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Pakistan (143/2) clinch a historic ODI series win with a commanding 8-wicket victory over Australia (140) in the 3rd ODI, securing the series 2-1

RidiculousMan said:
@Rana and @mominsaigol

An offer!

Rizwan has done what no Pakistani captain has managed to do for 22 years!

Rectify your mistake and acknowledge that Rizwan is great captain and wk batter for Pakistan. We will welcome you with open arms.
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I'll pass thanks for the offer. If he wins an icc event amd achieves test dominance(He'll be made test cap eventually) then I'll change my mind.

Babar also dominated bi laterals.

I was wrong on this series though.

Regardless ^^ These are my conditons. And even then I'll only accept him as a captain, not a batsmen.
 
Farabi said:
In competitive sport and Aussie management are very professional. It’s not due to “non-seriousness”. I am surprised you couldn’t tell that their commentators and team are hurt and embarrassed.
It’s down to poor planning from Aus. Donald-Ball strategy wasn’t a good fit for the spicy conditions on offer early season.

As for poor planning, it happens. Pakistan perpetually under performs because of it. In fact, we too played a lot of losers even though we had better options available and lost to Aus.
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It's not poor planning. Australia know this format better than anyone else. Between the Australia A squad and the players preparing for BGT , they cannot keep pulling players from domestic as it will weaken their domestic season beyond recognition.

So they simply played with the T20 players.
 
emranabbas said:
Matt short only played 7 odis before this series
Mcgurk only 2 odis before this series
Hardie only played 7 before this series

I don't know what your talking about they are not regulars
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Saim and kamran debuted. Hasnain came back with remodelled action. Fakhar was not there for show cause notice. So what?
 
Nikhil_cric said:
It's not poor planning. Australia know this format better than anyone else. Between the Australia A squad and the players preparing for BGT , they cannot keep pulling players from domestic as it will weaken their domestic season beyond recognition.

So they simply played with the T20 players.
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This is incorrect. You’re desperately going on a limb to somehow prove that Australia don’t care about this series at all. That is not true. International cricket will always be the holy grail and while Australia is a much better team overall, they know that Pakistan is not that far behind. This is the main reason their ODI and test teams are fully stacked when Pakistan tours generally, and it was this time around as well until the Aussie players requested for the break on the third ODI to prepare for the BGT.

Andrew McDonald has explicitly backed Bazball style ultra aggressive strategy and it has backfired on them. The T20 batters were preferred.

Australia 'committed' to ultra-aggressive brand of batting despite falling to 32-year low against Pakistan in second ODI - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au amp.abc.net.au
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Ok.
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Oh bhai Don't argue these guys are very stubborn

just agree pakistan are the best team in the world, and will trash india newzealand England and South Africa with their eyes closed

Untill reality hits them in few months time and they will have knives out for all players in the team
 
Pacers lead Pakistan to landmark ODI series victory in Australia

Pakistan secured a historic ODI series victory against Australia, their first on Australian soil in 22 years, with a commanding eight-wicket win in the third match at Perth Stadium. The visitors' bowling attack, led by the pacers, restricted Australia to a mere 140 runs in 31.5 overs. Shaheen Shah Afridi (3-32), Naseem Shah (3-54), and Haris Rauf (2-24) were the standout performers with the ball.

In response, Pakistan comfortably chased down the target in 26.5 overs. Openers Saim Ayub (42) and Abdullah Shafique (37) laid a solid foundation with an 84-run partnership. Captain Mohammad Rizwan (30*) and Babar Azam (28*) then steered the team home with an unbroken 58-run stand.

This triumph marked a remarkable turnaround for Pakistan after losing the first ODI. They bounced back with a nine-wicket win in the second match before clinching the series 2-1. Haris Rauf, celebrating his 31st birthday, emerged as the series' top performer with 10 wickets, including a five-wicket haul in the second ODI. He was awarded both player of the match and series honors.

