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

Stackable offence to play 3rd seamer here. Should have been Shaheen and faheem.
Nauman Yasir and nawaz the spinners
 
NeVerMind said:
Counterpoint...could Baz-ball work on a spinning pitch? Will see when England comes to the sub-continent...
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Been thinking the same ever since the NZ-Eng series. I think even more than Asia, it'll be interesting to see if it can work on those rank turners in India.
 
Lead 250+ already. Every run is gold from now onwards. Chandimal batting well with the tailenders as expected.
 
Pakistan's fielding in this innings has been pretty ordinary.
 
Amjid Javed said:
:)) only coward here is you and yet again you chose to defend his pathetic 1st inns with the bat.

no one asking for T10 cricket. But blocking half volleys and half trackers like some bowler is bowling gernades is pathetic.

A simpleton like you wouldnt understand that. Go worship your Azhar Ali posters on your bedroom wall.
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No its you. Because yet again, you're deflecting from the fact that your idiotic statement got proven wrong a minute later.

It's funny how you keep bringing Azhar Ali in when you have nothing to say about the topic at hand. The mark of a true coward.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
No its you. Because yet again, you're deflecting from the fact that your idiotic statement got proven wrong a minute later.

It's funny how you keep bringing Azhar Ali in when you have nothing to say about the topic at hand. The mark of a true coward.
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So crying like a little girl because your hero got a shameful 3 off 50 balls in 1st inns. Only a clueless clown would defend such an inns.
 
I think the game is now out of Pakistan's reach on paper. But if they apply themselves they can chase 300 imo.
 
Gotta love the attitude of Pakistan team. They did not let Sri Lanka get an upper hand and are always in the game. 300 can be chased here, albeit would need a Babar and Rizwan special again.
 
Amjid Javed said:
So crying like a little girl because your hero got a shameful 3 off 50 balls in 1st inns. Only a clueless clown would defend such an inns.
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Again, Azhar Ali has nothing to do with the fact that you made a deluded, out of touch statement and got proven wrong immediately. If anything, that's karma for being an out of touch and clueless clown.
 
Pakistan can still win this match. This pitch has not played like a traditional Galle wicket where you start seeing explosions from Day 2 and where only one 250+ innings total is usually enough to win the match.

It won't be easy and if Pakistan decide to self-destruct than it will be a routing. But if they apply themselves and play positive cricket without crawling into a defensive hole or going gung-ho aggressive than they can definitely win this test. Babar's first innings century is really the perfect template on batting to follow here.
 
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We must not be so monotonous. Yasir is going for plenty anyway. Give Shaheen a bowl.
 
shariqnoor said:
I don't know if it's just me or not, but there's an inner satisfaction seeing Hasan Ali getting humbled in the field with all the dropped catches and misfields given his arrogance off the field with all of his ridiculous statements. Easily the most disliked cricketer Pakistan has produced in the last 20 or so years. Amir a close second.
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Count me in as well. I always enjoy Hassan getting thrashed. Add Shadab to the list as well and also Naseem, who has more big statements than wickets in international cricket.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I would have gone with Fawad Alam. But Ghulam was definitely ahead in the line of Salman. Now he's not even in the squad eventhough he has played zero matches.
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Fawad should have obviously been the option for this particular test. Think he'll be back for the 2nd test.
 
Xoib said:
Babar the skipper needs to go I have not seen worse piece of captaincy since Mo Yo Sydney 2010
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Must have missed the England series in 2020 where Azhar Ali produced a captaincy masterclass.
 
Even Babar would've taken these 3-100 figures like Yasir. Going over 4 rpo as well.
 
If Fawad plays.. why is a 36 year old in the team.
If not, missing Fawad.

Pakistan fans need be patient with the new guys, be it Salman or Haider Ali etc. Just give them 6-10 Test Matches to come good.
 
hoshiarpurexpress said:
If Fawad plays.. why is a 36 year old in the team.
If not, missing Fawad.

