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New Zealand [659/6 dec] beat Pakistan [297 & 186] by an innings & 176 runs to win series [2-0]

That century of fawad will hurt us for another series. Pathetic batsmen.
 
NZ players having a picnic at this point judging by their body language and facial expressions
 
Damn

Shan, Abid, Sarfraz and Haris all sitting together chatting there

They were all important players for Pakistan just a little over a year ago. Now they are all basically done and dusted.

You make your best friends in battle trenches. There wasn’yt much of a battle here but at least the four are now the best of chums.
 
You make your best friends in battle trenches. There wasn’yt much of a battle here but at least the four are now the best of chums.

they should open a youtube channel lile all the berozegars are doing in pakistan.
 
A strong selector may drop Fawad here and possibly only keep Azhar from this XI (amongst batsmen) in the side.

With Babar’s return that should be enough for the phasing in of new players over the next 2 years given most of our series are at home.
 
Years ago , PCB prioritised limited overs format by playing a lot of 2 test series and lot of odis and t20s.

our A tour also had a lot of t20s , and we are rubbish in all formats.

time to go.
 
Ken khamokha got tense and declared yesterday- could have batting lunch today and still could have played golf tomorrow...
 
Ken khamokha got tense and declared yesterday- could have batting lunch today and still could have played golf tomorrow...

Safe to say Test Cricket aka home domination has been solved. It provides no real valuable entertainment save only few times. Even India was averaging like 157 last time they toured NZ.
 
I m glad he failed yet again.He will keep failing again and again apart from few knocks here and there.Useless player.
 
Ken khamokha got tense and declared yesterday- could have batting lunch today and still could have played golf tomorrow...

With Pak you never know, they somehow turn up when you least expect, but like last test the end result would still be same but this time KW wanted to make it a lot easier for themselves. And even he wouldn't have imagined it would be this easy.
 
With Pak you never know, they somehow turn up when you least expect, but like last test the end result would still be same but this time KW wanted to make it a lot easier for themselves. And even he wouldn't have imagined it would be this easy.

Bro, talk in past tense only ....
 
Good that Jamieson did not have Lockie Ferguson supporting him from the other end.

Apart from most PAK bastmen soiling their trousers, Jamieson could have really had a share of his wickets taken away.
 
Good that Jamieson did not have Lockie Ferguson supporting him from the other end.

Apart from most PAK bastmen soiling their trousers, Jamieson could have really had a share of his wickets taken away.

India 36 all out would be under serious threat along with half team injured.
 
Faheem seems a better batsmen then our main batsmens and that's a problem. Though good to see faheem bat well and clearly he's improved his batting. Got more shots then tail ender shan.
 
One sliver lining from this series loss is that India might not okay test world championship finals.I m happy for that.
 
In 90s we were champions in hockey, squash, snooker and decent in some other games as well.

Seems like cricket maybe is on the same path? I pray hopefully not!!! But overall decline is so visible now...
 
Faheem seems a better batsmen then our main batsmens and that's a problem. Though good to see faheem bat well and clearly he's improved his batting. Got more shots then tail ender shan.

Its easy for bowlers to score runs, they are not under pressure to score. Their runs should not be counted unless they perform their primary job, that is to take wickets and Faheem has been a failure as bowler, before and during this tour.
 
Its easy for bowlers to score runs, they are not under pressure to score. Their runs should not be counted unless they perform their primary job, that is to take wickets and Faheem has been a failure as bowler, before and during this tour.

Faheem plays as an all rounder in case you have forgotten. Not as a bowler. Just a remainder.
 
Faheem plays as an all rounder in case you have forgotten. Not as a bowler. Just a remainder.

His point still stands though, a #8 batsman doesn't have the pressure.

You can try to polish it any way you want but Faheem's coming in at #8 not Top 5 or 6.
 
Faheem has had a decent series. But i would have liked him to pick up more wickets. Yes he is not a strike bowler but he needs to atleast pick up 2-3 wickets per innings atleast. He is a gun barrel straight bowler, atleast add reverse swing to your game.
 
We have played others bowlers with ease, but not able to cope with extra bounce of KJ
 
His point still stands though, a #8 batsman doesn't have the pressure.

You can try to polish it any way you want but Faheem's coming in at #8 not Top 5 or 6.

Did I disagree? Faheem plays as an all rounder... Not sure why it's so hard to understand.
 
Faheem has had a decent series. But i would have liked him to pick up more wickets. Yes he is not a strike bowler but he needs to atleast pick up 2-3 wickets per innings atleast. He is a gun barrel straight bowler, atleast add reverse swing to your game.
Dude, he has gotten the most movement of all the bowlers.
 
