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A team mired in controversies and stuck in decline since almost an year. How did Pakistan manage to drop a test to this team at their fortress.

Discuss.
 
You only need Rangana Herath, he has been a devastation for Pak since 2004 when he ripped apart Younis, MoYO, INzamam and a complete batting lineup for little to no scores at all.

Also responsible for the 2014 clean sweep.

These new tweeps like Haris and Babar just realizing this guy has been doing it to us 2 generations senior to these new boys
 
Because Pakistan themselves are in a transition phase. This loss should be a good lesson for the team and management.
 
Pakistan just lost the anchors of the side plus batsman played poor as usual.
 
Oh plz. It was a typical disgraceful batting performance. Everything else was fine. I expect us to thrash Sri Lanka in the next test
 
ipl_fan said:
A team mired in controversies and stuck in decline since almost an year. How did Pakistan manage to drop a test to this team at their fortress.

Discuss.
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It seems the biscuit ban which was applied on the srilanka cricket dressing room (during their series against India), has worked wonders for them. :yk2

On a serious note, their experienced batsmen including chandimal and bowlers like Herath deserve a lot of credit for holding their nerve.

Pakistan top order, without Misbah and Younus, were supposed to be vulnerable. This shows they were over-dependent on them.
 
team selection..babar has no place n the side and shan masood plus a spinner was needed..but again pak has never been unbeatable even in uae they have lost to NZ AND WI..
 
From what I came to know today from the posters here,Herath has 100 wickets against Pak from his 400,that is 25% as already said by @IAJ.

Irrespective of how bad Pak batsmen were today,Herath is a real nightmare for them.
 
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Shameful lose. Pak always do the unbelievable. If we can lose to Zimbabwe then why not SL?
 
You can thank Mickey Arthur for going with three pacers on spinning track and moving Azhar Ali from his preferred opening position to bat at one down so that fitness guru Masood could be accommodated.


No wonder Mickey Arthur was unceremoniously fired from each of his previous stints as coach.



Thank you Mickey. Taking Pakistan cricket to uncharted depths.


:salute :salute :salute
 
ipl_fan said:
A team mired in controversies and stuck in decline since almost an year. How did Pakistan manage to drop a test to this team at their fortress.

Discuss.
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Except Yasir Shah,the champ, SL would have won by an inning. Pak lost the game in first 6 sessions with that bowling effort
 
The strategy was baffling. All that was needed was for Sarfraz to bat at #4 in the fourth innings. One reasonably quick partnership would have sealed the win for Pakistan.
 
JaDed said:
No,Windies won one test against Pak too,that too with YK and Misbah in it,they still have higher ceiling than Lanka.
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no i think as a team srilanka is better for asian condition but pak has not superior i have to accept it...we have the worst batting line up in top 8 nations while team selection has been abysmal..
 
  1. Selection errors in Squad i.e. Wahab, Asad, Harris (he has not come after FC performance, He is talented and will perform but that is not the point here!)
  2. Selection errors in the final 11 (3 Pacers on this Pitch?)
  3. Tactical Errors (lost an hour when Abbas played 34 balls for 1 run, should have declared)
 
DRsohail said:
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no i think as a team srilanka is better for asian condition but pak has not superior i have to accept it...we have the worst batting line up in top 8 nations while team selection has been abysmal..
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And Herath is the only difference imo,this Lankan team was without Mathews,that's the only reason this victory might seem better than it is who knows maybe his absence helped them.
 
Rangana Herath is highly underrated as a bowler. Well played sir!
 
Losing to this SL team without Angelo Mathews - arguably their best test batsman. Exposes Pakistan's weaknesses in test cricket.
 
LordJames said:
  1. Selection errors in Squad i.e. Wahab, Asad, Harris (he has not come after FC performance, He is talented and will perform but that is not the point here!)
  2. Selection errors in the final 11 (3 Pacers on this Pitch?)
  3. Tactical Errors (lost an hour when Abbas played 34 balls for 1 run, should have declared)
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Sir Haris was best batsman of the side across the two innings.
 
Syed1 said:
You can thank Mickey Arthur for going with three pacers on spinning track and moving Azhar Ali from his preferred opening position to bat at one down so that fitness guru Masood could be accommodated.


No wonder Mickey Arthur was unceremoniously fired from each of his previous stints as coach.



Thank you Mickey. Taking Pakistan cricket to uncharted depths.


