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Pakistan v West Indies | 1st Test (D/N) | Dubai (DSC) | Oct 13-17, 2016 | Day 4

In both innings babar has looked very sketchy in his first 30 balls. Very loose in his technique. On a more bowling friendly wicket or against a better side he'd be worked over.

Needs to go back to domestics and work hard on his game so that when either misbah/younus retire he doesn't give anyone else a chance to take that spot away from him inshAllah.
 
Billy Babar! he still got 7 lives left! [MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION]
 
Babar's batting usually isn't convincing at all when he starts his innings.
 
58 overs remaining in the day, I'd say bat for another 15 at least and keep going at 4 RPO.
 
Wow reverse sweep from Sami Aslam. He's shown a few more shots today and its impressing me.
 
Really like the way sami has improved his technique and is a lot of compact now then he was at the start of his career. Still needs to improve on short bowling as well as not playing across his pad.
 
Not a great dismissal from Babar. His luck runs out.

Hopefully Misbah can smack a few off the spinners here and we can declare soon.
 
Watsupdoc said:
Sami you beauty! Finally something interesting happening in this match.
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It's such a good feeling! I felt suicidal yesterday while watching the game, first time it happened while watching a Test; something about the dessert isn't it, has that eerie soul sucking feeling with no life about besides the 22 ghosts in the centre of dark shadows and a gritty Colosseum
 
shaz619 said:
It's such a good feeling! I felt suicidal yesterday while watching the game, first time it happened while watching a Test; something about the dessert isn't it, has that eerie soul sucking feeling with no life about besides the 22 ghosts in the centre of dark shadows and a gritty Colosseum
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Exactly - this has been the most interesting passage of the test match by far in what has been mostly a borefest.
 
And some genius had a thread "should yk retire just to give a full go to babar in test team" i mean really you have to doubt IQ of such people.
 
You gotta love test cricket!! All it takes is 1 test match to figure out where you need work . . you get found out so quickly! Babar who has been looking a million dollars . . is a wonderful talent . . but clearly has an issue with the short ball . . needs to iron them out before Australia!!
 
To be honest this innings has exposed that both Sami Aslam and Babar Azam are a work in progress
 
So quiet in the stadium you can hear the air conditioning.

Only need another 40-50 runs here so important we get a move on and give ourselves enough time to bowl WI out. Pitch looking harder to bat on with spinners extracting turn.
 
NauV said:
You gotta love test cricket!! All it takes is 1 test match to figure out where you need work . . you get found out so quickly! Babar who has been looking a million dollars . . is a wonderful talent . . but clearly has an issue with the short ball . . needs to iron them out before Australia!!
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I think the Babar Azam playing Tests in Australia idea may have to be postponed if he is struggling against short bowling in Dubai against West Indies
 
shaz619 said:
Aslam ate some anti-jinx parathas specially prepared by sharjeel khan during the break
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Hahaha I hope he ate like Sharjeel too because he'll need those parathas to survive against the kali zubaan of Ramiz. :yk
 
This should be the last hour of our batting, guys give it a whack and let's see how much we can get, a hundred would be ideal but even an 80 would do, but knowing misbah he isn't declaring before lead of 400, even if we have to bat about 10 overs after dinner,
 
Slog said:
I think the Babar Azam playing Tests in Australia idea may have to be postponed if he is struggling against short bowling in Dubai against West Indies
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Dont think he will be playing tests there anyway , our top 6 are pretty much settled .
 
JibranAnsari said:
Dont think he will be playing tests there anyway , our top 6 are pretty much settled .
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If someone gets injured Or is in terrible form he comes in

Or if we decide to go with 6 batsmen like in England
 
Gotta be honest, Aslam is the best test talent we have coming through. Azam is class too and deserves to be there in every test squad.
 
Slog said:
If someone gets injured Or is in terrible form he comes in

Or if we decide to go with 6 batsmen like in England
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Options like amin and saud shakil should be considered if they have a great quiade azam trophy.
 
Markhor said:
So quiet in the stadium you can hear the air conditioning.

Only need another 40-50 runs here so important we get a move on and give ourselves enough time to bowl WI out. Pitch looking harder to bat on with spinners extracting turn.
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You could probably hear someone if they let out a bit of squeaky gas:kohli
 
Misbah seems to be struggling a bit with his timings against the fast bowlers
 
Misbah needs to step up the run rate run rate should reach 4.5 it is going down right now since Azam is gone
 
Slog said:
To be honest this innings has exposed that both Sami Aslam and Babar Azam are a work in progress
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And what about Asad Shafiq? He is less talented than these 2. I think Pakistan can do much better than Asad Shafiq.
 
360 is more than enough vs WI, they won't get their first innings total on a last day wicket.
 
Misbah should play aggressively if he still wants to win otherwise keep tuktuking
 
Bishoo getting turn and bounce so good news for our spinners.

Just bash another 30-40 and declare already. Sarfraz at the crease now, hopefully he can up the tempo.
 
[MENTION=138463]Slog[/MENTION] which weakness did you spot in Aslam
 
Wow a lot of turn and bounce for Bishoo. I think Yasir is going to make quick work of WI.
 
49 overs left in the day . . For me Pakistan should be batting another 15 to 18 overs . . defintiely would give 120 overs to bowl out the Windies . .

Assuming Pak bats at 4 an over, lead would be at 400
 
49 overs left today. I think people can relax a bit... there shouldn't be any reason why Pakistan is not able to bowl out WI in 100 overs. If they can bat for another 20-25 overs, the game should be in the bag for Pakistan.
 
Markhor said:
Inconceivable given the heat and humidity of UAE conditions and after we bowled 123 overs.
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Most were bowled by Yasir and Wahab.

They had a supper break coming up as well. Nawaz, Sohail, Amir could have started the proceedings. But yea it was a risk hopefully we get enough overs.
 
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