Predict the outcome of the ODI series between England and Pakistan?

[Saj]

Pakistan face a strong and in-form England side in 3 ODIs starting on 8th July in Cardiff, with the other matches being 10th July at Lord's and 13th July in Birmingham.

What do you think will be the outcome of the 3-match series?

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

I voted 2-1 to England.

My feeling is Pakistan will win at least one game, will make a fist of it in another and will dismally lose one.

Ultimately, fielding may be the difference, as it always is with Pakistan.

 

[Ucdkee]

3-0 England if they play their best xi

 

[Hitman]

3-0 to England looks realistic if they play their full strength squad. However, I personally want to see good cricket. That's all.

 

[OMB]

2 -1 to England but more than the result yeah I want this to become a great bowling show.

 

[UzmanBeast]

If we play our best team, then we can certainly challenge England in these conditions.

I think that the following team is realistically our best chance at beating England -

Fakhar Zaman
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam (c)
Haris Sohail/Saud Shakeel
Sohaib Maqsood
Mohammad Rizwan
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Nawaz/Usman Qadir
Hasan Ali
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Haris Rauf

Our best bet is to bat first and set a good score (320+) and make sure that we take early wickets.

Bairstow and Roy are extremely dangerous, and the best way to keep England in check is to get rid of both as soon as possible.

It will be a good series to watch if both teams are on top of their game.

 

[sweep_shot]

2-1 to England.

 

[Babar_Azam_fan]

3-0 to England

2-1 to England, if they play their C team

 

[Shams123]

The probabilities are:

3-0 Eng 51%
2-1 Eng 38%
2-1 Pak 10%
3-0 Pak 1%

 

[Titan24]

Eng will be the favourites to take the series.

Eng has been playing some outstanding white ball cricket over the last 5-6 years. Their recent two consecutive series loses against Aus and Ind are the only two they have had in last 5 years. They have a settled team with decent bench as well. Yes other than Adil Rashid their white ball spin resources are not that great as of now with only Moen as another tested option but, they dont really need that for this series.

On the other Pak does have decent and now relatively experienced top 3-4 along with couple of pacers with not a lot but decent international experience. However the middle order of Pakistan is very vulnerable, support pacers are still finding their feet in the format with not much experience and management is still not sure about their best spin options.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

England are past their peak as an ODI side. They lost series to the likes of Australia and India post the World Cup.

I expect a full strength England to win 2-1 and all the games to be competitive. It wont be the kind of thrashing we saw in 2019. If they arent at full strength, Pakistan will win the series .

 

[Concerned]

Some strange predictions.

Have people forgotten Pakistan do not posses a middle order?

 

[UzmanBeast]

Eng will be the favourites to take the series.

Eng has been playing some outstanding white ball cricket over the last 5-6 years. Their recent two consecutive series loses against Aus and Ind are the only two they have had in last 5 years. They have a settled team with decent bench as well. Yes other than Adil Rashid their white ball spin resources are not that great as of now with only Moen as another tested option but, they dont really need that for this series.

On the other Pak does have decent and now relatively experienced top 3-4 along with couple of pacers with not a lot but decent international experience. However the middle order of Pakistan is very vulnerable, support pacers are still finding their feet in the format with not much experience and management is still not sure about their best spin options.

If Pakistan plays Haris Sohail at 4, and perhaps find room to accommodate Sohaib Maqsood at 5, then I think it could solve our middle-order issues.

The pitches will be as flat as pancakes, so I'd probably say that there's no need to even play a legitimate spinner, and I doubt England will either.

It will be an interesting series, but if Pakistan bowls well, and more importantly, if Pakistan can consistently get rid of England's top 3, it means that we'll have a solid chance.

Our death overs bowling has to be extremely good to deny England's hitters the chance of increasing their lead massively.

 

[Titan24]

If Pakistan plays Haris Sohail at 4, and perhaps find room to accommodate Sohaib Maqsood at 5, then I think it could solve our middle-order issues.

The pitches will be as flat as pancakes, so I'd probably say that there's no need to even play a legitimate spinner, and I doubt England will either.

It will be an interesting series, but if Pakistan bowls well, and more importantly, if Pakistan can consistently get rid of England's top 3, it means that we'll have a solid chance.

