ICC World Cup 2023: Pakistan v Afghanistan | Match 22 | Chennai | 23 October | Pakistan Innings

[TheSultan]

Saud seems to have settled - I want to see an innings from him where he doesn’t throw it away

 

[pillionrider]

Saud looks like a less ugly version of Fawad

 

[imshally81]

Good running

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

Waiting till 40 overs to unleash ..... I believe. might not be a bad plan.

 

[adzzy786]

Saud looks like a less ugly version of Fawad

No Saud looks much better, we should keep with him. He will come good

 

[Major]

250 can be tricky here as the pitch has nothing for pacers. But it has something for spinners.

Issue is our captain is playing 2 spinners, and you never know babar, he might even bowl ifti for five overs instead of ten because he thinks if your part timer gets attacked once, you dont bowl him again .

To defend 250, the pacers will need to have some luck and shadab needs to turn it somehow

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Waiting till 40 overs to unleash ..... I believe. might not be a bad plan.

210-215 by 40th, 70 from last 10?

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

Need a hundered runs partnership and this match will be on.

 

[mominsaigol]

Babar is such a thorn to watch against spin honestly. Yawn innings.

 

[160KPH]

250 can be tricky here as the pitch has nothing for pacers. But it has something for spinners.

Issue is our captain is playing 2 spinners, and you never know babar, he might even bowl ifti for five overs instead of ten because he thinks if your part timer gets attacked once, you dont bowl him again .

To defend 250, the pacers will need to have some luck and shadab needs to turn it somehow

Cutters by Shaheen and Hasan are gonna be deadly here

 

[pillionrider]

No Saud looks much better, we should keep with him. He will come good

Is Haris injured or was his form terrible

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

210-215 by 40th, 70 from last 10?

100 ...

 

[BouncerGuy]

excellent shot by saud. reverse sweep

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

 

[RidiculousMan]

I have come to realize that Babar is not really a worry some batter. As an opponent, you never really quite feel threaten when he's on crease like other world class batters that Babar is going to take the game away from you when he's batting. You never feel like he will punish you if you let him bat for long.

Except for a couple innings in this format. There really is nothing much from Babar to suggest he is really among the greatest ODI batters.

 

[imshally81]

 

[Usman Chadda]

Good batting by Saud now, looks better against conventional spinner.

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

100 ...

Difficult

 

[adzzy786]

Is Haris injured or was his form terrible

In reserves

 

[Mockingbird]

Just woke up to this - don’t know why you guys are crying. Pak is doing extremely well here - 5 an over on this pitch is great. Afg does not have the batting

 

[Mas-LFC]

Pitch isn’t as bad, looks bit on the slow side. 250 isnt a winning score, Pakistan will need 280. Plus under the light it comes on better.

 

[nish_mate]

Come on Saud, take the bull by its horns..not gonna get much support from BA

 

[Third Man]

By all tricks in the book, I meant all variations.

And no this trick hasn't ruined spin bowling, Shane Warne would like to have a word with you

Shane Warne basically had a good filpper, that's all and that flipper won't work on this pitch because it doesn't skid.

 

[Major]

Beshan Bedi passed away today. He would had been proud with todays game.

Sad stuff.

He fought against chuckers all his life and today we are seeing leggies and chinamen because of him

 

[aukhan]

 

[NeVerMind]

Damn...Saud holes out just when he was looking good!

 

[castortroy]

Another embarrassing shot by a pak batsman

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

ooppsss.

 

[adzzy786]

Good batting by Saud now, looks better against conventional spinner.

yaar he faced 3/4 balls and all the kid posters were jumping on him. Guessing most people never played cricket. Can take even the greatest players a few balls to get used to the pitch

 

[shah_1]

The problem with Saud Shakeel

Play pretty 20 and 30s, then get out

 

[BouncerGuy]

Here you go. Saud is gone now. this guy is throwing his wickets away in every match

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Lo ji saud gone

 

[RidiculousMan]

Pitch isn’t as bad, looks bit on the slow side. 250 isnt a winning score, Pakistan will need 280. Plus under the light it comes on better.

It looks like the usual Chennai pitch we have seen in this World Cup, barring the India v Australia game.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

What is the meaning of this shot?

 

[imshally81]

Gone

 

[Asif321]

Poor dismissal

 

[aukhan]

 

[castortroy]

Just go for power rather than placement

 

[TheSultan]

Thrown it away again when he was just starting to settle

 

[adzzy786]

Dumb shot

 

[BouncerGuy]

After 34 overs, Pakistan is 163/4 now

 

[Ahmed216]

Saud seems to have settled - I want to see an innings from him where he doesn’t throw it away

Bang on. He does it again

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

We are in tail already

 

[160KPH]

This is a hard pitch to bat on, people will realize once Pakistan bowls here. There’s no way Afghanistan will even cross 200

 

[Firebat]

This guy has a habit of throwing it away as soonas he starts looking good.

