Yasir Shah - 12 balls to Gabriel but not a single googly?

[Major]

I think it was a poor effort by yasir tk allow gabriel to go on play a full over knowing his abilities.

It was funny to see that yasir didnt trybto bowl a googly at the right place to get him out

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Yasir doesn't have a googly like Shadab, Mir, Qadir, Mushtaq or Kaneria.

Hope he develops an efficient googly and flipper which are missing. Than he will be even more lethal leggie.

 

[aloo paratha]

I don't think he wanted to risk wasting a ball, although bowling leg break after leg break would've been a waste had Gabriel not had a brainfade.

 

[Big Mac]

Yasir doesn't have a googly like Shadab, Mir, Qadir, Mushtaq or Kaneria.

Hope he develops an efficient googly and flipper which are missing. Than he will be even more lethal leggie.

The way he bowls his legbreak, a googly won't be much use against test batsmen because it will be easier to pick than a leggie like Mushy whose stock ball had a lot of top-spin rather than hard side spin and drift so the googly still looked somewhat similar to his stock ball. It's why Warne almost never bowled a googly, it was SO different from his normal leg-break that you could pick it from the stands.

The slider out of the front of the hand will be far more effective than any googly for Yasir.

 

[Major]

Yasir doesn't have a googly like Shadab, Mir, Qadir, Mushtaq or Kaneria.

Hope he develops an efficient googly and flipper which are missing. Than he will be even more lethal leggie.

I think it was criminal for a no.11 play out 11 balls like that.
Yes he got his wicket at the end but the wicket came due to the field setting.

All was needed was a wrong one as gabriel was readding the hand, he knew the ball will break away and thats it.

 

[Major]

The way he bowls his legbreak, a googly won't be much use against test batsmen because it will be easier to pick than a leggie like Mushy whose stock ball had a lot of top-spin rather than hard side spin and drift so the googly still looked somewhat similar to his stock ball. It's why Warne almost never bowled a googly, it was SO different from his normal leg-break that you could pick it from the stands.

The slider out of the front of the hand will be far more effective than any googly for Yasir.

But this situation required a googly. Simply because the player out their wasnt a batsmen nor did he knew how to read the bowlers hand.

He knew all the balls were going away. Anything that came in would had been a goner.

He got away today but could had cost the whole series

 

[Rayyman]

I think the last ball to Gabriel was a googly.

 

[MMHS]

I myself was surprised at the strategy of PAK. The best tactics against tail-ender on turning track is to pitch every ball on line & then make him play or attack the stick. No. 10/11 are not good enough to keep the ball on ground if they are to bat every ball, & they'll miss some straighter one. They are too ordinary to touch a flighted big turner. This is something McGrath explained beautifully - he used to bowl pitched up in cutters to tail targeting stump & make him play at every ball, because that' the best chance to hit the edge or the stick, or get LBW.

Yasir was lucky that Gabriel dragged a wide one, but most of his balls against the last 2 right-handed tail-ender was wasted effort, big turners don't work against batting rabbits - and then he went round the wicket, as if Gabriel should slog him across the line. In this situation, 2 best spinners in contemporaneity cricket is probably Jadeja & Herath - almost every ball to tail from them will make batsman play at it or will hit the stick & they don't pitch anything outside leg against tail. Hasan actually had the right idea, but he was denied the last wicket.

 

[Noman]

I think the last ball to Gabriel was a googly.

I also thought so. But it was leg break with less action. Why on Earth did he NOT Bowl a slider and strigher Moe .The reason shAne warne so special was he new almost knew howmuch his Bowl Will spin 90% time

 

[Chief Destroyer]

His googly hardly turns and it's not going to change. He doesn't have the wrists for it.

 

[MMHS]

Yasir doesn't have a googly like Shadab, Mir, Qadir, Mushtaq or Kaneria.

Hope he develops an efficient googly and flipper which are missing. Than he will be even more lethal leggie.

He didn't need Googly - big turners, backed by straighter one would have done it. Problem is, most of his big turners pitched outside leg or out side off moving away. Shane didn't have the Googly either & he was a master of bowling on foot-mark, but he hardly allowed tailender to leave his ball or pad-up. Yasir hardly bowled any flipper or slider, pitching within stick - Gab or Josh are too ordinary to pick big turning leggi & straighter one, therefore they would have been sitting duck with more attacking line.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

He should have used his slider though.

