South Africa vs Pakistan | 1st Test | Johannesburg | 1/2/13 | Day 1

[Bullet Drive]

Short ball. Cut well but no run.

 

[DW44]

bowling like a boss.

 

[Bullet Drive]

57-2 now.

 

[FerozShahKotla2005]

Incredible from Gul.

South Africa's batting line up is very, very good, and we are doing a very good job against them. I'm proud of our bowlers.

If the batsmen can match the bowling effort then we'll be in good stead.

 

[Azlan Khan]

South Africa 57/2.

 

[Vegitto1]

The perfect delivery from Gul

And Amla played it to perfection!

 

[ahmed778]

Come on Junaid and Gul get Amla out!

 

[Bullet Drive]

Junaid to Kallis now. Should be nice viewing.

 

[thurkeebaba]

any working streams -- please ??

 

[Bullet Drive]

I think it was a blessing in disguise for Pak to lose the toss and bowl.

Batting is always tough in SA on the first day. It gets a lot easier on the second and third day.

 

[shah_1]

Harris is as boring in the commentary as he was while he was bowling.

 

[James]

Ahead of Starc, Pattinson etc?

How do you rate him compared to Finn?

Definitely better than Starc!! Slightly better than Finn. And Pattinson while good appears to be made of straw.

India almost did win the sa series with our atg batting if not for dhoni's defensive tactics

Definitely! Missed opportunity for India IMO, should have won it.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Oh wow.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

:4

 

[shah_1]

Great shot by a great batsman

 

[Bullet Drive]

Junaid must not worry. Must continue to pitch it up. He's a clever bowler.

 

[A-1]

Good shot from kallis, fully in control

 

[Grunge101]

Junaid needs a rest now,time for ajmal to step in

 

[Bullet Drive]

WOW! what a great take by Sarfraz.

 

[Jeetu111]

61/2

 

[Bullet Drive]

Should be Junaid's last over. He's an injury prone bowler. Don't want him to be bowling too many overs.

 

[shah_1]

World-class keeping from Srafraz

 

[Bullet Drive]

Another quick single to Kallis. Superb at managing his knock 11 off 16 already

 

[Jo_Don]

We need Pakistan to drop Amla, that's usually the precursor to an epic innings

 

[Bullet Drive]

Junaid bowled 10 overs for 16 runs.

 

[shah_1]

Srafraz is clearly pumped up, ready for international cricket

 

[Bullet Drive]

Ajmal is warming up. OH YEAH!

 

[hur rizvi]

Time for bit of aJMAL

 

[shah_1]

comment from cricinfo

Patch: "At the end of the year, I doubt this bowling performance from Junaid will be recognised with 'best of the year' awards. But my word, it has been breathtaking. Not many bowlers are beating batsmen on both edges these days."

 

[JibranAnsari]

South Africa should have been 5 down considering the pitch, the bowling is mediocre.

 

[Bullet Drive]

brilliant.

 

[hur rizvi]

Class players batting in tendem

 

[Asif321]

good keeping by sarfraz

 

[Bullet Drive]

South Africa should have been 5 down considering the pitch, the bowling is mediocre.

Goodness me. You are officially the most negative poster on PP.

Do you ever praise Pakistan?

Are you even watching the game?

 

[adnan yasin]

I thnk pakistan will be happy with 70 odd runs only ansd already 2 wickets are down

25 overs will be bowl in this session most prolly

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Gul and Junaid need rest, dont over bowl them!

 

[adnan yasin]

I thnk pakistan will be happy with 70 odd runs only ansd already 2 wickets are down

25 overs will be bowl in this session most prolly

 

[shah_1]

Junaid is the new maestro from Pakistan

 

[Bullet Drive]

24 overs gone. 66-2. Great bowling by Pak.

 

[yasir]

Calm down. He's bowled around 5 overs.

You don't have to take a long look to know the limitations of the bowler... Irfan would have being much better considering his X factor... Misbah miss the trick here by not being bold...

 

[Grunge101]

Amla Vs Ajmal should be interesting

 

[JibranAnsari]

Goodness me. You are officially the most negative poster on PP.

Do you ever praise Pakistan?

Are you even watching the game?

Nothing to praise abut..mediocrity.. especially gul. Wasted the new ball.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Last over before lunch and on comes the master. The greatest spinner in the world at the moment. Ajmal!

 

[style_guru]

Kallis is too good.

Pakistan ahead at lunch on day 1.