:salute :salute :salute
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He won you the Champions Trophy.

Thankless fans :facepalm:
 
JaDed said:
And Herath is the only difference imo,this Lankan team was without Mathews,that's the only reason this victory might seem better than it is who knows maybe his absence helped them.
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but their batsmen applied them well in the first innings although they were under pressure...and dont forget we just went there with one spinner....we have just one bat and that is azhar the rest are passengers while our bowling wholly depends on yasir..
 
ipl_fan said:
A team mired in controversies and stuck in decline since almost an year. How did Pakistan manage to drop a test to this team at their fortress.

Discuss.
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Didn't it happen against WI? WI hardly competes against any team outside of WI and Pakistan still lost a test to WI. So it's not a new thing here, but not able to chase 130 runs is poor.
 
Two utterly talentless and dull sides. I tried to watch a little bit yesterday but switched off within 20 minutes.

So one third-grade side beat another third-grade side in an empty stadium. Yawn.

What a poor advertisement for Test cricket.
 
DRsohail said:
but their batsmen applied them well in the first innings although they were under pressure...and dont forget we just went there with one spinner....we have just one bat and that is azhar the rest are passengers while our bowling wholly depends on yasir..
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Fair enough.
 
Next test:

Amir out. Asghar in
Parchee Masood out. Usman in
 
English August said:
Two utterly talentless and dull sides. I tried to watch a little bit yesterday but switched off within 20 minutes.

So one third-grade side beat another third-grade side in an empty stadium. Yawn.

What a poor advertisement for Test cricket.
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Yes. Hats off to the people who watched this test more than 1 hour. Including me. :salute
 
English August said:
Two utterly talentless and dull sides. I tried to watch a little bit yesterday but switched off within 20 minutes.

So one third-grade side beat another third-grade side in an empty stadium. Yawn.

What a poor advertisement for Test cricket.
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:salute

That nails it.
 
Lol.And people were saying they could beat India in India.Man, I am so mad that Indian govt does not allow BCCI to schedule series against Pakistan.Would have beaten them way worse than how we dealt with Lankans.
 
I see the Indian trolls are out in force. Actually this side would lose to India but the previous side would not. We are without two or our pillars and it will take some time to gather ourselves. But of course India always wants to play a weaker Pakistan side so I expect an invitation soon.
 
Because Pakistan can't chase anything over 100 in the 4th innings. I have lost count of matches that this team has lost on the final day.
 
Dingolfy said:
Lol.And people were saying they could beat India in India.Man, I am so mad that Indian govt does not allow BCCI to schedule series against Pakistan.Would have beaten them way worse than how we dealt with Lankans.
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Pakistan is so weak right now, we don't even miss playing against them, if a 5 match India-Pakistan test series was to happen now it would be 5-0 in India's favour with each match ending on day 3, the gulf is too big between the two teams :srini
 
Pathetic batting. Shan, Sami, Azhar, Babar, and Sarfraz were all poor.
 
English August said:
Two utterly talentless and dull sides. I tried to watch a little bit yesterday but switched off within 20 minutes.

So one third-grade side beat another third-grade side in an empty stadium. Yawn.

What a poor advertisement for Test cricket.
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I think you are being harsh. Pakistan really batted well in the first inning and so did Lankans.It was a nail biter in the end. Cricket needs such matches
 
ToeCrusher2 said:
Pakistan is so weak right now, we don't even miss playing against them, if a 5 match India-Pakistan test series was to happen now it would be 5-0 in India's favour with each match ending on day 3, the gulf is too big between the two teams :srini
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Calm down bro, let's not rub it in, u got to give credit where it's due, I think it was all about who handles the pressure better, we have seen pak losing when they couldn't score 2 of the last over against Maxwell of all people so yeah it's all about pressure.
 
Sri Lanka are always a force in Asian conditions even if they're currently under par for them. Find it ridiculous why we continue to not rate them.

India are the best team in asia which is why they steamrolled Sri Lanka. Asian conditions are pretty similar, thus Asian teams don't have a huge home advantage as such if they're playing each other whether home or away.