 

[Syed1]

Just be happy with victory why you have to find faults in it

 

[Abid Z]

He didn't need Googly - big turners, backed by straighter one would have done it. Problem is, most of his big turners pitched outside leg or out side off moving away. Shane didn't have the Googly either & he was a master of bowling on foot-mark, but he hardly allowed tailender to leave his ball or pad-up. Yasir hardly bowled any flipper or slider, pitching within stick - Gab or Josh are too ordinary to pick big turning leggi & straighter one, therefore they would have been sitting duck with more attacking line.

Shane warne did have a googly but he didn't have much control over it. That's the thing, more than turn Yasir needs control and then variety. Warne was also more about flight and dip so you never knew where the ball was landing as the revs on the ball would make it dip that much sooner. Yasir has only just started bowling around 49 mph but his Standard speed is around 54mph and flat. Really could do with being a bit slower and more flight but good to see him finally slow it down.

Going back to variety, if he can't bowl a googly then like warne he needs a straight one. A flipper for lbw and bowl wicket to wicket, but I think he can't. He has much to develop. He needs to realise that we came within 6 balls of a tie when we we should have wrapped it up ages ago

 

[Abid Z]

Just be happy with victory why you have to find faults in it

Because it was a pure lucky wicket and good teams don't need luck to win a series. Yasir has a lot of development to do as a leggy

 

[Big Mac]

Shane warne did have a googly but he didn't have much control over it. That's the thing, more than turn Yasir needs control and then variety. Warne was also more about flight and dip so you never knew where the ball was landing as the revs on the ball would make it dip that much sooner. Yasir has only just started bowling around 49 mph but his Standard speed is around 54mph and flat. Really could do with being a bit slower and more flight but good to see him finally slow it down.

Going back to variety, if he can't bowl a googly then like warne he needs a straight one. A flipper for lbw and bowl wicket to wicket, but I think he can't. He has much to develop. He needs to realise that we came within 6 balls of a tie when we we should have wrapped it up ages ago

But he already gets plenty of his wickets bowled and LBW from straighter ones. It's his MO, he is quick through the air and threatens the stumps and pads.

Even the stats bear that out. Warne took 36% of his wickets bowled or LBW meanwhile Yasir has taken 42% of his wickets bowled/LBW.

Contrast that with someone like Rashid, who doesn't have that pace through the air because he's a club-level bowler and not an international one. 16% of his wickets are bowled or LBW because even if the batsman misjudges the line or length slightly, they can adjust because Rashid doesn't have the pace that Yasir does.

 

[MMHS]

But he already gets plenty of his wickets bowled and LBW from straighter ones. It's his MO, he is quick through the air and threatens the stumps and pads.

Even the stats bear that out. Warne took 36% of his wickets bowled or LBW meanwhile Yasir has taken 42% of his wickets bowled/LBW.

Contrast that with someone like Rashid, who doesn't have that pace through the air because he's a club-level bowler and not an international one. 16% of his wickets are bowled or LBW because even if the batsman misjudges the line or length slightly, they can adjust because Rashid doesn't have the pace that Yasir does.

Yasir has one of the highest % of Bowled + LBW among leggis bowling for a significant career, probably even more than Kumble. That's why, I think today he was wayward - most of his big turners were pitched outside off, hence batsmen left alone. With that big turn he was getting, even couple of quick non turner would have confused the batsmen, but he hardly pitched the ball within stick this innings. I am sure, this one was an odd day, because hardly ever it'll happen that in such wicket, before the last dragged Bowled, Yasir bowled 36'5 overs & all of his previous 4 wickets were caught (by fielders). and, there were not many lbw shouts either.

 

[Big Mac]

Yasir has one of the highest % of Bowled + LBW among leggis bowling for a significant career, probably even more than Kumble. That's why, I think today he was wayward - most of his big turners were pitched outside off, hence batsmen left alone. With that big turn he was getting, even couple of quick non turner would have confused the batsmen, but he hardly pitched the ball within stick this innings. I am sure, this one was an odd day, because hardly ever it'll happen that in such wicket, before the last dragged Bowled, Yasir bowled 36'5 overs & all of his previous 4 wickets were caught (by fielders). and, there were not many lbw shouts either.

