Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
SA batting 23/0 after 2.2 overs
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
The best thing in all this whitewashes, we have no series against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Kenya...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
But now they are batting 47/1 off 9.0 overs… 
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
^^ averages above 5
and now SA are 71/1 after 14.1 overs..still average is 5
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
77/1 off 14.5 overs.
if Pakistan was batting they would have been 25/6 off 14.5 overs.
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
I think...under these heaty conditions...the captain should not give long spel of 5 overs to the pacers...2-3 over spel would be fine...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
90/1 off 18 overs.
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
2 down...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
114/2 off 23 overs
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Runs are flowing fluently and the wickets the scarce commodity...SA 176/2 off 33.0 overs...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Hoping for some better mid-order batting but the collapses are really disheartening. Hope Salman and Amir get cleared soon. Oh well, Hafeez and Younis were promising last game and we need Akmal back in the squad rather than Fawad.
Brother, I know many people in Pakistan think on bases of personal like, dislike, subayet, Firqayet, nepotism, or whatever ... but at least you should think for Pakistan, support performance, and not petty things. :). I know that Pakistani management could do anything regardless of performance, but for you, look at performance and justify your proposal. Before ODI against SA, Pakistan played 5 ODIs against UK (in Sept 2010). Here is performance of two in UK.
Umar Akmal: Ave 25 runs and SR was 83 runs per 100 balls.
Fawad Alam: Ave 38.25 runs and SR was 77.3 runs per 100 balls.
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Well, before ODIs against England, Pakistan played 5 ODIs against Australia in Jan 2010. If you want to include Australian tour too (Jan 2010), then here is overall performance (England plus Australia).
Umar Akmal: Ave 31.2 runs and SR was 75 runs per 100 balls.
Fawad Alam: Ave 38.57 runs and SR was 72.6 runs per 100 balls.
Even if you like to filter out England tour and see Australian tour alone, here is performance of two:
Umar Akmal: Ave 37.4 runs and SR was 70.3 runs per 100 balls.
Fawad Alam: Ave 39 runs and SR was 67.2 runs per 100 balls.
Can you see difference? If you can see, than how can you justify Umar Akmal over Fawad Alam, unless you are PCB official? :)
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Runs are flowing fluently and the wickets the scarce commodity...SA 176/2 off 33.0 overs...
Yea tou hona hee hay ... what you expect? SA is full of players with averages touching 50, so it is obvious they would amass runs.
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Yea tou hona hee hay ... what you expect? SA is full of players with averages touching 50, so it is obvious they would amass runs.
Okay...but Pak bowling is not clicking in this tour...btw 3 down now...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Pakistan only hope is rare performance by mediocre player, than we can get proud of that player and make him best in the world. After that, we can start abusing and cursing that player until day that player put another rare performance (something does happen in nature not because player is good but because bat was lucky to hit the ball) :).
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Okay...but Pak bowling is not clicking in this tour...btw 3 down now...
hmm, that is true. We can only win when something clicks. :)
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
hmm, that is true. We can only win when something clicks. :)
Yeh...but also look at the record of current Pak bowlers...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
Ingram 100 and gone…well played… :k: 
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
232/5 off 43.0 overs...
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
I dont see Pak winning this one either. I was thinking about this the other day that in all 3 games so far on this tour Pak has batted first... that has usually been their strength as their bowling is what can win them matches... having lost ALL 3 games in the best scenario possible.. what was giong to happpen when SA batted first and got a good score? Chances of Pak batting chasing anything decent are low.
Re: 2nd ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi - Oct 31, 2010
6 down...