South Africa down Pakistan for 273 to seal 107-run victory and 3-0 whitewash

[letme alone]

ramiz: pak need help

 

[JibranAnsari]

Two fifties when the match was lost. Classic Asad.

Today we had a fighting chance but sarfraz had other ideas

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Atleast play through this session.

Choti Choti khushiyan.

 

[JibranAnsari]

These two should enjoy batting in the middle , forget about the target.

 

[babajee]

Rana jeeee

 

[Greenstorm]

Faheem's entire technique seems built around playing Yorkers.

He is generally good with pulls and hooks. He does not have a good cut shot though.

 

[JibranAnsari]

200 for pakistan. Taalian.

 

[Shafi]

Imam has more power and shot selection that Faheem.

 

[letme alone]

Choti Choti khushiyan.

i want some T20 here only

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Ramiz making no sense at all, as usual.

 

[letme alone]

just 180

 

[Mainul]

Every opposition of Pakistan will always want that Asad remains in the Pakistan team .

 

[Greenstorm]

Good batting practice for Faheem and Shadab before ODIs.

 

[Fahdi]

He is generally good with pulls and hooks. He does not have a good cut shot though.

He pulls compulsively but his technique is very poor. Every time he tries that shot there's a lot of risk involved. That's why he also gets out a lot on that shot

 

[Ahmed216]

Ramiz bhai has lost it.
He wants faheem to bat like de kock

 

[Mainul]

Babar's failure to convert starts has become a chronic disease.

 

[babajee]

Both Shadab and Faheem look a bit tentative out there. Should back themselves to play their shots.

 

[RyanRyan10]

Every opposition of Pakistan will always want that Asad remains in the Pakistan team .

He has 2 match winning100s against Bangladesh

 

[JibranAnsari]

Pakistan should have won here , the pitch is so playable.

 

[Ahmed216]

Mashallah we've crossed 200

 

[Greenstorm]

We could have won first test had Faheem played in place of Yasir.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Babar looked rusty today but he got a pretty good delivery in the end.

 

[letme alone]

some good shot is coming

 

[Ahmed216]

Good to see mushfiqur in that list of top scoring WKs in tests

 

[letme alone]

shabaa! rana

 

[Shandarchowka]

Faheem, Shadab, Amir, Hasan can all bat. Abbas can hang around. I still haven't lost hopes.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Ending in a hurry

 

[Greenstorm]

He pulls compulsively but his technique is very poor. Every time he tries that shot there's a lot of risk involved. That's why he also gets out a lot on that shot

As I said, cut shot is his real weakness.

 

[Abdullah]

Both Shadab and Faheem look a bit tentative out there. Should back themselves to play their shots.

They look ok to me, you would want faheem in batting from over 60-new ball, when bowlers are coming back for 4th spells.
He can play, I'm not gonna accept the rubbish that he can't. Number 8 is right for him,
His problem is the compulsive hooking

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Faheem bhai gone

 

[Oligochaetes]

:

Faheem

 

[Shandarchowka]

The unfortunate thing is that this team is capable enough. But they lack application and that makes me sad. As I speak, Faheem is gone

 

[RyanRyan10]

Glorified tailender goes

 

[Mainul]

He has 2 match winning100s against Bangladesh

Fawad the real deserving lad in place of Asad would have scored three double tons against us.Even Gillespie has a double ton against us! We still want Asad to continue.

 

[Shandarchowka]

4 wickets before drinks first session when we needed a maximum of 1 wicket to fall... terrible

 

[Faisalabadimunda]

Mazak ki had

 

[JibranAnsari]

There is no fight at all.

 

[Faisalabadimunda]

Of to bed. Before i lose more sleep on these jokers

 

[letme alone]

plese send hassan! he can play some shot

 

[JibranAnsari]

Great delivery

 

[Fahdi]

As I said, cut shot is his real weakness.

Backfoot play in general is very weak. Like I said his entire technique seems as if tailored to play the full delivery and the yorker.

 

[Ahmed216]

Rabada hasnt even felt the need to be at his best this series

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Ops that was quick 144k

 

[Deewana Mastana]

150 run loss?

 

[Greenstorm]

We should promote Shadab to bat at 5 in ODIs instead of those jokers (Hafeez, Malik, Sarfaraz).

 

[Stalin]

Rabada hasnt even felt the need to be at his best this series

Yet he gets 15

 

[Ahmed216]

U can sense that Shadab enjoys his batting. Most Pak batsmen dont

 

[Ahmed216]

We should promote Shadab to bat at 5 in ODIs instead of those jokers (Hafeez, Malik, Sarfaraz).

I said this here 6 months back.
I would play him ahead of these jokers, mental midgets whatever u want to call them and lets him develop as a batsman

 

[Mamoon]

South Indians in the stadium are enjoying themselves.

 

[DRsohail]

Shadab is also a glorified tailender against spin.

 

[Greenstorm]

Nice slip catching practice session is going on

 

[Saviking]

Just to comment on the continued devaluation of Olivier on this board.

Firstly, Olivier has not played that much test yet, but he has had some decent performances against a few countries already, of course against Pakistan is his best so far. So does not mean that he will not perform better in future.

In the beginning of the series he himself stated that he has a specific job to do in the South African team, and that is to hit the deck hard. In domestic cricket he bowls quite a variety of balls, but he is very good at hitting the deck hard and extract steep bounce. The same as Morkel before him, Mcmillan many years back, etc.

South Africa have almost always had 1 bowler that were required to bowl a hard ball.

