NZ Board President's XI v Pakistanis | Tour Match | January 25, 2015 | Lincoln

[Professor]

BTW does the NZ team have any international players? I know Todd Astle played a few test before, any other notable players?

 

[axl100mph]

Sir, when am i only blaming misbah. Team man is the biggest culprit. However, the former is in charge of pak cricket right now.the fact that we hv slipped to 7 for the first time since i hv started watching means there iz smthing seriusly wrong. After all, he is the skipper n the one who decides on the strategy. We r still living in the 90's. I still remember him saying at the post match of the asia cup final thst 260 was a good score on that pitch when clearly it deserved a lot better. The fact that he has got bullied over to select guys like sohail tanvir n umar amin is just a disgrace for a guy of his stature

 

[NZcricketfan]

BTW does the NZ team have any international players? I know Todd Astle played a few test before, any other notable players?

nope

 

[Jabo]

Pakistan learning how hard they are screwed by Having.no haffeez and afridi at 8

With part timers like shezad sohail

It's like they think they've got batsman who.can chase 350 when they can't even.chase 245 on flat tracks

 

[Random Aussie]

It's good that Pakistan have these warm up games, it will take a bit for the quicks to adjust from UAE conditions.

 

[thelandofthebravepeople]

Wicket for Adil

 

[Professor]

Adil with a wicket. 94\1

 

[Aman]

Afrid isn't a pacer. Riaz is probably the only pace bowler in the squad who played in NZ before, not sure if Adil played there before.

Thought you were complaining about your bowlers not having bowled here before.

1/3 of your bowlers have not bowled in Australasian conditions before (Adil played in the 2009 U19 WC in Australia), hardly worthy of an excuse.

 

[m.shah]

Score

 

[Aman]

Score

105/1, if they have hitters down the order, they should win it from here.

 

[NZcricketfan]

105/1, if they have hitters down the order, they should win it from here.

Nicholls scored a 170 the other day so is in good form.

 

[Professor]

Thought you were complaining about your bowlers not having bowled here before.

1/3 of your bowlers have not bowled in Australasian conditions before (Adil played in the 2009 U19 WC in Australia), hardly worthy of an excuse.

Wasn't an excuse, just pointing out that our pacers will need time to adjust to NZ conditions, that point still stands even if some have played a few matches there 5/6 years ago.

 

[Aman]

Nicholls scored a 170 the other day so is in good form.

They may be club cricketers, but they should be use to switching gears and chasing 100 or so in the last 10.

 

[NZcricketfan]

They may be club cricketers, but they should be use to switching gears and chasing 100 or so in the last 10.

Nicholls isn't club. He is a future black cap

 

[Aman]

Nicholls isn't club. He is a future black cap

Do you know him?

 

[Aman]

Damn, he actually has a decent List A record.

Could see the NZXI home

 

[NZcricketfan]

Do you know him?

I've been to a few games this season and seem him play.

 

[Professor]

Don't understand why Aman keeps calling this a club side, Astle has played test cricket and few others like Pollard and Nicholls have decent list A records, Haven't been through all the profiles but some of thesehave also played U19 WC . So this might not be a very high quality team but its hardly a club team.

 

[NZcricketfan]

Don't understand why Aman keeps calling this a club side, Astle has played test cricket and few others like Pollard and Nicholls have decent list A records, Haven't been through all the profiles but some of thesehave also played U19 WC . So this might not be a very high quality team but its hardly a club team.

When half the team has not played a domestic game or has played one domestic game I think it is fair to call it a low quality side.

 

[mithun_minhas]

Score?

 

[Aman]

Don't understand why Aman keeps calling this a club side, Astle has played test cricket and few others like Pollard and Nicholls have decent list A records, Haven't been through all the profiles but some of thesehave also played U19 WC . So this might not be a very high quality team but its hardly a club team.

The majority of them have either played less than 10 List A matches or play for the domestic A sides.

 

[NZcricketfan]

Score?

132/1 off 27

nicholls 80 off 90
tim seirfert 17 off 23

 

[Aman]

Score?

132/1 after 27 overs.

http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match2491/scorecard.aspx

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Why is Younus Khan and Shehzad bowling?