Our death overs bowling has to be extremely good to deny England's hitters the chance of increasing their lead massively.

Yes should be a good series. I would personally keep Rizwan at 4 as he has been in a very good form in last year or so and if he can come good at that number that would provide much needed solidity. Also Haris was really good in WC 19 where he batted at no 5 and at no 5 he averages 47 with a decent SR of 86 which is better than any no 5 we can currently have. So I think all the top 5 will be comfortable with this arrangement as they all will be playing at the numbers they prefer and are used to in 50 overs format.

No 6 will possibly be a competition between Sarfaraz, Saud Shakeel, Maqsood and Salman Agha. I am not sure how comfortable Maqsood and Saud will be at this number as they havent batted this low for their domestic sides in last year or so but, I guess they will have to make whatever opportunity they get count.

I would like atleast one regular spinner in the XI irrespective of the conditions. Nawaz was consistent in SA on really flat surfaces, so possibly him in the first match. Haris Sohail can give pretty decent 6th option if required. Eng will definitely play Adil Rashid as well. Even on flat surfaces its really important of have some variety available in the attack.

I agree Eng's top 3 will be important and Shaheen and Hassan will need to stand up and deliver inside the first 10 overs consistently to give rest of the bowling a chance.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Yes should be a good series. I would personally keep Rizwan at 4 as he has been in a very good form in last year or so and if he can come good at that number that would provide much needed solidity. Also Haris was really good in WC 19 where he batted at no 5 and at no 5 he averages 47 with a decent SR of 86 which is better than any no 5 we can currently have. So I think all the top 5 will be comfortable with this arrangement as they all will be playing at the numbers they prefer and are used to in 50 overs format.

No 6 will possibly be a competition between Sarfaraz, Saud Shakeel, Maqsood and Salman Agha. I am not sure how comfortable Maqsood and Saud will be at this number as they havent batted this low for their domestic sides in last year or so but, I guess they will have to make whatever opportunity they get count.

I would like atleast one regular spinner in the XI irrespective of the conditions. Nawaz was consistent in SA on really flat surfaces, so possibly him in the first match. Haris Sohail can give pretty decent 6th option if required. Eng will definitely play Adil Rashid as well. Even on flat surfaces its really important of have some variety available in the attack.

I agree Eng's top 3 will be important and Shaheen and Hassan will need to stand up and deliver inside the first 10 overs consistently to give rest of the bowling a chance.

Nawaz will be a good choice because apart from Morgan and Stokes, most of England's batting, if not their top 3 is entirely composed of right handed batsmen.

At 6, I wouldn't really mind seeing a batting all-rounder like Salman Ali Agha, but then again, we do need some explosiveness in the middle order, which is why I'd look at Sohaib Maqsood.

It is setting up to be a good series, and if Pakistan can execute their plans to perfection, we can actually challenge this England side.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

England are favorites to win.

That said, if our top 3 score consistently and one of Shaheen/Hasan have a good series and are able to contain English top order we can win it.

Let's see.

 

[HappyWarsFan]

Either side can win 2-1, it'll be close.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

2-1 to Pakistan.

Can’t see England winning the series without Buttler and Archer. Woakes and Woods are in for a hammering.

 

[Yasir_ch]

I think Pakistan will win 2-1, they are going to surprise a lot of people.

 

[MenInG]

The way England are now - 3-0 a huge possibility

 

[gazza619]

I would be happy if we win at least 1 ODI.

England to win 3-0.

 

[Mamoon]

Depends on England. If they bring their A game they will crush Pakistan 3-0 irrespective of how Pakistan performs.

However, if they have an off-day then can Pakistan can fluke a win and settle for a 2-1 defeat.

 

[Farabi]

If we play our best team, then we can certainly challenge England in these conditions.

I think that the following team is realistically our best chance at beating England -

Fakhar Zaman
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam (c)
Haris Sohail/Saud Shakeel
Sohaib Maqsood
Mohammad Rizwan
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Nawaz/Usman Qadir
Hasan Ali
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Haris Rauf

Our best bet is to bat first and set a good score (320+) and make sure that we take early wickets.