If you look at the 4 seamers in the current team, you have Rabada that is a fantastic seam bowler and getting better at swinging the ball, you have Steyn that is a fantastic swing bowler, of course he can do seam as well. then you have Olivier who is the hard ball bowler creating steep bounce, and Philander who is your medium fast bowler with very good accuracy and seam movement. So basically they have 4 different style seam bowlers working together. In that way not giving batsmen time to adjust to a style most of the time.

I has been working well for SA for many decades to have this kind of bowling setup. So just because some arm chair specialists on this board do not rate Olivier does not mean that he is doing exactly what the team wants him to do.

They knew before this series that Pakistan will struggle against steep bounce and he prepared accordingly as Gibson wanted him to bowl.

There is an age old cricket saying that seamers bowl in pairs, helping each other out to take the wickets.

I am very glad that the expert selectors on this board are not selectors for the SA team.

 

[DRsohail]

South Indians in the stadium are enjoying themselves.

One or two fours and people have forgotten this tail ender, I what he did im asia cup.

 

[Mamoon]

We should promote Shadab to bat at 5 in ODIs instead of those jokers (Hafeez, Malik, Sarfaraz).

We saw his batting in the Asia Cup. Him at 5 in ODIs would make our batting lineup associate level, perhaps even worse.

Hafeez, Malik and even Sarfraz are hundred times better than him. He is a glorified tail-ender like Faheem and is good for 20-25 only.

Hardly a player who will ever get you a 70-80, let alone a 100.

 

[Hitman]

Appears bleak for Pak.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

South Indians in the stadium are enjoying themselves.

How do you know they are south Indians?

 

[Shafi]

Faheem doesn't have a talent for batting at all.

 

[Khan12]

Glorified tail ender seems better then most of our batsmens. He's got far better technique then kaptan.

 

[bantu]

if pak doesnt get all out within 205 .i wont comment on pp for 1 week

Have a nice break

 

[Shafi]

Hasan Ali is better than any of Sadab or Faheem. He has muscle power.

 

[Greenstorm]

One or two fours and people have forgotten this tail ender, I what he did im asia cup.

Asia cup was an anamoly, do not look too much into that.

 

[RyanRyan10]

We saw his batting in the Asia Cup. Him at 5 in ODIs would make our batting lineup associate level, perhaps even worse.

Hafeez, Malik and even Sarfraz are hundred times better than him. He is a glorified tail-ender like Faheem and is good for 20-25 only.

Hardly a player who will ever get you a 70-80, let alone a 100.

He wasn't even able to rotate strike against a part timer Soumya Sarkar

 

[letme alone]

make 20 runs! become a hero! only made in pak!

 

[Stalin]

Shadab has better technique against pace than Sarfraz and Azhar

 

[Ahmed216]

We saw his batting in the Asia Cup. Him at 5 in ODIs would make our batting lineup associate level, perhaps even worse.

Hafeez, Malik and even Sarfraz are hundred times better than him. He is a glorified tail-ender like Faheem and is good for 20-25 only.

Hardly a player who will ever get you a 70-80, let alone a 100.

But he did well in NZ and is showing some guts here too.
Hes clearly better than what u suggest

 

[bantu]

How do you know they are south Indians?

Looked like he was wearing a dhoti .. Probably Tamils celebrating “Pongal”

 

[Josh]

Truth is Pakistani batsmen have a T20 technique. No defence. All they want is hit out of their misery. In the first session, the goal must be to tire the bowlers. That's why a 20 of 80 bowls is very good for a test opner in such pitches so that batsmen later can cash on it.

 

[TakeshiKovacs]

Asia cup was an anamoly, do not look too much into that.

lol in fact asia cup was the norm, if anything was an anomaly, it was CT

 

[Shafi]

Glorified tail ender seems better then most of our batsmens. He's got far better technique then kaptan.

Not really!!!! Faheem can only score between 20-30 while Sadab can only score 40+ with luck.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Looked like he was wearing a dhoti .. Probably Tamils celebrating “Pongal”

Ohk . That's possible.

 

[BreadPakoda]

Hassan "bobbying" Steyn

 

[Greenstorm]

We saw his batting in the Asia Cup. Him at 5 in ODIs would make our batting lineup associate level, perhaps even worse.

Hafeez, Malik and even Sarfraz are hundred times better than him. He is a glorified tail-ender like Faheem and is good for 20-25 only.

Hardly a player who will ever get you a 70-80, let alone a 100.

He stands tall instead of crouching, can play well on both front and back foot, strike rotation is good and most importantly he has got the right mindset. Can't say the same about Hafeez, Sarf and Malik.

 

[Balthazar]

3-0 hammering is a fitting score.

 

[BreadPakoda]

Across? Two fifties only sir.

6 7 20 88 0 and today.

I know. But he's still the 3rd highest scorer in the series for Pakistan. Much better than Azhar.

 

[Ahmed216]

He stands tall instead of crouching, can play well on both front and back foot, strike rotation is good and most importantly he has got the right mindset. Can't say the same about Hafeez, Sarf and Malik.

+1

 

[Khan12]

Not really!!!! Faheem can only score between 20-30 while Sadab can only score 40+ with luck.

I was talking about shadab. Unfortunately azhar at the moment can't even score 20 with luck.

 

[iPakistani]

Hasan bats better than Faheem

 

[Green Patriot]

Shadab is always laughing

 

[shariqnoor]

Here's an interesting stat for all of you guys.

Pakistan has scored more aggregate runs in this series than India did in their three-match series earlier this year.

Goes to show how well India bowled and they had ABDV to contend with as well.

 

[letme alone]

chlo after 1 six!