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Limited-overs captain Babar Azam has urged fans to compare him with Pakistan legends rather than India captain Virat Kohli.

The Lahore native made these comment while speaking during a teleconference from Worcestershire. “I don’t want to be compared with Virat Kohli. It would be better if people compare me with one of the Pakistani legends like Javed Miandad, Mohammad Yousaf or Younis Khan,” he said.

The Right-handed batsman has been in rich form and has been compared with fabulous – Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Steve Smith and Kane Williamson – by cricket greats.

The 25-year-old has also set his sight on scoring a triple ton during the England tour. “When you score a century, you naturally want to go on and convert that into a double or a triple century. This is something I would like to do during the Test series,” said Azam. “I like to play my natural game but my selection of shots depends on the conditions and bowlers.”

He was also optimistic about winning the Test series against the hosts.

“We performed well on our previous tour of England which is why players are eagerly looking forward to the series,” he said. “We are currently focused on winning the Test series as that is our first goal on the tour.”

“England have the home advantage but our bowlers will give tough time to their batsmen. We will target their fragile Test top-order. Mohammad Abbas is experienced while Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi have a lot of potential. We have high expectations from our bowlers,” he added.

The right-handed batsman also admitted that Mohammad Rizwan, who cleared COVID-19 assessment in second attempt, would be first choice in the Test despite the presence of former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed in the squad.

“Mohammad Rizwan is our first choice wicketkeeper and he will get full chance during the Test series,” he said.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/4000...rison-with-pakistan-legends-rather-than-kohli

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Karachi: Pakistan limited-overs captain Babar Azam is not worried about facing English pacer Jofra Archer in the upcoming Test series.

Pakistan batting coach Younis Khan termed Archer as a major threat for Pakistan batting as he has create a decent amount of impact with his bowling since the ICC World Cup 2019.

While talking to reporters via video-conference, the number five ranked Test batsman emphasized that he tries to play the ball on merit regardless of who the bowler is.

“We are prepared for the series. I am on my plan and I know which kind of bowling will be up against me. I watch the bowl and doesn’t play by the name of the bowler,” Babar said.

Babar has aimed to convert hundreds into big score and has eyes on doing it on the tour of England. “When you cross a century mark, you want to go and convert into a bigger one. This is something I wish to do during the test series,” he added.

Babar accepted that England will have an advantage as they will play against Pakistan after competiting with the West Indies and have full confidence on the bowlers, who have been bowling well in the past two series.

“We are eagarly looking forward to play and focused on winning the series. They have the home advantage but our bowlers will give tough time to their fragille top-order. Mohammad Abbas has been playing here in counties and have experienced and Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah has full potential to shine. The expectations are high and I hope they will do well,” he maintained.

It must be noted that Pakistan arrived in England on Sunday. They are currenly training in Worcestershie and are alos in 14-day quarmtine period. They will take part in two inter-squad matches before traveling to Derbyshire.

https://arysports.tv/i-watch-the-ball-not-the-bowler-who-is-bowling-babar-on-facing-archer/

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Pakistan's batting star and limited-overs captain Babar Azam has retirated his stand on comparison with Virat Kohli, saying he doesn't want to be compared to the India captain.

Babar said he will be glad if people compare him with Pakistan batting legends of the likes of Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf.

Over the last few years, Babar's performances across all formats of the game have led to fans and experts likening him to Kohli. However, the Pakistan batsman has often maintained that he and Kohli are 'different kinds of players'.

While Babar is the No.1-ranked T20I batsman, Kohli is the No. 1 in ODI cricket. The 25-year-old averages over 50 in ODI and T20Is and a little over than 45 in Tests while not having played as much as his Indian counterpart.

"I don't want to be compared with Virat Kohli. It would be better if people compare me with one of the Pakistani legends like Javed Miandad, Mohammad Yousuf or Younis Khan," Babar said while speaking to Pakistan media from Worcestershire on Thursday, as quoted by Cricket Pakistan.

Babar Azazm was part of the 20-member Pakistan squad that tested negative for Covid-19 last month and arrived in England for the much-anticipated 3-Test series in August-September.