Bairstow and Roy are extremely dangerous, and the best way to keep England in check is to get rid of both as soon as possible.

It will be a good series to watch if both teams are on top of their game.

I love this team!! Few thoughts:

-Is Sohaib Maqsood in the ODI side? Not sure but if he is, he must play.
-Between Haris and Saud, Haris ought to be preferred given he didn’t do nothing wrong to get dropped from ODI team in the first place.
-Between Nawaz/Qadir, i’de go with Nawaz who was instrumental in Pak’s victory over SA .

 

[Farabi]

Separately, I really think this is the strongest Pakistani batting line-up since at least 2007.
Babar, Fakhar and Imam are in top 11 ODI batsmen ranking. They’re followed up by Haris (47 avg), Rizwan and red hot form Sohaib.
Faheem, Nawaz and Hassan can all hold the bat.

I am worried about the lack of world class spinner and experience in fast bowling

 

[hitthestump]

If we play our best team, then we can certainly challenge England in these conditions.

I think that the following team is realistically our best chance at beating England -

Fakhar Zaman
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam (c)
Haris Sohail/Saud Shakeel
Sohaib Maqsood
Mohammad Rizwan
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Nawaz/Usman Qadir
Hasan Ali
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Haris Rauf

Our best bet is to bat first and set a good score (320+) and make sure that we take early wickets.

Bairstow and Roy are extremely dangerous, and the best way to keep England in check is to get rid of both as soon as possible.

It will be a good series to watch if both teams are on top of their game.

Playing 5 bowlers in England is impossible - we could see some 0/110 figures if Babar is forced to bowl people out. Therefore Haris probably plays, or we lose Maqsood for Shadab.

 

[Manzy2599]

I love this team!! Few thoughts:

-Is Sohaib Maqsood in the ODI side? Not sure but if he is, he must play.
-Between Haris and Saud, Haris ought to be preferred given he didn’t do nothing wrong to get dropped from ODI team in the first place.
-Between Nawaz/Qadir, i’de go with Nawaz who was instrumental in Pak’s victory over SA .

Nawaz was barely instrumental and most of his wickets were when the batsman were going for it which is what Imad could’ve easily done aswell. He is a far superior batsman. Not like Nawaz who’s in the side as an all rounder at 6/7 but bats like a no 11. Pak needs to strengthen their middle order/lower order cause at the moment it seems like the tail starts after the top 3.

 

[Manzy2599]

Separately, I really think this is the strongest Pakistani batting line-up since at least 2007.
Babar, Fakhar and Imam are in top 11 ODI batsmen ranking. They’re followed up by Haris (47 avg), Rizwan and red hot form Sohaib.
Faheem, Nawaz and Hassan can all hold the bat.

I am worried about the lack of world class spinner and experience in fast bowling

2011 batting line up was far better then the current ones cause at least the tail didn’t start from number 4 and the batsman could hang around and had fire power with Akmal Afridi and Razzaq at the (6/7/8) at the moment this clueless side desperately played Sarfraz at 5/6 in odis despite having Rizwan as a wicket keeper cause Misbah loves giving endless chances to asif ali, danish aziz, Khusdil shah, Hussain talat type domestic bullies and calls Nawaz an all rounder at 6 who bats like a no 11. Even hasan ali has more batting skills.

 

[King_Kohli]

I will wait few more days.
Not sure about England full team availability.

 

[UzmanBeast]

I love this team!! Few thoughts:

-Is Sohaib Maqsood in the ODI side? Not sure but if he is, he must play.
-Between Haris and Saud, Haris ought to be preferred given he didn’t do nothing wrong to get dropped from ODI team in the first place.
-Between Nawaz/Qadir, i’de go with Nawaz who was instrumental in Pak’s victory over SA .

According to some of the media, Sohaib Maqsood is in the ODI squad.

The only issue with that playing XI is that there are only 5 reliable bowling options, so in case someone has a very poor outing, the only fall-back options are Haris Sohail/Saud Shakeel and Fakhar Zaman who can at least bowl an over or two.

I would also take Nawaz over Qadir because he has been economical, and these wickets won't offer any spin either way, so keeping it tight is the best way to go.

We have three all-rounders in the squad: Salman Agha, Shadab Khan, and Faheem Ashraf.

