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Sri Lanka open up a lead of 333 at the end of day 3 in the 1st Test vs Pakistan

Nikhil_cric said:
He should learn from Hasan in this test. Looks like Hasan has made peace with the fact that he is going to be a very short medium pacer and he has simply bowled line and length and moved the ball occasionally.
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Needs to play two seasons of domestic cricket backed by performances and a few A tours before playing for Pakistan again. Naseem lacks patience and knowledge of setting up the batsmen in test cricket. Hasan Ali toiled hard in domestic cricket and had a solid first class season where he topped the bowling charts before being recalled in the Pakistani team after a two year absence.
 
Savak said:
Needs to play two seasons of domestic cricket backed by performances and a few A tours before playing for Pakistan again. Naseem lacks patience and knowledge of setting up the batsmen in test cricket. Hasan Ali toiled hard in domestic cricket and had a solid first class season where he topped the bowling charts before being recalled in the Pakistani team after a two year absence.
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This I agree with. That should be the course for him.
 
Giving easy singles to the Tailender. It seems Pakistan don't want to come to bat and prefer these to bat as long as possible.
 
Agha bowls with new ball while Shaheen stands on the field this is dumber then anything
 
Hasan Ali is under rated in the test format for Pakistan.
 
Hasan is a quality operator when fit and in rhythm. However, I believe he is not at his optimal fitness for sometime (Used to touch early 140s before his back injury and Bumrah is and example of working hard to get back to the optimal fitness after back injury). If he can work on that he can really add much more across the formats for Pakistan.
 
Titan24 said:
Hasan is a quality operator when fit and in rhythm. However, I believe he is not at his optimal fitness for sometime (Used to touch early 140s before his back injury and Bumrah is and example of working hard to get back to the optimal fitness after back injury). If he can work on that he can really add much more across the formats for Pakistan.
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I would keep him as a red ball specialist.

There are plenty of other options in white ball and Hasan has been really really underwhelming. Wasim, Dahani both better than him imo.
 
Yasir is here to get tonked. Smashed for 110 runs going over 4rpo. And he was supposed to be the main bowler here.
 
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Yasir has not bowled one googly or top spinner in this innings. No wonder batsmen are very comfortable cutting him and slog sweeping him. Predictable stuff.
 
Cant wait for the 0.5 runs per over tuk tuk from are top 3 in 4th inns.
 
These are some valuable runs being bungled by these two. Hope they get to 350 for the psychological advantage however questionable that maybe in the age of Bazball
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Is that a cricinfo comment? :inti
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Indeed it is.

Hoshiarpurexpress not being very hoshiar here. :virat


But coming back to the topic, how difficult/easy would it be for Pakistan to chase 330-340 in two days?

Babar will play well but he will need at least two of the others to support him.
 
Pitches are remaining flat and getting flatter over 5days in Australia, England and south africa. Not sure if this applies to Asia. Not confident about this chase but hopefully babar can do something special.
 
The Yasir Shah of 2015/2016 would have ripped out Sri Lanka's entire batting line-up on this track.
 
Galle has the second lowest fourth innings average in the world (21.7) after Chennai (21.6).

A stat that does not bode well for Pakistan.
 
Moeey said:
Pitches are remaining flat and getting flatter over 5days in Australia, England and south africa. Not sure if this applies to Asia. Not confident about this chase but hopefully babar can do something special.
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Since 2014 there has been only one drawn test match in Sri Lanka. This idea may apply to other Asian countries, but not Sri Lanka.
 
Ami said:
Pakistan win?
unlikely?
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Babar and Rizwan need to score a century and others have to chip in with 20's and 30's. In this day and age, nothing is impossible in 4th innings of a Test match. Its about the will to win.
 
Dinesh Chandimal (86*) helped Sri Lanka push their lead to 333 at the end of day three despite a brilliant five-wicket haul from Mohammad Nawaz.

Sri Lanka lost Kasun Rajitha early on Day 3, with Mohammad Nawaz getting his second wicket of the innings. However, Pakistan were not able to press home the advantage as the Sri Lanka batters stabilised their innings. Both Oshada Fernando and Kusal Mendis paired well to drive Sri Lanka forward. Fernando was the more aggressive of the two, hitting some beautiful shots. He was well-supported by Kusal, who was solid in his defence. Despite a couple of close lbw calls, Fernando survived to bring up a patient fifty. However, the 91-run stand was broken on the second ball after the lunch break but not before the duo had extended Sri Lanka's lead to 136.

Nawaz, Yasir give Pakistan hope

Fernando was Yasir Shah's first wicket of the innings and he continued to impress as the Sri Lanka innings progressed further. He was complemented by Mohammad Nawaz, who was bowling maturely and soon dismissed the experienced Angelo Mathews. Kusal Mendis' gritty innings of 76 was stopped by Yasir, a superb leg-spin delivery that brushed Kusal's off-stump. Yasir took his third wicket of the innings with another beauty, stopping Dhananjaya de Silva's 20-ball 20 knock. Even as Dinesh Chandimal held one end, Nawaz and Yasir tightened the screws on the rest of the line-up. As many as five wickets fell in the second session with Sri Lanka going to tea at 257/7. And soon after the break, Nawaz completed his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests with the scalp of Ramesh Mendis.

Dinesh Chandimal's counter-attack

With eight wickets down and a lead of around 250, Sri Lanka needed someone to push them towards a more challenging total. And Dinesh Chandimal took up the job without ceremony. He had already formed useful partnerships with the lower middle-order and continued that as he got to his half-century. He shared a 41-run ninth-wicket stand with Maheesh Theekshana (11 runs from 57 balls) and another unbeaten 21-run last-wicket partnership with Prabath Jayasuriya (4*) to take Sri Lanka's lead to 333. Bad light forced early stumps in Galle with Sri Lanka on 329/9 and Chandimal going strong on 86*.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2681338
 
Funny how some fans were predicting 2-0 to pak this series lol.

This pak test team is facking awful.

Said from the start, Lanka would breeze this via their spinners
 
I got to watch a couple of hours today. The captaincy and bowling were utterly baffling.

Bowlers not bowling to their field and the captain having fielders on the boundary when they need to take wickets and put pressure on.

The game is already lost and they have themselves to blame.

Can we also stop the fascination with Naseem in Tests please. The boy isn't ready and it shows in his bowling.

We've thrown out Abbas because he didn't take wickets in the previous tours and yet if you watched the matches you'd have seen how unlucky he was.

The think-tank need shaking too. Poor inclusions and poor tactics.
 
Good on Sri Lanka for attacking Pakistan and not letting the bowlers settle.

Having said that some very ordinary bowling from Pakistan today.
 
Ami said:
That's just it...the will.
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Not too much wrong with the team...Naseem is an improvement on Faheem whose batting abilities are matched by Nawaz who is far better than Nauman; and Yasir better bet than Sajid.
Only issue I have is Agha playing ahead of Fawad.
 
Anything over 200 would be difficult for Pakistan chasing in a fourth innings especially on a turning wicket in Sri Lanka. We have not got England's confidence when chasing a fourth innings target.

Game was over with Pakistan's first innings. Criminal not to get a decent lead after bowling out for the opposition for less than 230.
 
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