Babar Azam began training as early as Wednesday after arriving in the UK on Sunday. Babar along with his teammates and 11 support staff have been in quarantine in a bio-secure facility at Worcestershire.

https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cr...undred-england-test-series-1696269-2020-07-02
 
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Why are our players talking about England top order being fragile? Burns is a good opener. Sibley looked good vs South Africa. Crawley is rate highly and Denly is regularly facing at least a 100 balls which is benefiting the middle order.

Pakistan top order is much worse than England.
 
Hasan123 said:
Why are our players talking about England top order being fragile? Burns is a good opener. Sibley looked good vs South Africa. Crawley is rate highly and Denly is regularly facing at least a 100 balls which is benefiting the middle order.

Pakistan top order is much worse than England.
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Right.
Burns and Sibley are good.
Denly is very solid.
 
Hasan123 said:
Why are our players talking about England top order being fragile? Burns is a good opener. Sibley looked good vs South Africa. Crawley is rate highly and Denly is regularly facing at least a 100 balls which is benefiting the middle order.

Pakistan top order is much worse than England.
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These are all mind games...
 
Hasan123 said:
Why are our players talking about England top order being fragile? Burns is a good opener. Sibley looked good vs South Africa. Crawley is rate highly and Denly is regularly facing at least a 100 balls which is benefiting the middle order.

Pakistan top order is much worse than England.
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But burns and sibley are both put together same as cook
 
England's batting at home is good despite them being young. Pakistan's bowling attack is also gonna be quite young with Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi likely to be starting.

Also can the players stop putting emphasis on the bowling attack to get Pakistan out of jail. The batsman have perform in particular Azhar and Asad being the experience batsman not to forget Fawad Alam likely return and Shan Masood returning after terrible performance against England in 2016.

Its Babar Azam with the bat and bowling attack vs England from the looks of it.
 
Now watch their top order obliterate us. This is really basic stuff...don't give the opposition bulletin board material.
 
King_Kohli said:
Right.
Burns and Sibley are good.
Denly is very solid.
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Crawley is the one who I rate very highly. He will start because Root won't play against West Indies. Will be interesting to see if he plays against Pakistan.
 
They've never bowled to the current players so I'm sure babar just meant we are doing out homework
Not sure how much footage is out there on the English openers

Abbas is obviously well know to the county players so I'm sure England already have their own plan
Alot depends of shaheen especially if he ends up with the new ball
 
Right and we've got Langer, Hayden and Ponting in our top order ?

Can we concentrate on ourselves for a moment please.
 
Someone asked him about Azhar's comments regarding england's top order. And he just agreed with him and went with the flow. What else do you expect? Should he contradict his captain ? These type of posts should include the qs that were asked.
 
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My mind goes back to Waqar saying India are "under pressure" pre Pak vs Ind group game in WT20 2016, and when Hasan Ali said he'd take all 10 Indian wickets before one of the Asia Cup 2018 games. I reeaally don't want Babar Azam of all people to be talking big like this... but if he can walk the walk then all's well I guess :yuvi.
 
We have Shan Hayden Azhar Richards Asad Tendulkar followed by Rizwan Gilchist and Faheem Kallis expect regular scores of 500-600 after that we must target England’s top order and hope to enforce the follow on to give rest to our tired greats.
 
England must be laughing at this. If he thinks their top order is fragile, what about ours?!
 
shamaan said:
Very very good opener top 5 in england ?
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Cooky was a good player of spin bowling but got sorted out by good quicks a few times. They would bowl a wide one across him and he would nick off to slip.

I would say he was third best England opener I have seen, behind Boycott and Gooch who played the quicks better, and a bit ahead of Trescothick and Strauss.

Stewart was excellent but only played about forty of his tests as an opener.
 
I remember Wahab talking about England having a soft middle order but he backed his words and took the middle order out with sheer pace and bounce. Let's see Shaheen, Naseem and Abbas can walk Bobby's talk as well.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
I remember Wahab talking about England having a soft middle order but he backed his words and took the middle order out with sheer pace and bounce. Let's see Shaheen, Naseem and Abbas can walk Bobby's talk as well.
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I cant waite for stokes vs naseem hopefully he plays his natural game will give naseem a chance then
 
Hasan123 said:
Our players don't play mind games . When they say something like this they mean it.

