South Africa vs Zimbabwe & Pakistan, October-November 2010/11

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Misbah is the new captain :laugh

Then Younis Khan to make a comeback so then he againn?

Each Series new Captain... Poor Pakistan

 

[razahood]

Ridiculous decision by PCB.He has not been even in team for a long now and makes a comeback as captain.These things are responsible for the groupings in team

 

[sami ullah khan]

OMG No younis and Muhammad Sami is back :. What the fearsome tweak do the selectors want to get out of him. He is not a test level players. Why the fearsome tweak won't they know that.

 

[razahood]

and also i have concerns about Taufeeq.Was yasir Hameed not available? He is far better batsman than taufeeq.



Atast we found a performing captain in Salman Butt but some stupid allegations with no proves spoiled our party

 

[used2bcool]

^ I think Yasir Hameed pretty much pissed away his international career by giving that "candid interview" in the midst of the spot-fixing scandal.

 

[razahood]

Yeah true but if you are picking a playing XI in my view there is no place for Taufeeq umer maybe they should have tried Khalid Latif or anybody other

 

[angryangy]

I think it could be a good thing for Pakistan if they just focus on picking the best captain each series, not worrying about whether they're going to be captain next series. It may be old fashioned, but the Test side was not particularly stable at the start of the year, much less now. Maybe down the track they'll start to groom the younger players, but for now, they just need the flexibility to find the best team.

 

[ksduded]

^ I think Yasir Hameed pretty much pissed away his international career by giving that "candid interview" in the midst of the spot-fixing scandal.

It wasn't actually an interview.... but yeah that is pretty much the death nail for any chance of reincarnating his career....

 

[ZexyZahid]

Strange to see Misbah-ul-Haq being named captain, after he was thinking about retirement.

I see Sohail Tanvir will be included in the Test squad if he is fit.

On the limited series there is a bit of consistency: Afridi is still the captain.

 

[razahood]

in last 7 tests 3 different skippers led Pakistan.NOw on the 8th it will be 4th skipper

 

[ZexyZahid]

Now to think of it, it should have been if two threads were created instead of one: South Africa vs Zimbabwe and South Africa vs Pakistan. We're discussing two tours in this thread.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Zimbabwe scored 168-4 in their first innings in the 1st T20I. That's something I didn't expect they would reach that. But Graeme Smith made sure that target isn't unreachable.

 

[razahood]

Although Zim lost but it's truly an amazing effort to score 168.Masakadza looked awesome with the bat

 

[aussie1st]

Pretty good total by Zimbabwe but dam SA made it look easy. SA team is starting to look a lot better with more specialist for T20.

 

[riz7khan12]

where was flower? and morkel bowling only 2 overs while duminy bowled 2 pointless overs which went for 11.5. Botha missed a trick there, they could've restricted Zimbabwe to 150-155. The bowling let Zimbabwe down, they need the experience of Blignaut, Flower and Price.