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India vs Pakistan | 5th match | Asia Cup | Dubai | Sep 19, 2018 | Pakistan Innings

So my prediction of Imam being caught behind early on to Dhoni leading to a collapse was correct.

Hope we can take it to 200+.
 
Time for me to take a nap and hope that we pull a miracle in bowling otherwise its okay, we have 2 more chances at redemption. :yk
 
Play sensibly, get to 185-190 and you never know on a slow pitch. This could be a low scoring thriller
 
13 overs left, may be another 70 can make it really, really interesting. 210 won't be easy here, but PCB's wonderful CS has picked 1.5 spinners for the tournament, and their dynamic think tank has opted for 1 of the spinners for his batting & 4 pacers. Couple of genuine finger spinners, I really do back teams to defend 200+ here more often than not.

It might end up as SL tests part II for Pakistan :facepalm:
 
13 overs left, may be another 70 can make it really, really interesting. 210 won't be easy here, but PCB's wonderful CS has picked 1.5 spinners for the tournament, and their dynamic think tank has opted for 1 of the spinners for his batting & 4 pacers. Couple of genuine finger spinners, I really do back teams to defend 200+ here more often than not.

Fakhar should bowl a few overs today ?
 
11 overs to go... if we go at 4 rpo we should end up around 190. Please make it happen Rana jee
 
I would honestly have Shan Masood over Asif Ali. I know one is an opener and another is a middle order batsman, I would move Imam-ul-Haq down to 4.
 
Useful partnership but probably inconsequential. This could be a 10 wicket defeat.
 
I would honestly have Shan Masood over Asif Ali. I know one is an opener and another is a middle order batsman, I would move Imam-ul-Haq down to 4.

Asif Ali is a game changer and cannot be dropped. He should have been sent at 8 today after Shadab and Faheem.
 
Imam will be failed miserably. He got away with HK match but other teams will come hard on us. Shan is also a rubbish batsman, Asif is a hit or miss, Sarfraz is lost is batting (He was never that good).
 
Fakhar should bowl a few overs today ?

It doesn't work that way. Yadav is bowling well here not because he is bowling great, rather PAK batsmen batted with his a$$ in position of head. Wicket is slow & low - that doesn't mean any one bowling spin will trouble batsmen. Farkhar isn't a regular bowler, he'll bowl 1-2 loose balls every over - what better planned batting unit'll do is make sure that they don't give cheap wickets to him & wait for the loose one - from couple of shots in alternate overs, easily an average of 5+ can be managed, even on turners.
 
Shastri is lot fatter than before coaching! (It had to be the other way round isn't it?)
 
We need 2-3 proper batsmen with power hitting abilities to be top 3 team otherwise we will be always around 6-8.
 
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