Disappointed that Babar isn't aware England have better top order players than 2 years ago.
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Calm down and stop being so defensive of ENG.

Babar has every right to say this and unsettle the opposition. ENG are our bunnies.
 
Sibley averages 40 after 6 matches. (A talented player but far from established)
Burns averages 33 after 15 matches
Denly averages 30 after 14 matches
Crawley averages 27 after 4 matches (Another decent young talent but not established)

Pope is someone which can be really good if he is in his zone and averages 47. Probably best test middle order batsman for England post Root.

I am not sure about fragile but definitely not an earth shattering one and pretty inexperienced one as well, so one can try to exploit that. If someone stands up like like Sibley did in SA then good for them but at the moment all of them are pretty new to international cricket and trying to establish themselves just like Pak pacers.

Eng has much stronger lower middle order and lower order and that is what can be crucial in key moments along with obviously Stokes and Root(Once he joins).
 
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considering england haven't beaten us in a test series in a decade, I'ld say our players can say whatever they want.
 
shamaan said:
I cant waite for stokes vs naseem hopefully he plays his natural game will give naseem a chance then
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They have been more judicious in their strokeplay since Silverwood took over. If the wickets and conditions are anything like we've seen these last 3 seasons, Pakistan should do well with the ballas long as they bowl the right length consistently. Last time, Aamir and Abbas were relentless with their lengths and even more so than English bowlers and we saw the rsult.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
They have been more judicious in their strokeplay since Silverwood took over. If the wickets and conditions are anything like we've seen these last 3 seasons, Pakistan should do well with the ballas long as they bowl the right length consistently. Last time, Aamir and Abbas were relentless with their lengths and even more so than English bowlers and we saw the rsult.
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Yes I belive Shaheen and abbas will bowl the right length I hope naseem doesnt overdue for bouncer hes the only worry due to his age he might get excited with the extra bounce
 
Titan24 said:
Sibley averages 40 after 6 matches. (A talented player but far from established)
Burns averages 33 after 15 matches
Denly averages 30 after 14 matches
Crawley averages 27 after 4 matches (Another decent young talent but not established)

Pope is someone which can be really good if he is in his zone and averages 47. Probably best test middle order batsman for England post Root.

I am not sure about fragile but definitely not an earth shattering one and pretty inexperienced one as well, so one can try to exploit that. If someone stands up like like Sibley did in SA then good for them but at the moment all of them are pretty new to international cricket and trying to establish themselves just like Pak pacers.

Eng has much stronger lower middle order and lower order and that is what can be crucial in key moments along with obviously Stokes and Root(Once he joins).
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I fink both teams are evenly matched proberly just stokes in his position is better also being all rounder.

Overall is matched evenly
 
I think top order of England isn't that fragile. Middle order is fragile. You take out Stokes and middle order becomes extremely vulnerable.
 
Hawkeye said:
Calm down and stop being so defensive of ENG.

Babar has every right to say this and unsettle the opposition. ENG are our bunnies.
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It won't unsettle anyone. It's so irrelevant that it hasn't not even been talked about in the English media.
 
Robert said:
When did Pakistan last beat England in a series in England?
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1996 probably which was Pak’s 2nd consecutive series win Eng including 0-1 win in 1992 in Eng. Next 5 series played in Eng had 3 draws and 2 were won by Eng convincingly.

So Pak havent won a series for over two decades in Eng. Off topic but Eng havent won a series in Pak/ UAE in two decades as well rather lost every single one post 2000.

Probably teams have become stronger at their home grounds
 
Babar Azam confident Pakistan will bounce back in T20Is

Babar Azam, the Pakistan limited-overs skipper, put his team's dwindling T20I fortunes in recent times down to experimentation with their combinations, and hopes the experience in the team management will benefit them in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

Pakistan were leading the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Team Rankings for 27 months. From the end of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2016 in April to the start of 2019, they won 29 of their 33 T20Is, boasting of a win percentage of 87.87%. But a poor record in 2019, when they lost eight of their 12 T20Is, saw them slip to fourth place in the latest rankings.