Look at Misbah's face before the last ball, he was struggling to contain his smile because he knew exactly what was coming.

There was never any need to worry, he was just taking the fans on one last rollercoaster ride

 

[Pollack]

^The expression shows frustration.You are not a good reader of body language or gestures.

 

[Mir jibran]

Look at Misbah's face before the last ball, he was struggling to contain his smile because he knew exactly what was coming.

There was never any need to worry, he was just taking the fans on one last rollercoaster ride

but he's Azhar

 

[Big Mac]

but he's Azhar

Keep watching...

 

[TahirFan]

Yasir Shah does not have the variety of Imran Tahir.

He can give the ball a good rip but he is one dimensional

 

[ShahKhan007]

I think it was criminal for a no.11 play out 11 balls like that.
Yes he got his wicket at the end but the wicket came due to the field setting.

All was needed was a wrong one as gabriel was readding the hand, he knew the ball will break away and thats it.

Such a typical nonsensical argument by this poster. Just so he can give Misbah credit for field placement he has to discredit our match winner Yasir Shah.

 

[Sherlock]

He's supposedly trying to improve on his googly, yet I think I witnessed less than half-a-dozen during the whole series.

He really needs to improve on other deliveries because we've seen him play oversees, and he was found out.

 

[IMMY69]

The way he bowls his legbreak, a googly won't be much use against test batsmen because it will be easier to pick than a leggie like Mushy whose stock ball had a lot of top-spin rather than hard side spin and drift so the googly still looked somewhat similar to his stock ball. It's why Warne almost never bowled a googly, it was SO different from his normal leg-break that you could pick it from the stands.

The slider out of the front of the hand will be far more effective than any googly for Yasir.

You have nailed it with this post.

Yasir's Googlies are easy to read and so he bowls it less. Simple.

Warne was similar.

Nothing more to be said on this...

P.S.
I think this is also why he's not very good in Odi's.

 

[CricFan2012]

You have nailed it with this post.

Yasir's Googlies are easy to read and so he bowls it less. Simple.

Warne was similar.

Nothing more to be said on this...

P.S.
I think this is also why he's not very good in Odi's.

What made Warne so great in Odi if yasir and Warne are so similar?

 

[pakistani pride]

The way he bowls his legbreak, a googly won't be much use against test batsmen because it will be easier to pick than a leggie like Mushy whose stock ball had a lot of top-spin rather than hard side spin and drift so the googly still looked somewhat similar to his stock ball. It's why Warne almost never bowled a googly, it was SO different from his normal leg-break that you could pick it from the stands.

The slider out of the front of the hand will be far more effective than any googly for Yasir.

How do you rate yasir as a spinner @ big mac and mmhs.

Some say he doesnt have a plan B?

 

[pakistani pride]

but he's Azhar

Dude its misbah whose looking like a boss. Azhar is sure in panick mode.

We will miss those nail biters with misbah as captain!

 

[Big Mac]

How do you rate yasir as a spinner @ big mac and mmhs.

Some say he doesnt have a plan B?

I think he's great but I feel like he's bowling more bad balls over the last year or so than I remember him bowling when he first started. I don't know how much of that is injury related because he's had a few problems with his back and missed some games because of it.

I understand the obsession with the googly, this is the land of Qadir, Mushy, Kaneria. A 30+ year legacy of bowlers carrying the googly one after the other like the passing of a torch in an ancient Greek relay race. PPers are obsessed with plan B, C, D and E and want bowlers with lots of variations and the ability to bowl six balls in an over and confuse the batsman but that's not how top class bowling works.

Kaneria had a fantastic googly, one of the best ever and he took some absolutely gorgeous wickets with it. What people gloss over is that Kaneria got slated constantly for being impatient and overusing his googly instead of sticking to the plan. Yasir's googly isn't as effective as any of those guys and it's for a good reason. It's because his stock leg-break is much better, spun harder and at a consistently greater pace than any of those guys.

