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Contrary to the popular notion about Pakistan being unpredictable and exciting, I find the current Pakistan team to be the most boring test team to watch. There is no excitement especially when they bat. There is lack of intent and no proactiveness. Its like they are stuck in the 80s batting at 2 runs per over. Is it just me or others feel the same way as well?
I don't understand the whining.
It's a 3-test series. This innings alone has deflated Australia for the rest of this game. If they go 0-1 down, it will be hard to get back up again.
I don't understand the whining.
It's a 3-test series. This innings alone has deflated Australia for the rest of this game. If they go 0-1 down, it will be hard to get back up again.
After two days, the first innings ends at 475 against an opponent like Australia?
Unless Pak bowlers show some spectacular bowling, the chances of a draw become slightly higher in such cases, (Misbah’s favorite test match result)
If you have batted for two days, you should’ve 600+ on the board to put a real hard pressure on the likes of Australia.
Well,
Let’s hope the game turns interesting and we see a hard fought result.
fyi misbah has most wins as a test captain for pakistan..
also, 600 runs is possible when you play 180 overs atleast.
How was ur experience

It all depends on the type of players you have at your disposal.
At the moment Pakistan doesn't really have many flamboyant cricketers who can change the course of a match in a short space of time.
The players are steady rather than spectacular these days in the Pakistan camp.
We the fans are more upset because we are just not used to steady. Growing up we have always seen flamboyance in Pakistan cricket and today it is clearly missing. Yes we have big total on board which took 2 days but how can you expect people to stay interested in test cricket with this bore fest?
If you drill down, you will notice that it was mostly a combo of Saeed Ajmal and UAE pitches that played an integral part behind many of those wins.
Any Pak captain would’ve taken the crown - Misbah had no personal batting impact in many of those wins.
If there are 2 runs to win, and it’s last over of day 5, and the last two men are on the crease with Misbah facing, Misbah would block the first 5 balls and happily take a single to avoid defeat.
This is all what Misbah’s batting mindset and batting approach was.
He was a one dimensional batsmen who was super good in doing tuk tuk to cover up his inability of innovation and lack of bravery.
But yes, one thing I WILL give to Misbah.
He pulled Saeed Ajmal into the Pak team thru his personal influence - otherwise Ajmal was long discarded by our idiotic selectors.
The Aussies going at 4 an over in our back garden whilst we were going at 2ish throughout our 1st innings, what an embarrassment.
Hopefully, Aus win the toss next game and bat first, give the fans something to watch.
Man this is not acceptable... Look at the pitch and tired bowling and also situation of the match... This block block block is no way justified... This is worst personal selfish cricket on display
When you play selfish players in the team, this is supposed to happen... Declaration was not early, it was the lack of intent of batters that will halt them badly.. I kept on saying that scoring at 2 runs an over is not justified on this pitch also when you are 300 for 1... But some PPers here were saying that we are t20 lovers and do not know the test cricket.. Now good luck with your test cricket guys.. I guess khwaja and Warner also doesn't know much about test cricket and they are also playing t20
"If we try to play fast and get out of our comfort zone, we get out".
Our test batting culture has Misbah written all over it.
They are playing in different pitches against VERY different oppositions. Pakistan is playing against a World Cup winning team that is ranked No. 1 in Tests and is on the back of a thumping Ashes win.
India, on the other hand, is playing against Sri Lanka. Need I say more?
because we have been watching tonty tonty cricket for 6 months now.... People here expect Shaheen to come in the first over and take wickets and rizwan and Babar to smackk 4s and 6 from the first over.
To get a resullt off this wicket, you need to stay on it as long as you can and let the pitch crack.
Australia played to our advantage by having 3 main pacers player, thus cracking the pitch more for us.
The score is good enough against a quality bowling. Had the team batted at 3.5 an over fans would had still cried about it. Its the t20 effect.
On such pitches scoring runs are not as important as staying on the wicket and get the bowler to create footmarks on the pitch and open it up. Pakistan with 3 spinners can have a field day now if it doesnt rain
My biggest concern is the bowling attack's ability to pick up 20 wickets. On such a flat wicket, you should atleast have 3 pacers along with 2 spinners. 2 pacers will be run to the ground but when you play an extra pacer, you allow them to be used in short sharp bursts. Mohd Wasim Jr should have been picked in place of Iftikhar.