The victory echoes Pakistan's last ODI series win in Australia back in June 2002, under Waqar Younis' leadership. The teams will now shift focus to a three-match T20I series scheduled from November 14 to 18.
Scores in brief:

Pakistan beat Australia by eight wickets

Australia 140 all out, 31.5 overs (Sean Abbott 30, Matthew Short 22; Shaheen Shah Afridi 3-32, Naseem Shah 3-54, Haris Rauf 2-24)

Pakistan 143-2, 26.5 overs (Saim Ayub 42, Abdullah Shafique 37, Mohammad Rizwan 30 not out, Babar Azam 28 not out; Lance Morris 2-24)

Player of the match – Haris Rauf

Player of the series – Haris Rauf
 
Mohammad Rizwan speaking during post-match presentation ceremony:

"A special moment for me, the nation will be very happy today, we didn't perform as per expectations in the last couple of years. I'm the captain only for the toss and presentations - everyone gives me suggestions on the field, the batting group and the bowling group. All the credit to the bowlers, Australia in Australia isn't easy, the conditions suit their style of playing, but the bowlers were outstanding. Also credit to the two openers, they made the chases easy. They (fans) don't care a lot about the results, but the people back home are always behind us and I want to dedicate this victory to them."
 
emranabbas said:
Fakhar is a hit and miss nowhere near Travis head. Fakhar only shines every no and again
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But as per you and entire brigade Fakhar is the best white ball player Pak has ? Do you agree then Pak is mediocre team overall or you still say it is mediocre because Rizwan is part of it?
 
mango_bite77 said:
But as per you and entire brigade Fakhar is the best white ball player Pak has ? Do you agree then Pak is mediocre team overall or you still say it is mediocre because Rizwan is part of it?
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Yes he's the best pakistani standards but won't get into an Australian team Travis is way ahead of him even maxwell is.

I don't know why your trying to debate me when you don't understand 10% of cricket

If you want to debate then open a thread but no runners of please

Many like you troll in match thread when it comes to debate you all take a runner 🏃‍♂️
 
emranabbas said:
Fakhar is a hit and miss nowhere near Travis head. Fakhar only shines every no and again
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You’re mixing up formats.
Travis Head overall is a better player, but in ODIs both are up there. A batter with an average of 47 and 11 centuries cannot be considered “hit and miss”.
 
mango_bite77 said:
Yes he will, so will be Fakhar who was not part of this series. So its even even
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If Fakhar is onsong while the everyone else besides Travis head isn't on that day, Then Australia will 100% lose. An onsong Fakhar is that good.

The only time I've seen fakhar fail to hit his mark while he's in the zone was against sa and that was mostly due to QDK's brilliant orchestrated run out. Otherwise 193 with the tail isn't a joke.

Similarly if Travis head is onsong while no one from Pakistan is then Pakistan will lose. They have no chance in hell of winning.

The better question to ask is what if both Fakhar and Travis are onsong that day. In which case I think whichever side is Chasing will win. Both of these 2 have proven that their monsters at chasing totals if their onsong and in the zone.

However in terms of probability Travis head is usually more inform then fakhar is, and theirs a higher probability of Travis head demolishing you then fakhar.
 
Farabi said:
You’re mixing up formats.
Travis Head overall is a better player, but in ODIs both are up there. A batter with an average of 47 and 11 centuries cannot be considered “hit and miss”.
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Open a fakhar vs Travis head odi thread we will debate their
 
emranabbas said:
Yes he's the best pakistani standards but won't get into an Australian team Travis is way ahead of him even maxwell is.

I don't know why your trying to debate me when you don't understand 10% of cricket

If you want to debate then open a thread but no runners of please

Many like you troll in match thread when it comes to debate you all take a runner 🏃‍♂️
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The biggest problem with you guys is assuming other don't know a thing about cricket.

But it is baffling to see how you are downplaying this series calling it Australia's C team when they already played their full strength in 2nd ODI. That reflects how well you understand the cricket and it's severely bad.

You are running out of excuses now, just accept it was a wonderful performance by Pak and deserved to win and Move on. There is no point coming up with So and so were not playing.
 
mango_bite77 said:
The biggest problem with you guys is assuming other don't know a thing about cricket.

But it is baffling to see how you are downplaying this series calling it Australia's C team when they already played their full strength in 2nd ODI. That reflects how well you understand the cricket and it's severely bad.

You are running out of excuses now, just accept it was a wonderful performance by Pak and deserved to win and Move on. There is no point coming up with So and so were not playing.
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OK bro we won the world cup congratulations 🎊
 
mango_bite77 said:
The biggest problem with you guys is assuming other don't know a thing about cricket.

But it is baffling to see how you are downplaying this series calling it Australia's C team when they already played their full strength in 2nd ODI. That reflects how well you understand the cricket and it's severely bad.