Nawaz's batting is too poor to consider him as an all-rounder.

From those three, I think that Faheem is the best choice but I would also make a case for Salman Agha's selection, perhaps if we feel like there's the need for another bowling option.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Playing 5 bowlers in England is impossible - we could see some 0/110 figures if Babar is forced to bowl people out. Therefore Haris probably plays, or we lose Maqsood for Shadab.

Another team, which includes some more bowling options, could be this one:

Imam-ul-Haq
Fakhar Zaman (left-arm off-spin)
Babar Azam (c)
Mohammad Rizwan (wk)
Haris Sohail (left-arm off-spin)
Salman Ali Agha (right-arm off-spin)
Faheem Ashraf (right-arm medium)
Mohammad Nawaz (slow left-arm off-spin)
Hasan Ali (right-arm fast)
Shaheen Shah Afridi (left-arm fast)
Mohammad Hasnain/Haris Rauf (right-arm fast)

As you can see, this team now includes about 8 bowling options that can be exercised should the need arise.

I think it would be better to instead remove Salman Agha for Sohaib Maqsood, who can provide the firepower needed at the later stage of the innings.

 

[redmaverik84]

As a neutral, waiting to watch a high quality series with an unbiased outlook. Eng/SL is too one sided and SA/WI too late in the night. I go with 2-1 to England if they play all their LOI specialists.

 

[shamaan]

Some strange predictions.

Have people forgotten Pakistan do not posses a middle order?

Haris is back,rizwan is thier and saud shakeel that's a good middle order.

 

[shamaan]

If Pakistan plays Haris Sohail at 4, and perhaps find room to accommodate Sohaib Maqsood at 5, then I think it could solve our middle-order issues.

The pitches will be as flat as pancakes, so I'd probably say that there's no need to even play a legitimate spinner, and I doubt England will either.

It will be an interesting series, but if Pakistan bowls well, and more importantly, if Pakistan can consistently get rid of England's top 3, it means that we'll have a solid chance.

Our death overs bowling has to be extremely good to deny England's hitters the chance of increasing their lead massively.

Shaheen will be the key if he can dismiss the openers then Pakistan will be right in the game.

 

[shamaan]

My odi squad vs England

Fakhar
Imaam
Babar
Saud
Rizwan
Haris
Fahim
Hassan Ali
Qadir
Shaheen
Husnain

I will play both saud and haris as the 6th bowling option and they are proper Bateman.i will only qadir as I think his variations England might not pick.thats for me the best team.

 

[shamaan]

2-1 England

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Another team, which includes some more bowling options, could be this one:

Imam-ul-Haq
Fakhar Zaman (left-arm off-spin)
Babar Azam (c)
Mohammad Rizwan (wk)
Haris Sohail (left-arm off-spin)
Salman Ali Agha (right-arm off-spin)
Faheem Ashraf (right-arm medium)
Mohammad Nawaz (slow left-arm off-spin)
Hasan Ali (right-arm fast)
Shaheen Shah Afridi (left-arm fast)
Mohammad Hasnain/Haris Rauf (right-arm fast)

As you can see, this team now includes about 8 bowling options that can be exercised should the need arise.

I think it would be better to instead remove Salman Agha for Sohaib Maqsood, who can provide the firepower needed at the later stage of the innings.

I like Salman Agha but for me his fielding alone gets him booted out of the playing XI. He's too ordinary a player in my view, really let me down with his performances in the PSL.

I'd really like Moqsood in there as well and it's probably a good idea to nurture his current batting form which has shown strengths in the most recent list A games. Any who for me replace Agha for Saud and that will be good enough.

 

[Saj]

I've gone for 2-1 to England.

This is going to be a tough series for Pakistan.

The batting has to click if Pakistan are to be competitive.

 

[HappyWarsFan]

I've gone for 2-1 to England.

This is going to be a tough series for Pakistan.

The batting has to click if Pakistan are to be competitive.

No,.our batting is strong. Especially with Haris and Saud in the squad.

It's the bowling that has to perform. The likes of Shaheen tend to spray a lot.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Shaheen will be the key if he can dismiss the openers then Pakistan will be right in the game.

