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your only seam bowler to look threatening in the last year is the one who has spent the least time with the bowling coach :waqar

also bonus points for coming down to talk to hasan at the boundary when he was nearing a 5-fer, dont rem him ever doing that when naseem, shaheen or abbas were getting phaintas.
 
When Faheem Ashraf is your leading run-scorer in a Test series.
 
When someone like rizwan hold the record for the highest t201 score in the country.
 
When someone who is supposed to know a lot about cricket thinks that no ball isn't a problem for stumpings
 
When someone who was banned for 5 years is labelling a former great a cheat.
 
When there is a shortage of middle order batsmen with the likes of Safraz being looked into as a specialist batsmen.
 
When the Pakistan dressing room has no clue that the opposition wicket-keeper may have just pulled a fast one on them.
 
When haris rauf can hit better then your premier ,most trusted and most relied upon hitter(asif ali)
 
We celebrate beating South Africa C and overlook all the holes in this bad team
 
a loss against Zimbabwe cricket team is just another day in the office for Pakistan :( Sadly one of the lowest point in our cricket history
 
When people like Waqar, Misbah and Younis without any qualification/skill get the top jobs, these things should be considered as normal.
 
When you lose to a team whose last T20I win over a leading Test-playing nation was in June 2016.
 
When you lose to a team who had lost their last 9 T20Is with their previous win being against Singapore in October 2019.
 
When people say Sohaib Maqsood is the saviour of Pakistan white ball cricket.
 
When fans who are not really fans of pakistan try to be the voice of Pakistan fans
 
When Ahmad Shehzad, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Shoaib Malik are recommendations to get put back into the team and Fawad Alam to shore up the T20 middle order. :))
 
Kroll said:
When Ahmad Shehzad, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Shoaib Malik are recommendations to get put back into the team and Fawad Alam to shore up the T20 middle order. :))
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The fawad alam suggestion was one of the most depressing things I had read today
 
When there are that many gimmicks that even the commentators don't know what they are supposed to be saying.
 
When you are hoping your number 10 and 11 can take you beyond 150.
 
When other teams are sending their A teams on oversea tour's meanwhile your team is getting thumped by 9 wickets against a D team
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We should forget this match as soon as possible! Pakistan I am sure are not as bad, come on boys let's fightback strong at Lord's on Saturday. Well played England, that was a top performance from a new look side.</p>— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/SAfridiOfficial/status/1413187708252532741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
When Azam Khan is being classed as a must pick by some.
 
Fans were hoping Azam will come up the order & tame the eng spinners as if he was the 2nd coming of Graham Gooch!
 
When it's justified that Imran butt should be in the team because he is the best slip fielder we have
 
Gullycricket said:
When it's justified that Imran butt should be in the team because he is the best slip fielder we have
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To be honest, he is really good in slips. I have seen a specialist slip fielder in test cricket after a long time. Lets support some old school cricketers.
 
People are more happy that they don't need to listen to Athar Ali Khan's commentary anymore than Pakistan winning the match!
 
For Bangladesh Fans - > when your team gets bowled inside 116 overs, losing by an innings when opposition scored oly 300.,,,,,, but Athar Ali Khan still calls this a GREAT FIGHT BAck .....
 
1.When Bangladesh is still test playing nation.
2.When Rahane is still playing for India.
 
When you have to google a player to see who he is, who has been picked in the PSL draft.
 
When people are supporting thuggish behaviour on a cricket field and describing it is being patriotic and standing up for themselves.
 
When you’re just happy a team arrived in your country to play rather than trying to win the series.
 
When Babar Azam tops the bowling averages in a Test series.
 
When a chairman talks about playing fearless cricket, but in reality he himself is scared.

When the pitches are flat roads taken from a highway road in Rawalpindi, and Karachi because the chairman is so scared that his players can't handle the pace, and decides to make a video saying this.

When the team is still carrying 35, 40, 50-year-old done and dusted players in the team.

When these done and dusted batsmen, plus some rookies, are ultra defensive no matter the match situation.

When you see a bigger crowd in a PSL dead rubber, group stage match than the opening day of a historic
test series.

When the team, led by the captain, decides to use negative bowling line tactics, and then say it's alright, no problem with it.

When the players in the team decide to have a casual chat with the other team, before the match, more focused on themselves having a good image, and not taking anything seriously.