 

[NZcricketfan]

Why is Younus Khan and Shehzad bowling?

Because Pakistan came into this game a bowler short thinking they would roll these newbies over

 

[Professor]

Shehzad and YK bowling, good to Misbah experimenting. These games should be used to try out new tactics. Should give Akmal and Maqsood a few overs too.

 

[mithun_minhas]

132/1 off 27

nicholls 80 off 90
tim seirfert 17 off 23

Nz IX has a chance.

 

[mithun_minhas]

132/1 after 27 overs.

http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match2491/scorecard.aspx

Thanks

 

[NZcricketfan]

Guptills place in the team these days is far from secure

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Guptills place in the team these days is far from secure

It's good that he is failing now, opening game against Lanka he will probably score a big one

 

[axl100mph]

Pakstan framing its bowling plan on India's lines when the former does'nt even have half the batting that Infia posesses

 

[Firebreaker]

Isn't Logan Van Beek Netherlands player?

 

[NZcricketfan]

88 needed from 12 overs with 8 wickets in hand

Can the nobodies beat pakistan

 

[thelandofthebravepeople]

PRESIDENT'S XI 226/2 (39.0 ov)
PRESIDENT'S XI require 88 runs from 11.0 overs at 8.00 per over
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On the way to defeat.

 

[Firebreaker]

BTW does the NZ team have any international players? I know Todd Astle played a few test before, any other notable players?

Logan Van Beek

 

[godzilla]

300.

Very good stuff.

Misbah needs to play quicker.

YK needs to be dropped.

Teams looking good.

so how good was that batting performance you were talking about? any of your laughably poor posts could have been quoted for this. "premature" is probably a word you need to familiarise yourself with.

 

[arehaan]

Sohail Khan getting some serious hammering

 

[NZcricketfan]

67 off 8 overs with 8 wickets in hand needed

 

[Strike Rate]

Logan Van Beek

is this Netherlands team full of imports? They have those cooper brothers and nannes from australia than they have this Logan Van Beek and borren from new zealand, wasim and bukhari from pak, Myburgh from South Africa

 

[thelandofthebravepeople]

PRESIDENT'S XI 255/2 (43.0 ov)
PRESIDENT'S XI require 59 runs from 7.0 overs at 8.43 per over

Choke IF NZ club don't win from here.

 

[silent ischemia]

52 needed off 36 with 8 wkts in hand. All over for pakistan

 

[iafzal]

seems Pak bent on playing like the team of 92. Even going to lose the side games like the 92 side(if I recall correctly)

 

[iafzal]

52 needed off 36 with 8 wkts in hand. All over for pakistan

good practice to bowl in death overs but 8 wkts make it easy for even a NZ side B team.

 

[NZcricketfan]

good practice to bowl in death overs but 8 wkts make it easy for even a NZ side B team.

This is more like the NZ D or E team.

 

[Ahson8]

Sohail Khan
Wicket for Ehsan Adil

 

[silent ischemia]

Another wicket for Aadil. Should play ahead of both Sohail a d Bhatti if reqd

 

[NZcricketfan]

Pakistan should still win this. These guys have next to no experience

 

[Professor]

seems Pak bent on playing like the team of 92. Even going to lose the side games like the 92 side(if I recall correctly)

Yup the 1992 played around 5 warm up matches, they lost all of them to club level teams but than went on to win the world cup. Shows you shouldn't take warm ups too seriously.

 

[Mr Consistent]

PRESIDENT'S XI require 40 runs from 5.0 overs at 8.00 per over

 

[silent ischemia]

Seifert is in a hurry

 

[iafzal]

How come EJ Nuttall bowled 8 overs even though he is the 12 man?

Sohail Khan to his old tricks... as soon he plays a foreign team he looks out of sorts. Worst of the lot from economy perspective. Not to mention bowled 2 wides where as the spray gun has been tight with decent economy.

 

[NZcricketfan]

Yup the 1992 played around 5 warm up matches, they lost all of them to club level teams but than went on to win the world cup. Shows you shouldn't take warm ups too seriously.

to be fair you played poorly in the group stages too and only made it into the semis because it rained when you were bowled out for 74 against england and it also rained when south africa played england when they were marching to victory.