The advantage to Shaheen is that England's top 3 are all right-handed batsmen, which gives Shaheen a good angle to work with.

If he can get some swing early on and put England's openers in some trouble, we'll be right in the game.

I also think Hasan Ali is going to be really important in the middle overs, he has to take wickets.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

The advantage to Shaheen is that England's top 3 are all right-handed batsmen, which gives Shaheen a good angle to work with.

If he can get some swing early on and put England's openers in some trouble, we'll be right in the game.

I also think Hasan Ali is going to be really important in the middle overs, he has to take wickets.

It's a very 50/50 match i reckon, whatever it is Pak might wanna chase i feel. The squad looks balanced and looks like it has a lot to offer.

InshAllah i'm gonna say Pak 2-1

 

[UzmanBeast]

It's a very 50/50 match i reckon, whatever it is Pak might wanna chase i feel. The squad looks balanced and looks like it has a lot to offer.

InshAllah i'm gonna say Pak 2-1

I would disagree with chasing because our players are bottlers in pressure situations.

I would much rather we set the target and defend rather than chase.

We should look to apply any pressure we can on England, and scoreboard pressure is a good plus-point if we look to defend a total.

 

[shamaan]

The advantage to Shaheen is that England's top 3 are all right-handed batsmen, which gives Shaheen a good angle to work with.

If he can get some swing early on and put England's openers in some trouble, we'll be right in the game.

I also think Hasan Ali is going to be really important in the middle overs, he has to take wickets.

Definitely they have to be at the absolute best play proper Batesman saud,haris,and the normal

 

[shamaan]

I would disagree with chasing because our players are bottlers in pressure situations.

I would much rather we set the target and defend rather than chase.

We should look to apply any pressure we can on England, and scoreboard pressure is a good plus-point if we look to defend a total.

I agree set the score of 320 and we have more than 50 percent chance

 

[taqi]

2-0 to England one being washout

 

[Manzy2599]

Easily 3-0 to England. With Pakistan’s tail starting at 4 what can you expect from the likes of Misbah with their backwards thinking and stubbornness. First he removed Sarfraz from captaincy and wk then play him as a specialist batsman at 5 vs South Africa cause all his buddies (asif ali, danish aziz, Khusdil shah and Hussain talat) failed badly after multiple chances and if I recall correctly Sarfraz was dropped due to a dip in his batting form. Misbah has been going around in circles with the team and done a full 360 and people are still too dumb to see it and get excited with his sugar coated tweets after series victories vs South Africa B and Zimbabwe. Shame on this management. When will Misbah go....

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Pakistan to blow away England 3-0 with Babar stamping his authority as the top ODI batter.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

If Pak wins the first game, I think there is a chance for us to beat England by 2-1

However if England wins the first game, it’s probably going to be 3-0 to England.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

I'm gonna give it 2-1 to Pakistan.

 

[shamaan]

Easily 3-0 to England. With Pakistan’s tail starting at 4 what can you expect from the likes of Misbah with their backwards thinking and stubbornness. First he removed Sarfraz from captaincy and wk then play him as a specialist batsman at 5 vs South Africa cause all his buddies (asif ali, danish aziz, Khusdil shah and Hussain talat) failed badly after multiple chances and if I recall correctly Sarfraz was dropped due to a dip in his batting form. Misbah has been going around in circles with the team and done a full 360 and people are still too dumb to see it and get excited with his sugar coated tweets after series victories vs South Africa B and Zimbabwe. Shame on this management. When will Misbah go....

Saud and haris are in the squad they will add batting quality and then u have maqsood if they wanted to play an aggressive batesman

 

[King_Kohli]

I will wait few more days.
Not sure about England full team availability.

Okay, here we go.
No Stokes, No Buttler and No Archer for the series.

2-1 to Pakistan.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

Just hoping for a Pak series win. Will be a good series probably.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Wow. No Roy, Buttler or Archer. Pakistan might smash this team. First ODI series win in England in nearly 5 decades coming up.

 

[Technics 1210]

2-1 to Pakistan, weather permitting.

 

[Ertugrul_Bey]

By the time we figure out the right playing 11, the series will be over.

