SL BP XI v Pakistanis | Tour Match | 20/3/2014 | Moratuwa

[fawad_wellwisher]

So who is going to be given this practice game? I would assume whoever is playing the 1st ODI will get to play so this game should give us a pretty good idea of XI that will be chosen for the match on August 23rd.

My preference

Sharjeel
Shehzad
Hafeez
Umar
Fawad
Misbah
Maqsood/Sarfaraz
Afridi
Wahab
Babar
Junaid


There is no point playing a sixth bowler as Talha has been struggling. Anwar Ali is a good batter but his bowling is suspect so might as well add depth to the batting line up.

 

[Kiri]

My preference

Kusal Perera
Thirimanne
Chandimal
Vithanage
Priyanjan
Jayaratne
De Silva
Thisara Perera
Lahiru Gamage
Seekuge Prasana
Ajantha mendis

 

[Zero]

My preference

Kusal Perera
Thirimanne
Chandimal
Vithanage
Priyanjan
Jayaratne
De Silva
Thisara Perera
Lahiru Gamage
Seekuge Prasana
Ajantha mendis

Thirmanne opening might work against us, but I don't know if it will be a long-term solution.

 

[Kiri]

Thirmanne opening might work against us, but I don't know if it will be a long-term solution.

Thirimanne is there because he's not in form and opening is a way of expressing himself.

 

[Hamza_]

Sharjeel
Shehzad
Fawad
Umar
Hafeez
Misbah
Sohaib
Afridi
Wahab
Junaid
Babar

Will swap Shehzad for Sarfraz if he is retained.

 

[Jabo]

I think Misbah will be rested... due to his great performance

Sharjeel
Shezad
YK
Maqsood
Akmal
Hafeez
Afridi
Ali
Wahab
Talha
Babar

That being said, I said before the series, SL will smash Pak 2-1, expect 330/4 and Pak to be 232 all out

 

[Kianig89]

I,d play both sarfraz n anwar as they are fighters

 

[menace2society]

What I would like to happen - Hafeez dropping down the order.

Shehzad
Sarfraz
Alam
Umar Akmal
Misbah
Hafeez
Afridi
Riaz
Babar
Junaid
Irfan

^^

This is a strong team, don't confuse our test form to our ODI form.

What will actually happen - Hafeez opens with Shehzad

Shehzad
Hafeez
Maqsood
Alam
Umar Akmal
Misbah
Afridi

 

[Savak]

So now they decided that a practice match was needed? Extremely pathetic stuff from the pcb

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[Kianig89]

Shehzad
HafeeZ
U.akmal
Misbah
Sarfraz
Maqsood
Anwar
Afridi
Wahab
Junaid
Babar

This is a gun lineup batting heavy n plenty of bowlers

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Calm down. This practice match was always in the itenary.

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Shehzad
HafeeZ
U.akmal
Misbah
Sarfraz
Maqsood
Anwar
Afridi
Wahab
Junaid
Babar

This is a gun lineup batting heavy n plenty of bowlers

So no Fawad in your team eh, interesting!

 

[menace2society]

Shehzad
HafeeZ
U.akmal
Misbah
Sarfraz
Maqsood
Anwar
Afridi
Wahab
Junaid
Babar

This is a gun lineup batting heavy n plenty of bowlers

Anwar is terrible. SL will make 280 and we would be unable to chase.

