West Indies Tour of the UAE - September/November 2016

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

So after Test & ODI, West Indies selectors managed to fearsome tweak up with the T20 side as well. The World T20 Champions and played like shit. This team is no where near the best West Indies had. Seriously WICB needs to get the act together or cricket will lose yet another team. (Zimbabwe was good).

 

[Aalay]

The thing is WI are missing a couple of key players in Chris Gayle and Andre Russel. However, they just did not bat well enough in any of the 3 matches to allow their bowlers to fight back. These are not ideal T20 pitches where they can come in and start hitting from the first ball which is what they are extremely good at. On these kind of surfaces, you actually need to take some time and settle down. You need to rotate strike and run hard between the wickets to keep bowlers under pressure and hit the bad balls. There are only two people in this team who can do that. One is Marlon Samuels but he has his days where he goes completely AWOL. Another one is Bravo who has the ability to do it but consistently underperforms with the bat.

 

[Velocity]

West Indies for some reason just can't play left arm spin. Look at how they played Imad and Nawaz. It just looks like they keep getting cramped for room as they cant play those bowlers who bowl wicket to wicket. Imad is superb at doing that. Johnson Charles and Fletcher, all they know is to hit out of the park. Though it's not entirely their fault, Pakistan played really good cricket out there. Sarfraz was just brilliant. After seeing Pak win, I just badly want to see India and Pakistan play aganist each other. It would be a very entertaining and good battle, but we can't play a series due to the screwed up group of Shiv Sena, and BCCI just cant allow them to play as they would be afraid Shiv Sena might launch an attack or something. Looking forward to the one day series. West Indies need to get their troops together so they can get competetive like before. This isn't the team that won the World T20 a few months ago and came to the final of the Tri series aganist the big guns Australia and South Africa.

 

[Rehan_24]

A clean, convincing and comprehensive win by Team Pakistan. Credit goes to the whole team and most importantly to the captain and coach for putting these efforts and remained committed in the 3rd T-20 despite winning the series already. Clean Sweeping the World Champions is indeed a great achievement but more importantly its a start of trend shift in Pakistan performance history. Pakistan used to get relax after winning ODI/Test/T20 series and usually lost the final one by performing below par in fielding as well as overall performance but yesterday night I was really happy to see the team. Not for a single second I felt that team is relaxed now unless Imad's first few legish deliveries but he came back strongly and the whole team performed magnificently.

Micky Arthur and Sarfraz combo has shined well. I hope it gets well with Azhar Ali as well but the huge problem is his own spot in the squad as an opener.

The way Pakistan defeated England in the only T-20. My cricketing opinion has proved right alhamdulillah with this awesome win of Team Green. Job Welldone!

Talking about Iman, What I liked about him is his commitment and his fearless cricket both in bowling and batting. He was remained not out in the all ODI matches he batted against England. He is a match winner

But Some people are jumping in early conclusions that Imad is the replacement of Afridi. I think its too early. Besides Afridi's charisma and his slogging for huge sixes as well bowling is one for the decade. Such players don't come so early. Having said that, Its time to have a farewell for Afridi. Team looks settled and we can't afford un-necessary come backs.

 

[Salman.]

I think Rumman bowled really well and deserves another chance.

 

[Velocity]

He scores slowly so he can make more runs, the selfish prick

Hmm,well maybe he is selfish, but you have to be a little selfish if want to be called upm. That's really what selectors look for nowadays. They look for runs, strike rate and average.

 

[Salman.]

Umar Akmal played only 1 ball in the whole series.

 

[Rehan_24]

That is an extra criticism on Salman Butt. One needs to give him time to adjust. Obviously to get back in form He needs confidence and for that he needs runs. Strike rate is not much issue with big players, we yet to see If Salman has still got that energy left what he was becoming 6 years ago

 

[CerealKiller]

Strike rate is not much issue with big players

Strike rate is an issue. You can see that with Azhar Ali. His strike rate always denies us a good start in ODIs. How can you even think of bringing back a similar player to Azhar? And a player who, despite being Test captain, disgraced the country that gave him everything, and destroyed a talent like Mohammad Aamir.

 

[Velocity]

His strike rate always denies us a good start in ODIs.

That's not really a problem. You can't always be aggressive for starts. The important thing is keeping wickets perhaps until 20 overs in ODIs and then start scoring fast. If you are 3 wickets down for about 40 runs in 6 overs, then the rum rate is not going to help you. Though, Pakistan lost wickets at the wrong time In the series in England. They went big instead of rotating the strike. Yes, Azhar Ali is very slow, he needs to step up in the middle overs where he usually stays throughout and eats the balls away.

 

[Salman.]

Why the f*** Sohail Khan and Umar Akmal are not playing this game?

 

[CerealKiller]

There he goes, the greatest ODI captain in history

 

[Salman.]

We need firepower in the middle-order and Rizwan is not the answer, the answer is Umar Akmal.

 

[CerealKiller]

We need firepower in the middle-order and Rizwan is not the answer, the answer is Umar Akmal.

1000%

 

[CerealKiller]

Do the Windies want to bat out the 50 overs or what?