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Pakistan South Africa | 2nd Test | Cape Town | 17/2/13 | Day 4

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Savak said:
But But he is our most experienced bowler, who will teach and guide the youngsters on the field how to bowl, what to bowl standing at mid off, mid on? Should we make the same mistakes we made with the W's in 2003?
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Youngsters are not going to learn anything from him, how can he be a good mentor?? - He does not know anything about fast bowling himself, how can he teach others

We need to make Junaid as leader of attack... Use Irfan as much as we can till we get Amir back... And look for aggressive, thinking bowlers...

One thing that has hurt us in last two decade is after Imran Khan there is no educated fast bowler had come out that could have mentor and tame the tigers... Look at Wasim and Waqar as soon as Imran is gone, they develop bad habits of match fixing, Glamour etc... Even rather than trying to develop new bowlers they delayed Akthar for 2-3 years (may have kept Zahid out) because of their own insecurities... The part of the problem was they did not had enough education themselves and their mentor "Imran Khan" was completely out of touch with cricket, he was busy with his life's ambitions...

PCB also have and had no strategy to protect their most important assets "Fast bowlers"... Now looks like their thinking is they don't need tigers (since they are difficult to manage), go far obedient ones, that go along very well but has nothing to offer, they are no more an asset but a liability or passengers... Misbah is forced to build is team around Ajmal since we are not breading tigers any more...
 
Kallis is out, maybe spinning too much? Will they review?
 
Awesome stuff by Ajmal

Kallis plumb gone
 
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i"ll be happy if we get 3 more wicket's, but it's gonna be very difficult from here guys
 
As worst as it can get cant believe Pakistans fast bowling resources are so depleted that they have gone back to playing midiocre bowler like Tanveer Ahmad he is too old to be playing
 
Saudi said:
Really? Still not express enough to warrant scattergun approach. And he's certainly not hitting the pitch hard like Irfan at a similar speed...
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There's no bowler quick enough to get away with spraying the ball around, Mohammad Sami and Mitchell Johnson are living proof of that. Gul hits the pitch harder than most bowlers around but it's his stupid length(not line) that lets him down and causes him to go for runs.
 
Tanveer having some words with Hashim. Excellent tactics, that will scare him.
 
Irshadbhat said:
As worst as it can get cant believe Pakistans fast bowling resources are so depleted that they have gone back to playing midiocre bowler like Tanveer Ahmad he is too old to be playing
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Its just STUPID management! We have TWO under 25 year old pace bowlers picked. Although never seen Ehsan Adil (who is 19), Rahat Ali, can bowl 140+!!
 
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