 

[j_kazmi]

Shezhad
Hafeez
Fawad
Umar
Sohaib
Misbah
Afridi
Anwar
Babar
Wahab
Junaid

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

i bet you umar akmal will bat at 7

Younis ( who will probably do well so he can curse in the long run) and Misbah at 3 and 4

followed by Fawad



Afterwards we will blame Akmal and Maqsood for slogging in order to get the run rate above 4

 

[Mrhandsome]

Shehzad
Sharjeel
Fawad
Misbah
Umar
Hafeez
Maqsood
Afridi
Wahab
Irfan
Junaid

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

It wont happen but this what i want as an ODI 11 for this tour

1. Prof - no other place for him
2. Shezhad
3. Fawad Alam
4. Umar Akmal -wk
5. Maqsood
6. Misbah
7. Afridi
8. Anwar Ali
9. Zulfiqar
10. Talha
11. Junaid


I have no hope for Riaz in ODIs, the two new ball rule has well and truly killed him

 

[cricketerB94]

This is a practice match.
I think all 15 players can play in this.
11 during batting, 11 during bowling. It can be different 11 while batting and bowling.

 

[Kianig89]

Team mgmt. Will probably play Hafeez Younis n Misbah @2,3,4 Which well n truly is a disaster

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

It wont happen but this what i want as an ODI 11 for this tour

1. Prof - no other place for him
2. Shezhad
3. Fawad Alam
4. Umar Akmal -wk
5. Maqsood
6. Misbah
7. Afridi
8. Anwar Ali
9. Zulfiqar
10. Talha
11. Junaid


I have no hope for Riaz in ODIs, the two new ball rule has well and truly killed him

I am not even sure why M Talha is in the ODI squad? He has a pretty ordinary List A record. Same with Anwar Ali. There are much better bowlers in the domestic circuit who are not getting picked.

 

[menace2society]

This could happen:

Shehzad
Hafeez
Younis Khan
Alam
Misbah
Umar Akmal
Afridi

 

[Mr Consistent]

Shehzad
HafeeZ
Maqsood
Misbah
U.akmal
Fawad
Afridi
Wahab
Junaid
Babar
Ajmal

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

I am not even sure why M Talha is in the ODI squad? He has a pretty ordinary List A record. Same with Anwar Ali. There are much better bowlers in the domestic circuit who are not getting picked.

Anwar ali was picked because he could bat, i have a fools hope for him , purely because if he is half decent with the ball he will balance the side enormously. I doubt it will happen but im willing to try

Ehsan should have really been here

Talha im guessing was picked because of the game vs India and because waqar likes him

 

[Cover_Drive]

Ideally what I would like;

1) Ahmed Shehzad
2) Sharjeel Khan
3) Fawad Alam
4) Umar Akmal (WK)
5) Misbah Ul Haq
6) Sohaib Maqsood
7) Mohammed Hafeez
8) Shahid Afridi
9) Zulfiqar Babar
10) Junaid Khan
11) (Anyone but Wahab, 2 new balls has hurt him big time)

We have a deep batting line up till Afridi, and it's a nice mix of attack and graft. This line up compliments a mix of dimensions, also Hafeez can bowl 10 overs so we only require 4 bowlers and an A/R (Hafeez) need to stop playing 5 frontline bowlers and weaken our batting.

What we will see I think;

1) Ahmed Shehzad
2) Mohammed Hafeez
3) Younis Khan
4) Misbah Ul Haq
5) Fawad Alam
6) Sohaib Maqsood / Umar Akmal
7) Umar Akmal / Sohaib Maqsood
8) Shahid Afridi
9) Zulfiqar Babar
10) Junaid Khan
11) Wahab Riaz

If they do play Younis though, the WC is 100% out of reach!

This is also my line up for the series itself.

 

[Kashmiri_Pak_fan]

any update...pls share

 

[Arsal_AK]

It wont happen but this what i want as an ODI 11 for this tour

1. Prof - no other place for him
2. Shezhad
3. Fawad Alam
4. Umar Akmal -wk
5. Maqsood
6. Misbah
7. Afridi
8. Anwar Ali
9. Zulfiqar
10. Talha
11. Junaid


I have no hope for Riaz in ODIs, the two new ball rule has well and truly killed him

The same for me as well.With Irfan in the squad, I would get him in for Talha.

Other than that I would go for Maqsood at three, Fawad at four and Umar at five.Maqsood is one of the best batting talents in the country and he has been pretty successful at three, four so why change.

