Pakistan Tour To Sri Lanka May-June 2012

[Rehan_24]

Pakistan can not win any One Day Series untill Shahid Afridi becomes captian. The team is divided.... Afridi cant play under any ones captaincy now.....

 

[Paki007]

We are not just losing games,we are easily throwing winning games.This is really hard to digest.Expecting same result in the test series as well or may be worse

 

[Addy]

Our fielding has been pathetic more than anything, which is the clear difference between two sides.

 

[sifter132]

250 will be a safe total I guess.

You might have been right

Those last few overs of the Pakistan innings really cost them I think. Pakistan were 220 after 44 overs, so only 27 came off the last 6. Malinga and Kulasekara did well, but it's still not good enough with Umar Akmal and Afridi at the wicket. Score 40 instead of 27 there and Pakistan win.

 

[Aalay]

Afridi cant play under any ones captaincy now.....

Why the fearsome tweak can't he play under any other player's captaincy?

You guys need players who look to bat through the innings but at the same time have the strike rate of more then 85. Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq and Misbah can do it. The problem is, all of them are way too slow.

I will just give you an example of current Indian players(Of course ) who does the same jobs in Indian ODI lineup. It is Gambhir and Kohli who will look to bat till the end of the innings in every ODI. Now the difference is, they both can play aggressively, too. They will build the innings but at the same time have strike rate around 90.

So the players I mentioned in Pakistan lineup, Azhar Ali, Shafiq and Misbah are all capable to do the same job but they need to speed up their game a bit.

Then there is Umar Akmal who is lazy as fearsome tweak same as Rohit Sharma.

 

[sattar]

@ALi i can assure you in test its suit us with defensive batsman and good bowling so hoping atleast test will be ours.

 

[Paki007]

When i saw we are playing with 5 bowlers,which include sami,I always knew we will struggle.Sami is kind of a bowler who can go for plenty of runs on his bad day.We must have 6th bowler when he is in the team.Its so teasing that still our team management didn't learn.The whole career of sami has been like this.It is not a new thing.Yesterday we were bound to bowl him 10 overs and it was a major factor of defeat along with pathetic fielding

defensive batsman and good bowling so hoping atleast test will be ours.

Yeah only if we clean bold their 20 batsmen.Otherwise the standard of our fielding isn't enough to pick up 20 wickets

 

[Sahil 7]

what a disaster last over that was from sami couldn't defend 15 runs in an 6 balls also dint even tried to ball a yorker

 

[Paki007]

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 1st Test, Galle: Misbah-ul-Haq suspended for over-rate offence | Cricket News | Sri Lanka v Pakistan | ESPN Cricinfo


Now Professor Duck will get the captaincy.Wasn't i right?

 

[Ahmad94]

^the only reason to play Misbah was for test., Now no Misbah. pakistan is totally screwed

 

[Auwais]

I'm still trying to work out why Sami was given the final over, he had a shocker.

 

[jacobfelix]

what a disaster last over that was from sami couldn't defend 15 runs in an 6 balls

I'm still trying to work out why Sami was given the final over, he had a shocker.

Nowadays with maniacs hitting 28-30 runs in an over I didnt find that as a disaster or a shocker... 15 runs in an over....gettable...nowadays....

 

[Paki007]

atleast guys like afaq raheem,dogar will be thanking misbah for slow over rate because mostly our new players just remain spectator through out a test series.i wish faisal iqbal doesnt replace misbah

 

[badvintage]

Pakistan's batting is very weak, there needs to be a change

 

[Sami Kumar]

Pakistan needs to bring Abdul Razzaq back in odi and T20.and now misbah ul haq will miss the 1st test.so very less chance of victory.they should include Kamran Akmal and mohammad yousuf back.I Think misbah ul haq is the best captain in test cricket.

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Nowadays with maniacs hitting 28-30 runs in an over I didnt find that as a disaster or a shocker... 15 runs in an over....gettable...nowadays....

For Pakistani bowlers it was a disaster.our bowling is the strongest in the world only sami was picked .that was a mistake.saeed ajmal would have finished sri lanka on 200.