Pakistan v England | 1st Test | Abu Dhabi | Oct 13-17 | Day 1

[Mamoon]

Azhar is class, Hafeez cannot be compared to him in Tests especially.

 

[khalil1986]

Even when we have our first-choice players available, we need to slot him in somewhere in the middle/lower-order in UAE/subcontinent/WI. He can play Moeen bhai like role.

He is much more useful than Moeen in these conditions.

Only players he can replace is the openers though and even in UAE don't think he is good enough and don't like the idea of shifting Azhar to open just to accommodate anyone else as he is one of the most important members of team.

 

[khalil1986]

So would I. I like professor as a person but there is no room for sentiment in professional sports and so as I have said for a while he should be dropped all formats. Professor is just useless without his bowling, in the long term his runs here wont do us any good, sad but true

If he scores runs this match than Masood should be dropped.

 

[blackanhyellow]

My bollywood predition: Pak 670d with a Malik triple and Hafeez double and a blistering partnership by misbah and sarfraz.

 

[Asif321]

treating them as kids . NZ did great job atleast

 

[#GreenRoars]

Hafeez is thrashing Adil badly

 

[khalil1986]

Just like Amla against us in tournaments, Moeen Will hopefully make a qurbani for the Umaah and perform crap

Really don't care how he performs as long as win.

I actually want him to perform badly and for us to win too LOL

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

If he scores runs this match than Masood should be dropped.

Masood is a sirfarish, I want him to play so we can just get this over and done with

 

[Bilal7]

Feeling so much better about this series now. Rashid seems like a run-buffet and Ali has been good but hardly anything that our batsmen will struggle with.

InshAllah, a score in excess of 500 is on the cards.

 

[khalil1986]

Hafeez is thrashing Adil badly

I don't want to bash him too much as that could come to bite me hard but really is nothing special at all.

 

[blackanhyellow]

Masood is a sirfarish, I want him to play so we can just get this over and done with

management doesnt like to change a winning combination.

So if we win and shan doesnt score he will still play the next match

 

[khalil1986]

Masood is a sirfarish, I want him to play so we can just get this over and done with

Well if he doesn't score surely even sifarish can only help so much.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

management doesnt like to change a winning combination.

So if we win and shan doesnt score he will still play the next match

Regardless of what happens this game azhar will play the next

 

[Justcrazy]

How many overs left for lunch ?

 

[blackanhyellow]

okay we get it yasir is not playing, but commentators are talking about him way too much.

 

[khalil1986]

management doesnt like to change a winning combination.

So if we win and shan doesnt score he will still play the next match

No chance Azhar will be back so change will have to be made.

 

[ChachaCricket]

Moeen's looked good.

 

[Logical]

Moeen bowling well.

 

[Justcrazy]

England neglecting Panesar , is a poor move, he still is a force on this kind of surfaces

 

[Mamoon]

Rashid bhai has no bite in his bowling. I hope our batsmen don't try to overdo against him and throw cheap wickets. I must say I was expecting better than what I've seen so far.

 

[daytrader]

Younis has been playing with the ball for a while. Maybe he will get to bowl this match

 

[Arsal_AK]

management doesnt like to change a winning combination.

So if we win and shan doesnt score he will still play the next match

Nope. Azhar will come in.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Only Anderson spell was good, or may be we are batting good

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Rashid is bowling way to slowly, sarfraz is gonna mual him

 

[Justcrazy]

Last over before lunch.

 

[Arsal_AK]

Rashid is bowling way to slowly, sarfraz is gonna mual him

If it gets to that.

 

[Mamoon]

Things getting worse for Shehzadians. Their hero won't play the next Test if Hafeez gets a 50, let's see if he can displace Masood but Azhar will walk back in so it is complicated.

 

[Abdullah719]

Wow, Rashid bhai sure does bowl slowly. The batsmen have ages to decide what to do.

 

[Justcrazy]

Is that Lunch ?

 

[Pete Rose]

Shan Masood will get dropped I suspect.

 

[Bilal7]

"Hear, hear" - Rameez

 

[#GreenRoars]

How many overs left for lunch ?

Lunch now

 

[Justcrazy]

Shehzad need to produce good form in OD to get back into test.

 

[Pete Rose]

Hafeez playing french cricket

 

[Logical]

I'd take 80/1 in the first session.

Satisfied?

 

[Musti2]

On the topic of Zafar Gohar...

"How can you ask such an inexperienced guy to come and win you a game?" (paraphrased)

Ramiz Raja: "I don't think Malik can bowl effectively for more than 5/10 overs."

What a moron.

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan would need a big total here , not a rank turner this pitch

 

[taqi]

Lunch Pak 82/1 Good session

 

[ChachaCricket]

Good session.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Good first session

 

[Mamoon]

I'd take 80/1 in the first session.

Hear hear.

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan would be happy with the session , just one freakish dismissal so far.

 

[blackanhyellow]

UAE fortress strikes again.

 

[daytrader]

bravo to Hafeez and Malik. Weren't pushed over as many expected

 

[Mamoon]

Satisfied?

Indeed. Good going.

 

[Pete Rose]

well played Pakistan.
Good come back from Malik. I will now go to see what twitter says about Malik's comeback

 

[imshally81]

What a great session

 

[Abdullah719]

Should have known how this pitch would play when I saw that Misbah has hundreds in 5 of his last 6 innings here.