You are running out of excuses now, just accept it was a wonderful performance by Pak and deserved to win and Move on. There is no point coming up with So and so were not playing.
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In past Pakistan team were losing to Australia at home as well to their C teams. So this is a big achievement to get this team fight in alien conditions and beat a team that we struggle against no matter who is in their team. Of course a mediocre team has not become world beaters overnight but every step in right direction should be appreciated by fans and every glory cherished as this is what gives the team confidence to compete in more profile matches and against tougher teams.
 
mango_bite77 said:
No it's not a world cup. It is something Pak won after 24 years. Something which everyone including you and me never expected a week ago.
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No doubt its a good win I don't see the reason going over the top like you guys want us too

But will this same team win a series in England vs England, in South Africa vs South Africa in India vs India and in newzealand vs newzealand?
 
emranabbas said:
No doubt its a good win I don't see the reason going over the top like you guys want us too

But will this same team win a series in England vs England, in South Africa vs South Africa in India vs India and in newzealand vs newzealand?
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We may and we may not, but that doesn't give us liberty to downplay the efforts they have put in this series.
 
mango_bite77 said:
We may and we may not, but that doesn't give us liberty to downplay the efforts they have put in this series.
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So what you want us to do? Please explain
We appreciate it as a good win even if its a c team. So what you want me to do? Write statements like

Oh rizwan I love you for winning this series

Oh rizwan the best in the world etc.. ?
 
emranabbas said:
Open a fakhar vs Travis head odi thread we will debate their
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Head is at his peak, and he too will have plenty of "misses' when form dips. Also cricket is a team game it is easy batting when batsmen on the other side are also providing useful support. This also helped India as they had many world class batters in their team.
 
Ma sha Allah. Congratulations to all Pak fans, a famous win this. The bowlers and the captaincy were superb. We should forget the internal fights for a moment and enjoy this series win away from home against Aus. ☺️
 
Shaheen Shah Afridi in the post-match press conference after winning the famous ODI series against Australia:

"The process you followed, what you practiced in the nets—nothing special, just hit the right areas in Australia.

Actually, we prepared really well for this series, and with a new skipper, everyone was so excited and put in the effort on the ground, and I think that's what we deserved.

I think Rizwan is an aggressive player too, and the way he has been handling his captaincy in the last three games, he’s done a fantastic job. He supports every player and gives 100 percent authority to the bowlers to go for the attack. We also knew that whenever teams come to Australia, they bowl bouncers, so this time we applied the same strategy on them."
 
emranabbas said:
This series doesn't hold much significance for Australia; their focus is squarely on preparing for the Champions Trophy 2025. You can downplay their performance now, but by the time CT25 rolls around, they'll be a fully tuned, well-prepared team.

I’ve been saying this from day one, especially when they were experimenting with their bowling lineup in the first ODI. Yet, some people think I’m just trying to undermine Rizwan's captaincy.

These series are primarily about testing new players, assessing who can fit into the squad, and finding the right combinations. Not every team, takes these matches as seriously as Pakistan does.

On the other hand, Pakistan tends to play their full-strength playing xi against teams like Nepal and then hype up individual performances, such as a player scoring 151 off 131 balls, as if it's an extraordinary achievement.

It's all about perspective, and while those performances might seem impressive in the context of those series, it doesn't carry the same weight as preparing for bigger tournaments like the Champions Trophy or world cup
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My point still stands - it is ONLY ONE game. Surely playing your key players will not have a significant impact on their prep.

One game that will decide the outcome of a home series? Regardless of how important or unimportant, this decision was downright stupid.
 
A massive Congrats to the Pakistan team for excellent performances throughout the series with dominant displays.

Riz deserves huge credit for his captaincy and gelling these new players in quickly, trusting them and getting the best out of them.

Together with Dizzy the strategist we have concocted some excellent plans and execution.

Many people will be forced to eat humble pie on this forum by :rizwan who predicted he will loose his first series as captain.

Ironically we should of won 3 - 0 just like back in 02 when we won 2 - 1 as well.

Saim and ABD have grown and excelled each match on this tour and have shown smart, controlled aggressive batting.

Saim has the T20 series to look forward to.

Haris Rauf deserves a big shout out for his Man of the series performances and silencing his critics and the haters by bowling like a shere like the one and only :akhtar .

