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Sri Lanka strongly placed on 176/5 at Stumps on Day 3, a lead of 323 runs

Another so-called useless spinner on. Hopefully we can get rid of at least 1-2 from Hasan, Azhar, Fawad, Sarfraz, Nauman & Yasir.
 
Pakistan will struggle to even get 250 on this pitch.

This is a type A Lanka pitch. Easy to bat on first 3 days, a challenge from there on out. The first test pitch was a type B pitch. Spin from Day 1 but pitch settles down in the later days.

Had Pak batters applied themselves more on a pitch where Yasir Shah played 96 balls with minimal fuss, the story could have been different.
 
With these spinners (Yasir - not in good form, Nauman- below average, Nawaz - Average- Salman- below average ) & Fast bowler (Hassan Ali - below average based on current form ) one should not expect miracle bowling performance in fact these bowlers are bound to get failed in SENA conditions so keeping high expectations with such bowling attack is crime.
 
Faiz1978 said:
With these spinners (Yasir - not in good form, Nauman- below average, Nawaz - Average- Salman- below average ) & Fast bowler (Hassan Ali - below average based on current form ) one should not expect miracle bowling performance in fact these bowlers are bound to get failed in SENA conditions so keeping high expectations with such bowling attack is crime.
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Zafar Gohar is miles better than Nauman and Agha.
 
Usman Chadda said:
There was a clear spike when the ball passed the bat, why wasn’t it out?
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The edge was positively molecular. It's highly likely that Mathews did not touch the ball. Based on the rules they have set themselves, there wasn't enough there to overturn the on-field decision.
 
looking good for Pakistan but anything above 300 will be too big on this pitch
 
If only one of the Pakistan batters had gone onto make a big hundred this game would have been quiet even. Firstly Pakistan let sl score 50-60 extra runs and then faltered and failed to score.
 
The middle order and tail to an extent helped Pakistan score a better total but they really needed to score over 300 to have a chance on this pitch.
 
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I know Salman eeked out a wicket. But its a fairly strange decision to continue bowling him when Yasir and Nawaz are fresh and have bowled fairly well in this innings. Poor captaincy imo.
 
This pitch looks better than the first one.
Pakistani batsmen messed up big time in the first innings.
 
Pakistan’s best chance is to somehow restrict them to a lead of 300-350

Babar and Shafique are both due a score

Rizwan and Fawad may also play out of their skins to make something happen
 
Xoib said:
As I said a spinner should have opened with Naseem we wasted 50 runs by bowling pace.

BTW this is not a 300+ chasing pitch now
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RedwoodOriginal said:
I know Salman eeked out a wicket. But its a fairly strange decision to continue bowling him when Yasir and Nawaz are fresh and have bowled fairly well in this innings. Poor captaincy imo.
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Yes babar the skipper has no feel for the game this is what separates an ordinary skipper from a good one.
 
One thing Pakistan had done badly is shut down sl when theyve had a chance. In order to become a Top test team they need to learn to shud down the opposition without letting them get out of hand by trickling away
 
Yasir the so called Strike bowler on to give away 2 boundaries to Take the pressure of SL. Great . How can you win matches when such players are ment to be your main strike bowlers
 
Mr Babar Azam is bottling this. His captaincy in this test has been bad. First Yasir Gives away 2 boundaries and now brings himself on to give away easy runs. 300 is only a few hits away. Pakistan dont deserve to win this test.
 
Faisalabadimunda said:
Yasir the so called Strike bowler on to give away 2 boundaries to Take the pressure of SL. Great . How can you win matches when such players are ment to be your main strike bowlers
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It's pathetic. Even in these conditions, we are looking at our 19 yo pacer as the only threat. Yasir is a free loader now.
 
Barbar azam can not become a great untill he becomes mentally strong. He has a tendency to lose it quiet quickly as we can see in this match
 
Unless Naseem was struggling why would you take him off? He was looking in great rhythm.
 
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Yasir Shah to Dhananjaya, FOUR, fifth boundary for SL in the last 10 balls!
 
They have messed up the selection process in this match. Mr hasan ali has been like a spectator. Seriously he needs dropping. How can you expect to bowl the other side out when you have a 19yr old as your sole fast bowler and Nawaz, Yasir and salman all teying their luck. Not 1 Strike bowler in this line up for Pakistan. Seriously worrying times for pakistan. Take out SSA and you're left with not much
 
Safe to say that passage of play has rattled pakistan. Thanks to Yasir and Babar azams captaincy... Pakistan can take the win out of their heads
 
Xoib said:
Surely Naseem deserved couple more overs in that spell.
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Still can wrap my head around that one.