Babar, however, isn't too concerned about the T20I team, and insisted they have identified the right mix of players for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to take place in Australia this year, depending on the global pandemic situation.

"Yes, we did lose a few matches and our ranking has unfortunately gone down," he admitted to presspersons while preparing for their series in England. "What happened is that we did some experimentation and tried out several players. We are now sure about the combination, which includes both youth and experience. I’m confident that we will do well in the T20 series against England and improve our ranking.

"And if the World Cup is held according to schedule, I’m confident that our team will do well in it."

Babar, who replaced Sarfaraz Ahmed as limited-overs skipper, has led Pakistan in five T20Is so far, winning two and losing two. "As a professional cricketer I hope that the T20 World Cup is held according to schedule," he said. "As Pakistan’s captain I would really want that the World Cup is not delayed as it will be my first World Cup as skipper. But it’s up to the authorities to decide."

At 25, Babar is still building on experience, but is hoping to learn from the experience of stalwarts such as Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Waqar Younis and Mushtaq Ahmed in the team management.

"I and other players will benefit immensely from their presence," the skipper said. "They are four of our greatest legends. They have loads of experience. It’s our duty to learn from them and I’m sure all of us will do that ... I’m keen to learn the art of captaincy from them."

Babar stressed that a player thrives under a coach who backs him and reserved special praise for Mickey Arthur, the former Pakistan coach.

"Mickey really supported me. He gave me confidence. He rated me highly even when I was very much a newcomer. He backed me all the time. The best thing about him was he had great trust in my abilities.

"I must add that Misbah bhai is no different. He really backs me and has confidence in me. It really helps when your coach trusts you.”

Pakistan are in England for a tour that includes Tests and T20Is. While the internationals begin only by the end of the month, the team has already set up camp. Babar is looking forward to making best use of their early arrival.

"When you don’t play cricket for three months it does make a difference. But the good thing is that we have one extra month to prepare ourselves for the Tests," he explained. "I was pleasantly surprised to see each and every boy was fit. That’s a good start.

"The next part is to play and practise as much as we can because the more you practise the better you get. We have lined up a series of training sessions and practice matches so I’m sure by the time the Test series begins we will be ready for it."

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1707789
 
Our players are talking too much because they think it is their divine right to not lose in England.

We sound cocky and we all know what happens to Pakistani when their heads are in the clouds: they get a reality check and are brought back to earth.

We are a poor side, playing away from home and at venues where we have been hopeless. Outside the London venues, Pakistan have lost every single match since winning at Old Trafford in 2001.

This series has an English victory written all over it. If we avoid a whitewash we should be happy.
 
shamaan said:
They dont but they ain't on the same level as England previews team
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No way. They are much better than before. Cook could not find any opening partner after Strauss. They were all bad. Now eng have 3 good openers, which never happened before
 
What has happened to Pakistani fans? A player is showing some confidence and is targetting his opponents in ore match talk. What's wrong with that.

Is he supposed to Sir wr are a very poor nation poor team and we are very happy to be in England Sir, we will try our best Sir and hope we win Sir? Although that sounds very stereotypically Indian but a lot of posters here have forgotten what Daleri, Jazba, Junoon, Janbaazi meant.

Good on Bobby.

This is not even trash talk!

This is subtle mind games and they have a proper place in cricket. That's ehat cricket is all about.

We are not football, where 22 men act like girls following a manager, crying and falling for penalties.

Cricket is for men, and men talk, play mind games, trash talk.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
What has happened to Pakistani fans? A player is showing some confidence and is targetting his opponents in ore match talk. What's wrong with that.

Is he supposed to Sir wr are a very poor nation poor team and we are very happy to be in England Sir, we will try our best Sir and hope we win Sir? Although that sounds very stereotypically Indian but a lot of posters here have forgotten what Daleri, Jazba, Junoon, Janbaazi meant.

Good on Bobby.

This is not even trash talk!

This is subtle mind games and they have a proper place in cricket. That's ehat cricket is all about.

We are not football, where 22 men act like girls following a manager, crying and falling for penalties.

Cricket is for men, and men talk, play mind games, trash talk.
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Agreed! And England’s top order is, in fact, fragile.
 
