Zimbabwe end Day 2 of the 2nd Test at 52/4 & trail Pakistan by 458 runs

[Markhor]

[MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION] how do you think the bowling attack should be shaped for WI?

Depends on the pitches and venues. Shaheen-Hasan-Faheem is a given. Question is who that fourth seamer should be and the options are so limited, especially finding tall hit-the-deck pacers. Dhani and Arshad could be those bowlers but need another season of FC.

I still maintain this selection of Tabish Khan is a complete waste given he's close to retirement age. Waqas Maqsood would've been better if they wanted an experienced seamer to mentor Shaheen and co. He swings the new ball both ways and bowled very skilfully in QEA Trophy. He would enjoy bowling with the Dukes ball.

Unless the surfaces spin, then I'd play Noman over Yasir as the sole spinner because he offers more accuracy and more runs with the bat.

 

[Yasir_ch]

So what's you solution replace HasanAli, Tabish Khan, Nauman Ali with Naseem Shah, Musa K, and Nawaz. What exactly you want PCB selectors to do?
Or just posting to please the doom and gloom king Mamoon.

LOL clubbing Hasan who is best player in the team with these useless players.These tabish fawad Abid are gonna hurting Pakistan in long run.They are not good enough.

 

[Titan24]

I still maintain this selection of Tabish Khan is a complete waste given he's close to retirement age. Waqas Maqsood would've been better if they wanted an experienced seamer to mentor Shaheen and co. He swings the new ball both ways and bowled very skilfully in QEA Trophy. He would enjoy bowling with the Dukes ball.

I completely agree and have maintained a similar stance for sometime now. Waqas Maqsood was hard done as there was a lot of pressure behind the selection of Tabish and as usual Pak cricket gave in. Tabish showed glimpses of his skills today and was surely hard done when he wasnt selected 5-6 years ago but, him playing against Zim at 36 makes no sense at all. Waqas is just around 3 years younger was the best pacer in QAE after Hassan and was in form but, looks like there was no lobby behind him.

 

[Farabi]

I completely agree and have maintained a similar stance for sometime now. Waqas Maqsood was hard done as there was a lot of pressure behind the selection of Tabish and as usual Pak cricket gave in. Tabish showed glimpses of his skills today and was surely hard done when he wasnt selected 5-6 years ago but, him playing against Zim at 36 makes no sense at all. Waqas is just around 3 years younger was the best pacer in QAE after Hassan and was in form but, looks like there was no lobby behind him.

It was/is possible to pick both Tabish and Waqas in place of either Haris or Dhani. Just like we picked Sajid, Nouman and Zahid.

There is a lot of ‘speculation’ about what
Haris/Dhani can do such as bowl fast, bowl bouncers etc you don’t give out test caps on ‘speculation’ and lessons must be learned from Naseem Shah debacle. Both should go and take heaps of wickets in FC first to prove their selection.

 

[MenInG]

Pakistan regained momentum on day two with Abid Ali's resolute first Test double century (215*) and Nauman Ali's counter-attacking 97.

Zimbabwe were reduced to 52/4 after Pakistan posted a monumental first-innings total of 510/8d. They trail by 458 runs.

They got off to a poor start with debutant Tabish Khan, who already has 598 first-class wickets in the bag, rocked the opener Tarisai Musakanda in his first over. Musakanda was trapped leg before wicket for a duck.

Hasan Ali then took the liberty to knock over the stumps of the other Zimbabwe opener, Kevin Kasuza for 4 runs. Shaheen Afridi got rid of their captain Brendan Taylor with a surprised bouncer which cramped him for room as he ended up edging the ball to Rizwan.

Subsequently, Sajid Khan dismissed Milton Shumba (2) who was adjudged leg before wicket as he offered no shot. Regis Chakabva's solitary efforts of 28* in 71 balls has shown a glimmer of hope for a fightback but he would need assistance from the other end to challenge Pakistan's strong pace attack.

Earlier in the day, Pakistan resumed their innings on 268/4. Sajid had come in as a nightwatchman and fulfilled his duty to defend his way through. His knock of 20 off 54 balls was brought to an end by Tiripano who got him out caught.

Abid was joined by Mohammad Rizwan who made a quick 21 in 32 deliveries but became the maiden Test wicket of Tendai Chisoro. Thereafter, Luke Jongwe on his debut snared his maiden Test scalp of Hasan Ali who returned to the pavilion without denting the scorecard.

Zimbabwe restored the balance with three crucial wickets and reducing Pakistan to 353/7 in the morning session despite conceding 85 runs.

Nauman Ali combined forces with Abid to retaliate against the Zimbabwe bowlers who had regained control after the first session. The duo stitched together a belligerent partnership of 169 in 199 balls.

Abid was unfazed by wickets falling at the other end and continued to build on his start. He registered a dominating maiden Test double hundred, remaining unbeaten on 215* in 407 deliveries.

Just shy of a hundred, Nauman was dismissed by a brilliant display of wicketkeeping by Chakabva who penalised the batsman for hovering his backfoot off Chisoro’s bowling.

Pakistan declared the innings for a mammoth first innings total of 510/8 immediately after Nauman’s dismissal, two balls into the final session.