When the captain and the team are going for the draw over the win.

When the players are always casually laughing, hugging way too much, being too cringeworthy, which looks like they don't even care about the result, they don't care about taking a test match seriously.

When the home players get outplayed in their fortress ground by the other team.

When the fans in the city of this supposedly great fortress don't even care about the match, even though the match went to day 5, the fortress was in need of protection, the best batsmen in the country scoring 196, and the home team saving a heavy loss.

When the team and the captain in this match also were going for the draw the whole time, despite the fact they had the ability to change gears and go for the win.

When the chairman realises he has messed up by using roads as the pitches for the first two matches, so he hires an Aussie to sort out the pitch of the next match, due to his love, or rather trauma of everything Australian, and gives the guy to make a change within a time period of 5-6 days.

When the crowd of the stadium located in the biggest cricket-loving city in the country, is basically empty.

When the team is once again hugging, casually laughing, joking, every single over, and doesn't take anything seriously. Worse is, when the new batsman from the other team is coming to the crease to start their innings, the bowler is coming up to them having a casual talk.

When the two spinners of the team are as useless as they can get, on the spinner is 50 years old, the other is clueless in his plan, in fact, he probably didn't have a plan apart from "bowl the over as fast as you can so that the bowler from the other end can bowl his over".

When the number 5 batsman of the team, looks like a genuine tail-ender and in this series has a worse technique, stance, balance than the number 7,8,9,10,11th batsman, who are all official tail-enders. What is worse is that this number 5 tail-ender has 13,000+ FC runs, has an average of 55+, has been playing for 10+ years, and so is one of the best products in the country.

When, once again, the batsmen are not changing gears, staying ultra-defensive, and heavily affecting their team's chance of winning the match.

When once again, the approach is to go for the draw rather than the win.

When the media of the team, ordered by the chairman, continuously post cringe-worthy videos, again and again, and again, having no intelligence, no clue at all.

When a home series is lost and the two inspiring leaders are having a casual laugh about it post-match since they probably don't care about the result.

When the team treats a home series like an exhibition tournament and doesn't care about the result.

When the team still technically has no coaches.

When pretty much all the leaders of the team and the board, probably won't make any major changes to the team, despite everything in the board and team collapsing during this series, and so the humiliation, the false promises , all the big, trash talk of "we are fearless cricketers" will continue.
 
Bilal Ahmad15 said:
When a chairman talks about playing fearless cricket, but in reality he himself is scared.

When the pitches are flat roads taken from a highway road in Rawalpindi, and Karachi because the chairman is so scared that his players can't handle the pace, and decides to make a video saying this.

When the team is still carrying 35, 40, 50-year-old done and dusted players in the team.

When these done and dusted batsmen, plus some rookies, are ultra defensive no matter the match situation.

When you see a bigger crowd in a PSL dead rubber, group stage match than the opening day of a historic
test series.

When the team, led by the captain, decides to use negative bowling line tactics, and then say it's alright, no problem with it.

When the players in the team decide to have a casual chat with the other team, before the match, more focused on themselves having a good image, and not taking anything seriously.

When the captain and the team are going for the draw over the win.

When the players are always casually laughing, hugging way too much, being too cringeworthy, which looks like they don't even care about the result, they don't care about taking a test match seriously.

When the home players get outplayed in their fortress ground by the other team.

When the fans in the city of this supposedly great fortress don't even care about the match, even though the match went to day 5, the fortress was in need of protection, the best batsmen in the country scoring 196, and the home team saving a heavy loss.

When the team and the captain in this match also were going for the draw the whole time, despite the fact they had the ability to change gears and go for the win.

When the chairman realises he has messed up by using roads as the pitches for the first two matches, so he hires an Aussie to sort out the pitch of the next match, due to his love, or rather trauma of everything Australian, and gives the guy to make a change within a time period of 5-6 days.

When the crowd of the stadium located in the biggest cricket-loving city in the country, is basically empty.

When the team is once again hugging, casually laughing, joking, every single over, and doesn't take anything seriously. Worse is, when the new batsman from the other team is coming to the crease to start their innings, the bowler is coming up to them having a casual talk.

