Pakistan Tour of Australia 2009/10

[ajdude]

Damnit, why did you catch it? I'd rather an out of form Younus to be in than a free swinging Rana Naved with nothing to lose.

 

[aussie1st]

To give McKay another wicket

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Geez why does Boom boom always first when he plays us.

 

[ksduded]

i take my words back... hurricane effort by Afridi

 

[khalek]

Great stuff by Boom Boom, he's always destructive against Aus in ODIs (especially in Aus)

I think this one's gonna turn out to be a fantastic game of cricket.

 

[Dare]

well it was more like throw the bat at it and pray. The sixes he hit all came from the middle of the bat, all fours he hit except for one were all edges. He did what he had to do tho, I will give him credit for that, scored the runs in the batting power play.

 

[Covvy]

WTF Win, why the hell would you go to the news with 3 overs remaining?

 

[aussie1st]

Don't worry you guys didn't miss out on much. Watson with his 4th wicket and career best figures.

 

[McLOVIN]

Afridi!!! you should be out there batting out the last 2 overs!! Paks would have easily crossed 300! if he stuck around, i am sure he could score 80/90ish

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OMG SWING THE ████!

get it past 280!

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OMG..lol he got run out

that was out any ways. Too bad the bowler cant get the wicket

 

[Dare]

wow these dudes only scored 5 runs after Afridi got out, in 3 overs. Could have easily got this thing to 290+ if they actually managed to get some bat on ball.


Good score to defend, with the bowlers Pakistan have they can defend this.

 

[McLOVIN]

i wanna see Oz chase, but i got econ final at 7 in morning ..i better go to bed

 

[aussie1st]

Need McKay and Siddle to work on their death bowling, Siddle needs to bowl with more pace. After the dropped catch he bowled his quickest ball of the day at 150km/h, where was that early in the game?

 

[TumTum]

LOL can someone explain how the run-out happened?

 

[irottev]

Excellent fightback Australia. It's a good score by Pakistan but the pitch is good. Chasable for sure. It looked like 300 for a lot of the innings so the Aussies did well.

 

[sifter132]

The commentators pointed that out, but like Tony said, surely he could have used his feet.

I may just have been annoyed today, but the commentary for this game sucked and Bill and Tony parroting about how Yousuf should have swung around and hit the ball away was high up on that list. Watch it in real time for start, by the time Yousuf works out where the ball has gone, actually LANDS himself after his shot, and realises he's only got one hand on the bat there wasn't much time to get a swing at the ball in. Yes it was POSSIBLE if he was super alert but to EXPECT him to do it is particularly optimistic. But watching a super slo mo replay and commenting on how he had heaps of time is just stupid.

But yes the commentary...every over they wanted the Pakistani batsmen doing something different. Salman should bat through the innings, Salman should get on with it, Younis should get on with it, oh wait no if he bats sensibly they'll make 270 which is very defendable. They should take the powerplay here, no they should wait for Afridi. It's the noticable difference between Test and ODI commentary. In Tests you can talk about field placings and how the batsmen are dealing with the bowlers or how the bowlers are looking to get the batsman out. But in ODI cricket there is none of that, it's about...wow he hit that hard, or gee he's scoring slow or stupid things like complaining about how the kits are too similar. Who cares? This is a sport that BOTH teams played in white for 100 years. And it's not like you are accidentally going to misjudge who is on what team like in basketball or soccer. The only people on the field who NEED to be wearing different colours are umpires.

/rant over. Sorry all...

 

[aussie1st]

LOL can someone explain how the run-out happened?

Bollinger bowled a rising delivery that appeared to catch the edge (it didn't) went to first slip that was Ponting. Short appeal then Ponting decided to throw the stumps down and he hit with Asif a fair way short.