Shaheen deserved the MOM award today.

Our pacers were down on pace this series which we need to address but we used the foreign conditions expertly to our advantage.

We have shown we can win with spin and pace home and away in back to back series.


Jake fraser mcgurk is an absolute T20 hack with no technique and yet there were Pak passion armchair "experts" predicting him smashing our attack in this series. :ROFLMAO:🤡:ROFLMAO:.


Riz stands tall with the 🏆:rizthumbsup🏆:pkflag .
 
Those who are complaining shout B,C, D team - who asked Australia to lose the second ODI with Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood, Labuschagne and Maxwell?

This argument would have had some merit if Pakistan didn’t win the second ODI with all the aforementioned players playing.
 
emranabbas said:
No doubt its a good win I don't see the reason going over the top like you guys want us too

But will this same team win a series in England vs England, in South Africa vs South Africa in India vs India and in newzealand vs newzealand?
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Let me put it this way.

They will have a much better chance than the players that you, @Rana, @mominsaigol, @CerebralPatriot want to have in the team.
 
Dr_Bassim said:
Yeah Australia felt so humiliated they couldn't bother to play half their team in series decider.

Nevertheless, congratulations to Rizwan nexus for beating the pawns to submission with their full strength attack.
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Who asked Australia to lose the second ODI with Cummins, Smith, Starc, Hazlewood, Labuschagne, Maxwell etc.?
 
Snowflake said:
My point still stands - it is ONLY ONE game. Surely playing your key players will not have a significant impact on their prep.

One game that will decide the outcome of a home series? Regardless of how important or unimportant, this decision was downright stupid.
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In all three games, they were missing key players. This game they had six or seven players out, while the other games also saw two or three main players missing.

It’s still a good win, but if you people want to act like this Pakistan team just beat the 2000-era Australian team, that’s up to you.

I’m not going to go overboard and jump up and down like a clown going crazy for Rizwan saying "oh rizwan oh rizwan"

I don’t even do that for Amir or the players I support.
 
Full strength opposition or not, beating Australia in Australia can never be scoffed at especially by Pakistan who have an absolutely miserable record down under.

While Australian pitches have admittedly become more seam friendly recently, Pakistan's pacers seem to enjoy bowling there. They performed well in the 2022 T20 World Cup, produced our best Test series bowling average since 1995 last year (compared to the horror shows in 2016 and 2019), and now this ODI series.

Congratulations all.
 
emranabbas said:
In all three games, they were missing key players. This game they had six or seven players out, while the other games also saw two or three main players missing.

It’s still a good win, but if you people want to act like this Pakistan team just beat the 2000-era Australian team, that’s up to you.

I’m not going to go overboard and jump up and down like a clown going crazy for Rizwan saying "oh rizwan oh rizwan"

I don’t even do that for Amir or the players I support.
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I’m not debating about how big or small this win is.

Anyhow, Australia was pretty much full strength in the first two ODIs. All teams make slight tweaks to lineup in the name of trying new faces - doesn’t mean they are weakened. Going by your logic, Pak was also missing Fakhar and Imam - does that make us a weakened side?

But yes, in the 3rd ODI, Aus was truly weakened and I think it was very illogical decision on their part.
 
emranabbas said:
In all three games, they were missing key players. This game they had six or seven players out, while the other games also saw two or three main players missing.

It’s still a good win, but if you people want to act like this Pakistan team just beat the 2000-era Australian team, that’s up to you.

I’m not going to go overboard and jump up and down like a clown going crazy for Rizwan saying "oh rizwan oh rizwan"

I don’t even do that for Amir or the players I support.
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Other than head and to a lesser extent marsh this was a full strength Aus X1 for the first 2 ODI s.

Fakhar being left out readdresses that balance.

Pakistan played 3 debutants in foreign Aussie conditions and dominated all 3 games.

Riz has shown how captaincy makes a huge difference to a series by beating the aussies at their own game in their conditions and credit to dizzy the strategist for coming up with top plans.

You beat what s in front of you.
 
Snowflake said:
I’m not debating about how big or small this win is.

Anyhow, Australia was pretty much full strength in the first two ODIs. All teams make slight tweaks to lineup in the name of trying new faces - doesn’t mean they are weakened. Going by your logic, Pak was also missing Fakhar and Imam - does that make us a weakened side?

