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Comfortable four wicket victory for England in 2nd ODI against Pakistan

I don't think that Wahab will be picked in any ODI side except Zimbabwe.
 
Why is Imad still bowling. Less than 200 required, we need the strike bowlers now!

What's the point of even playing Yasir?
 
I'm ever amazed by how dreamy are your expectations of tailenders. So all that's required of him is that he become the world's best no 7? And he will do this just by practicing a lot? But we don't actually need an opening strike bowler capable of taking wickets? Because right now, with Amir's form being what it is, we don't have one. No one like Starc, or Steyn, or even a Shami. If he can do about as well as he has in domestics with the ball (ave 18) then he should already be guaranteed a spot.

Hasan Ali is already a bowling all-rounder, roughly a Number 8.5 batsman.

With hard work he could improve his batting to be a Number 7.

But that is much more likely than him growing the extra 6 inches of height that he would need to have any chance of making it as an international bowler.
 
We've let the game slip now, good fight but no way we can win this now, this was an important partnership
 
We're giving the game away while arguably our best strike bowler hasn't even bowled a ball.

Maybe Azhar is waiting for England to get to 200 to bring in Yasir.
 
Need a wicket fast. Crappy Wahab always bowling short England are running away with the match!!!
 
We're giving the game away while arguably our best strike bowler hasn't even bowled a ball.

Maybe Azhar is waiting for England to get to 200 to bring in Yasir.

He's trying to get the leftie out before the legspinner comes on. This leftie is also one of the best players of spin in the world. The tactics aren't too far off here.
 
Wahab's world cup show was a fluke ??

Urm yeah!

I already created a thread in April 2015 about the Wahab hype when Pakistan easily had better bowlers at their disposal.

Yes Sohail Khan and Junaid Khan are still better than Wahab.
 
Yasir Shah is awful, Root is licking his lips. hopefully India lose now though, will be the only consolation
 
that's a 4

move on

and Shah is going to be useless in these conditions with only 250 on the board
 
Hope that doesn't set the tone for how England play Yasir. Yasir is a coward in ODIs who loses the plot after being hit
 
Captain Fantastic gets to start his innings in the same way day in day out, but the youngster playing his first ODI in a year should get a rocket for starting his innings like that? Codswallop.

What kind of a weird philosophy is this. So what if xyz player does this defensive batting everyday. His job is to go out there and score runs. If he cant take a single off ten balls, it is a symptom of a wider disease. I will wait till bowler makes a mistake, because my shots are so limited, or my courage is so low that I cant maneuver it to anywhere for a single. Oh and nobody will say anything to me because I am just a baby in a team of underperformers.
 
The field completely spread. What is this captaincy :facepalm:
 
Wahab has to use all that pace for something. Can't pound it in the middle of the pitch all the time.
 
Azhar should have a few fielders close, because, you know, aggressive.
 
Hasan Ali is already a bowling all-rounder, roughly a Number 8.5 batsman.

With hard work he could improve his batting to be a Number 7.

But that is much more likely than him growing the extra 6 inches of height that he would need to have any chance of making it as an international bowler.

Yeah, I remember you wrote once we should never bother with a bowler who is not 6'9" or some such? Funny how he's nevertheless managed to do better than almost everyone else on the domestic scene barring Sadaf. So yes, no chance at all of course.
 
Idiots think Yasir would've made a difference in the last game. What an absolute trash ODI bowler
 
Shoaib Malik is a good bowler, Azhar Ali needs to bowl himself as well
 
you need scoreboard pressure in the middle overs to produce a wicket.
 
Excellent from Malik. Better ODI bowler than Yasir. Tells you how bad Yasir is
 
Game is over. Yasir is ineffective.Time to do something else. Again wasted time seeing Pakistan play.
 
So what do you do when there's no scoreboard pressure? You've gotta create pressure by closing in the field. By spreading the field, you're just gifting the match.

you need bowlers who can bowl to a field, for that.
 
Hopefully by the end of the series we can get rid of at least 2 of Hafeez, Gul, Malik, Azhar and Wahab
 
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