Makes me laugh again when people go on about having a two tier test system thinking there's a huge gulf between sides like Pakistan and Sri Lanka or Pakistan and New Zealand. There isn't really, pretty much every team are favourites at their own home down to West Indies who aren't favourites home or away but do win the odd test. Rather than the individual strengths of a team making a difference in test cricket, the biggest factor is conditions. In this situation, conditions were fairly familiar for both teams, hence a decent match and SL won. Even this SL team, probably had the best chance of beating us after India in the UAE.
 
lehen said:
I think you are being harsh. Pakistan really batted well in the first inning and so did Lankans.It was a nail biter in the end. Cricket needs such matches
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The game was good, looking at the result on the final day. But both teams were really defensive, too much in fact btw the dropped catches came back to bite Pak in the (back)end ;-)
 
ToeCrusher2 said:
Pakistan is so weak right now, we don't even miss playing against them, if a 5 match India-Pakistan test series was to happen now it would be 5-0 in India's favour with each match ending on day 3, the gulf is too big between the two teams :srini
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You are living in a fantasy land. This result was an aberration.

Make no mistake, Pakistan would beat India in tests. No wonder BCCI/GoI is so scared to organise a series.
 
mak36 said:
You are living in a fantasy land. This result was an aberration.

Make no mistake, Pakistan would beat India in tests. No wonder BCCI/GoI is so scared to organise a series.
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lol aberration :yk defeat against windies was an aberration too :yk 6th ranking is an aberration too :yk
 
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Getting a bit tired of the rubbish posts on this thread.

This thread is NOT about Pakistan vs India.

This thread is NOT about Pakistan in ODIs.

This thread is NOT about CT final.

Hope that's clear.

Discuss Pak vs SL and Tests.
 
Stop mixing formats. Work out what you want to say, then post.

Yes, "normalcy" has been restored as Pakistan are the Champions. :yk2
 
Fair to say we made Lanka look worse than they are.

And they're coming for another 3-test series in a month. Ouch.

I expect Pakistan to bounce back strongly though. They haven't lost a series in the UAE yet, have they? That includes England and South Africa back when they were #1.
 
Varun said:
Fair to say we made Lanka look worse than they are.

And they're coming for another 3-test series in a month. Ouch.

I expect Pakistan to bounce back strongly though. They haven't lost a series in the UAE yet, have they? That includes England and South Africa back when they were #1.
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And we also :D
 
Varun said:
Fair to say we made Lanka look worse than they are.

And they're coming for another 3-test series in a month. Ouch.

I expect Pakistan to bounce back strongly though. They haven't lost a series in the UAE yet, have they? That includes England and South Africa back when they were #1.
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Even South Africa and NZ haven't lost a series in UAE yet :srini

Not losing a series in UAE isn't a big deal, even lanka won't lose this series now
 
Varun said:
Fair to say we made Lanka look worse than they are.

And they're coming for another 3-test series in a month. Ouch.
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India played simply too well in SL. Visiting side doesn't dominate that way for entire tour. Unless, India plays the same way in India, SL can provide some good contest. Not likely to win series, but they can sneak some wins.

A long shot, but it's possible. Main problem will be this Indian team is focused on winning every match so it will be hard unless SL plays really well and catches Indian off guard.
 
Buffet said:
India played simply too well in SL. Visiting side doesn't dominate that way for entire tour. Unless, India plays the same way in India, SL can provide some good contest. Not likely to win series, but they can sneak some wins.
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In test matches? No chance. Sri lanka has never won a single test match in India in their entire cricketing history, even their great team failed to win any test match here so I am 100% sure they can sneak even a single test win in India but they can sneak a few limited overs wins though
 
Buffet said:
India played simply too well in SL. Visiting side doesn't dominate that way for entire tour. Unless, India plays the same way in India, SL can provide some good contest. Not likely to win series, but they can sneak some wins.

A long shot, but it's possible. Main problem will be this Indian team is focused on winning every match so it will be hard unless SL plays really well and catches Indian off guard.
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Lanka have never won a test match in India I think and that's when they had their greats - Murali,Jaya,sanga etc. No chance of them winning this time. Won't win a single match .
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Lanka have never won a test match in India I think and that's when they had their greats - Murali,Jaya,sanga etc. No chance of them winning this time. Won't win a single match .
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They might win an ODI or T20 though.
 
ToeCrusher2 said:
In test matches? No chance. Sri lanka has never won a single test match in India in their entire cricketing history, even their great team failed to win any test match here so I am 100% sure they can sneak even a single test win in India but they can sneak a few limited overs wins though
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Yah, it's hard for inferior team to win in a game which goes for 5 days.
 