 

[Azzurri]

All this afghan attitude comes against Pakistan.

 

[Usman Chadda]

Same issue once more, throwing your wicket away against the run of play.

Terrible batting under pressure, all there is to it really.

 

[aukhan]

Poor from Shafiq 2.0

 

[NeVerMind]

Chacha in now, our "best" player against spin

 

[batandballbattle]

pressure goes back on us...
maybe chacha can break the shackles a little

 

[Asif321]

lol shady ahead of Ifti . Talk about confidence in your batter

 

[topspin]

This is a hard pitch to bat on, people will realize once Pakistan bowls here. There’s no way Afghanistan will even cross 200

They will if Gurbaz has a good innings. He's class.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Chacha in now, our "best" player against spin

He can't read spin off the hand. He will get out very soon against Rashid or Noor. Better to send Shadab up the order and leave Iftikhar for later.

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

This is a hard pitch to bat on, people will realize once Pakistan bowls here. There’s no way Afghanistan will even cross 200

I hope so ....

 

[Mas-LFC]

Gone!

 

[Asif321]

Chacha in now, our "best" player against spin

It’s shady on

 

[Savak]

Saud is apparently one of the best players of Spin Bowling in Pakistan. This tells you how bad the quality of batting in Pakistan is.

 

[The_KING]

These players are so bloody brainless. I feel like smashing everything in my office right now, I am so angry.

 

[RKhan_Cricket]

Someone tell ramiz to keep quiet
Whenever he starts praising
He doesn't stop
Till that players loses his wicket.

 

[RidiculousMan]

lol shady ahead of Ifti . Talk about confidence in your batter

Iftikhar has a genuine problem against reading spinner off the hand. Guys like Rashid and Noor are quick. If you can't read quick spinners off the hand, you will not have enough time to adjust.

 

[Ahmed216]

Saud needs to cut down on these cheeky chips over the in field. Seen him get out so often in this manner. So much of risk for a single.

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

Our bowling needs to deliver big time today.

 

[Asif321]

Should have played Sarfraz ahead of saud tbh

 

[VForVendetta]

Pathetic once again from Saud, gives away after wasting 35 deliveries, either he is a mental midget or he has learned the con art of staying in the team for 10 matches on the basis of one minnow bashing. Can't blame the lad though, it's a standard procedure in Babar & friends XI.

 

[castortroy]

You need one batsman to really go after the spin and that disrupts the whole set up.

Pak unfortunately have these weak, timid batters in the line up that are unable to clear the boundaries to make huge imoacts in games

 

[daytrader]

Please don't collapse. Immense pressure on Babar now

 

[Asif321]

Iftikhar has a genuine problem against reading spinner off the hand. Guys like Rashid and Noor are quick. If you can't read quick spinners off the hand, you will not have enough time to adjust.

That makes Ifti a crap batter then

 

[topspin]

If Ifti is so good against spin, why is Shadab coming in before him?

 

[King_Babar]

If Pakistan plays entire 50 over, they will win it, otherwise AFG will have their 1st win vs Pak in ODIs.

 

[BouncerGuy]

SPinners are gonna choke this pakistani side even more now

 

[160KPH]

They will if Gurbaz has a good innings. He's class.

He’s a hack imo

 

[Mainul]

Saud seems to have settled - I want to see an innings from him where he doesn’t throw it away

He has . I had high expectations from him. But he hasn't delivered yet. Today was a great opportunity for him.

 

[IAJ]

lol shady ahead of Ifti . Talk about confidence in your batter

Smart move. Need Chacha for latter overs. He is a walking wicket against spin

 

[amvbfm]

250 can be tricky here as the pitch has nothing for pacers. But it has something for spinners.

Issue is our captain is playing 2 spinners, and you never know babar, he might even bowl ifti for five overs instead of ten because he thinks if your part timer gets attacked once, you dont bowl him again .

To defend 250, the pacers will need to have some luck and shadab needs to turn it somehow

Afridi bowled well last game. Expect him to do well especially if there is any movement under lights. The real issue as you said will be Babar's handling of the bowlers. He needs to optimize his resources, bowl whoever is bowling well on that particular day instead of sticking to his formulaic captaincy of 4 from Shaheen, 5 from Hasan, bring Haris for 3, don't bowl spinners before 15 must save 5 from Shaheen and 5 from Haris for the last ten etc. etc. Also Haris and Hasan, especially the former will have to use their brains.

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

Lets see if shadab will attack.

 

[Asif321]

Babar almost gone

 

[CerebralPatriot]

Should have played Sarfraz ahead of saud tbh

Saud is fine

Sarfraz should have been over Rizwan and Azam over Iftikhar

 

[IAJ]

But Saud is really irritating me. Dont need 20s to 40s from him. A big score. If he continues like this he will be out of the team.

 

[Ahmed216]

This innings may fold very quickly now.

 

[daytrader]

Good move to promote Shadab