boomboomcheema
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Gone Nawaz picks Mathews.
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Nothing against Salman as he is a hard working guy but I think Kamran Ghulam would have been a more complete option as he is a specialist batter first who can bowl serviceable offspin.
Nothing against Salman as he is a hard working guy but I think Kamran Ghulam would have been a more complete option as he is a specialist batter first who can bowl serviceable offspin.
Another example of Babars pathetic captaincy. Keeping Nawaz out of the bowling attack for so long knowing full well the wicket is favouring finger spinners
Nawaz has been the best spinner here easily. He should be a lock for a while.
True, Kami missed a lot of chances on his bowling especially.
True. He was always going to be as I mentioned in the announced squad thread as well. Finger spinners like Srl. No more accurate spinner in Pakistan currently and he is fit enough to regularly put good revs on the bowl.
No close in fielders for Chamdimal on a turning track. Please PCB, sack Babar as captain and give the captaincy to someone with a brain cell and a competent reading of the game.
Babar has shown no tactical acumen since he took over today he has been like a mindless drone going by a preset scriptRizwan is the vice captain and should add to the tactics and strategies. Not sure if we have anyone who will get it right straight away, so better to allow Babar to grow in the role I guess. For a young captain backroom staff and their experience becomes extremely important. This is first stint for Saq as head coach despite other experiences while Tait is the bowling coach first time ever for a high profile test playing nation.
Yasir strikes and gets Mendis. Pakistan right back into the match.
Just shows the type of pitch this is we will be lucky to get 150 on this
Did Lanka beat Aussies in the test series?
He's still got it. Absolute ripper that.
It is Galle, not Yasir.
By this merit you could discount just about every great ball in the history of cricket.
It's Yasir. He is the one who bowled the delivery at the perfect pace in just the right area and got the wicket.
Pakistani spinners have bowled very poorly with respect to this pitch. Watch Jayasuriya torture our batsmen in the fourth innings with a ruthless line length and with the fielders placed in the right spots.
The thing about Bazball is that not everyone can pull it off.
I think they've bowled decently.
Yesterdag overnight rain helped sri lanka in the first session. After that even naseem was able to handle them easily
It's a spinning cobra it's our poor quality spinners making this pitch look betterI said SL will score 300. They are well on target to score even more. There are no demons in the pitch. A quality batting side should easily score 300.
Kaneria was not a very good bowler though. His job was to be a supporting act to the seamers. To take the load of bowling long spells off them by bowling notoriously long spells himself. It was a given that batters would likely batter him for a hundred or so runs, but that was alright as long as he took 2 or 3 wickets in the process.
He was improving considerably by 2009-10 when he slowed down his pace and started bowling more intelligently, until of course he got involved in match-fixing.
Nawaz gets Dickwella!
Has the pitch eased out? How are Sri Lanka scoring so freely?SL being positive and scoring runs. Only pakistan play cowardly cricket with bat in tests.
It's a spinning cobra it's our poor quality spinners making this pitch look better
Babar has shown no tactical acumen since he took over today he has been like a mindless drone going by a preset script
Has the pitch eased out? How are Sri Lanka scoring so freely?
SL being positive and scoring runs. Only pakistan play cowardly cricket with bat in tests.
Has the pitch eased out? How are Sri Lanka scoring so freely?
Yes, his stats manifest that he was not that great however I believe he could have done much more with his skillset. Its around 28-30 when a spinner starts his peak with all the skills and experience mix, thats when Kaneria gave his career away
What I wouldn't give to have a young and fit Younis Khan to bat for us now....No better player of spin, especially in the 2nd innings....
Defensive techniques of batsmen around world have gone down so the way around it to adjust has been the positive intent and scoring more in a day with decent RPOs rather then relying on techniques to play more balls and score in a natural test fashion especially on wickets which are not easy.
Pakistani batsmen funnily play like they have some extraordinary techniques and are just going to play overs and score runs like old fashioned test cricket. They are deluded to believe that imo and that's why consistency is not there at all. You still need a solid technique and defense to play test cricket but, with deteriorating techniques you cant let bowlers bowl in the good areas ball after ball while you keep trusting your defense as its gonna falter especially on difficult surfaces.