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Pakistan bowled out for 294, stretch match into Day 4, set South Africa target of 41 to win 2nd Test

I have never seen styen being hit for that many 4s by one batsman in a series
 
Throwing a wide one there was kind of low. Come on Steyn take him on instead of that stuff, match is basically over anyway.
 
Junaids said:
Why is it Babar Azam’s duty to farm the strike at 7 wickets down?

If you are the Number 9 you have a duty to be capable of surviving 40 balls.
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topspin said:
Because Pakistan's tail starts at 7 lol
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It needn’t.

Captaincy has totally mentally disintegrated Sarfraz Ahmed and he should have been dropped. As should Yasir Shah.

This team should have had a lower/middle order of:

7. Mohammad Rizwan
8. Faheem Ashraf
9. Mohammad Amir
10. Mohammad Abbas
11. Shaheen Shah Afridi
 
Yasir needs to have a hard talking. Plays 5-6 games in a year, and still has lost batting entirely, unfit, over weight and now poor in field as well. Simply not acceptable from a Cat A player.
 
Khwaja78 said:
The boundary machine has started blocking even though team is well within innings defeat by 7 runs but Azam's 50 has been achieved team can go to hell.
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He's striking at 90+ SR.

Bhai kabhi cricket kheli hai aapnay? Ajeeb stupid post.
 
I enjoyed the stroke play .
Every time a bowler is hyped as a ENFORCER he gets smashed , it happened with Broad in past & now Duanne .
 
Better ofmplauing Abbas ahead of Yasir

Looks like he is capable surviving longer than the trash that Yasir
 
HitWicket said:
The laws quite clearly state if the ball is going to hit the stumps in any way it should be LBW. The technology showed that the ball would definitely hit the stumps. I don't see how it's arguable in any way that an incorrect decision was therefore made.
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The only question was about consistency of decisions as there was similar margin when Baavuma was given not out and don’t know why these decisions are continuously going against Pakistan since Aus series even we have to use drs in some decisions to overturn them. Since aus series I think the umpire call decision ratio somewhere goes around 1:5 against Pakistan. Rather umpire call should balance out you can check cricinfo for reference
 
The fact that Yasir and Babar partnership was the 3rd highest partnership in this innings speaks volumes about out batting line up.

Frankly, I'd drop everyone and only keep Shan and Babar from this batting lineup
 
Look at India. They have a potentially Superstar in Pant who comes in down the order and who can change the game.

Our tail starts from our keeper
 
Don’t understand why criticism for Babar - he is playing absolute majestically and have seen 5 players leaving from other end, what else can he do?

People should be upset with that dumb think tank which puts him at 6. This is all because they have to keep Imam as opener. Previously Azhar declined to open to keep that spot open for moha, now for Imam.
 
With the current resources available with the squad I would like next match be like
Shaan
Azhar
Imam
Asad (captain)
Babar
Rizwan
Faheem
Shahdab
Amir
Shaheen
Abbas
 
Something said:
The fact that Yasir and Babar partnership was the 3rd highest partnership in this innings speaks volumes about out batting line up.

Frankly, I'd drop everyone and only keep Shan and Babar from this batting lineup
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First ones to go should be Azhar and Asad. They're a cancer to this team.
 
MMHS said:
Don’t understand why criticism for Babar - he is playing absolute majestically and have seen 5 players leaving from other end, what else can he do?

People should be upset with that dumb think tank which puts him at 6. This is all because they have to keep Imam as opener. Previously Azhar declined to open to keep that spot open for moha, now for Imam.
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Yeah the criticism of babar is a joke. He has actually played another blinder here
 
MMHS said:
Don’t understand why criticism for Babar - he is playing absolute majestically and have seen 5 players leaving from other end, what else can he do?

People should be upset with that dumb think tank which puts him at 6. This is all because they have to keep Imam as opener. Previously Azhar declined to open to keep that spot open for moha, now for Imam.
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He did not decline to open. Stop making rubbish up.
 
If you ask me who has more chance to survive 6 balls among Fakhar and Abbas in test match. I will always back Abbas.
 
MMHS said:
Don’t understand why criticism for Babar - he is playing absolute majestically and have seen 5 players leaving from other end, what else can he do?

People should be upset with that dumb think tank which puts him at 6. This is all because they have to keep Imam as opener. Previously Azhar declined to open to keep that spot open for moha, now for Imam.
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Yes they want Babar to set SA a challenging target
 
MMHS said:
Don’t understand why criticism for Babar - he is playing absolute majestically and have seen 5 players leaving from other end, what else can he do?

People should be upset with that dumb think tank which puts him at 6. This is all because they have to keep Imam as opener. Previously Azhar declined to open to keep that spot open for moha, now for Imam.
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Yes they want Babar to set SA a challenging target
 
Poor from Abbas, lack of game sense. There was easy 2, which would have made SAF bat again.
 
Joel Wilson is an idiot. Why didn’t he single no ball???
 
Sometimes i genuinely feel sorry for Babar.
Even though it frustrates me when he exposes the tail,but its so unfair on him to not be able to trust no 8 and 9.
His heroics are genuinely overlooked because we want him to protect the tail all the time.He is 10,15 runs in and the tail arrives.
This is the time for him to build his career and average but he has to give up many runs available through strike rotation etc and rely on boundaries and even though our demands that he do exactly that are not wrong its so unfair on him.
You have to feel for the guy.
 
Pak after this test would have lost 14 of the last 21 tests.

How is that a not a no ball? Some amateur umpires out there
 
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