But yes, in the 3rd ODI, Aus was truly weakened and I think it was very illogical decision on their part.
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Its no point explaining to you for you to understand you need to understand how Australian cricket works.

The team pakistan are playing is 99% the same team you will see in ct25

but you won't see the same team For Australia in ct25 in ct25 they will have their best available players.

If you watched the full series even in the first odi you will see Australia were experimenting with their bowling line up you had about 8 different players bowling

2nd odi pakistan won with their own effort

3rd odi Australia rested players and preparing for the test vs India which ar more important to them than winning a series vs pakistan

Point is I'm not delusional yes we beat Australia in Australia but that doesn't mean we have become a top team over night and will smash teams like South Africa England newzealand and India for fun

Better to accept our weakness and prepare for CT25 than being delusional and thinking we have become world beaters overnight.
 
emranabbas said:
Its no point explaining to you for you to understand you need to understand how Australian cricket works.

The team pakistan are playing is 99% the same team you will see in ct25

but you won't see the same team For Australia in ct25 in ct25 they will have their best available players.

If you watched the full series even in the first odi you will see Australia were experimenting with their bowling line up you had about 8 different players bowling

2nd odi pakistan won with their own effort

3rd odi Australia rested players and preparing for the test vs India which ar more important to them than winning a series vs pakistan

Point is I'm not delusional yes we beat Australia in Australia but that doesn't mean we have become a top team over night and will smash teams like South Africa England newzealand and India for fun

Better to accept our weakness and prepare for CT25 than being delusional and thinking we have become world beaters overnight.
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I don’t know why you keep on harping about how significant or insignificant this victory is. Where have I made any remarks regarding that?

Please let me know how many key players Aus rested in the 1st and the 2nd ODI - and how many of those that played will not be seen in CT25.

Getting back to my original point, Aus could’ve easily fielded a full strength side in the 3rd ODI just like they did in the 2nd; without hampering any of their prep and would’ve given themselves a better chance to win the series.
 
Mamoon said:
Let me put it this way.

They will have a much better chance than the players that you, @Rana, @mominsaigol, @CerebralPatriot want to have in the team.
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1) Fakhar Zaman
2) Saim Ayub
3) Babar(If in form, Otherwise can trust Saud or Kamran ghulam)
4) Usman Khan (WK)
5) Tayyab Tahir
6) Salman Ali Agha (C)
7) Sajid Khan
8) Mubashir Khan/ Jamal
9) Shaheen
10) Rauf
11) Ali Raza/Husnain/ Naseem

^^ This is what I want for CT
 
emranabbas said:
Its no point explaining to you for you to understand you need to understand how Australian cricket works.

The team pakistan are playing is 99% the same team you will see in ct25

but you won't see the same team For Australia in ct25 in ct25 they will have their best available players.

If you watched the full series even in the first odi you will see Australia were experimenting with their bowling line up you had about 8 different players bowling

2nd odi pakistan won with their own effort

3rd odi Australia rested players and preparing for the test vs India which ar more important to them than winning a series vs pakistan

Point is I'm not delusional yes we beat Australia in Australia but that doesn't mean we have become a top team over night and will smash teams like South Africa England newzealand and India for fun

Better to accept our weakness and prepare for CT25 than being delusional and thinking we have become world beaters overnight.
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So what most team apart from pakistan rotate their squads and blood in players through odis and t20s .

You can beat only what's on paper

And pakistan dominated comprehensively, even these second string aussie players are seasoned pros and their future players ,they don't hand out caps to rubbish players or have selections based on merit not sifarish or nepotism or quotas.
 
mazkhan said:
So what most team apart from pakistan rotate their squads and blood in players through odis and t20s .

You can beat only what's on paper

And pakistan dominated comprehensively, even these second string aussie players are seasoned pros and their future players ,they don't hand out caps to rubbish players or have selections based on merit not sifarish or nepotism or quotas.
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Matt Short and jfm aren't seasoned by any means, neither is Spencer and Morris.