But it's pathetic if even in these conditions can't go to our main spinner because he is so bad.
 
There is no doubt that selection in the first match and in the second match left a lot to be desired. There has been an issue of too many bowling options which means that one of the bowlers was going to be under bowled while you could have easily added more batting strength instead of that bowler.

In this case Nauman Ali instead of whom a batsman or atelast a pace bowling all rounder like Faheem could have been added.

Not sure what exactly was the thinking behind having so many bowling options within the XI of both the tests.
 
Even Salman dried up the run rate better than Yasir. Barely conceded a boundary. But Yasir has zero control.

He'll get a wicket with a ripping delivery and then go back to bowling rubbish.
 
Titan24 said:
There is no doubt that selection in the first match and in the second match left a lot to be desired. There has been an issue of too many bowling options which means that one of the bowlers was going to be under bowled while you could have easily added more batting strength instead of that bowler.

In this case Nauman Ali instead of whom a batsman or atelast a pace bowling all rounder like Faheem could have been added.

Not sure what exactly was the thinking behind having so many bowling options within the XI of both the tests.
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Agree. Nouman Ali is a complete passenger here.
 
Bring back Naseem Shah and other than him thers no other bowler who can take wkts. Pak can pray and hope for wkts to fall and deal with the ones who messed up this series after this match. As This is the last test for a good few months . Pakistan can maybe look to bring in a few new faces.
 
Titan24 said:
There is no doubt that selection in the first match and in the second match left a lot to be desired. There has been an issue of too many bowling options which means that one of the bowlers was going to be under bowled while you could have easily added more batting strength instead of that bowler.

In this case Nauman Ali instead of whom a batsman or atelast a pace bowling all rounder like Faheem could have been added.

Not sure what exactly was the thinking behind having so many bowling options within the XI of both the tests.
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The team think tank seems to think we have 5 Babars in the middle order going one bat light cost us the Aus test and it seems will happen here aswell it's not like we are bowling teams out cheaply with 5 bowlers.
 
Xoib said:
The team think tank seems to think we have 5 Babars in the middle order going one bat light cost us the Aus test and it seems will happen here aswell it's not like we are bowling teams out cheaply with 5 bowlers.
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Yes, really odd thinking at test level in last few months.
 
The lead is already enough imo. We needed to keep it really really tight here. But we leaked 30 odd runs like nothing.
 
Need to bring in Hasan here from one end. What exactly is the point of his experience if he is not going to bowl in a situation like this and produce something? If you dont trust him in his current form then why select him in the XI?
 
Titan24 said:
There is no doubt that selection in the first match and in the second match left a lot to be desired. There has been an issue of too many bowling options which means that one of the bowlers was going to be under bowled while you could have easily added more batting strength instead of that bowler.

In this case Nauman Ali instead of whom a batsman or atelast a pace bowling all rounder like Faheem could have been added.

Not sure what exactly was the thinking behind having so many bowling options within the XI of both the tests.
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They included so many spinners in the XI as the captain doesn't have much confidence on any of them, so they included all of them to have other options if someone misfires
 
Ashmal said:
They included so many spinners in the XI as the captain doesn't have much confidence on any of them, so they included all of them to have other options if someone misfires
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And forgot accounting for misfiring batsmen.
 
If Nauman is going to give you only 25 overs in a test in Asia its better to play a full batsman for him even Agha can get you 20 overs in a test in Asia across two innings
 
Titan24 said:
And forgot accounting for misfiring batsmen.
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True that...and even having so many spin options isn't helping much atm.

Lack of an in-form lead spinner is really hurting this team....it cost them the Aus series and now this match too most probably.

Will be interesting to see who they play vs Eng & NZ
 
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Hasan Ali so far in this match has conceded 83 runs at an economy rate of 3.8 while picking up 0 wickets. Naseem has conceded 87 runs at an economy rate of 3.2 while picking up 5 wickets.
 
I think with Nawaz we have our second spinner sorted for the time provided he can get some runs also it's the lead spinner that is a concern.
 
That's it for the day and it's good for us.
The more time that gets taken out, the better it is.
 
Xoib said:
I think with Nawaz we have our second spinner sorted for the time provided he can get some runs also it's the lead spinner that is a concern.
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Would agree. Nawaz has done enough for now.

The problem is Lanka is a far better place for a spinner compared to pakistan. We should've taken the call in this series. Even Sajid would've done better than Yasir here.

Now the new spinner will get to bowl at pakistan which aside from karachi is pretty much dead for spinners. Then fans will go "oh atleast Shahji was better" and the cycle goes on.
 
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