Pak V WI Test 1 - Day 3 discussion thread [28/5/05]

[catwoman]

Damn when are they declaring?!!

 

[Usman]

Naved finaly gets his first wicket

 

[Guest]

good ball by rana

 

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

usman - seems a bit familiar to me

 

[Awesome Anjum]

rana should try to attack edwards. smash him up etc...

 

[Hussain]

lead of over 500 now

one odd double century for Pakistan will not help our cause


we need atleast two for victories


Any candidates

 

[Usman]

usman ur a fool

I spoke to soon!

 

[Khalil]

88.5 Naved-ul-Hasan to Edwards, no run, outside off, ball kept bit low


Balls seems to keep low as low. This is not good for us

 

[Bailan]

Rana is bowling really nicely right now ... so no need to drop him.

Shabir looks out of place in this test ... fyi ..i didn't see him bowl when he picked up the wickets ... but right now he is garbadge ...

 

[Guest]

i feel if pak batting collapses it time to send them homw and take some ppers

 

[tahaqureshi]

I guess its just not meant to be.....

tsk tsk

 

[Shayan]

good shot by Chanderpaul

 

[Guest]

hang i dont think they will declare until the get past 535 the socre pak socred when they draw with hanif

 

[Hussain]

Chanderpaul is looking to get a double hundred
if his partners allow him tpo do so

 

[tahaqureshi]

I think they want to SEAL it once and for all...

Had thety enforced the follow on, I doubt the game would still be being played.....windies would have won it...

 

[Usman]

Chanderpaul is looking to get a double hundred
if his partners allow him tpo do so

Against any other team, his partner would not allow him to, against Pakistan, our bowlers will allow his partner to!!!

 

[tahaqureshi]

well said usman

 

[Hussain]

yea
more the time Chanderpaul takes to get to his 200

lesser will be the time left in this test match

 

[Hussain]

a four off Shabbir

 

[Hussain]

well one thing is for certain
if we do bat for 2 days we will easily get to about 600 runs (ie wud win the game)

so the questions is
will we bat for tht long ?

 

[Fessal]

My guess is because there is so much time left, then windies wont declare until they get 600 lead at least.

Most likley Pak will lose by a margin of 350 to 400 runs.

 

[tahaqureshi]

forget that......we need to get them out first.....seems to me like they are good enough to get 700 lead!!!!

 

[Usman]

well one thing is for certain
if we do bat for 2 days we will easily get to about 600 runs (ie wud win the game)

so the questions is
will we bat for tht long ?

for that we need a decent no. 3, thats Yasir and he is not decent, at least not at that cruial possition.

 

[Tariq Jamshed]

WI should declare now. This is too boring

 

[tahaqureshi]

for that we need a decent no. 3, thats Yasir and he is not decent, at least not at that cruial possition.

Maybe they will change batting order this time?

 

[Hussain]

well one thing is for certain
if we do bat for 2 days we will easily get to about 600 runs (ie wud win the game)

so the questions is
will we bat for tht long ?

for that we need a decent no. 3, thats Yasir and he is not decent, at least not at that cruial possition.

they might send Younis Khan at number 3 and he is currently our best batsman

 

[tahaqureshi]

WI should declare now. This is too boring

From our point of view yes.

 

[Usman]

for that we need a decent no. 3, thats Yasir and he is not decent, at least not at that cruial possition.

Maybe they will change batting order this time?

To what? they haven't got many options, moving Younis to 3 will get rid of the bulk of the middle order, besides it would be hard to win or draw with Inzi and Yoyo present never mind without them.

 

[tahaqureshi]

Their lead is now bigger than the score pak reached with hanif mohammad's 337

 

[catwoman]

We've lost this game now

 

[tahaqureshi]

Thanks for that vital piece of information

 

[Fessal]

We had lost it on day 2, afternoon session.

 

[Usman]

4 more runs and Edwards will have the highest score of his carear, first class or international

 

[Hussain]

There is always Afridi
who ll blast the fastest 200 in tests

 

[Usman]

94.5 Naved-ul-Hasan to Chanderpaul, one run, Sloppy fielding at gully
region, some poor cricket by Pakistan

 

[tahaqureshi]

I dont blame our bowlers for bowling so shitty at the moment...they have lost all their confidence, cant expect them to be all vitalised and everything.

 

[Fessal]

We're showing great consistency in playing poor cricket.