 

[silent ischemia]

Yup the 1992 played around 5 warm up matches, they lost all of them to club level teams but than went on to win the world cup. Shows you shouldn't take warm ups too seriously.

But that team had match winners. Not a single here

 

[Arsal_AK]

Told you Sohail was a nothing bowler. Horrible selection.

 

[silent ischemia]

to be fair you played poorly in the group stages too and only made it into the semis because it rained when you were bowled out for 74 against england and it also rained when south africa played england when they were marching to victory.

But rain ruined our march to victory against SA too. Nobody remembers that. We wd have finished with 10 points even if we had not got the England point

 

[iafzal]

to be fair you played poorly in the group stages too and only made it into the semis because it rained when you were bowled out for 74 against england and it also rained when south africa played england when they were marching to victory.

Yes but they beat NZ fair and square twice on the trot.

 

[NZcricketfan]

Yes but they beat NZ fair and square twice on the trot.

I don't doubt that you did. But you don't want to be going the 1992 route because you won't be as lucky this time

 

[blackanhyellow]

Seems we have the worst bench strength in bowling among the test nations.

Yeah if we play our first string bowlers (Hafeez, Afridi, Irfan, Wahab, Junaid) the attack looks decent.

However Hafeez is not allowed to bowl, junaid is injured, and Irfan has to be rested.

Pak is struggling to defend 300+ against a team of unknown players.

Things wont go well in world cup if Hafeez isnt cleared and junaid doesnt recover.

 

[NZcricketfan]

I think Pakistan have this in the bag. I don't think these newbies will get over the line.

 

[Ahson8]

Rare good over from Sohail
38 off 24 needed.

 

[silent ischemia]

I don't doubt that you did. But you don't want to be going the 1992 route because you won't be as lucky this time

Why lucky? Even it rained in SA game. We were cruising

 

[iHammad]

38 from 21 to win

 

[Professor]

Sohail with a wicket, the NZ club side needs 30 from 3 overs

 

[Hawkeye]

Woah,
wonderful knock from the CAPTAIN!

This [MENTION=56866]Bullet Drive[/MENTION] got slapped hard again by the bat of Misbah

Amazing that a person can be so bitter against someone, so much hatred. At the same time was hyping his clients only.

Good to see Umar scoring.

Shehzad and Maqsood need to sort out their problems.

 

[Strike Rate]

Yup the 1992 played around 5 warm up matches, they lost all of them to club level teams but than went on to win the world cup. Shows you shouldn't take warm ups too seriously.

actually it's not true that all of them were club level sides. there were 4 matches 2 of them were against srilankans and south africans and one was against Tasmania and 4th one was against a club side which we won and lost the other 3.

I found the scorecards of those matches if you guys are interested

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/55/55508.html

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/55/55513.html

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/55/55470.html

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/55/55493.html

 

[silent ischemia]

Sohail with a wicket, the NZ club side needs 30 from 3 overs

36 off 3

 

[iHammad]

Great over by Wahab, 2 off it

36 from 18 needed

 

[Ahson8]

Good over from Wahab.
36 off 18...

 

[Strike Rate]

I don't doubt that you did. But you don't want to be going the 1992 route because you won't be as lucky this time

lucky? All you guys remember England match but conveniently forget our match against South Africa which was ruined by rain thanks to that stupid formula back than.

 

[NZcricketfan]

Wahab the pick of the bowlers. The other two seamers not so much

 

[iafzal]

Good experience for Pak to bowl in the death overs where they have been weak.

 

[iafzal]

Adil although took wkts but have been carted around quite a bit. He needs to take one more wkt here to justify the runs he gave.

 

[Ahson8]

Ehsan concedes a six
25 off 14

 

[Sakss]

Ehsan Adil also quite expensive

 

[Sakss]

Wahab and Ehsan to bowl the last 2 overs

 

[NZcricketfan]

Good innings from seifert considering he hasn't played a domestic one day game yet

 

[silent ischemia]

Good experience for Pak to bowl in the death overs where they have been weak.

And this has always been our strength. Poor times

 

[Square Drive]

Good comeback by us.

 

[Square Drive]

Sohail's figures?

 

[Sakss]

Wahab been decent so far tbh