Sending him down the order was a huge mistake that the management made.He was batting so brilliantly at the top.

 

[Sakss]

SLCBP batting first and are 10-0

 

[Sakss]

Misbah-ul-Haq
Ahmed Shehzad
Fawad Alam
Mohammad Hafeez
Mohammad Talha
Shahid Afridi
Sohaib Maqsood
Umar Akmal
Wahab Riaz
Younis Khan


The Team -

 

[Sakss]

37-0 in 5 overs

 

[thivaakar]

37/0. 5 overs

MD Gunathilaka not out 24 18 3 1 133.33
TM Dilshan not out 12 13 2 0 92.30

 

[steelo green]

These clowns, Sri Lanka realize this isn't an important match and plays youngsters, Pakistan goes with a full squad. Disgrace.

 

[thivaakar]

These clowns, Sri Lanka realize this isn't an important match and plays youngsters, Pakistan goes with a full squad. Disgrace.

You fool, in warmup matches only the visitng team plays with full strength. How long you've been following cricket ?

 

[thivaakar]

Slcbp 47/0 6.1

 

[junaid.ahmed]

who is bowling with talha

 

[Sakss]

11 overs 58-2

Talha takes both wickets

 

[thivaakar]

58/2 . 11 Overs
Talha removes Dilshan for 19 and Thrimanne for

 

[steelo green]

You fool, in warmup matches only the home team plays with full strength

Huh? He home team is playing with their bench. And regardless, we play our best whether it's home, away, practice, nets, doesn't matter.

 

[Sakss]

who is bowling with talha

May be Hafeez coz Wahab just came on now

 

[thivaakar]

Huh? He home team is playing with their bench. And regardless, we play our best whether it's home, away, practice, nets, doesn't matter.

I meant, away team. Pakistan hasn't played at home(Pakistan) so they aren't gonna fly Pakistani FC cricketers to UAE to play warm up games. Every travelling team plays warm up games with lesser strengthen team.

 

[Hamza_]

Why on earth are the playing YK?

 

[Square Drive]

[MENTION=30287]Sakss[/MENTION] a 10 man side??

 

[Sakss]

[MENTION=30287]Sakss[/MENTION] a 10 man side??

Our 10 are enough for their 11..

Bro the complete team hasn't been stated anywhere so only these 10 names yet

 

[thivaakar]

Chandimal strike rate is in 60s, meaning he will try something retarded and get out soon.

 

[Hamza_]

Fawad, Shehzad, Younis and Misbah in one line up. I see ODI whitewashes soon.

 

[Chickenkorma]

I've never prayed for Younis Khan to do badly.

Just this once.

 

[thivaakar]

[MENTION=30287]Sakss[/MENTION] a 10 man side??

Pak can make any 15 men from their squad bat and or bowl. They can make all their batsmen bat and all their bowlers bowl, no one cares about rules about substitutions during practice matches. Pak isn't playing vs English Country teams, they are playing vs SLC farm team, they don't care about substitutes.

 

[Sakss]

15 overs 78-2

 

[Sakss]

Pak can make any 15 men from their squad bat and or bowl. They can make all their batsmen bat and all their bowlers bowl, no one cares about rules about substitutions during practice matches. Pak isn't playing vs English Country teams, they are playing vs SLC farm team, they don't care about substitutes.

Its no farm team pretty much Sri A team

 

[thivaakar]

Its no farm team pretty much Sri A team

SLA team that was twice beaten by Afghanistan. The point is PAK can make any substitutions at any time since it is an SLC owned team not a FC team(not owned by SLC).

 

[thivaakar]

92/2. 16 overs

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

why is Maqsood bowling?

 

[Fastandfurious]

Is Shinwari on the bench this tour? If he is, they should let him play this game.