But yes overall I agree with you, guys like inglis, stones, Maxwell and many others are seasoned professional who performed poorly
 
mominsaigol said:
1) Fakhar Zaman
2) Saim Ayub
3) Babar(If in form, Otherwise can trust Saud or Kamran ghulam)
4) Usman Khan (WK)
5) Tayyab Tahir
6) Salman Ali Agha (C)
7) Sajid Khan
8) Mubashir Khan/ Jamal
9) Shaheen
10) Rauf
11) Ali Raza/Husnain/ Naseem

^^ This is what I want for CT
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Stopped reading when you picked Usman over Rizwan, but whatever floats your boat.

Usman is not even a better batsman, but even if he was, I wouldn’t have him over Rizwan because he isn’t even half the keeper.
 
Mamoon said:
Stopped reading when you picked Usman over Rizwan, but whatever floats your boat.

Usman is not even a better batsman, but even if he was, I wouldn’t have him over Rizwan because he isn’t even half the keeper.
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Let's replace Usman for Rizwan and have rizzu as captain, what about then?
 
mominsaigol said:
1) Fakhar Zaman
2) Saim Ayub
3) Babar(If in form, Otherwise can trust Saud or Kamran ghulam)
4) Usman Khan (WK)
5) Tayyab Tahir
6) Salman Ali Agha (C)
7) Sajid Khan
8) Mubashir Khan/ Jamal
9) Shaheen
10) Rauf
11) Ali Raza/Husnain/ Naseem

^^ This is what I want for CT
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That is a trash line up with so many flaws.

Are you serious TT and UK in a one day starting X1 :ROFLMAO:
 
mazkhan said:
So what most team apart from pakistan rotate their squads and blood in players through odis and t20s .

You can beat only what's on paper

And pakistan dominated comprehensively, even these second string aussie players are seasoned pros and their future players ,they don't hand out caps to rubbish players or have selections based on merit not sifarish or nepotism or quotas.
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What are you talking about? Pakistan doesn’t rotate players they pick underperforming players, give them a few series, drop them, and then replace them with more mediocre ones.

If it weren’t for Aqib Javed, we’d likely still see players like Iftikhar Chacha and Shadab Khan in this squad, and Babar in a series against Zimbabwe. Babar even used to play against Nepal lol

For ODI World Cups, teams use series to introduce new talent, test combinations, and build stronger squads. That’s how Pakistan operated before Misbah’s time, and it’s what Australia is doing for CT25

As for Pakistan’s player rotation, before Aqib Javed’s influence, the same seven players were set in stone across T20s, ODIs, and Tests for four years straight.

Yes, all teams rotate players, you only need to watch more than just Pakistani matches to see that. Australia, for instance, is doing it now. And after World Cups, teams often go through transitions, which Pakistan has also done pre babar

whenever we lost a World Cup, we’d drop non-performers and bring in fresh players. This is the first time a player has lost six ICC tournaments in a row and is still n the team.
 
Shoaib Akhtar 100 MPH said:
That is a trash line up with so many flaws.

Are you serious TT and UK in a one day starting X1 :ROFLMAO:
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Graeme hick and mark raprakash were famous for having great numbers in county cricket but they were no Lara s on the international stage.

Trescothick had poor numbers in county cricket when he was picked but we all know how he did in International cricket.

Numbers are not a be all or end all criteria.

ABD , Saud, KG, IK are far better players than these two.
 
mominsaigol said:
They had the best numbers in champions cup. Abdullah was trash and needs to be kicked to the curb
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Graeme hick and mark raprakash were famous for having great numbers in county cricket but they were no Lara s on the international stage.

Trescothick had poor numbers in county cricket when he was picked but we all know how he did in International cricket.

Numbers are not a be all or end all criteria.

ABD , Saud, KG, IK are far better players than these two.
 
Shoaib Akhtar 100 MPH said:
Graeme hick and mark raprakash were famous for having great numbers in county cricket but they were no Lara s on the international stage.

Trescothick had poor numbers in county cricket when he was picked but we all know how he did in International cricket.

Numbers are not a be all or end all criteria.

ABD , Saud, KG, IK are far better players than these two.
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Saud and KG yes.

Irfan Khan and Abdullah hell no. Not even close.

And both KG and saud shouldn't be in the sane lineup. You need one accumulator who can bat through not 2
 
mominsaigol said:
Saud and KG yes.

Irfan Khan and Abdullah hell no. Not even close.

And both KG and saud shouldn't be in the sane lineup. You need one accumulator who can bat through not 2
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Where did I name a line-up???.

I mentioned players that are better than the one s you said.

ABD has international pedigree.

