tomorrow at the top of the order. We really miss Bobs

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

We really are feeling Bobby's absence here, Harry turns up as if he's here to play in some Gully Mohalla game - Thora Serious hoja yaar

 

[fluke]

fakhar
farhan
hussain talat
shoaib malik
asif ali
sarfraz
faheem ashraf
shadab khan
hassan ali
mohammad amir
shaheen afridi

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Mickey might give Hafeez one last chance after Haris's poor show.

 

[Abdullah719]

Mickey might give Hafeez one last chance after Haris's poor show.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">Yeh Kia Ho raha hai bhai &#55358;&#56631;*</p>— Mohammad Hafeez (@MHafeez22) <a href="https://twitter.com/MHafeez22/status/1015207831199461376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Plumb]

Harris Out.
Hafeez/Farhan IN rest keep same team.

 

[moinsahil]

<ul>
<li>fakhar</li>
<li>farhan</li>
<li>hussain talat</li>
<li>shoaib malik</li>
<li>asif ali</li>
<li>sarfraz</li>
<li>faheem ashraf</li>
<li>shadab khan</li>
<li>hassan ali</li>
<li>mohammad amir</li>
<li>shaheen afridi</li>
</ul>

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Farhan in place of Haris is the only change I'd make.

 

[Majid Khan]

Farhan in place of Haris is the only change I'd make.

Yes but then how do the selectors justify their decision to recall Hafeez was correct? so logically they will give Hafeez one more opportunity and knowing the legend, he will come up with a crafty selfish innings of 40 odd off 50 balls and cement his place in the Pakistan team till the next World Cup. The selectors and team management will remind everyone at each press conference of how Hafeez is a big match player and always delivers in big finals like he did v India in Champions Trophy and v Australia in T20 tri-series final.

Of course the fact that he does nothing on route to the final and still miraculously gets selected at every available opportunity is besides the point

 

[pratiktc]

Fakhar & Malik vs Finch & Maxwell.

 

[alishahid]

Word around that farhan is set to make his debut tomo. Hope its true!!

Dont want to see hafeez poking his bat towards the slip off stanlake...again and again

 

[Abdullah719]

 

[MenInG]

Pakistan looking battle-hardened and ready to go for tomorrow.

Let's do this boys!

 

[Ahsanax]

if the opening doesn't click, Sarfraz should come at #3 but then his own form is shaky.. Talat should come at #4/5

 

[Adnan_Ilyas]

Come on boys, lets wrap this up

 

[AssassinatedDevil]

This should be a good one. Further chance to cement our status as number one in the rankings and our status as the best t20 team in the world.

 

[Syed1]

I wonder what it'll be tomorrow a lucky fluke or well deserved humiliation

 

[coy0607]

playing the final without Hassan is a hella bold decision - but the right now. Shaheen / Usman are in better form, glad to see Sarfraz / Mickey recognizing that rather than going with the 'senior'

hopefully Fakhar and Farhan can deliver tomorrow - they can make or break the game

 

[Ab Fan]

I think Australia might sneak this one.

Pakistan after the win against Australia last match are back to being a strong contender which can go against them IMO.

 

[CricVet]

May God keep the fluke going and Sarfraz retire as a captain with the most fluke victories in the Finals of a tournament. When Sarfraz retire, Pakistan end up as a top team in all formats by FLUKE. Ameen!

 

[NoBallZombie]

May God keep the fluke going and Sarfraz retire as a captain with the most fluke victories in the Finals of a tournament. When Sarfraz retire, Pakistan end up as a top team in all formats by FLUKE. Ameen!

Ameen to the flukiest of posts!

 

[NoBallZombie]

The only hurdle to a Pakistan win is Finch, the sooner he gets out, the quicker we have the game in our pockets.

 

[Sadevdesai]

Not going to be easy for either side .... hope the game is not decided by a bad umpiring call or a fluke set of events !!!! They have already played on this pitch 5/6 times .... so it will be a lot slower than usual !!! I am sure both sides know that !!!! Good luck .... may the Best Team Win !!!!!

 

[Oligochaetes]

Yup get Finch win game. That will be the mantra for today