Edit:- One more over before lunch.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Pakistan's session. No doubt about it.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Brilliant over by Ajmal. Bit of turn.

Pakistan's session.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

goodness me. You are officially the most negative poster on pp.

Do you ever praise pakistan?

+1000000000000

 

[Bullet Drive]

68-2 after 25.

 

[JibranAnsari]

South Africa have done well in the first session ..next two session should be cakewalk for them.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

End of sesssion.

 

[m.shah]

how unlucky is pak to not have amir bowling on the other side of junaid
wow what a deadly duo that would have been

 

[m.shah]

how unlucky is pak to not have amir bowling on the other side of junaid
wow what a deadly duo that would have been

 

[adnan yasin]

68-2

25 overs

Gul and junaid khan got the wicket

 

[Jo_Don]

South Africa should have been 5 down considering the pitch, the bowling is mediocre.

No, 2 down is about right. Pakistan have bowled well. I'd have taken 80-2 at lunch after the first session in Joburg. 68-2 isn't too bad considering the bowling was pretty much spot on.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

Sa 68-2 | lunch

 

[shah_1]

Misbah giving advise to Rahat Ali

 

[Bullet Drive]

Rahat has bowled 4 overs and we have people labeling him a failure lol

 

[FerozShahKotla2005]

South Africa have done well in the first session ..next two session should be cakewalk for them.

You've posted 14,870 times and it's still the same garbage every time.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

You've posted 14,870 times and it's still the same garbage every time.

Agree.

 

[hur rizvi]

Decent first session, though we need to get rid of kallis and amla early otherwise there will be problems for pakistan

 

[JibranAnsari]

Rahat has all the ingredients to become next ashish nehra..bad treatment of Irfan ..our only x-factor in pace bowling department.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pretty even 1st session, Pakistan will need to look to make inroads into S.A batting mid afternoon and possibly try and expose the weak late middle order in this current team. But getting through amla/kallis/AB will be tough!

 

[Jeetu111]

the amount of help on offer,should have been 4 down at lunch .

 

[adnan yasin]

Junaid Khan 10-4-16-1

super stuff

 

[hur rizvi]

Rahat has bowled 4 overs and we have people labeling him a failure lol

Typical pakistani fans...

Rahat hasnt been great in his first spell but people need to ealize it was his first spell in his very first test..

 

[JibranAnsari]

the amount of help on offer,should have been 4 down at lunch .

Agree should have been five down ..bowling was below par.

 

[Osman]

No issue of 'poshness' here, just your fickleness, absence of cricket knowledge, and profound lack of intelligence which are evident from your consistently rubbish contributions to PakPassion. Good luck to you anyway.

mate u r all talk...talking big from behind ur screen. i am entitled to say if someone is rubbish or not.... and lol at lack of intelligence...aren't u a school drop-out or something?

 

[Bullet Drive]

Just half an hour to go.

 

[Jo_Don]

Agree should have been five down ..bowling was below par.

Lol what nonsense, you obviously don't have a clue.

 

[adnan yasin]

Reverse swing is tough here .. because

Reasons

1) Green patc on the wicket and hard wicket
2) Lush green outfield
3) so many cameras installed >>>>>>>> )

 

[CalculatedRisk]

"Rahat was bowling like his name" (Rahat-> serenity, pleasure) quote by Rawalpindi Express

 

[rockers2012]

the amount of help on offer,should have been 4 down at lunch .

yeah..spot on.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Lol what nonsense, you obviously don't have a clue.

The help there was overwhelming and pakistan missed their lengths in the first hour.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Reverse swing is tough here .. because

Reasons

1) Green patc on the wicket and hard wicket
2) Lush green outfield
3) so many cameras installed >>>>>>>> )

hahaha

 

[rockers2012]

"Rahat was bowling like his name" (Rahat-> serenity, pleasure) quote by Rawalpindi Express

But he got his last night 's wish. rahat is playing

 

[Jo_Don]

The help there was overwhelming and pakistan missed their lengths in the first hour.

You're not going to get someone out off every chance, no matter how good your bowlers are. Not least a batting lineup containing Smith, Amla, Kallis and AB.

 

[rockers2012]

Nothing to praise abut..mediocrity.. especially gul. Wasted the new ball.

It was shocking to see Gul bowling with a new ball.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Who's this new Sky presenter? I don't rate him!

 

[Bullet Drive]

'Junaid Khan is a young Wasim Akram' - Alec Stewart

 

[mosh101]

Should have had one or two more keeping in mind the conditions ! This partnership can be dangerous for us.