ToeCrusher2 said:
In test matches? No chance. Sri lanka has never won a single test match in India in their entire cricketing history, even their great team failed to win any test match here so I am 100% sure they can't sneak even a single test win in India but they can sneak a few limited overs wins though
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Fixed
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Lanka have never won a test match in India I think and that's when they had their greats - Murali,Jaya,sanga etc. No chance of them winning this time. Won't win a single match .
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If I am not wrong, Only Jaya performed well in India. Murali and Sanga were useless in India. It's hard to win in India unless your main players perform in a big way.
 
1.We were without Misbah and Younis.This was our first test after their retirements.They not only contributed with the bat but their influence in the dressing room and on the field is and will be very hard to replace.

2.Some odd selections,like going in with only 1 regular spinner and selecting 3 pacers on a wicket which proved great for spin.Our openers also need to be a bit more proactive.We never should have dropped Azhar back to no.3 when its clear that he's been our best opener since Saeed Anwar.Babar also need to be sent back to FC to develop his test game.He should still be on the radar,mind you.

3.Herath
 
Buffet said:
If I am not wrong, Only Jaya performed well in India. Murali and Sanga were useless in India. It's hard to win in India unless your main players perform in a big way.
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Jaya being Jayasuriya or Jayawardene?
 
Similar to how India lost to Australia at home recently . This can happen on a pitch that breaks up especially when the opposition has decent spinners.
The selection and strategy was terrible from Pakistan and Micky must take the blame.
 
No excuses here. Pakistan were rubbish and deserved to lose. Congrats to Sri Lanka.
 
Gulf b/w Pakistan and India is massive, having a one dimensional batting line up where everyone has just one defensive gear of batting doesn't help.

Shafiq needs to be dropped and will be dropped now that he can no longer hide behind Azhar Ali and Younis. I can assure you Misbah's absence made no difference.

Amir needs to be benched as well, surely Wahab with some extra pace would not have fared worse and might have atleast picked up a wicket or two.
 
R0H1T said:
The game was good, looking at the result on the final day. But both teams were really defensive, too much in fact btw the dropped catches came back to bite Pak in the (back)end ;-)
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Man, they dropped catches also with this pathetic batting display? And somebody here were claiming that they are one of the 'better' fielding teams now.Looks like all that enthuisasm in the Independence cup has died down in UAE heat.
 
Sri Lanka batsmen showed better techniques, they got out in the second innings because they made mistakes.
 
Dingolfy said:
Man, they dropped catches also with this pathetic batting display? And somebody here were claiming that they are one of the 'better' fielding teams now.Looks like all that enthuisasm in the Independence cup has died down in UAE heat.
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Shafiq didn't play in the Independence Cup....
 
Buffet said:
If I am not wrong, Only Jaya performed well in India. Murali and Sanga were useless in India. It's hard to win in India unless your main players perform in a big way.
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Yeah Sanga was not the beast he was in UAE and SL when he came here. I honestly hope we dont play SL for another 4-5 years after this.
 
Even with Misbah and Younis a ranking of 6th doesn't show any real progress after the away tours were completed.
Losing to Sri Lanka is not a big shock who aren't too far behind in terms of quality.
 
What did anyone expect after Misbah and Younis left? Did you honestly think MisYou only brought their batting to the table with this team? They were leaders who had the ability to inspire younger players and guide them through their innings. We have no one for that mentoring role anymore. Besides Azhar Ali, name me a consistent performer in this team? The batting line-up is very new and will take a lot of time to adjust. Also Herath is no ******-panjoo.

Comparisons with India and any other team with a settled batting line-up is useless.
 
Loosing against Lanka isn't upset.. It's not like loosing a test against Bangladesh.
 
They cant even chase 136, Herath or not its a total you expect the batting team to win. But always Pakistan find a way to mess up like only they do.
 
Usman Chadda said:
What did anyone expect after Misbah and Younis left? Did you honestly think MisYou only brought their batting to the table with this team? They were leaders who had the ability to inspire younger players and guide them through their innings. We have no one for that mentoring role anymore. Besides Azhar Ali, name me a consistent performer in this team? The batting line-up is very new and will take a lot of time to adjust. Also Herath is no ******-panjoo.

Comparisons with India and any other team with a settled batting line-up is useless.
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Not long ago, Pak lost to WI in UAE.

At least this time, Pak lost to the guile of Herath. But getting destroyed by Bishoo is something else. These pitches are not even rank turners like you find in India from time to time.
 
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