Irfan is going to be a good player in the short formats.

You put both TT and UK in your ODI line-up :salute
 
Shoaib Akhtar 100 MPH said:
Where did I name a line-up???.

I mentioned players that are better than the one s you said.

ABD has international pedigree.

Irfan is going to be a good player in the short formats.

You put both TT and UK in your ODI line-up :salute
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Name your 11 let's hear it then
 
mominsaigol said:
Name your 11 let's hear it then
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As of now I would go with the following X1 but come closer to the CT form , fitness and conditions on the day will determine the X1 for that game.

Fakhar
Saim
Babar
ABD / Saud depending on conditions
Riz
Salman Ali
Irfan k
Arafat Minhas
Shaheen
Naseem
Rauf

7 options with the ball

These lads can be rotated when conditions or injuries dictate : Hasnain , Jamal , KG, ABD, Was jr, M haris

I prefer ABD as a NO 4 in ODI s and a back up opener.
 
Congratulations to the Pakistan team for an impeccable series win. It should have been a clean sweep. What was impressive was a team effort with some exceptional performances. The leadership and planning was brave and innovative. Playing four fast bowlers was an inspirational move and they dessimated and exposed the Aus batting. It was good to see them maintain their focus on an immaculate line and length and not carried away with the pace and bounce. Rizwan was aggressive in his Captaincy and did not resort to a defensive approach. Luckily a fifth bowler was not really required. I believe Irfan Khan can bowl a few overs of medium pace. Saim and Salman can chip in a few overs. I like this emphasis on specialists rather than a reliance on all rounders. Saim Ayub realised his potential and Abdullah Shafiq was technically correct. This augers well for the future. The Pakistan A games and the reserve strength should introduce back up strength. With the CT approaching, we should further develop our spin options. I think Sajid Khan and Nauman Ali should also be looked at for the CT as they have performed exceptionally at home in the test matches. The turn that Sajid Khan can generate is a handful. I have seen some of the younger spinners also develop. Perhaps Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed and Saeed Ajmal could hold some preparatory camps. It is time to appoint a Coach who can carry the team into the future. Saqlain Mushtaq and perhaps Mohsin Hassan Khan would be potential candidates. Our the neighbors back to their obfuscation again? I say good riddance to them. We will have a very successful CT without them. They always leverage sponsorship as a bargaining chip. The sponsorship is based on the quality of cricket. There will be sponsors who will support the game based on the quality of the tournament. The PCB should focus on the ME and the other cricketing nations and also extend to Europe , USA and African. How about extending their reach to China? Forget the eternal intransigents.
 
emranabbas said:
Oh bhai Don't argue these guys are very stubborn

just agree pakistan are the best team in the world, and will trash india newzealand England and South Africa with their eyes closed

Untill reality hits them in few months time and they will have knives out for all players in the team
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No mention of Australia in thier ?
 
emranabbas said:
Its no point explaining to you for you to understand you need to understand how Australian cricket works.

The team pakistan are playing is 99% the same team you will see in ct25

but you won't see the same team For Australia in ct25 in ct25 they will have their best available players.

If you watched the full series even in the first odi you will see Australia were experimenting with their bowling line up you had about 8 different players bowling

2nd odi pakistan won with their own effort

3rd odi Australia rested players and preparing for the test vs India which ar more important to them than winning a series vs pakistan

Point is I'm not delusional yes we beat Australia in Australia but that doesn't mean we have become a top team over night and will smash teams like South Africa England newzealand and India for fun

Better to accept our weakness and prepare for CT25 than being delusional and thinking we have become world beaters overnight.
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Your absolutely talking nonsense Pakistan will definitely make 1 or 2 bowling chances and that will be spinner/spinners being brought in.
 
shamaan said:
How many odis has Abdullah,Saim,Karam,Agha played ?
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Only Abdullah and Saim batted, and both of them have played international cricket before—they aren’t new.

Show me where Agha or this Karam guy who ever his is even got a chance to bat.

Plus, Agha has been part of the squad as well, with around 20 Tests and over 20 ODIs for Pakistan.

You’re making it sound like Pakistan is playing with players like Tayyab Tahir, Haseebullah, and Faisal Akram.

Go sit back down and keep crying in the corner that I exposed your gods rizwan and babar

Took a runner in the last thread about asif ali 🤣
 
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