Babar Azam is appropriate in his analysis. England has vulnerabilities that should be exploited. The top order is inexperienced and may be fallible. They must target them to have an impact. The only way is by accurate, consistent and hostile bowling. If they make rapid inroads it will impact on the English totals. Pakistan should focus on their batting and score in unison with batting partnerships to ensure totals of 300-350. If they can ensure the fundamentals, they have a good chance for success.
 
Hasan123 said:
Why are our players talking about England top order being fragile? Burns is a good opener. Sibley looked good vs South Africa. Crawley is rate highly and Denly is regularly facing at least a 100 balls which is benefiting the middle order.

Pakistan top order is much worse than England.
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Doubt he even knows what Fragile is let alone how to say it. He’s been fed things to say and it’s obvious
 
England has some really good youngsters in Sibley, Crawley, Pope and Lawrence all of whom are under 25. And all seem to be focused Test cricket specialists

Their top order shows the most long term promise compared to youngsters breaking through in teams like India, Aus, SA
 
He’s talking as if we have hybrids of Kohli and Smith in our batting lineup...

Also while the England batting lineup has not as much experience as yesteryears but as a whole it probably has more experience than us and more importantly has more talent and upside. We have an okay lineup but most of them are in their peak or past it so there is no high ceiling there.

Finally. Whenever Pakistanis talk big before a match or series we almost invariably end up with egg on our faces so this is not good omens.
 
pratiktc said:
England has some really good youngsters in Sibley, Crawley, Pope and Lawrence all of whom are under 25. And all seem to be focused Test cricket specialists

Their top order shows the most long term promise compared to youngsters breaking through in teams like India, Aus, SA
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Exactly what I’m trying to say.

Pakistan and England batting lineup may be at a similar level (though I think even that is a stretch because with Bairstow, Root etc theirs is better). However our batsmen are operating at their so called peak whereas most of the English batsmen are on upward trajectory so their ceiling as a unit is way ahead of ours.

Plus it’s not like our own bowling can run through lineups so a comparison to last year isn’t smart. Last summer they faced Starc, Hazelwood, Cummins and Lyon whereas our bowling isn’t comparable to that.
 
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Slog said:
Exactly what I’m trying to say.

Pakistan and England batting lineup may be at a similar level (though I think even that is a stretch because with Bairstow, Root etc theirs is better). However our batsmen are operating at their so called peak whereas most of the English batsmen are on upward trajectory so their ceiling as a unit is way ahead of ours.

Plus it’s not like our own bowling can run through lineups so a comparison to last year isn’t smart. Last summer they faced Starc, Hazelwood, Cummins and Lyon whereas our bowling isn’t comparable to that.
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Bairstow has been worse than the likes of imam ul haq in recent times. Eventually, the likes of Burns, Crawley and Sibley will be good test batters since they won't play much white ball cricket but at present , they are quite inexperienced and haven't really been tested.
 
Thunderbolt14 said:
Agreed! And England’s top order is, in fact, fragile.
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God damn true bro.

I mean who are even these guys, I call myself a hardcore cricket fan, and I don't know any of England's top order.

They must be talented obviously to have made it. I respect that.

But that is a new, untested line up for England.

Babar is well within his rights to comment on that.

I can't stand all these soft fans these days.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
God damn true bro.

I mean who are even these guys, I call myself a hardcore cricket fan, and I don't know any of England's top order.

They must be talented obviously to have made it. I respect that.

But that is a new, untested line up for England.

Babar is well within his rights to comment on that.

I can't stand all these soft fans these days.
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Yep exactly. And counter question — if not this, then what exactly does he comment on when asked about strategy? :)))
 
Robert said:
Only ignorant and insecure men. The Windies never said a word in their great era. They let their cricket do the talking.
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Is Babar sledging anyone brother?

Like I said, this isn't even trash talk. I am merely pointing out PPers having a melt down over literally nothing
 
zamana said:
Babar Azam is appropriate in his analysis. England has vulnerabilities that should be exploited. The top order is inexperienced and may be fallible. They must target them to have an impact. The only way is by accurate, consistent and hostile bowling. If they make rapid inroads it will impact on the English totals. Pakistan should focus on their batting and score in unison with batting partnerships to ensure totals of 300-350. If they can ensure the fundamentals, they have a good chance for success.
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Yes defo 300 if we can I reakon we have 60 percent chance of winning
 
This is one of the Top 3 or 4 batsmen in the world (potential to be #1 soon) talking..