This is not about flamboyance, flair, talent. It’s about batsmanship, guts, game awareness. Khawaja is not flamboyant or has any flair, but he’s playing at a good rate, and just at the rate the team needs it.
We can’t just give up and say “oh well, we haven’t got any flair so let’s just give up”
No South Africa are the ultimate bores. I hate watching them play.
Not when they are playing at home
Pakistan is probably the only team that plays for draws even in home tests !
I don't think playing for draws at home to Aus is a tragedy. We haven't had a home series in Pak for donkey's years so the groundsmen could have been unprepared. They may even have forgotten how to prepare a result oriented wicket.
If you are playing for a draw against Australia at home - wonder what the team's mindset is when they tour Australia ?
Anyways not a good look for any team to play for draw at home !
Definitely. I am sure that if Aus won the toss in Pindi test, we would have a result in that test because they would have scored 500 runs at the runrate above 4 and Pakistan batters would have crumbled under pressure there.
The funny thing is that Pakistan players and captain have been very happy with their timid performances in the first test. Babar is telling in press conferences that his team took 10 wickets of Australia and his batters score 100s, like this is what is required from his team. He needs to understand the to be a top 3 team, he needs wins and an attractive brand of cricket where the teams bat at runrate above 4.
In the second test, there are already a lot of questions marks on the captaincy of Babar on first day. The leg-side tactic for extended period, the under-utilization of pacers when ball was reversing, the lack of attacking plans. These are not the things that will bode well for Babar.
Someone should remind him that you need 20 wickets to win a test.
Yes im sure he realises that
What you and a lot of ppers dont realise is that you cant let the game get away from you either in pursuit of wkts
Theres no point going all out only to get a punch in the face
Aus were going at over 3.5 an over after the first 2 sessions n the pitch looks dead If you cant get wkts the next best thing to do is slow the run rate down which hez done
Pakistan are still in the game n can attack tmrw morning n a couple of early wkts and they wil be on top
Yes im sure he realises that
What you and a lot of ppers dont realise is that you cant let the game get away from you either in pursuit of wkts
Aus were going at over 3.5 an over after the first 2 sessions n the pitch looks dead If you cant get wkts the next best thing to do is slow the run rate down which hez done
Pakistan are still in the game n can attack tmrw morning n a couple of early wkts and they wil be on top
If you forget the historic nature of the tour and look purely on the cricketing aspect, Pakistan is the worst place for Test cricket.
The SAF series last year was an outlier. Most Test series have been like this in Pakistan pre-2009 - dull, painstakingly slow moving Tests on placid, unresponsive pitches.
There's a reason why Test crowds were so poor pre-2009.
Pakistan are still in the game n can attack tmrw morning n a couple of early wkts and they wil be on top
Yup, this was the place where draws abounded, where hacks like Sehwag was making triple centuries for fun.
Dont think Pakistan is the most boring team.
But for sure its the worst place to advertise test cricket.
Pakistan lack that elite factor in their side too many passengers being carried
Even India of 90s had some decent batters but absolute pop gun attack so one two decent batsman and one two decent bowlers of this current Pakistan team is remiscent to India of 90sit reminds me of Indian cricket team from 90s
Even India of 90s had some decent batters but absolute pop gun attack so one two decent batsman and one two decent bowlers of this current Pakistan team is remiscent to India of 90s
They have been playing a terrible brand of cricket for over a decade now.
They show glimpses of returning to their former strong side when they had Inzimam, Yousuf, Younis, Akhtar. Afridi, Razzaq and players who were playing the correct brand of cricket appropriate to that time.
Even guys like Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed would play at a strike rate of 50+
Now a strike rate of 35 is very much the norm
Pakistan lacks proper match winners, guys that can turn the match on its head. Babar is good but he's elevated by the mediocrity that surrounds him.
No guys with any sort of flair or swagger. As a result, the cricket is dull, boring and horrible to watch, basically watching 4 or 5 of your main batters trying to survive rather than playing shots and taking it to the opposition.