 

[cricketerB94]

Easy 3-0 win for Pakistan.

 

[Rafa]

I just hope Pakistan give it a proper fight and don't get rolled over like the Sri Lankan have. 2-1 in favor of either of the teams would be a good result for me as long as the series is a toughly contested battle.

 

[Rafa]

Wow. No Roy, Buttler or Archer. Pakistan might smash this team. First ODI series win in England in nearly 5 decades coming up.

Roy is playing and would open with Bairstow. Who said Roy isn't playing ?

With that explosive opening pair don't think Pakistan would be winning with ease.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Even without Stokes and Buttler, this England side is very strong.

The top four have immense firepower, but their lower-order has a hole that we should look to exploit.

Moeen and Curran aren't even half of what Stokes and Buttler are with the bat.

We will need to be creative with our bowling, we cannot give boundary balls at all. That should be our main goal, to avoid bowling poor deliveries and focus on getting groups of tidy overs together. England's batsmen usually get out when they try to create a shot out of nothing, so we need to bank on their aggression to topple them. Both Roy and Bairstow will attack the new ball straight away, so the best idea seems to be either getting the ball to swing into their pads by getting them to drive at it.

Whoever our spinners are will need to keep things very economical. Right now, I don't think Shadab is in any position to be bowling to in-form Roy and Bairstow, he will get eaten alive. Nawaz and Qadir seem like better options, but making Shadab the vice captain has cost us a lot in terms of team balance.

Pakistan's best chance is defending targets, we will fail under pressure while we are chasing.

Our best team looks like this:

Fakhar Zaman
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam (c)
Haris Sohail
Sarfaraz Ahmed (excellent record in England is why I've included him)
Shadab Khan
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Nawaz
Hasan Ali
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Haris Rauf

Unfortunately, our team balance is awful because we don't have Imad Wasim in the team. He would have slotted in at 6 perfectly, but our management is quite incompetent in that regard. He could have easily played as a batting all-rounder and it would have allowed us to have 6 reliable bowling options as well, but we instead need to hope that Shadab can deliver with the bat and ball.

We need 6 bowling options in England, and unfortunately, it means that our tail will be even longer.

 

[Abdurmirr]

Can't see anything but a 3-0 win for England.

 

[Ahmed216]

If we reduce the number of bits n pieces(shadab faheem nawaz) we play and try to dominate weak english bowling line up we'll have a chance of winning 2-1

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Roy is playing and would open with Bairstow. Who said Roy isn't playing ?

With that explosive opening pair don't think Pakistan would be winning with ease.

Sorry. I meant Stokes not Roy.

 

[The cricket enthusiast]

3-0 England
Woakes gonna rip pakistan batting lineup for fun.

 

[King_Kohli]

Wow. No Roy, Buttler or Archer. Pakistan might smash this team. First ODI series win in England in nearly 5 decades coming up.

Pakistan has not won an ODI series in England since 1974.

Really surprised
Pakistan was strong team in 90's and early 2000's but has not own a ODI series in England.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Pakistan has not won an ODI series in England since 1974.

Really surprised
Pakistan was strong team in 90's and early 2000's but has not own a ODI series in England.

They could have won had it been a bilateral series between Pakistan and England but it was a tri-series involving Australia as well , unfortunately, for Pakistan.

 

[hitthestump]

Pakistan has not won an ODI series in England since 1974.

Really surprised
Pakistan was strong team in 90's and early 2000's but has not own a ODI series in England.

A tri series took place in 2001 between Australia, England and Pakistan where England didn't win a single game.

 

[Firebat]

No Stokes, Buttler, Archer and still they seem stronger than us, especially with our main batsmen losing form recently.

 

[shamaan]

No Stokes, Buttler, Archer and still they seem stronger than us, especially with our main batsmen losing form recently.

I think it's about par with Pakistan without stokes and buttler

 

[shamaan]

Even without Stokes and Buttler, this England side is very strong.

The top four have immense firepower, but their lower-order has a hole that we should look to exploit.

Moeen and Curran aren't even half of what Stokes and Buttler are with the bat.