When the two spinners of the team are as useless as they can get, on the spinner is 50 years old, the other is clueless in his plan, in fact, he probably didn't have a plan apart from "bowl the over as fast as you can so that the bowler from the other end can bowl his over".

When the number 5 batsman of the team, looks like a genuine tail-ender and in this series has a worse technique, stance, balance than the number 7,8,9,10,11th batsman, who are all official tail-enders. What is worse is that this number 5 tail-ender has 13,000+ FC runs, has an average of 55+, has been playing for 10+ years, and so is one of the best products in the country.

When, once again, the batsmen are not changing gears, staying ultra-defensive, and heavily affecting their team's chance of winning the match.

When once again, the approach is to go for the draw rather than the win.

When the media of the team, ordered by the chairman, continuously post cringe-worthy videos, again and again, and again, having no intelligence, no clue at all.

When a home series is lost and the two inspiring leaders are having a casual laugh about it post-match since they probably don't care about the result.

When the team treats a home series like an exhibition tournament and doesn't care about the result.

When the team still technically has no coaches.

When pretty much all the leaders of the team and the board, probably won't make any major changes to the team, despite everything in the board and team collapsing during this series, and so the humiliation, the false promises , all the big, trash talk of "we are fearless cricketers" will continue.
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So true.

Spot on.
 
Bilal Ahmad15 said:
When a chairman talks about playing fearless cricket, but in reality he himself is scared.

When the pitches are flat roads taken from a highway road in Rawalpindi, and Karachi because the chairman is so scared that his players can't handle the pace, and decides to make a video saying this.

When the team is still carrying 35, 40, 50-year-old done and dusted players in the team.

When these done and dusted batsmen, plus some rookies, are ultra defensive no matter the match situation.

When you see a bigger crowd in a PSL dead rubber, group stage match than the opening day of a historic
test series.

When the team, led by the captain, decides to use negative bowling line tactics, and then say it's alright, no problem with it.

When the players in the team decide to have a casual chat with the other team, before the match, more focused on themselves having a good image, and not taking anything seriously.

When the captain and the team are going for the draw over the win.

When the players are always casually laughing, hugging way too much, being too cringeworthy, which looks like they don't even care about the result, they don't care about taking a test match seriously.

When the home players get outplayed in their fortress ground by the other team.

When the fans in the city of this supposedly great fortress don't even care about the match, even though the match went to day 5, the fortress was in need of protection, the best batsmen in the country scoring 196, and the home team saving a heavy loss.

When the team and the captain in this match also were going for the draw the whole time, despite the fact they had the ability to change gears and go for the win.

When the chairman realises he has messed up by using roads as the pitches for the first two matches, so he hires an Aussie to sort out the pitch of the next match, due to his love, or rather trauma of everything Australian, and gives the guy to make a change within a time period of 5-6 days.

When the crowd of the stadium located in the biggest cricket-loving city in the country, is basically empty.

When the team is once again hugging, casually laughing, joking, every single over, and doesn't take anything seriously. Worse is, when the new batsman from the other team is coming to the crease to start their innings, the bowler is coming up to them having a casual talk.

When the two spinners of the team are as useless as they can get, on the spinner is 50 years old, the other is clueless in his plan, in fact, he probably didn't have a plan apart from "bowl the over as fast as you can so that the bowler from the other end can bowl his over".

When the number 5 batsman of the team, looks like a genuine tail-ender and in this series has a worse technique, stance, balance than the number 7,8,9,10,11th batsman, who are all official tail-enders. What is worse is that this number 5 tail-ender has 13,000+ FC runs, has an average of 55+, has been playing for 10+ years, and so is one of the best products in the country.

When, once again, the batsmen are not changing gears, staying ultra-defensive, and heavily affecting their team's chance of winning the match.

When once again, the approach is to go for the draw rather than the win.

When the media of the team, ordered by the chairman, continuously post cringe-worthy videos, again and again, and again, having no intelligence, no clue at all.

When a home series is lost and the two inspiring leaders are having a casual laugh about it post-match since they probably don't care about the result.

When the team treats a home series like an exhibition tournament and doesn't care about the result.

When the team still technically has no coaches.

When pretty much all the leaders of the team and the board, probably won't make any major changes to the team, despite everything in the board and team collapsing during this series, and so the humiliation, the false promises , all the big, trash talk of "we are fearless cricketers" will continue.
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Potw.
 
