Suleiman
Test Debutant
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2014
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Gone are the days of associating Pakistani fast bowlers with sights of the ball swinging or seaming at pace at times, throwing the batsman in all sorts of trouble.
Okay maybe they still do it at times I just wanted to be a little dramatic, but seriously speaking the 2nd biggest worry we've had in our overseas exploits after the batting is our unthreatening fast bowling.
Someone mentioned this earlier, that we are one of the worst sides atm in being able to exploit seamer friendly conditions. And I'm not talking about the match situation atm since the pitch is kind of flat now. But even SL who are now seen as psuedo-minnows are better at it than us.
But you switch on to the television and watch our pacers bowl and you will see them struggle with their compulsive addiction of bowling short and wide filth after trying to build some sort of pressure earlier in the over and releasing all of it.
This was very frustrating to watch in the England series where Cook happily padded his stats being fed this short/wide nonsense from Amir, Wabster, Sohail, Rahat.
It is happening again. 1st innings an out of form Taylor pretty much made the bulk of his 37 runs in this fashion, just swinging his bat at anything short/wide at a SR of 117.
The funny thing is after they bowl this trash they have a puzzled look on their faces, noted this with Sohail and Amir esp in the 1st innings. Like what did you expect would happen lol?
Think our batsmen will come good on the Australian highways, but worried about our bowlers as guys like Warner have made their career punishing anything short/wide on aussie toll roads.
Okay maybe they still do it at times I just wanted to be a little dramatic, but seriously speaking the 2nd biggest worry we've had in our overseas exploits after the batting is our unthreatening fast bowling.
Someone mentioned this earlier, that we are one of the worst sides atm in being able to exploit seamer friendly conditions. And I'm not talking about the match situation atm since the pitch is kind of flat now. But even SL who are now seen as psuedo-minnows are better at it than us.
But you switch on to the television and watch our pacers bowl and you will see them struggle with their compulsive addiction of bowling short and wide filth after trying to build some sort of pressure earlier in the over and releasing all of it.
This was very frustrating to watch in the England series where Cook happily padded his stats being fed this short/wide nonsense from Amir, Wabster, Sohail, Rahat.
It is happening again. 1st innings an out of form Taylor pretty much made the bulk of his 37 runs in this fashion, just swinging his bat at anything short/wide at a SR of 117.
The funny thing is after they bowl this trash they have a puzzled look on their faces, noted this with Sohail and Amir esp in the 1st innings. Like what did you expect would happen lol?
Think our batsmen will come good on the Australian highways, but worried about our bowlers as guys like Warner have made their career punishing anything short/wide on aussie toll roads.
#wabbygonewild