If you have a brilliant leg-break, like Yasir does, then that will be the ball that you bowl MINIMUM 90% of the time. Everything you do branches off that stock-ball that you can bowl with your eyes closed. The vast majority of the time, you only need to make subtle changes in pace and the amount of spin you put on it to create enough variation to keep a batsman on his toes while you put the plan to work. Many times, the natural variation in the pitch will do it for you as evidenced by this famous Shane Warne delivery to Ian Bell in the 2005 Ashes.

Bell picked the leg-break correctly and left it as he had done many times before only this one for some mysterious reason, whether it hit a harder part of the pitch or landed on a smoother part of the ball, went straight on instead of fizzing past the stumps and another chapter was added to the legend of Shane Warne's fictional mystery deliveries.

Fast forward to 2015 and England's visit to the UAE. It's the second test in Dubai, you all remember the one. Adil Rashid falling with 6 overs left in the final day to seal a win that everyone had written off as a draw. The most nerve-biting finish anyone could remember until what happened yesterday in Dominica. Of course you all remember.

Do you remember Bairstow's wicket? Playing all around a Yasir Shah googly like a tailender? Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

Bairstow is growing in confidence here

First half hour up and pakistan looking flat here.

He's the only one creating chances, Yasir is looking toothless.

32 runs partnership , Pitch is not a mine field , England would be looking at a draw.

Im out guys...

Cmon this is boring.

Babar is out bowling Yasir

Yasir troubling stokes but Bairstow finding it easy against him.

All that wrist-slitting and it wasn't even lunch time. Why? Because Bairstow was playing Yasir really well, leaving leg-break after leg-break, even ones that pitched on the stumps because he was confident that they were going to turn away. So PP did what PP does and went into full-blown panic mode bemoaning the lack of variations and the rest of it. So what did bowler and captain do? Carry on with the toothless bowling. Let Bairstow block and leave with confidence, it doesn't matter. Then the next part of the plan, go round the wicket for two overs which lead to the obvious complaints:

Stop bowling around... That's such a negative line.

This is too easy. Whats with the negative tactic of bowling around the wicket

Only stayed around the wicket for two overs to Bairstow but that was enough to get his eyes and feet used to facing leg-breaks (He hadn't bowled a single googly all morning) coming from around the wicket.

What is happening out there? I'll let Misbah explain it:

"What was happening, actually, the legbreak that was coming on middle he was playing pretty easily. The one outside off, he had clearly made a plan that he was going to stretch out far forward and then leave it. He was leaving it well.

Then back over the wicket after just two overs from around the stumps, is this brainless captaincy? Bowler can't make his mind up whether he should be over or around, omg there are 70 overs left in the day but we're not going to win, I'm turning off the TV what the hell this is awful.

But you guys need to chill, it's all part of the plan.

"As a batsman when I am doing this, if suddenly from the same line from where I am leaving I get a googly, even if I know it is a googly, the chances of my making a mistake are high. Even if you recognise it, because the intention from that line is to not play it - mentally you have planned you are going to leave it. Suddenly from there when it is a googly, you decide to try and play, you can still miss it. I said to Yasir, 'Bowl him two to three googlies in a row so that the intention he has to leave the legbreak from that line [is affected].'"

What was the result?

Even though the batsman wasn't looking for it, because Yasir bowls the googly so rarely, Bairstow picked it easily and played to clip it through midwicket with the spin but was bowled all ends up.

Why? Because he had been set up by facing leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break. Over the wicket? Leg-break. Around the wicket? Leg-break. When Bairstow went to bed that night all he could dream of was leg-breaks. They broke Bairstow out of his comfort zone, which can only be done if you first let him get comfortable. Yasir Shah bowled 249 deliveries in that innings, only 5 (2%) of them were googlies. He took 4/87 and we won the match in the last 7 overs.

If there is anything we should have learned in the last 24 hours, it's that you have five days to take 20 wickets and there's nothing wrong with using every last minute.

Yasir bowled 222 balls in that innings, 12 (5%) were googlies. He took 5/92 and we won with one over to spare.

Plan B is useless if you don't have faith in Plan A.

That goes for all bowlers, slow or fast. If you're a young seamer, there's a reason you don't practice bouncers and then yorkers and out swing and inswing and slower ball bouncers. Sure you have Plan B, C, D, E, F etc. but congratulations now you're Jade Dernbach and nobody will remember you for anything other than looking like a total idiot with your stupid armsleeve tattoos.


