Sri Lanka Tour of the UAE and Pakistan - September/October 2017

[Rehan_24]

oh this is the same lineup which I selected

 

[Perfect Square]

It is going quite a rough and slow day. After 1st session, Sri Lanka did well to build partnerships. Couple of overs remaining lets see if Pakistan can pick 1 or 2 here...

 

[Perfect Square]

I was a bit surprised to see that Sarfraz gave ball to all his 4 specialist bowlers in a span of 7 overs?..

Body language is down and players looking tired?

It's a win, win for Sri Lanka if they get 400+ which is looking very obvious now.

 

[CerealKiller]

Who is the genious who proposed this three pacers strategy? Misbah always went with two spinners, and he didn't lose a single series in the UAE. This stupid strategy is going to cost us the match. Pacers are toothless in these conditions.

 

[CerealKiller]

Are you going through your worst period since becoming a Test nation? Is pretty much every player in your XI out of form? Do you have players unproven at international level? Come play Pakistan. They will help you get back in form, and help your inexperienced and out of form players get runs and wickets.

 

[Perfect Square]

Are you going through your worst period since becoming a Test nation? Is pretty much every player in your XI out of form? Do you have players unproven at international level? Come play Pakistan. They will help you get back in form, and help your inexperienced and out of form players get runs and wickets.

Keep patience you are just judging things too early. Dickwella and Chandimal are batting good.

 

[CerealKiller]

Keep patience you are just judging things too early. Dickwella and Chandimal are batting good.

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[Perfect Square]

reverse jinx - Wiktionary

Worked late, but did...

 

[Bigby Wolf]

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And the legend strikes again.

 

[CerealKiller]

All bowlers are looking a bit ineffective. We were lucky to get Dickwella's wicket through an inside edge. They'll probably get 400+

 

[Rehan_24]

The thing is the same aamir and abbas were taking wickets on these very pitches before. but in this inning so far, they are wicket-less. If we talk about playing extra spinners than Yasir shah has also gotten only two wickets so far as well. Credit must be given to Young Lankan team as well for some hardworking performance. I think its more about how Sarfraz has used his bowlers rather than a selection issue. I wondered how quickly Sarfraz used non regular bowlers like Asad Shafiq, Shan masood and Haris sohail.

 

[Perfect Square]

The thing is the same aamir and abbas were taking wickets on these very pitches before. but in this inning so far, they are wicket-less. If we talk about playing extra spinners than Yasir shah has also gotten only two wickets so far as well. Credit must be given to Young Lankan team as well for some hardworking performance. I think its more about how Sarfraz has used his bowlers rather than a selection issue. I wondered how quickly Sarfraz used non regular bowlers like Asad Shafiq, Shan masood and Haris sohail.

100% agree...
I am not hoping too much from this series as we have new test team and new test captain. It will take a few more series until this team starts to perform consistently...

 

[Perfect Square]

This match is definitely gonna draw... :/

 

[olivera ricky]

This match is definitely gonna draw... :/

I think when Taufiq umer hits 236 in test vs SL.in th past,SL were under 200 all out, yet match was draw but yes SL bats negative here, looks
Yet another draw.Dilruwan on his début test hits 95 vs Pakistan, now 12 off 80 ball.Either make runs or get out.

I think Pakistan missing second spinner here, every Asian country always includes as many as two SPINNR MUST in all sub continents matches.
Pakistan wasting those number of part timers I wonder why AZu bhai not bowl?

 

[olivera ricky]

351 for 5 from 63 for 3