 

[Usman]

< Edwards gets the highest score of his carear

 

[Bailan]

I just wana know where are all those 'Over confident Douche bags' who had predicted that Pakistan will win both the tests with more arrogance then we'd see from an indian or australian fan?????????????

here is a lesson for all those who let a bit of success get to their head .... 'think before you speak' and 'think twice before you predict a victory

 

[Fessal]

I dont blame our bowlers for bowling so shitty at the moment...they have lost all their confidence, cant expect them to be all vitalised and everything.

I agree with that because the amatuer batting performance has dented the whole team and especially the bowling confidence in the 2nd innings.

We did ok to get windies out in first innings after lara effect (although our consistent noballs was amatuer stuff).

 

[Hussain]

WI has already surpassed their 1st inns score
so the pitch is working perfectly

plus WI dont have spiiners to exploit the rough areas of the pitch

 

[waquas_uk]

edwards out shabir edged 2 akmal

20

 

[Shayan]

they're gonna keep batting till tea now.

 

[tahaqureshi]

finally.....edwards OUT!

just two more wickets...

 

[Usman]

Edwards gone! unlucky, the way pakistan are bowling I thought he would beat Lara's 400!

 

[Hussain]

220 overs remaining in the test
target will be around 600

so req rate = 2.88 rpo


hence there are only two out comes possible now

1)- WI will WIN

2)- Pakistan will win


the posibility of a draw is eliminated

 

[tahaqureshi]

cricinfo says chanderpaul about to declare soon

 

[Fessal]

220 overs remaining in the test
target will be around 600

so req rate = 2.88 rpo


hence there are only two out comes possible now

1)- WI will WIN

2)- Pakistan will win


the posibility of a draw is eliminated

Realistically ONLY ONE outcome possible: WIndies win.

 

[Hussain]

Now even guys like King are hitting us for a four

 

[tahaqureshi]

I think our aged ex-bowlers can do better than our young bowlers....

 

[Hussain]

bring back Wasim and Waqar

and perhaps even Imran khan and Fazl MEhmood

 

[Shayan]

this is sooooo embarrassing

 

[tahaqureshi]

A diabetic (wasim) can probably do better than shabbir

 

[Guest]

king gone beeray get his 2nd

 

[Shayan]

another wicket.. woohoo.

 

[salmanbuttfan]

shabbir should be shot in the head

 

[Guest]

beeray get corey out and make chanders miss his 150

lol

 

[khizer]

Come on guys, its our batting that has let us down more than our bowling.

 

[Hussain]

WI havent gotten 20 wikts in a test match for since they played Srilanka in june 2003


SO probably losing the game wont be tht easy for us

 

[Fessal]

I dont blame our bowlers as much as our batsman and fielding/catching. This has left the bowlers take no confidence in the second innings.

The frustrating thing with our bowlers is the noballs problem.

 

[Shayan]

I would like Asim Kamal to get a century when we bat

 

[Usman]

King gone! my guess windies will declare now

 

[tahaqureshi]

I LOVE YOUR OPTIMISM HUSSAIN!!!!!!

 

[catwoman]

bring back Wasim and Waqar

and perhaps even Imran khan and Fazl MEhmood

Bring back Waqar and Shoaib

 

[Guest]

well if butt dosent score rest him

hammed also

 

[Fessal]

Maybe we need to bring back Ramiz Raja for the 2nd match as he's available and there in the windies and any pak player would make a return if they were bribed with getting the captaincy

 

[Shayan]

how many sixes does Afridi need to hit to make us all happy?

 

[waquas_uk]

another no ball from rana

 

[Guest]

has a team survied 200 plus overs

 

[Shayan]

150 for Shiv

 

[Usman]

how many sixes does Afridi need to hit to make us all happy?

Lets see, westindies lead= 600 divede that by 6 = 100 sixes

 

[Hussain]

OK
now quite seriously if WI can bat for over a 100 overs in their 2nd inns


Pakistan can also bat for 180 overs (2 days ) to win this test

 

[Raz]

Salam guys. How is everyone?

 

[Shayan]

Our batsmen should see this as an excellent opportunity to play themselves in, and score big.

 

[Usman]

100.6 Naved-ul-Hasan to Collymore, no run, Beauty! beaten outside off

 

[Raz]

Hattrick bunny on strike now!

 

[Guest]

pakistani have been poor

where the team spirit gone

 

[Raz]

And he managed to survive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Usman]

Salam guys. How is everyone?

Raz you will be quite happy to know that West Indies have crushed us.

 

[Khalil]

Chanders gets his 150 and still does not declare

Does he think that Colly is good enough to support him to his 200