Two things to add:

1) The 5th day of that Dubai test led to the first wrist-slitters thread: http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...rist-slitters-naysayers-pessimists&highlight=

2) We're never going to see Yasir take a wicket and run straight over to Misbah ever again [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION]

 

[pakistani pride]

I think he's great but I feel like he's bowling more bad balls over the last year or so than I remember him bowling when he first started. I don't know how much of that is injury related because he's had a few problems with his back and missed some games because of it.

I understand the obsession with the googly, this is the land of Qadir, Mushy, Kaneria. A 30+ year legacy of bowlers carrying the googly one after the other like the passing of a torch in an ancient Greek relay race. PPers are obsessed with plan B, C, D and E and want bowlers with lots of variations and the ability to bowl six balls in an over and confuse the batsman but that's not how top class bowling works.

Kaneria had a fantastic googly, one of the best ever and he took some absolutely gorgeous wickets with it. What people gloss over is that Kaneria got slated constantly for being impatient and overusing his googly instead of sticking to the plan. Yasir's googly isn't as effective as any of those guys and it's for a good reason. It's because his stock leg-break is much better, spun harder and at a consistently greater pace than any of those guys.

If you have a brilliant leg-break, like Yasir does, then that will be the ball that you bowl MINIMUM 90% of the time. Everything you do branches off that stock-ball that you can bowl with your eyes closed. The vast majority of the time, you only need to make subtle changes in pace and the amount of spin you put on it to create enough variation to keep a batsman on his toes while you put the plan to work. Many times, the natural variation in the pitch will do it for you as evidenced by this famous Shane Warne delivery to Ian Bell in the 2005 Ashes.

Bell picked the leg-break correctly and left it as he had done many times before only this one for some mysterious reason, whether it hit a harder part of the pitch or landed on a smoother part of the ball, went straight on instead of fizzing past the stumps and another chapter was added to the legend of Shane Warne's fictional mystery deliveries.

Fast forward to 2015 and England's visit to the UAE. It's the second test in Dubai, you all remember the one. Adil Rashid falling with 6 overs left in the final day to seal a win that everyone had written off as a draw. The most nerve-biting finish anyone could remember until what happened yesterday in Dominica. Of course you all remember.

Do you remember Bairstow's wicket? Playing all around a Yasir Shah googly like a tailender? Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

















All that wrist-slitting and it wasn't even lunch time. Why? Because Bairstow was playing Yasir really well, leaving leg-break after leg-break, even ones that pitched on the stumps because he was confident that they were going to turn away. So PP did what PP does and went into full-blown panic mode bemoaning the lack of variations and the rest of it. So what did bowler and captain do? Carry on with the toothless bowling. Let Bairstow block and leave with confidence, it doesn't matter. Then the next part of the plan, go round the wicket for two overs which lead to the obvious complaints:





Only stayed around the wicket for two overs to Bairstow but that was enough to get his eyes and feet used to facing leg-breaks (He hadn't bowled a single googly all morning) coming from around the wicket.

What is happening out there? I'll let Misbah explain it:



Then back over the wicket after just two overs from around the stumps, is this brainless captaincy? Bowler can't make his mind up whether he should be over or around, omg there are 70 overs left in the day but we're not going to win, I'm turning off the TV what the hell this is awful.

But you guys need to chill, it's all part of the plan.



What was the result?

Even though the batsman wasn't looking for it, because Yasir bowls the googly so rarely, Bairstow picked it easily and played to clip it through midwicket with the spin but was bowled all ends up.

Why? Because he had been set up by facing leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break. Over the wicket? Leg-break. Around the wicket? Leg-break. When Bairstow went to bed that night all he could dream of was leg-breaks. They broke Bairstow out of his comfort zone, which can only be done if you first let him get comfortable. Yasir Shah bowled 249 deliveries in that innings, only 5 (2%) of them were googlies. He took 4/87 and we won the match in the last 7 overs.

If there is anything we should have learned in the last 24 hours, it's that you have five days to take 20 wickets and there's nothing wrong with using every last minute.

