Don't agree with you, Smith is a 4th innings choker with zero hundreds. He has failed everytime in the 4th innings, can't be compared to these legends.
You can disagree lol, we are all humans. We can't agree on everything mate.
Abrar played on the same decks in list A pre debut and his record isn't nearly as bad
Tbh love sajid energy he is a fighter who plays for pakistan he wants to win every game which pakistan needs.
No it's still summer in lahore there is literally no chance of smog yet but bad light might come into play but with spin pitches it won't matter.
fancy 75 overs a day [ I know 90% bowling is going to be done by spinners ] ?
There is no crowd for test matches in Pakistan. Doesn't matter when you start it.
Yeah, why not.. He is decent spinner and these tracks will help him more to get that 5fer
Yea. if the pitch deteriorates progressively literally anyone who can roll his arm over will come into play.
PCB doesn't care much for Tests anymore, evident by how many two match test series we are playing.
The wtc schedule from 2025-2027 was announced months back.
Pakistan is likely not going to qualify. Highly highly doubt they'll beat England even once. Lot will depend on rain and quadrat ki nizam
It'll either be Aus vs India or Aus vs Eng final. No 2 ways about it.
England isn't a bad test team from a batting perspective. They have the best test batting lineup in the world by far.
Sajid needs turn to succeed. Noman is the more compete bowler. He can beat batters with his flight alone.
Sajid is very accurate in terms of line and length tbf.
Actually few tests that lost by India happened on such turners. Remember Okeefe picking 15 or 16 wickets. Then kunemann, murphy running through us in another game. India wins when there is only slight turn. Not massive turn.
And ejaz patel
I wish if PCB can give free tickets and meals to school kids to turn up. We must invest.
Ajaz patel has done well as a spinner. But Glen Philips bowling like Murali was definitely due to lottery pitch. It mostly worked against India because INdia lost both the tosses.
India seems to be ditching spin wickets. Or atleast curating pace wickets.
Soon heaven means south Africa will have a genuine chance if they win the toss
Not really you still have to score runs batting first against sajid and noman which is going to be extremely hard for south africa either way they are screwed
No Australia will have to face the spin music as they dished out seaming wickets when we toured last year.
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Difficult to get excited for a 2 match series anyway. And no wonder fans of the team that finished last in the previous WTC are finding it hard to get excited for the start of a new cycle.Honestly I'm not excited for this series.
Idkw people dont talk about Pakistan playing an outdated brand of test cricket? I believe the biggest advocate on this forumn for t20 and odi cricket is @Rana Who has written essays upon essays providing deep diversity insight as to why T20 cricket was outdated.
But not sure if any poster has talked about test?
We live in a world where Ben Duckett is an opener in test, Travis Head and Brook at solid no 5 and even Steve smith + Joe root have upped their SR in test. Each side is looking to tonk 400-500 in the first innings now adays?
Yet Pakistan is opting for a batting lineup of
1) Imam
2) Abdullah
3) Shan
4) Babar
5) Saud
6) Rizwan
7) Agha
^^ This is 1970's test lineup lol and that too of a minnow team
The only aggressive batters are Shan and Kamran ghulam but Ghulam is sitting out for Babar and Shan isn't talented enough to perform.
No clue why pcb never opted for fakhar at no 5 in test and refuse to bring Farhan to open, they've played FC before and fakhar has a double century in fc too?
Playing aggressive isnt always the solution in test cricket but it is on certain tracks.
You guys ever happy it was the blunder of ramiz and babar by preparing those road pitches otherwise pakistan was in contention to play wtc final had it been spin pitches back then but now aqib got it right with spin tracks that's the only way to win series vs sena teams yes pakistan will loose which is fine but you have to take a chance a risk with rank turners and with nomam and sajid i am confident they will not let any team win easily at home that's for sure.
West Indies were able to beat Pakistan when they won the toss. Such pitches are a lottery
Pakistan uses kookaburra not SG
They want to avoid New Zealand 2.0 at all costs now. The scar of spin is too fresh
Making spin tracks vs sena opponents is the way to go. But not lottery pitches where matches finish before entering day 4. Some balance hopefully..
I think pak would take 2.5 days not 3.5 days to score 450 runs but get your point man we are becoming irrelevant in test cricket so fast. No team is going to fear visiting pak for the right reason lol
They took 3.5 days to score 400 and still badly lost to England when England smacked 500 on day 1 against them.
Bro shan and crawley average about same and somehow shan has played better knocks than crawley still remember the chase masterclass he had with younis khan in sri lanka so shan batting is aggressive he wants to take on bowling which is absolutely gold in these lottery turning pitches where any ball can have your name on it so quick fire innings from shan will be pure gold here and match winning.
Crawley ashes series puts him >>>>>> Shan
Who's praising Shan. Kis nei shan ko dawa di hoi hai janab?
LOL... I don't even wanna tlak about him... A captain with a below mediocre record. Contacts made him captain only. His performance is zero
That's everywhere on this planet. Your network is your networth. Although tbf sports is the one field it should be kept out of as it causes alot of damage.
Pure rank turner
your perception or reports in media ?
There are reports in media pakistan will play 3 spinners sajid nomam and abrar or asif afridi so pitch will be be pure rank turner.
Really cant understand the role of 3rd specialist spinner if you already have salman agha as part time spinner.