 

[Yatoo]

A run rate of 3. Nice

 

[Watsupdoc]

Great first session for Pak. Very happy with that.

 

[Mamoon]

Tim to have last night's chicken biryani with raita and namkeen lassi. Haven't slept since 5 pm yesterday, I feel drugged.

 

[Bilal7]

Should have known how this pitch would play when I saw that Misbah has hundreds in 5 of his last 6 innings here.

Average of 120. England better keep him in the dressing-room.

 

[Abdullah719]

Average of 120. England better keep him in the dressing-room.

To be fair to England, they are doing a great job with that so far.

 

[yasir]

Why Pakistan did not play Gohar?

Too many seamers for this wicket, England 4, Pakistan 3, what they were thinking? - there was turn on this wicket, but Adil bowls at 10k slower pace, quite a bit slower.



Pakistan is going good but taking 20 wickets is hard on this surface. Pakistanis prepared wicket for Yasir and he is not playing [emoji22][emoji22]


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[ChachaCricket]

This pitch is not as green as I thought, looks very abrasive, the ball should start reversing around 35-40.

 

[pak4life]

Absolute dead pitch. Good to see both of them keeping it simple. 30's and 40's are simply not good on these pitches even Hafeez should get a hundred on here.

 

[ammar_merry]

Is AJ back as pakistan kit providers...???
no thread so far

 

[Abdullah719]

Why Pakistan did not play Gohar?

Too many seamers for this wicket, England 4, Pakistan 3, what they were thinking? - there was turn on this wicket, but Adil bowls at 10k slower pace, quite a bit slower.



Pakistan is going good but taking 20 wickets is hard on this surface. Pakistanis prepared wicket for Yasir and he is not playing [emoji22][emoji22]


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Zafar couldn't get a visa in time thanks to the next-level planning by our genius administrators. Only in Pakistan.

 

[Pete Rose]

A moment of silence for fawad alam who must be wondering why guys like Hafeez and Malik get to resurrect their careers on easy pitches or against easy competition, while he slogs away for his deceptive > 50 domestic average.

 

[yasir]

Zafar couldn't get a visa in time thanks to the next-level planning by our genius administrators. Only in Pakistan.

He just played those side matches. Man, he just got visa for week?? - single entry visa [emoji35][emoji35][emoji35]

Pcb was saving money??


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[Mir jibran]

malik has surely started second innings of his career
no one can stop him now

 

[Abdullah719]

He just played those side matches. Man, he just got visa for week?? - single entry visa [emoji35][emoji35][emoji35]

Pcb was saving money??


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Probably.

 

[mnt1]

Lol Swanns having a moan about Ajmal on tms

 

[Bilal7]

Prior is such an intelligent man. Just an all-round great guy and one of my favourite English cricketers of all time. He was England's best batsman on their last tour here and I'm a little disappointed he's not out there playing.

 

[Bilal7]

Lol Swanns having a moan about Ajmal on tms

What did he say?

 

[Robert]

England neglecting Panesar , is a poor move, he still is a force on this kind of surfaces

Panesar neglected himself. He let England down with a series of poor performances and bad behaviour. He has had a very challenging period due to his divorce and court appearance for drunkenness and public urination.

But perhaps he will revive his career with Essex. He is only 33 and has time to play for England again, perhaps on a future Subcon tour.

 

[ChachaCricket]

Panesar neglected himself. He let England down with a series of poor performances and bad behaviour. He has had a very challenging period due to his divorce and court appearance for drunkenness and public urination.

But perhaps he will revive his career with Essex. He is only 33 and has time to play for England again, perhaps on a future Subcon tour.

England have any upcoming spinners potentially better than these two?

 

[Abdullah719]

What did he say?

He supposedly said that England should have won the 2012 series if it wasn't for Ajmal chucking, I think.

 

[Adnan Siddiqui]

A moment of silence for fawad alam who must be wondering why guys like Hafeez and Malik get to resurrect their careers on easy pitches or against easy competition, while he slogs away for his deceptive > 50 domestic average.

True. But he will be there soon.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Good 1st session after losing an early wicket, we need to make sure we really bat well and bat big in this 1st inns.

 

[mnt1]

What did he say?

We would have won the series 2-1 if Ajmal wasn't chucking and general moaning about Ajmal but he did give credit to Rehman

 

[Bilal7]

We would have won the series 2-1 if Ajmal wasn't chucking and general moaning about Ajmal but he did give credit to Rehman

Lol, what bitterness. Still can't accept that Ajmal was a better spinner than him in all formats of the game.

 

[ChachaCricket]

Btw, Paul Reiffel is reffing so good chance of Malik getting reported.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Good recovery by both after Masood's wicket.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Btw, Paul Reiffel is reffing so good chance of Malik getting reported.

Well, i am expecting this. But in case if Malik gets some wickets.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Btw, Paul Reiffel is reffing so good chance of Malik getting reported.

If that happens then Malik automatically will miss the 2nd test as they have to get their action tested in 14 days.

 

[Bullet Drive]

We need 500+

Malik to make a ton iA

 

[Bullet Drive]

Conditions look beautiful for batting.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Malik at the top has really provided good impetus. Something Azhar cannot do.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Bumble and Athers happy after having some Biryani and Chiken tikka during lunch.