Yasir bowled 222 balls in that innings, 12 (5%) were googlies. He took 5/92 and we won with one over to spare.

Plan B is useless if you don't have faith in Plan A.

That goes for all bowlers, slow or fast. If you're a young seamer, there's a reason you don't practice bouncers and then yorkers and out swing and inswing and slower ball bouncers. Sure you have Plan B, C, D, E, F etc. but congratulations now you're Jade Dernbach and nobody will remember you for anything other than looking like a total idiot with your stupid armsleeve tattoos.


Two things to add:

1) The 5th day of that Dubai test led to the first wrist-slitters thread: http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...rist-slitters-naysayers-pessimists&highlight=

2) We're never going to see Yasir take a wicket and run straight over to Misbah ever again [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION]

Bro thats one amazing explanation in details. Lets hope yasir gets fit and in shape as he will have some rest now.

Yes no misbah to captain him will look very very strange.

 

[shaz619]

I think he's great but I feel like he's bowling more bad balls over the last year or so than I remember him bowling when he first started. I don't know how much of that is injury related because he's had a few problems with his back and missed some games because of it.

I understand the obsession with the googly, this is the land of Qadir, Mushy, Kaneria. A 30+ year legacy of bowlers carrying the googly one after the other like the passing of a torch in an ancient Greek relay race. PPers are obsessed with plan B, C, D and E and want bowlers with lots of variations and the ability to bowl six balls in an over and confuse the batsman but that's not how top class bowling works.

Kaneria had a fantastic googly, one of the best ever and he took some absolutely gorgeous wickets with it. What people gloss over is that Kaneria got slated constantly for being impatient and overusing his googly instead of sticking to the plan. Yasir's googly isn't as effective as any of those guys and it's for a good reason. It's because his stock leg-break is much better, spun harder and at a consistently greater pace than any of those guys.

If you have a brilliant leg-break, like Yasir does, then that will be the ball that you bowl MINIMUM 90% of the time. Everything you do branches off that stock-ball that you can bowl with your eyes closed. The vast majority of the time, you only need to make subtle changes in pace and the amount of spin you put on it to create enough variation to keep a batsman on his toes while you put the plan to work. Many times, the natural variation in the pitch will do it for you as evidenced by this famous Shane Warne delivery to Ian Bell in the 2005 Ashes.

Bell picked the leg-break correctly and left it as he had done many times before only this one for some mysterious reason, whether it hit a harder part of the pitch or landed on a smoother part of the ball, went straight on instead of fizzing past the stumps and another chapter was added to the legend of Shane Warne's fictional mystery deliveries.

Fast forward to 2015 and England's visit to the UAE. It's the second test in Dubai, you all remember the one. Adil Rashid falling with 6 overs left in the final day to seal a win that everyone had written off as a draw. The most nerve-biting finish anyone could remember until what happened yesterday in Dominica. Of course you all remember.

Do you remember Bairstow's wicket? Playing all around a Yasir Shah googly like a tailender? Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

















All that wrist-slitting and it wasn't even lunch time. Why? Because Bairstow was playing Yasir really well, leaving leg-break after leg-break, even ones that pitched on the stumps because he was confident that they were going to turn away. So PP did what PP does and went into full-blown panic mode bemoaning the lack of variations and the rest of it. So what did bowler and captain do? Carry on with the toothless bowling. Let Bairstow block and leave with confidence, it doesn't matter. Then the next part of the plan, go round the wicket for two overs which lead to the obvious complaints:





Only stayed around the wicket for two overs to Bairstow but that was enough to get his eyes and feet used to facing leg-breaks (He hadn't bowled a single googly all morning) coming from around the wicket.

What is happening out there? I'll let Misbah explain it:



Then back over the wicket after just two overs from around the stumps, is this brainless captaincy? Bowler can't make his mind up whether he should be over or around, omg there are 70 overs left in the day but we're not going to win, I'm turning off the TV what the hell this is awful.

But you guys need to chill, it's all part of the plan.



What was the result?

Even though the batsman wasn't looking for it, because Yasir bowls the googly so rarely, Bairstow picked it easily and played to clip it through midwicket with the spin but was bowled all ends up.