When Mohammad Rizwan is the poster boy of your national cricket team
 
Rana said:
When Mohammad Rizwan is the poster boy of your national cricket team
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Rana give it a rest Looks like youve got a petty dislike with rizwan

Stop bringing him up in every post of yours Its getting boring now

Theres a lot wrong with this team but rizwan isnt really one of them
 
When PCB chairman doesn't understand that he isn't a youtuber /commentator anymore and keeps on interfering in anything and everything. It feels like he wants to use the platform of PCB chairmanship to build his brand and then delve into active politics later.
 
When Imam ul Haq has a one of the best ODI records as a Opener for Pakistan &#55356;&#56821;&#55356;&#56816;.
 
Maher96 said:
When Imam ul Haq has a one of the best ODI records as a Opener for Pakistan ����.
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Not a huge fan of Imam, but not sure how he fits in this 'You-Know-Things-are-Bad-When' sort of statements? He has a pretty good record in his first 48 some matches (8 hundreds in such few games is amazing, no matter any opposition (s) they came against) and he just broke a long held record by Zaheer Abbas for most runs in least amount of matches for Pakistan (he was a very advanced batsman for his time)!

Most countries will be pretty excited to have him as a young and upcoming opener in ODIs
 
Imam's been pretty decent for me.

Jury is still out how he Will cope in pressure situations in final. But your don't accidently hit 100's do credit to him.

If Pakistan's best opener was averaging <25 then I'd agree the team has problems.
 
Monsee said:
Not a huge fan of Imam, but not sure how he fits in this 'You-Know-Things-are-Bad-When' sort of statements? He has a pretty good record in his first 48 some matches (8 hundreds in such few games is amazing, no matter any opposition (s) they came against) and he just broke a long held record by Zaheer Abbas for most runs in least amount of matches for Pakistan (he was a very advanced batsman for his time)!

Most countries will be pretty excited to have him as a young and upcoming opener in ODIs
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You know things are bad when you have to state “no matter any opposition”. lol.



Stats against minnows are meaningless, let Shaheen play 48 games as an opener against Sri Lanka C, West Indies, Zimbabwe C, Australia C and soon after we’ll see people compare him to Don Bradman.
 
YousafTheBeast said:
You know things are bad when you have to state “no matter any opposition”. lol.



Stats against minnows are meaningless, let Shaheen play 48 games as an opener against Sri Lanka C, West Indies, Zimbabwe C, Australia C and soon after we’ll see people compare him to Don Bradman.
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Every ODI is against a C team these days. Imam still averages over 50. Other batsmen round the world are in the same position but where are the lists of those who have done the same?

Btw Shaheen has played plenty of cricket in bowler friendly conditions and flopped, particularly in tests against NZ and England.
 
hitthestump said:
Every ODI is against a C team these days. Imam still averages over 50. Other batsmen round the world are in the same position but where are the lists of those who have done the same?

Btw Shaheen has played plenty of cricket in bowler friendly conditions and flopped, particularly in tests against NZ and England.
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Really, when was the last time Zimbabwe played the top 5 teams in a series consisting of more than 2 ODI’s?

When was the last time Aus played without Maxwell, Warner, Cummins, Hazelwood and Starc against the top 4?

Imam averages 50+ but if you take away the minnows his average drops to 40. Not sure why people keep ignoring that. It’s almost as if minnow bashing is now acceptable.
 
when we think iftikhar is a quality alrounder and when we think hasan ali and mohd wasim should be there..
sadly our management dont want to risk and have a very defensive mentality..
 
When your domestic competition top scorer has hit only 6 sixes in 12 innings and looks like a tailender against pacers.

Sums up the quality of cricket at domestic level.

When hacks like Asif , Khushdil and Iftikhar some what dominates domestic cricket and get expose against Aus C string attack.
 
YousafTheBeast said:
Really, when was the last time Zimbabwe played the top 5 teams in a series consisting of more than 2 ODI’s?

When was the last time Aus played without Maxwell, Warner, Cummins, Hazelwood and Starc against the top 4?

Imam averages 50+ but if you take away the minnows his average drops to 40. Not sure why people keep ignoring that. It’s almost as if minnow bashing is now acceptable.
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If you take away the centuries against minnows then sharjeel doesn’t have any.
 
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