Faheem plays as an all rounder in case you have forgotten. Not as a bowler. Just a remainder.

"All rounder " whos top score in 25 ODIs is 28, and total 185 runs in 25 matches , is that your definition of an all rounder ?
 
"All rounder " whos top score in 25 ODIs is 28, and total 185 runs in 25 matches , is that your definition of an all rounder ?

Are we playing tests or odi right now? FYI I don't like Faheem and don't want him in odis or t20.
 
One sliver lining from this series loss is that India might not okay test world championship finals.I m happy for that.

They will and they have earned it. That win at MCG was massive - now they can lose last two Tests and blow Poms at home to make the final.
 
I agree Faheem is chosen as a bowler first. His batting has been decent for an allrounder but bowling has been trash like the others.

But I think we have bigger concerns in the form of our other bowlers + openers
 
These two are determined to cost Kiwi board around £100 extra ... guess how?
 
One player who has the potential to become a fast bowling allrounder is Hasan Ali, he is not there yet but can become one . Amad Butt's is also a better bowler than Faheem.

You got to be bowling at least around 135 kmh in tests, not 127-128 like Faheem.
 
I'm not the one to laugh at anyone's misery. But will have to honestly say that Pakistan has been disastrous so far in this particular Test match.
 
I'm not the one to laugh at anyone's misery. But will have to honestly say that Pakistan has been disastrous so far in this particular Test match.

Hardly a surprise....NZ are too good at home for most if not all
 
One player who has the potential to become a fast bowling allrounder is Hasan Ali, he is not there yet but can become one . Amad Butt's is also a better bowler than Faheem.

You got to be bowling at least around 135 kmh in tests, not 127-128 like Faheem.

Faheem is young and improving day by day. Amad Butt is not going to come in and do way better than him.

Hasan is a slogger with the bat. He would not survive against NZ bowlers.

Faheem has worked on his defensive technique with Moyo. His ODI record will get better from now on.
 
I think NZ and India are equally good, rest are just HTB. Some are not even HTB like pakistan. NZ do well in Asia except India, India does well in SENA except NZ. India competes like noone else nowadays in Australia, they were okay in SA and Eng. And dominate everywhere else. NZ does well in UAE, completes in SL and other countries as well.
 
I'm not the one to laugh at anyone's misery. But will have to honestly say that Pakistan has been disastrous so far in this particular Test match.
You can say a lot worse, no one will mind the truth.
 
You can say a lot worse, no one will mind the truth.

Bro, I know most Indian fans would rejoice at this. But truth be told, it's sad. Sad to see a once very competitive Pakistan team whom we Indian fans feared to play against in the 90's, turn out to this.
 
Like Faheem , didn't bowl well but Zafar enjoying his batting, no pressure. But have to agree, Faheem really batted well .
 
I like what I saw from Zafar.

Needs to be tested in Asia before being discarded. Should replace Yasir for SA series.
 
Some people are asking what time Misbah's flight will be landing at Lahore airport ?
 
Humiliating. Did Pak manage to win the "Batted better than India in NZ" trophy?
 
Pakistan consistently lose half the side before scoring 100 in this series. Isn’t this something that was a norm during Misbah Captaincy days.

Since Misbah took over even with Babar in the SENA tests they were able to pass 300 only once in England and twice in Aus that’s it.
 
New Zealand began 2021 in the best possible manner, bowling out Pakistan for 186 in their second innings to seal an innings and 176-run victory – a result that pushed them to the summit of the MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings for the very first time.

Pakistan resumed on the fourth morning at 8/1, after New Zealand had posted a mammoth lead 362, but were up against it, with Kyle Jamieson continuing his meteoric rise in Test cricket, taking another five-wicket-haul to dismantle the visitors, to end with match figures of 11/117.

There was resistance from Azhar Ali (37), Abid Ali (26) and later Faheem Ashraf (28) and Zafar Gohar (37), but the batsmen couldn’t stitch together partnerships big enough to demotivate New Zealand, and that proved to be their undoing.

It didn’t take long on the fourth morning for New Zealand to break through, Trent Boult working over nightwatchman Mohammad Abbas, who was convinced he hadn’t nicked it and opted for a review, only for replays to suggest the on-field umpire had made the right call.

If New Zealand thought that would trigger a slide, they were mistaken. Abid and Azhar put on 29 for the third wicket, the partnership taking up as many as 80 deliveries before Abid was seen off by Jamieson, thanks to a stunning catch by substitute fielder Will Young at point.