Pakistan fans need be patient with the new guys, be it Salman or Haider Ali etc. Just give them 6-10 Test Matches to come good.
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Agha wasn't a correct selection to begin with. And Fawad should have played given the conditions. We are not just saying it retrospectively.
 
Nawaz has potential to be a good test spinner. Just needs to focus on consistency.

Great effort here.
 
Sri Lankan were allowed to milk and get easy runs against Agha in the first session today. That's where SL did bulk of the scoring , should have bowled Nawaz more instead of Agha.
 
boomboomcheema said:
Sri Lankan were allowed to milk and get easy runs against Agha in the first session today. That's where SL did bulk of the scoring , should have bowled Nawaz more instead of Agha.
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Yasir was more costly than Agha. Went around 5 for his 1st 6 overs.
 
Look at the Strike Rates of the Sri Lankan batsmen:

Fernando - 51
Karunaratne - 55
Rajitha - 58
Mendis - 60
Mathews - 36
Chandimal - 71
Dhananjaya - 100
Dickwella - 109
Mendis - 68

Apart from Mathews, every batsman has managed to keep the scorecard ticking and this has allowed Sri Lanka to wrestle the initiative from Pakistan and get into a commanding position in spite of losing wickets regularly.

If they had cowards like Azhar and Shafique, they would be 200/8 instead of 267/8 right now, and the match would still be in the balance, while their fans would be giving a bhashan on how to play Test cricket and we should watch T10 if we don’t have the patience.

The two cowards faced 88 deliveries combined and produced 16 runs. They should have collectively scored around 40 runs for the amount of deliveries that they faced, and these 25 odd runs could prove to be the difference in the end.

You can, at max, afford only one batsman in your top order who consistently maintains a strike rate of 35-40. Pakistan has only one batsman who does not do that, and then we wonder why we are such a deplorable side.
 
Misbah's captaincy in Asia was excellent. Ajmal, Abdur Rehman and later Yasir thrived under him. Yasir hasn't been the same since Mis You retirement apart from that 2nd Test vs NZ in UAE.
 
LoL this match is already out of Pakistan's grasp.
Babar alone can't chase this huge total on this wicket.
 
Pakistan probably should have played an extra spinner but fact is only 12 overs in this innings have been bowled by seamers. The rest have been bowled by spinners. And there hasn't been as much natural turn on offer, as there usually is here.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Pakistan probably should have played an extra spinner but fact is only 12 overs in this innings have been bowled by seamers. The rest have been bowled by spinners. And there hasn't been as much natural turn on offer, as there usually is here.
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Not extra spinner we needed extra batsman who plays with 4 batsman in test cricket.
 
Does Shaheen have a niggle? Looked something like that.He hasn't bowled at all since that 1st spell. I expected atleast 1 more spell for him.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
Misbah's captaincy in Asia was excellent. Ajmal, Abdur Rehman and later Yasir thrived under him. Yasir hasn't been the same since Mis You retirement apart from that 2nd Test vs NZ in UAE.
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More to do with his age than who he is captaining under. He is 36 officially, probably 39-40 actually and he is past his prime.

He has enough experience to know where to land the ball regardless of who is captaining the team.
 
I think I saw Shaheen off the pitch where he looked injured. Is he alright? Anyone knows?
 
even the most casual fans can see the blunder that was this team composition from miles away and many even here called it out before a ball was bowled, on this pitch Shaheen,. Hassan, yasir and Nawaz were more than enough and rest pack it with whatever batsman you have and compensate quality of batting with quantity, mean more batsman but no let's pick, Rizwan babar and nine tailenders, it's miracle of we somehow pull this heist but it would be despite this selection not due to. Such a clueless thick tank. Even fawad and saud would have as much Bowling impact as Naseem and agha had, and how we would have loved them as two extra batsman here. We alwys shoot our self on foot.
 
Now this Chandimal and Theeksana will score another 70-80 runs and turn the match into boring and one sided.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Pakistan can still win this match. This pitch has not played like a traditional Galle wicket where you start seeing explosions from Day 2 and where only one 250+ innings total is usually enough to win the match.