Show some respect.
 
Well, Well....... Well !!!!!!!!!

He was right after all.

Such a shame most posters could not show respect to one of greatest talents in the world right now making valid comments on England's fragile top order.
 
This is quite a skilled bowling attack (West Indies) tbf
 
Pakistani bowlers must be ruing not to be bowling first to this English batting line up

By the time Pakistan matches start, some of these guys might find form.
 
sshakir411 said:
Doubt he even knows what Fragile is let alone how to say it. He’s been fed things to say and it’s obvious
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freelance_cricketer said:
Is Babar sledging anyone brother?

Like I said, this isn't even trash talk. I am merely pointing out PPers having a melt down over literally nothing
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Agreed, but 'fragile' obviously isn't the word to use, perhaps 'inexperienced' is better. After all, management love using 'experienced' for our expired seniors to justify their spots.
 
shamaan said:
Is it more skilled that Pakistan's attack ?
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Def more advanced.

Roach has better pedigree than any of our pacers and has been great for a few years now. Abbas perhaps comes close.

Gabriel is hit and miss but can really rev up the pace

Joseph is considered a bright prospect and some would say on par with Shaheen in terms of promise

Holder again is very good with a test average of 25 after 40 Test matches. I would put him above any in our bowling attack too as far as threatening the batsmen is concerned.

Our bowling attack has lot of promise (frankly a bit overhyped) but not a lot of experience or much to show for it so far.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
Well, Well....... Well !!!!!!!!!

He was right after all.

Such a shame most posters could not show respect to one of greatest talents in the world right now making valid comments on England's fragile top order.
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Let’s just see how that top order does when it gets decent batting conditions and isn’t interrupted several times by rain.

And gets its nineteen rest hundreds man back.
 
Abbas was deemed experienced by babar and he's only played only 18 test matches. This tells u the state of our bowling line-up.
Shahs are talented but the art of taking wickets in tests comes with a bit of experience.
 
Slog said:
Def more advanced.

Roach has better pedigree than any of our pacers and has been great for a few years now. Abbas perhaps comes close.

Gabriel is hit and miss but can really rev up the pace

Joseph is considered a bright prospect and some would say on par with Shaheen in terms of promise

Holder again is very good with a test average of 25 after 40 Test matches. I would put him above any in our bowling attack too as far as threatening the batsmen is concerned.

Our bowling attack has lot of promise (frankly a bit overhyped) but not a lot of experience or much to show for it so far.
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Advanced due to experienced then.

Shaheen has more promise that Joseph
Roach is more pedigree than abbas

Yes Pakistan has more promise only reason why west indies would be ahead due to holder I reakon
 
Robert said:
Let’s just see how that top order does when it gets decent batting conditions and isn’t interrupted several times by rain.

And gets its nineteen rest hundreds man back.
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They were okay batting conditions it wasn't hendenrous batting conditions also england won the toss
 
There are no Strauss, Cook, KP, Gooch, Robin Smith etc in this line-up.

Root is there, but it's the weakest England batting unit for a long time.

Get into them, rough them up and you will get results.
 
To be fair to England, the hardest batting conditions were when England was batting first and this pitch has slowed down from what it was two days ago. Also they are missing Root in that XI. Crawley, Sibley and Pope are inexperienced as well. Plenty left in this match and rest of the summer before jumping to any conclusions.
 
England 12/3 :)) :))

Babar knows his game. His knows his pre game talk as well. :srt
 
England are starting at it.

Pope looks good but he will have to start all over again tomorrow morning which is always unlikely in England
 
Babar was right but unfortunately his bowlers did not help him in second inning.
 
Arrogant statements from Babar, many of which look rather silly today.

He should stick to cricket and scoring runs.
 
James said:
Arrogant statements from Babar, many of which look rather silly today.

He should stick to cricket and scoring runs.
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Not at all, he made the right call. Calling spade a spade is not an arrogant statement.
 
England's fragile test batting line up fights back, heroically.
 
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