Pakistan vs Australia | 3rd ODI | Sharjah | 03/09/12 | Pakistan innings

[x-man]

Akmal- future "talent"
. But Azhar future Inzi(both appearance n confidence)

 

[Zamee]

Give the guy a boot? He's been averaging nearly 40 during the last year. He's the 3rd highest run scorer for Pakistan even though he comes in at 6. He has his shortcomings but his failures are overstated. I'm sure we should kick him out and replace him with YK and Younis who struggle to average 20 over the last few months.

Why dont you man up and accept that you love Umar Akmal

 

[x-man]

Starc on

 

[x-man]

Re 4.80

 

[James]

Pakistan have scored 79/5 in last 17 overs. That's pretty poor. Hopefully it will not cost them the game.

 

[Inswinger]

Thats because of his 102 not out...Take that out and whats his average

Knowing basic match that really won't make much of a difference. At most it'll be a 1 run difference.

 

[Sherazkhalid]

6 runs an over will make it, 247 or so, which is not bad.

 

[Sledger]

Starc back.

 

[BoomBoom_Nazir]

:6

 

[Inswinger]

Why dont you man up and accept that you love Umar Akmal

Or how about we take an unbiased approach?

 

[x-man]

5.5 overs more

 

[x-man]

Great fielding by Oz

 

[JibranAnsari]

boring batting

 

[x-man]

Misbah looks like new bridegroom lot shy n face

 

[imshally81]

dot balls

 

[Thees_Mar_Khan]

Misbah is at fault. The guy just batted the whole PP and is on 11 from 21.

Man your love for UA is sickening now. Why is Misbahs fault that your poster boy got beaten first ball and heaved the other one with no sense. His brain fart moment very early this innings but its was expected.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Azhar Ali averaging 48 in ODI cricket.

 

[sali]

Pak making heavy weather of average bowling. Only few exceptions but batting mental block is just amazing.

 

[iRfaN_LA]

For the2000 time, umar akmal is being wasted at #6. He shud bat at number 3.

 

[Lalafied]

go for the shots now, there's no point to tuk tuk

 

[truthseer]

213/5 in 44.3
Short, upper cut, moves to 214/5

 

[x-man]

Wow beautiful shot

 

[Bullet Drive]

Man your love for UA is sickening now. Why is Misbahs fault that your poster boy got beaten first ball and heaved the other one with no sense. His brain fart moment very early this innings but its was expected.

If it was so expected why are people going mad over it?

 

[MoinHaroon]

someone should try to go fast, may be Misbah

 

[Sherazkhalid]

:6

come on yaar, dont play with our emotions.

 

[CalculatedRisk]

Sometimes I'm amazed at Waqar's naivety. He thought Pak was on course for 300 at one time. surely he must know the ability of his own players?

 

[JibranAnsari]

Umar akmal always disappoints whenever we have a good start

 

[imshally81]

Thanks GOD ... we are not chasing....

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Misbah blocks

 

[x-man]

For the2000 time, umar akmal is being wasted at #6. He shud bat at number 3.

He should play 12th player

 

[Zamee]

Or how about we take an unbiased approach?

Defending UA in every thread is unbiased? Be honest with yourself mate!

 

[MoinHaroon]

Misbah is going to make us loose another series

 

[JibranAnsari]

lol@ the aggressive batting

 

[FusedBulb]

Misbah... JUST CANNOT PLAY FASTER, can he ?

 

[Bullet Drive]

4 off the 45th over. Didn't even look for boundaries

 

[S_K]

Its so painful to watch misbah bat

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Just get out misbah. Let k akmal play 5 overs

 

[Sherazkhalid]

i think they will go after it in last three overs, want to make sure they make 225-230 atleast before going crazy.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Goodness me its not like we have tail enders next. Kamran Akmal is next to bat. He has 5 ODI hundreds. Get on with it!

 

[x-man]

Rameez reading pp comments. He is telling Afridi promotion started problems

 

[MoinHaroon]

Anything above 240 is good for our bowlers but it is not fair to put pressure on bowlers all the time

 

[JibranAnsari]

Play ur shots now , we have kamran akmal waiting , 30 more runs wont help anyway

 

[Amjid Javed]

Just 4 from the over, poor one from Pakistan

Pak 215/5 after 45 overs

 

[Lalafied]

like I said, Misbah's inability to hit boundaries is hurting us

 

[Seen Sheen]

Kamran would find it difficult to hit boundaries here straight away. Misbah should flex his muscles now. Need a boundary per over till the end.

 

[FusedBulb]

The platform is set, over 200 runs on the board, 5 wickets in hand, five overs to go and EVEN THEN he is stuck in the trademark tuk tuk.

 

[x-man]

46th over

 

[Bullet Drive]

Misbah used to be such a good hitter of the ball. What's happened to him?

 

[sa88]

Brain fart by Umar Akmal - just shows he is not ready for Test cricket. But he's been going okay in ODIs. Lets keep him there until he can learn a bit of maturity. The guy is without doubt more talented than Azhar and Asad. Just needs to apply a bit more.

 

[MoinHaroon]

Its so painful to watch misbah bat

He can't even run

 

[JibranAnsari]

full toss and only single by oldboi

 

[Strike!]

So awful.

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Its so painful to watch misbah bat

I agree. Its extremely painful. He just murdered this fulltoss for a damn SINGLE.

 

[MoinHaroon]

What a lousy batting performance after 129 for 0

 

[Sherazkhalid]

Misbah used to be such a good hitter of the ball. What's happened to him?

i think its the age factor, hes not sure if he can hit big anymore.

 

[x-man]

Come in misbah

 

[Bullet Drive]

Look for boundaries now!

 

[MoinHaroon]

Misbah is like vampire he sucks all life from a match

 

[x-man]

Pak come on

 

[Munna]

4.3 overs remaining.. 5 wickets remaining... here we have 2 guys looking for singles

 

[Bullet Drive]

Misbah striking at 65.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Hafeez's and nasir's effort in vain

 

[iafzal]

maybe scared to try to hit and get out, will be labeled like Afridi a brain farter

 

[Bullet Drive]

Another dot ball. Stupid.

 

[x-man]

24(37) misbah

 

[PTI tsunami]

Waqar talks so much bull

 

[imshally81]

ufffff

 

[pak4life]

misbah in stubborn mode a nice not out and then blame the middle order

 

[Bullet Drive]

Kamran is next. Hit big!

 

[x-man]

5

 

[sada90]

need some chocke and chakke

 

[imshally81]

Misbah... where is your ability to hit the six....... ?????

 

[x-man]

Good to lose a wicket

 

[Inswinger]

Defending UA in every thread is unbiased? Be honest with yourself mate!

It'd be biased if I didn't accept his faults. He played an idiotic shot and should be criticized. But to criticize him alone and not other people who have played reckless shots is frustrating.

 

[Munna]

Misbah... pls out hoja yaar :ahmed

 

[lilFlip]

AM: "Just to clarify my previous statement, this is what I meant, the likes of Afridi and U. Akmal would graciously gift their wickets to the Australians and when Misbah would come in to steady ship, people would blame him for not getting a higher total because "he plays too slow""

@ESPNCricInfo

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Another single on fulltoss. God i m pissed.

 

[BHM :D]

Need at least 30+ from the last four

 

[taqi]

Misbah can't hit shame we'll be ending up 240

 

[Bullet Drive]

Typical Misbah looking for a not out and thinking of him self ahead of the team. We have Kamran Akmal next into bat who has 5 ODI centuries to his name and these two(Misbah especially) are going on like we are 9 down.

They haven't looked for a boundary once.