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Senior Test Player
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2003
- Runs
- 25,607
- Post of the Week
- 4
127 for 5 at close
123 to avoid following on.
Will need Malik and Butt to score centuries, as people above have already said. Hopefully Butt will be fine by tomorrow.
Overall it was good to restrict the saffies to 450 when they could easily have still been batting now if things hadn't gone our way. But despite the openers getting us off to a flier we have thrown it all away. I don't blame all our batsman though...
Kamran- marginal LBW, possibly going down leg.
Hafeez- sensational catch by Kallis. Can't really blame Hafeez for that though the shot could have better. But I'll give Hafeez the benefit of the doubt.
Younis- ball kept very low. No fault of Younis.
Faisal- idiot.
Misbah- what the hell was he doing?
So the last two wickets are shockers. But the others we couldn't really do much about. The pitch has definitely started to misbehave a bit but it still seems decent to bat on. If Malik and Butt can get their eyes in then there is no reason why we can't get to 300 or so.
123 to avoid following on.
Will need Malik and Butt to score centuries, as people above have already said. Hopefully Butt will be fine by tomorrow.
Overall it was good to restrict the saffies to 450 when they could easily have still been batting now if things hadn't gone our way. But despite the openers getting us off to a flier we have thrown it all away. I don't blame all our batsman though...
Kamran- marginal LBW, possibly going down leg.
Hafeez- sensational catch by Kallis. Can't really blame Hafeez for that though the shot could have better. But I'll give Hafeez the benefit of the doubt.
Younis- ball kept very low. No fault of Younis.
Faisal- idiot.
Misbah- what the hell was he doing?
So the last two wickets are shockers. But the others we couldn't really do much about. The pitch has definitely started to misbehave a bit but it still seems decent to bat on. If Malik and Butt can get their eyes in then there is no reason why we can't get to 300 or so.