We will need to be creative with our bowling, we cannot give boundary balls at all. That should be our main goal, to avoid bowling poor deliveries and focus on getting groups of tidy overs together. England's batsmen usually get out when they try to create a shot out of nothing, so we need to bank on their aggression to topple them. Both Roy and Bairstow will attack the new ball straight away, so the best idea seems to be either getting the ball to swing into their pads by getting them to drive at it.

Whoever our spinners are will need to keep things very economical. Right now, I don't think Shadab is in any position to be bowling to in-form Roy and Bairstow, he will get eaten alive. Nawaz and Qadir seem like better options, but making Shadab the vice captain has cost us a lot in terms of team balance.

Pakistan's best chance is defending targets, we will fail under pressure while we are chasing.

Our best team looks like this:

Fakhar Zaman
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam (c)
Haris Sohail
Sarfaraz Ahmed (excellent record in England is why I've included him)
Shadab Khan
Faheem Ashraf
Mohammad Nawaz
Hasan Ali
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Haris Rauf

Unfortunately, our team balance is awful because we don't have Imad Wasim in the team. He would have slotted in at 6 perfectly, but our management is quite incompetent in that regard. He could have easily played as a batting all-rounder and it would have allowed us to have 6 reliable bowling options as well, but we instead need to hope that Shadab can deliver with the bat and ball.

We need 6 bowling options in England, and unfortunately, it means that our tail will be even longer.

Haris sohail is injured and may not be fit I time for first odi.if you want a 6th bowling option why not include saud shakeel at 4 drop haris to 5.and how an earth have you included sarfraz and bat shadab at 6.

 

[QY74]

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[Saj]

Taking 10 wickets shouldn't be a problem for the Pakistani bowlers, the problem will be whether our batting line-up can chase down England's totals or indeed put up decent totals that the bowlers can defend.

It's high time others stepped up on a regular basis, rather than the usual suspects.

 

[Pakhs]

Okay, here we go.
No Stokes, No Buttler and No Archer for the series.

2-1 to Pakistan.

Only Butler makes a difference to England such is there strength in this particular format. They are able to replace Archer and Stokes adequately.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Haris sohail is injured and may not be fit I time for first odi.if you want a 6th bowling option why not include saud shakeel at 4 drop haris to 5.and how an earth have you included sarfraz and bat shadab at 6.

Sarfaraz averages an excess of 50 against England, higher than Babar Azam.

I included in my explanation why Shadab is playing, my first choice is and always will be Imad Wasim ahead of Shadab Khan.

Saud Shakeel and Haris Sohail are basically the same type of player, both statistically and in terms of skill. Saud has age on his side, so I agree that he should get a chance.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Sarfaraz averages an excess of 50 against England, higher than Babar Azam.

I included in my explanation why Shadab is playing, my first choice is and always will be Imad Wasim ahead of Shadab Khan.

Saud Shakeel and Haris Sohail are basically the same type of player, both statistically and in terms of skill. Saud has age on his side, so I agree that he should get a chance.

What did Haris Sohail score in the Yoyo test and who cleared him in the med team? Essentially, a position is wasted again if he's not fit and we could've selected someone else as a middle order player instead.

 

[shamaan]

Sarfaraz averages an excess of 50 against England, higher than Babar Azam.

I included in my explanation why Shadab is playing, my first choice is and always will be Imad Wasim ahead of Shadab Khan.

Saud Shakeel and Haris Sohail are basically the same type of player, both statistically and in terms of skill. Saud has age on his side, so I agree that he should get a chance.

But what's his strike rate espically batting at the position you put in.

Both saud and haris should play they are better batters than both safraz and shadab and proberly just below in bowling.if shadab is to play he should play at 7 no higher.sarfraz if played should also bat in the top half.

 

[Minnowbasher]

Well now it should be an easy 3-0 to Pakistan unless they bottle it.

 

[Pakhs]

This is now all different 2-1 to Pakistan would have been 2-1 to England before. Pakistan is one team who always beat England when matters like in CT17 & WC but now the stakes are not as high they may not play at their best.

 

[AdamM97]

2-1 to Pakistan

 

[shamaan]

3 nil Pakistan

 

[msb314]

3-0 Pakistan

 

[Shoaibbtt]

With the bowling attack England have it should be 3-0 to Pak but i will still settle for 2-1.