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South Africa 135/5 at Stumps on Day 2 after bowling out Pakistan for 185 and have a lead of 212 runs

Sorry guys it's my fault, I turned on the Sky Go app 5 minutes ago and the pressure must have got to Sarfraz and Babar
 
To be a test legend, babar needs to convert more into big innings
 
We cant win this unless we have a lead albeit small atleast.

Which seems a bit unlikely rn.
 
Pak likely to concede 50 to 70 runs lead now. Two stupid shots let SA back in game. Now Mamoon will return with "Bahngra over turn off the music"
 
Two men out on the pull and Babar is sucked into the short ball trap.

Babar is fast going down the Umar Animal route of "he is very talented but not the right temperament - specially for test cricket"
 
Greatest "allrounders" since clive rice & botham at the crease, Botham gone as we speak
 
Wah kalis Ashraf gone first ball
Why you want to make a T20 dasher a ODI and Test allrounder?
 
Babar and sarfraz playing t20 inns in a test match. No wonder we struggle so much to get big team scores.
 
Everyone crying for Faheem "the allrounder", there is your answer. Mentally weak players.
 
Ab hamain kaisy pata chalay ga kay shadab kaisi batting karayga.

Koi parnter hi nai chora uskay lyay to.
 
Pathetic. When Sarfaraz and Babar were together, it looked like SA were starting to get ragged and panicking. We really should have made the most of that situation, but we've now lost 3 wickets for next to nothing...None of them to especially good balls, just bad batting. Really frustrating
 
Faheem has always been disappointing with bat.
 
Hussain Talat would’ve been a much better investment for a pace bowling all rounder. Faheem can barely bat.
 
Sarfraz should stay in Test team but not as captain
Fake kallis should not be in test team when will Mickey understand
 
That dismissal from Faheem was probably the worst test dismissal I’ve seen in ages, even by Pakistani standards , to attempt that shot against that bowler after just having lost two wickets, the thought process scares me.
 
This series will be remembered for Pak not being able to deal with Oliver pace and bounce.

Watch you will hardly hear from Oliver again after this series
 
U can't defend that shot after what happened the previous ball. When it is ur first bat if the tour.
 
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous test innings I have ever seen. A number of drops, missed run outs, 2 overthrows for 4, 3 ducks, a streaky and chancy 50, a classy 49 ending with a brainfade, a night watchman frustrating 3 of the best bowlers in the world.....
 
Young players like Faheem should be absolutely hammered for this kind of cricket. I hope Mickey tears him a new one in the dressing room, so that he remembers this for the rest of his career.
 
That is why I was saying before game
Batting is your weak point and you play one less batsmen
Rizwan should have been playing instead of Faheem
 
Never rated Faheem's batting personally, which is why I was okay in going with Yasir for the first two tests.
 
Asif321 said:
Sarfraz should stay in Test team but not as captain
Fake kallis should not be in test team when will Mickey understand
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Yeah because he scored 50 with dropped catches, missed run outs and half of runs coming edges and overthrows? Lol please.
 
Usman Chadda said:
Young players like Faheem should be absolutely hammered for this kind of cricket. I hope Mickey tears him a new one in the dressing room, so that he remembers this for the rest of his career.
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Why should tear him it’s not his fault it’s mickey fault
You can’t expect T20 all rounder to be kallis in other formats
He is a Sohail Tanvir type batsmen that’s it
 
Faheem is not an all rounder. Has done nothing with the bat except some slogs against Bangladesh trundlers in a warm up game.
 
Usman Chadda said:
Young players like Faheem should be absolutely hammered for this kind of cricket. I hope Mickey tears him a new one in the dressing room, so that he remembers this for the rest of his career.
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Agreed. I would will keep this 5-2-3 combo though. Our batters have got out without doing anything, guys who have played 70 tests each, this guy is new on the block
 
Fahdi said:
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous test innings I have ever seen. A number of drops, missed run outs, 2 overthrows for 4, 3 ducks, a streaky and chancy 50, a classy 49 ending with a brainfade, a night watchman frustrating 3 of the best bowlers in the world.....
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:))

Excellent description. POTW material.
 
People bashing Faheem.....but it was Faheem who got 3 wickets in the first innings.

And it was Azhar and Asad who paved the way in this innings with a combined score of 0 and some terrible shots to get out.
 
I really don't understand how Rizwan didn't get a chance in this lineup for any of the three games. Trying to fix the batting problem with bits and pieces "all rounders" is like putting tape over a gash and hoping for it to heal on its own.
 
Usman Chadda said:
Young players like Faheem should be absolutely hammered for this kind of cricket. I hope Mickey tears him a new one in the dressing room, so that he remembers this for the rest of his career.
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There is not going to be a “rest of his career”. He is in the same category as Anwar, Bhatti and Tanvir, and his fate will be the same as well.
 
This is why I rate Imad's batting over Faheem's. Imad bats with a semblance of a plan. Even if he quite smash out the boundaries, he'll try and maximise the scoring, get some cheap runs. Faheem literally has no plan every time he bats, goes out and swings or just stays at the crease. Looks like a complete tailender.

Faheem probably does have some hitting talent, I've seen him in domestic and yeah he can look good. But it's just wasted. Should be compared to others as a bowler, not an allrounder, tired of his bowling being excused on the back "we shouldn't expect as much as he's an allrounder" or "providing balance to the side".

On the plus side his bowling figures in all formats haven't been half bad even though padded by minnows. But getting really tired of his batting, I see improvement in his bowling here and there. But I do not know what he's doing with batting, it's the same brainless batting again and again.
 
I have never seen a guy picked up on his All Round ability and now he plays all formats at the highest level of the game after scoring a fifty in a warm up game against Bangladesh!
 
AFM said:
Faheem is not an all rounder. Has done nothing with the bat except some slogs against Bangladesh trundlers in a warm up game.
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Where the boundaries were short on one side too. What has he done with the bat in ODIs too ? And to think people compared him with Razzaq.

Sick of Mickey backing these bits and pieces.
 
Asif321 said:
Why should tear him it’s not his fault it’s mickey fault
You can’t expect T20 all rounder to be kallis in other formats
He is a Sohail Tanvir type batsmen that’s it
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He is a better player than this nonsense. Pre-meditated mow across the line to a bowler breathing fire. That's daft no matter how you look at it.
 
Blistering Barnacle said:
People bashing Faheem.....but it was Faheem who got 3 wickets in the first innings.

And it was Azhar and Asad who paved the way in this innings with a combined score of 0 and some terrible shots to get out.
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Did you see the shot he played? I wouldn't pick him again. Stick to T20.
 
MRSN said:
Yeah because he scored 50 with dropped catches, missed run outs and half of runs coming edges and overthrows? Lol please.
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Most of his scoring shots were fully controlled and only gave one chance like almost everyone in this test match at least. What does a near run out even means ?
 
Oliver - poor mans Liam plunkett, likes of kohli root buttler bairstow would pull/hook him out of the attack.

Yet azhar & co have made him highest wckt taker in this series.
 
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