 

[nafaiz]

sohaib maqsood and fawad alam should do bowling practice in the nets and with mushtaq ahmed they can be more useful part-timers..

misbah dont even know when to use a part-timer or does he do deliberately to shook maqsood confidence and get him out for younis..... he used maqsood inside 15 overs and he gave away 19 runs in 2 overs....

 

[nafaiz]

why is Maqsood bowling?

good that he is bowling.... but why misbah use him inside the powerplay overs...when u have regular bowlers in afridi and hafeez (new ball spin bowler)

 

[nafaiz]

[MENTION=30287]Sakss[/MENTION] a 10 man side??

anwar ali is playing he is the 11th man.. he shared the opening spell with talha....Now they have mentioned his name in scoresheet of cricinfo

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/745157.html

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Not sure if Anwar Ali has a future in Pakistan team...

 

[nafaiz]

Not sure if Anwar Ali has a future in Pakistan team...

I hope waqar works with him and make him a better bowler... he is a terriic fielder and more useful batsmen down the order... he either has to learn how to bowl the new ball swing or the old ball reverse swing.. he will emerge as a valuable LOI player...

 

[nafaiz]

as i said earlier good to see fawad bowling as well... i want both fawad and maqsood to keep continue their part-time bowling yes and this is the right time to give ball to ur part-timers... fawad alam will be more handy with the ball as he is a left arm spinner///

best time to use part-timers is between 25-35 overs.. why did he give maqsood inside the powerplay is a suicider

 

[DrSchultz]

Why no broadcast?

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Any channel broadcasting the match??

 

[GreenKnightRises]

M Talha is miles better than Wahab the Allrounder

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Umar is doing decent behind the stumps. There wouldn't be a need to keep holding back Sarfaraz

 

[junaid.ahmed]

younis khan can bowl better than Anwar ali

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Lala as always leaking too many runs even after he started his warm ups during the Tests

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Not sure if Anwar Ali has a future in Pakistan team...

Most likely , but I would still want him to play a game. He is my Amin or tool kit

My fools hope

 

[junaid.ahmed]

Umar is doing decent behind the stumps. There wouldn't be a need to keep holding back Sarfaraz

If umar would fail in batting than Sir faraz can bat at #7

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Umar is doing decent behind the stumps. There wouldn't be a need to keep holding back Sarfaraz

Are you watching the match?

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Fawad could be the best 6th bowling option available

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Are you watching the match?

Espncricinfo

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Anwar Ali has lost the plot ....

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Most likely , but I would still want him to play a game. He is my Amin or tool kit

True. He isn't fit for the internationals

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Espncricinfo

I thought when you commented about Umar's keeping, you were watching the match live.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Ouch

My fools hope has turned into a loons hope

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Another Lefty scalp for Prof

 

[GreenKnightRises]

I thought when you commented about Umar's keeping, you were watching the match live.

Understood.!! I was talking about his previous experience as Wicketkeeper. Moreover he has taken a catch of Wahab's bowling in today's game.

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Any news about Sarfaraz? Is he still in SL or returned to Pak?

 

[nafaiz]

Lala as always leaking too many runs even after he started his warm ups during the Tests

if afridi ends up wicketless in this three match series, will we see the afridi captaincy bandwagon again..

he is a spray gun for the last 2 years especially against the SC teams and also mostly wicketless if else either 1 or 2 here and there (including bangladesh)...

To note afridi finished with just 3 wickets in the whole tournament after playing five matches in the recently concluded asia cup series... this includes 1 out of 3 wickets vs afghanistan... he was long finished as a player. now as a player who gives once in a blue moon performance either with bat or ball sometimes both..

yet they want him as captain

 

[saiyan0312]

Wahab in ODI will never work out. he is at best a test player thanks to the old ball that he can utilize.

 

[shahidrazzaq]

What SL or PAK channels is this coming on

 

[hussain.r97]

What SL or PAK channels is this coming on

ESPN Cricinfo