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may not matter, but RSA has to bowl 2 overs from Peterson/Behardien, who might be just the right pace for Wahab to give a couple big swings.... so hope him & junaid can tough it out and try to get there.
 
misbah's excuse for today will be that the front line bowlers couldnt deliver 6 wkts in the first 15 overs
 
Do we still have a chance? This pitch doesn't seem flat to me, that is probably because two tail-enders are batting.
 
bad decision to bat first , through out the tour we have played batting 2nd and won 2 games so again bad decision to bat first by misbah. farhat as usual is a one time wonder. should not be given anymore chance and played a bad knock. younis took time to settle himself and just as he started to shift gears, he got out unluckily and kamran played a bad shot should have stayed on the wicket and malik always gets out in similar fashion. if he gets a change of pace bowl he will throw away his wkt. cant blame misbah, he was in no mans land and lala as usual will get another 50 in 2020 i guess because he doesnt knows what is required from him at that very moment. hope riaz could try his best to take the total to 220 atleast. and in 2nd innings spinners will be very dangerous as per the commentators and if you look at lala record and history, he is more dangerous when bowling in 2nd innings while defending a total. we need wkts upfront of amla and ab de villers otherwise it will be hard for us to get into this game back.
 
wahab to aise batting kar raha hai jaise bohat economical spell kara lena hai isne baad mein :inzi
 
Ryankhan said:
bad decision to bat first , through out the tour we have played batting 2nd and won 2 games so again bad decision to bat first by misbah. farhat as usual is a one time wonder. should not be given anymore chance and played a bad knock. younis took time to settle himself and just as he started to shift gears, he got out unluckily and kamran played a bad shot should have stayed on the wicket and malik always gets out in similar fashion. if he gets a change of pace bowl he will throw away his wkt. cant blame misbah, he was in no mans land and lala as usual will get another 50 in 2020 i guess because he doesnt knows what is required from him at that very moment. hope riaz could try his best to take the total to 220 atleast. and in 2nd innings spinners will be very dangerous as per the commentators and if you look at lala record and history, he is more dangerous when bowling in 2nd innings while defending a total. we need wkts upfront of amla and ab de villers otherwise it will be hard for us to get into this game back.
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U may be right but seems that bour batting has capcity of scoring only 220-230 so nevertheless you can't blame on bat first.......because we were likely to chase 250 score
 
Ryankhan said:
bad decision to bat first , through out the tour we have played batting 2nd and won 2 games so again bad decision to bat first by misbah. farhat as usual is a one time wonder. should not be given anymore chance and played a bad knock. younis took time to settle himself and just as he started to shift gears, he got out unluckily and kamran played a bad shot should have stayed on the wicket and malik always gets out in similar fashion. if he gets a change of pace bowl he will throw away his wkt. cant blame misbah, he was in no mans land and lala as usual will get another 50 in 2020 i guess because he doesnt knows what is required from him at that very moment. hope riaz could try his best to take the total to 220 atleast. and in 2nd innings spinners will be very dangerous as per the commentators and if you look at lala record and history, he is more dangerous when bowling in 2nd innings while defending a total. we need wkts upfront of amla and ab de villers otherwise it will be hard for us to get into this game back.
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Thank you captain hindsight.....

If Misbah had bowled first, people would complain "Why bat first? Pak always choke chasing!! He's an idiot".

Batting 1st was not the wrong decision, the execution was just not good enough.

Also, nice job covering BOTH sides! You argue that dont bat first, but then say hopefully spinners can be dangerous in second innings....??? *** is that??
 
ViciousMachine said:
Thank you captain hindsight.....

If Misbah had bowled first, people would complain "Why bat first? Pak always choke chasing!! He's an idiot".

Batting 1st was not the wrong decision, the execution was just not good enough.

Also, nice job covering BOTH sides! You argue that dont bat first, but then say hopefully spinners can be dangerous in second innings....??? *** is that??
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Bat first or second doesn't matter a damn - you need batsmen in the team first!!!
 
ViciousMachine said:
Also, while Afridi has the IQ of a peanut, you cannot blame the guy who bats 7th in the batting order for the collapse. You had 6 other people who are basically only in the team cause they bat (well, Hafeez is an all-rounder, but still).

We need to find a way to get Umar Akmal/Asad Shafiq in the batting order, and drop Malik. He is ONLY playing as a batsman, and that is not good enough.
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All other teams blame even tailenders when they throw their wickets away but in Pakistan you cannot blame an all rounder. Your other bats did play in the other matches. In all other teams there are times when top order fails but no 6 7 rescues the team. If you cannot blame a veteran of 350 matches for throwing his wicket 1 ball before the PP then who will you blame, a youngster? But for Afridi fans defending him always come before the team interest.
 
wahab should be made batting coach for the losers that come before him!!!!
 
The series will be forgotten soon as the PCB are busy in collecting pies by arranging another slam bang T20 Cup...............:facepalm:
 
Indiafan said:
All other teams blame even tailenders when they throw their wickets away but in Pakistan you cannot blame an all rounder. Your other bats did play in the other matches. In all other teams there are times when top order fails but no 6 7 rescues the team. If you cannot blame a veteran of 350 matches for throwing his wicket 1 ball before the PP then who will you blame, a youngster? But for Afridi fans defending him always come before the team interest.
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It is hilarious that an INDIAN is coming here to make comments? Are you afraid of Afridi because when he faces your all-spin garbage attack, he can go bonkers :)

Last time I checked, he had the second most runs for a Pakistani batsman this tour and the best strike rate by a mile.
 
ViciousMachine said:
Thank you captain hindsight.....

If Misbah had bowled first, people would complain "Why bat first? Pak always choke chasing!! He's an idiot".

Batting 1st was not the wrong decision, the execution was just not good enough.

Also, nice job covering BOTH sides! You argue that dont bat first, but then say hopefully spinners can be dangerous in second innings....??? *** is that??
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I was acutally stating the fact that since nothing can be changed now so hope the spinners will do the damage. i am not one of those who will just cry. i remain positive and hope we atleast get 210-220 to put up a fight.
 
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