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West Indies v Pakistan | 2nd ODI | Providence | April 9, 2017 | Pakistan Innings

Kami bhai scored his first 100 against Windies in 2003-4 in Australia... time for another century

He seems a better opener than Shehzad that's for sure...
 
Lots of desi looking people in the Caribbean as well. Apparently the Brits brought over the desis from India in the 1800s. There was this one guy in my uni who completely looked Pakistani but he opened his mouth and spoke with a Trini accent and I was like whaaaaaa???
 
Good crowd in today, apparently tickets are sold out.

So much for "no interest in cricket in the Caribbean".

The love for the sport is there, what has isolated the public in recent times is the performance of WI's in general and the incompetence of their cricket board; but the fans are there it's the job of the board to get them invested just like the good ol days
 
Babar is in a different league to the rest. It's quite embarrassing when a 22 year old with less than 50 matches under his belt is your best batsman.
 
So, in summary across two matches: Ahmed shehzad was dropped in the first match, kamran Akmal in this match, and Ahmed shehzad dismissed cheaply today. There is zero silver lining
 
What? No one is bashing bishop for pointing out that babar Azam is vulnerable to the short ball?
 
Has the outfield become a little slower then yesterday or is there an issue with Kami's timing? I think it's the outfield
 
Pakistan need this two to stay there for next 10 overs and add about 50 runs , without taking risks.
 
The love for the sport is there, what has isolated the public in recent times is the performance of WI's in general and the incompetence of their cricket board; but the fans are there it's the job of the board to get them invested just like the good ol days

Exactly, nobody's going to watch a team scraping 8th and 9th every year led by an inept Board. If the product is good, people will watch. WICB have often overpriced tickets in the past too.

CPL attendances are still excellent and the turnout during the T20Is was good.

Fans have turned up today as a) its a Sunday and b) WI actually showed some fight in the first match.
 
Ramiz and Vicky in the comm box.


The mute button was invented for this very day.
 
Babar is beeing a bit to unselfish, fishing too much. needs to learn from hafeez and shehad and play a little bit for his place too in these circumstances.
 
I think Kamran Akmal gets a lot of hate because of his past baggage. however we should treat his comeback as if he came into the team for the first time. I think he's done pretty well so far on his comeback. Good starts. 47 off 48 balls wasn't bad in the first ODI and here 18 off 22 is decent. Yes he can put more consistency but I think he's doing a good job.
 
Exactly, nobody's going to watch a team scraping 8th and 9th every year led by an inept Board. If the product is good, people will watch. WICB have often overpriced tickets in the past too.

CPL attendances are still excellent and the turnout during the T20Is was good.

Fans have turned up today as a) its a Sunday and b) WI actually showed some fight in the first match.

Good post, totally agree; it's depressing to see this team lurking at the bottom of the table, hopefully their cricket is revived in the near future. The Board needs to be refurbished, what they need to understand is that everyone benefits in the long term if WI's cricket is thriving so no need to be corrupted fools for thrills in the short term.
 
holder generating good movement both ways, would have been good pitch to play asif
 
Babar is in a different league to the rest. It's quite embarrassing when a 22 year old with less than 50 matches under his belt is your best batsman.

Why? Tendulkar was teams' best batsman at 19, Bradman at 20, Lara at 22, even Ponting was more or less best player at 23 in that AUS line-up. I am not saying Babar is in same league, but it can happen - besides, Babar is the best player because PCB has carried few Zombies for few more years. By now, Haris should have been PAK's No. 4.
 
I swear Holder has his two good bowling performances a year against us. He troubled us in 2013, played a big role in the Sharjah Test win last year and now here.
 
I swear if our bowlers don't swing it today, they might never to it otherwise as well.....

If Holder is swinging it like that there is no excuse for us to not do so as well !!
 
Holder is moving the ball both ways

Want to see some movement from the Pak bowlers is well
 
WI looks to be a tougher team to beat today than the previous match... more disciplined bowling and consistency is also good...
 
I think Kamran Akmal gets a lot of hate because of his past baggage. however we should treat his comeback as if he came into the team for the first time. I think he's done pretty well so far on his comeback. Good starts. 47 off 48 balls wasn't bad in the first ODI and here 18 off 22 is decent. Yes he can put more consistency but I think he's doing a good job.

i'm ok so far with him, but problem is he doesn't add anything else, so if he doesn't perform, he can't stay, big liability in the field and too old to be investing and persisting with him. would rather give some more leeway to fakhar or someone even with some flaws to work with side get exp and iron out some weaknesses to pay off in a year. even sharjeel when initially game had some flaws and got better with time.
 
Babar looks a class apart from the other batsmen in our team. However pcb and the coaches in Pakistan developed Babar, they should look to do the same for other young batsmen. Also we should look to introduce young batsmen into international cricket asap as playing in our domestic system seems to make batsmen regress.

You will learn more from playing international cricket.
 
Ramiz says Babar promoted to number three spot :facepalm:


That is his spot Ramiz...
 
"Plays most of the matches as a pacer for the West Indies"


I'm guessing the rest of the time the lad runs in to bowl left arm chinaman.
 
This is actually great for Kami that Babar is batting for him, will give him some breathing space
 
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