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*Originally posted by Degas: *
Waqar needs a great chitrol.. I havent seen a single match where he showed any leadership.. I dont know why we dont have a sensible captain..
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contact Punjab Police!!
theyre good at the job!
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:rotfl"
Pakistan bite. Our batting, fielding and bowling suck (in Shoaib's absence)-apart from that we are ok at the rest of the game. :p
yaar we all are worried about bowling…
abhi to batting bhi nahi aaye…
phir to aur bhi maazaa aaye ga:hehe:
Pathetic, Pathetic, and Pathetic. Thats all I can say when I see Pakistan’s bowling performence. Anyway, can’t do anything now. Playing like this, Pakistan won’t even make to the second round of the WC. Waqar seriously needs to think what he is doing. Pakistan’s performence…just toooo dispointing 
azhar,anwar,razzaq and other players will b back.. so dont worry:D
Gibbs and Smith hammer Pakistan into submission at Newlands
Keith Lane - 2 January 2003
Records may have tumbled during the Second Castle Lager/MTN Test between South Africa and Pakistan in Cape Town, but the day belonged to Herschelle Gibbs who walked off the lush Newlands turf on cloud nine as he waved to an appreciative crowd.
Opening the batting with Graeme Smith, Gibbs nearly batted through the day to become the sixth South African to score 3,000 Test runs and the holder of the highest individual Test innings at Newlands.
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His 200 was also the second fastest Test double hundred to be scored in terms of balls faced. Facing 211, he stroked 26 fours and smashed five sixes into the stands. **By the time Saqlain Mushtaq got one through his defence he had 228 to his name and an innings rated by some as the best seen on South Africa soil for many a year.
Graeme Smith, after being left out of the World Cup squad, answered the national selectors in the only way possible, scoring an excellent 151 but his innings was dwarfed by the quality entertainment supplied by Gibbs. On any other day he would have been lauded, but picked a day when Gibbs was at his glorious best.
The two first broke all the possible partnership records for South Africa against Pakistan before passing the 260-run South African first wicket partnership, between Bruce Mitchell and Ivan Siedle against England at the same ground during the 1930/31 season.
Next to fall was the 341-run highest South African partnership for any wicket, that set by Eddie Barlow and Graeme Pollock against Australia in Adelaide during the 1963/64 season.
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By the time Smith was bowled by Mohammad Zahid the partnership had grown to 368 becoming the fourth highest first wicket partnership in Test history. 
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As much as the Pakistan bowling was below par, it was their fielding that let them down. Dropping three simple catches on a batting paradise was always going to put them under immense pressure. Smith was dropped in the slips on 54 while Gibbs was given two very expensive chances, one on 31 at backward point and one at midwicket when he was on 99.
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The bowling too was poor, with none of the bowlers finding the correct length and line. More than 50 per cent of the South African runs coming on the leg side and a further 19 runs being given away in no balls. Waqar ended one over away from conceding 100 runs, while Saqlain saw 160 runs taken off his off-spin. **
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When stumps was called for bad light, 70 minutes after the scheduled close, with one over still to be bowled, South Africa had moved to 445/3, another record as the highest total scored in a days play. **
- (world best bowling lineup)* :hehe: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Without doubt the match referee, Gundappa Viswanath from India, will have something to say about the Pakistan dismal slow over rate.
Jacques Kallis on 19 and Boeta Dippenaar on eight will start proceedings for South Africa on day two. Pakistan will be in bed early after a hard day in the field, contemplating on what might have been if they had held onto the catches offered, while South Africa will sleep well knowing that they have put themselves into a very favourable position after the first day’s play.
http://www-usa.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/JAN/116213_RSA_02JAN2003.html
With this perforamce our future bwoling prospect looks really bleak. It will be really difficult to replace Waqar and Wasim. Both Zahid and sami looked very ordinary. Saqlain is no where near what he used to be and I ddint see any improvement in him for the past two years. THe only bowler who could be devasting like the Two W's is the injury prone Shaoib akhtar!enuf said!
Whose pumped up for this game :D
Sami got a breakthrough. He got the wciket of Kallis 463/4
**Good start of the Second Day
Let's hope it goes like that**
Kallis gone for 31 runs. LBW by Sami.
South Africa: 463/4
Lets hope things go Pakistan's way today!
3 slips and a gully now. Good captanicy…Pakistan needs to be more attacking :k:
This doesn’t look to me a Test Match at all. Pakistan is giving away boundry in every single over. Poor display of Cricket. 
Saqlain being brought in now for Sami. Good opening spell by Waqar and Sami. Both of them are bowling much better than yesterday.
Whats wrong with PEter Bracela.
Tuafiq Umer collapsed when he was just about to ball and this guy Peter Bracela is laughing by looking at the video!Poor guy didnt slip or anything his knee got injured and he collapsed!
Its not funny laughing at someones injury. Maybe we should remind him that how ridicolously annoying he is!
Taufeeq Umer <-------> Bowler. 
When did that happen?
I’d share your views, Sherrybaba about Peter Bracela’s ridicolous behavior.
104.1 Saqlain Mushtaq to McKenzie, SIX, down the track and lofts it just to the on side of the wickets sailing into the sight screen.
I must say, Saqlain has been badly punished by the South Africans. I have never seen him beaten like that before.
Yeah Taufiq is an off break bowler. He usually bowl one over before lunch and tea, I dont really understand why?
A six by Mckenzie and a four at Saqlains bowling. Saqalin is aweful in this test match!He is not at all threatening! He is bowling lke a school kid! very flat and easy to play with..
South Africa: 502/4
South Africa 507/4 (107.4 ov)
South Africa RR: 4.71
Minimum overs
remaining today: 72.2
They should play all day long and score around 1000+runs and beat us by two innings or so....