Why? Because he had been set up by facing leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break, after leg-break. Over the wicket? Leg-break. Around the wicket? Leg-break. When Bairstow went to bed that night all he could dream of was leg-breaks. They broke Bairstow out of his comfort zone, which can only be done if you first let him get comfortable. Yasir Shah bowled 249 deliveries in that innings, only 5 (2%) of them were googlies. He took 4/87 and we won the match in the last 7 overs.

If there is anything we should have learned in the last 24 hours, it's that you have five days to take 20 wickets and there's nothing wrong with using every last minute.

Yasir bowled 222 balls in that innings, 12 (5%) were googlies. He took 5/92 and we won with one over to spare.

Plan B is useless if you don't have faith in Plan A.

That goes for all bowlers, slow or fast. If you're a young seamer, there's a reason you don't practice bouncers and then yorkers and out swing and inswing and slower ball bouncers. Sure you have Plan B, C, D, E, F etc. but congratulations now you're Jade Dernbach and nobody will remember you for anything other than looking like a total idiot with your stupid armsleeve tattoos.


Two things to add:

1) The 5th day of that Dubai test led to the first wrist-slitters thread: http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...rist-slitters-naysayers-pessimists&highlight=

2) We're never going to see Yasir take a wicket and run straight over to Misbah ever again [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION]

POTW [MENTION=8]MIG[/MENTION] , it really is simple stuff and am not sure why people can't comprehend classic Test cricket. Hopefully Big Mac has enlightened the bacha party , great break down of how to set up a batsman

Misbah has been striked down by retirement but he has become more powerful then ever, his force will always remain with Yasir

 

[Big Mac]

POTW [MENTION=8]MIG[/MENTION] , it really is simple stuff and am not sure why people can't comprehend classic Test cricket. Hopefully Big Mac has enlightened the bacha party , great break down of how to set up a batsman

Misbah has been striked down by retirement but he has become more powerful then ever, his force will always remain with Yasir

Real POTW is here http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...looking-content-at-drawing-the-series-decider

Not a fan of typing long posts, I prefer ones that are concise and get right to the point.

 

[Abid Z]

Bro thats one amazing explanation in details. Lets hope yasir gets fit and in shape as he will have some rest now.

Yes no misbah to captain him will look very very strange.

A good explanation completely out of context!!

Bairstow is a fantastic batsman brought up on lions tours playing all over the world in every format. That series was in England were there was plenty of bounce and predictablity in the wicket.

In this context GABRIEL is a number 11 batsman from a team possessing one of the worst players of spin on a deteriorated and misbehaving 5th day pitch. The context of your explanation simply isn't there.

All Yasir had to do was bowl wicket to wicket with enough varying of pace, trajectory and spin. Top spinner or googly either would have done the job. Neither came. I think we have to face the reality that Yasir is a clueless bowler who will struggle against better players (and does). He needs all the stars to align to win a series like he has done.

If you really wanna know how to get rid of plan A and bowl cleverly at an annoying number 11 all you have to do is remember how many times Glen McGrath got rid of tail Enders with Offspin (not off cutters). Or watch any Shane warne video bowling at the tail or even mushy.

All Bowlers who can use their brain and think on the spot for a wicket by reading a batsmans technique in an instant without wasting too many deliveries. Yasir will be lost without Misbah.

 

[IMMY69]

What made Warne so great in Odi if yasir and Warne are so similar?

1. Warne had a massive leg break and his accuracy was second to none.
2. He had an amazing slider, the one that went straight on.

Warne is a one off. A legend.

 

[Third Man]

I think it was criminal for a no.11 play out 11 balls like that.
Yes he got his wicket at the end but the wicket came due to the field setting.

All was needed was a wrong one as gabriel was readding the hand, he knew the ball will break away and thats it.

You had to give the credit to Misbah for this wicket, didn't you?

 

[Savak]

The most remarkable thing about Yasir Shah's success so far is the fact that he has gotten results inspite of not having a consistent googly and flipper. He needs to work on these 2 deliveries to be even more potent because batsmen have started to play him with the bat and taking his straight deliveries, lbw out of the equation. But if he adds a good flipper to his repotoire he is going to be lethal.

People forget the amount of character it takes to come back from the mauling he got in Australia. Kaneria never recovered from most of his maulings.