It won't be easy and if Pakistan decide to self-destruct than it will be a routing. But if they apply themselves and play positive cricket without crawling into a defensive hole or going gung-ho aggressive than they can definitely win this test. Babar's first innings century is really the perfect template on batting to follow here.
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Enough help in this pitch for spinners. We'll lose by a big margin our batsmen are both incapable and timid they cant rise up to the challenge.
 
Mamoon said:
More to do with his age than who he is captaining under. He is 36 officially, probably 39-40 actually and he is past his prime.

He has enough experience to know where to land the ball regardless of who is captaining the team.
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He knows he is one bad performance away from getting dropped again. He doesn't have the personality to do well when he knows he is being monitored. Yasir used to be an smiling personality on the field. That's missing now. Not sure if it's age.
 
JibranAnsari said:
Naseem shah has no control over line and length.
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With his height he has not going enough for him already, unless he become waqar pre injury let's dump him for good, he don't belong, not talk enough not fast enough to go with not enough control, a dream bowler for opposition team.
 
Naseem all fire and brimstone in his nice little spell. Pakistan batters have to pull out a miracle to chase this
it will be interesting to see their approach however, especially the top 3.
 
Xoib said:
Not extra spinner we needed extra batsman who plays with 4 batsman in test cricket.
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Teams that want to win matches. Playing 4 bowlers is a defensive and played out strategy that is not tenable in most cases. The load that the bowlers end up shouldering is much more damaging to the team's cause than anything else. Playing 5 bowlers allows them to be well rested and able to bowl shorter and more effective spells.
 
Guys I have already confirmed we will lose 2 0 this series despite people saying Srilankans are awful etc....
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Teams that want to win matches. Playing 4 bowlers is a defensive and played out strategy that is not tenable in most cases. The load that the bowlers end up shouldering is much more damaging to the team's cause than anything else. Playing 5 bowlers allows them to be well rested and able to bowl shorter and more effective spells.
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Bhai who plays with 4 batsman name me one tea in history why was agha picked as a spin all-rounder with his non spinning skills
 
Xoib said:
Bhai who plays with 4 batsman name me one tea in history why was agha picked as a spin all-rounder with his non spinning skills
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Pakistan played 6 batters. What are you talking about? Agha's bowling is practically useless. He looks more like a part-timer than an all-rounder.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Pakistan played 6 batters. What are you talking about? Agha's bowling is practically useless. He looks more like a part-timer than an all-rounder.
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So agha played as a pure bat above Fawad,Shan, Saud his bowling had nothing to do with selection?
 
Xoib said:
So agha played as a pure bat above Fawad,Shan, Saud his bowling had nothing to do with selection?
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I didn't know you were considering Agha an all-rounder. Yeah, now that I think about it the management might have selected him as an all-rounder. Eventhough one look at him bowling tells you that he is not realistically troubling anyone.
 
Will be very hard winning from here. Even if the pitch does not deteriorate...which it will.
 
Chandimal looks a much improved and mature batsman. He was guilty of playing too lose and throwing away his wicket early on in his career.
 
Good on field captaincy is vital for a team. Babar is a misfit in the role. You just cannot afford the freebie singles he allows to the opposition via his field placings and the lack of support he provides to his bowlers. The sooner the PCB finds some other alternative in the team the better. Pakistan needs Babar the batsman, let him focus on that only.
 
Savak said:
Chandimal looks a much improved and mature batsman. He was guilty of playing too lose and throwing away his wicket early on in his career.
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Definitely and I think clarity from the management plays a huge role as well. Under Silverwood he has been asked to play his shots which is his natural style of play in red ball cricket. Asking such players to play a defensive game only creates that extra confusion and we see shots which are not fully committed. He might still look bad playing this way when it doesn't click but, he is much more useful player in his current mindset.

We saw same with Bairstow recently under Bmac in test cricket.

At this level the more clarity you have in your mindset the more chance you will have to succeed.
 
Mamoon said:
Naseem back to his usual economy of 4 :)))
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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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