Azhar continued battling, with Sohail in support, and the duo added a further 33 after lunch. However, once again, Jamieson proved too hot for the Pakistan batsmen to handle, the tall pacer this time finding the edge of Sohail to break the stand. When Azhar followed suit four overs later – Jamieson had him caught behind – the writing was on the wall for Pakistan.

The Pakistan batsmen then put on mini-partnerships, only delaying what increasingly seemed inevitable. Jamieson had his fifth wicket of the innings – and 10th in the match – when his inswinger from well outside off left captain Mohammad Rizwan’s stumps in a mess. When he had Ashraf nicking one, Pakistan’s resistance was all but over.

Zafar Gohar, the debutant, resisted well thereafter, but captain Kane Williamson got into the act with the ball at the other end, dismissing Shaheen Afridi (7). When Gohar then holed out off Boult, history was sealed.
 
Humiliating. Did Pak manage to win the "Batted better than India in NZ" trophy?

Yes, I believe so. India crossed 200 in only 1 innings. The first test was more or less an innings loss for Ind (NZ needed just 9 runs in its 2nd innings). We might have bowled better than Pak, but our batting flopped big time.
 
Really pure 2nd inns effort and surrender. No real fight shown by most of our so call batsmen. Some serious changes needed for home series vs S.A
 
Really pure 2nd inns effort and surrender. No real fight shown by most of our so call batsmen. Some serious changes needed for home series vs S.A

One thing to note is that nobody expects an Asian team to win in New Zealand, England, SA, and Australia. India defied the odds at that MCG Test Match, like what Pakistan did a few years ago in England.

Look at the home records of these teams I have just mentioned, they are absolutely sensational. Test cricket has started to die because of the huge factor of home advantage. Back in the day, most teams built squads around the same general structure, so there was something in the wicket for at least one person on your team. Nowadays, oppositions do what any smart person would do, reduce the chances of the other team to get something out of the wicket.

Pakistan's bowling record on flat tracks is not good, and it's no surprise that New Zealand saw that and chose to go with a flat wicket. However, if we had taken our catches, we would have very much been in this test match, and that's a mistake our team made yet again. In the first game as well, and now in the second game. If we had taken our catches, I can guarantee you that we would have drawn this series, and possibly even won the series.

The bigger question is to determine where Pakistan's strength lies. Are we becoming better as a batting unit, or is our bowling still better than our batting. There are two ways to fix this, you bring in the cream-of-the-crop bowlers from domestic into the test team, the people who have toiled hard and performed, and simultaneously bring in some top batsmen from domestic. That way, you can create a balance in the team. A balanced team is the only way to dominate cricket in the modern age, look at all the great teams right now. India has a balanced batting and bowling lineup, so does Australia. England has the same. And New Zealand has as well. All the teams who do not have this balance have been struggling, so look at Pakistan, South Africa (they found balance recently), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and West Indies.

So the question is, how do we move on from here?

For one, you have South Africa coming over to the subcontinent, so make dust bowls and bring in some spinners. Have our pacers toil hard as well, because they will get wickets due to the support from spinners as well. Get some confidence back through some big wins.

One thing we need to understand is that most big teams currently have a very poor overseas record. Look at New Zealand's own overseas record, if I'm not mistaken, they have a win-percentage of less than 10%. That might not be fully accurate, but they are pathetic on overseas tours.

If they can get such high praise and reach No.1 Ranking on the back of HOME PERFORMANCES that should be a signal to our simple-minded management that we need to make ourselves a force to reckon with on home tracks. Get as many wins at home as you can to at least show that you are unbeatable at home in test matches.

That's the only way up from here. We have the luxury of being able to play on Pakistani wickets, so use that resource to create pitches that make it very difficult for the opposition to play.

I'll tell you one thing, if our data analyst team even has some iota of common sense, they'd look at what SA did to SL on flat pitches, and that should be the only thing to consider and create a dust bowl. Look at what happened to SA in India on dust bowls.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Congratulations to NZ for becoming #1 Test team, great performance by <a href="https://twitter.com/KanyWilliamson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KanyWilliamson</a> & team. Really disappointing to see the performance in 2nd Test after a good fight in 1st Test.The players need to apply talent& courage to survive in Test cricket.The results in NZ r very poor.</p>— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/SAfridiOfficial/status/1346684116931121152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
To be honest it's a blessing for pakistan cricket India pakistan are not playing bar icc events, it would total carnage!, India would humiliate this shower of xxite
 
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