Pakistan v Australia in England, June-July 2010

[Dutch]

I just don't understand the utter inability for anyone from Pakistan to think they are going to win this.......whoops! There goes number one! Buttock-clenching may commence!

 

[ZexyZahid]

Back in Sydney the second wicket fell on 50 runs.

Just hoping that they will at least pass that mark.

 

[Dutch]

Here we go.

It's all over, it's all over, it's all over.

Oh the optimism!:laugh

 

[King Pietersen]

Hilfenhaus getting the ball to talk. The only problem is, is that with his action the ball tends to swing out of his hand. The thing that got the Butt wicket was movement and bounce off the surface. If he could extract this sort of movement in the air, but a touch later he'd be seriously dangerous. At the minute it's fairly easy for batsmen to pick the swing.

 

[BKB1991]

Farhat to score a 50.

 

[CaptainOZ]

Farhat to score a 50.

LOL, I love it.

 

[Insomniac]

Dutchy, the only batsman we have is Salman Butt, and he's already out.

Azhar Ali and Umar Amin are new, they could announce themselves on this stage, but the odds are against them.

Imran Farhat is only in the team thanks to his father-in-law, it just shows the amount of corruption in Pakistan as a country.

Umar Akmal will hit a few flashy shots, then get out. Shoaib Malik struggles against anything that seams or swings, and Kamran Akmal isn't in too good of a form.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Ponting running his lungs out to stop that four.

Good commitment from the captain.

 

[deathrevenge9]

Farhat to score a 50.

Then Asif is more likely to score a century.

deathrevenge9 added 2 Minutes and 25 Seconds later...

Hoping for a Azhar Ali special here.I liked this guy more than Umar Amin.

 

[ZexyZahid]

The good thing is that the Pakistani batsmen understand that they should target the ineffective Bollinger and later on Johnson.

Against Hilfenhaus they're leaving the ball.

And Paine looks a bit like a 16 years old schoolboy.

 

[Dutch]

Dutchy, the only batsman we have is Salman Butt, and he's already out.

Azhar Ali and Umar Amin are new, they could announce themselves on this stage, but the odds are against them.

Imran Farhat is only in the team thanks to his father-in-law, it just shows the amount of corruption in Pakistan as a country.

Umar Akmal will hit a few flashy shots, then get out. Shoaib Malik struggles against anything that seams or swings, and Kamran Akmal isn't in too good of a form.

Just pulling your leg a bit Insomny! I can understand the nerves and as an English cricket supporter I know all about frustration!

 

[ZexyZahid]

If Ponting is smart he takes Bollinger off. I don't mind it if he continues bowling.

 

[ksduded]

i wish we would have not got aus out for 88 and lost gracefully

this Pak teams gets the hopes up and then looses... the problem is that the brilliance is shown in the beginning and not the end....

 

[King Pietersen]

This Johnson spell will make or break the Test for Australia. If he bowls well they'll be right in the battle, but if he bowls the toss we're used to seeing from him in England, it'll be all Pakistan's. Should be a good spell of cricket.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Ponting has just changed Bollinger. Just hoping that Johnson will as great as he was in the first innings. I am expecting not much swing from him.

Ponting trying to get a new ball for Johnson by mentioning to the umpire it's out of shape. It didn't work.