Originally posted by Faisal:
As long as India is not able to take any significant lead in the first innings, the game is still on. Our bowlers just need to bowl with good line and length and not give any width to the batsmen. Also, they should make sure they don’t allow a new batsmen (esp. lower order batsmen) to settle down by giving them lose deliveries. These are just basics.
Pakistani bowlers will need to be quite ruthless today if they are to win us this match. BatsmenoN nay tau mouN hi kaala kiya hai.
This is crap. India bowled out Pakistan for a low score with extravagant movement through the air and off the seam. Line & length without these attributes will see us defeated. If we don’t produce some movement tomorrow morning we are beat, mark my words.
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Once again Xtreme the Luminary calls it right - although in this case I’d love to have been wrong. I’m afraid after watching us struggle to face the Indian attack who were swinging the ball after 40 overs then our lot getting no movement with the new cherry, I knew the writing was on the wall. Accuracy without threat has proved to be useless and Dravid and Patel can smoke cigars out there while they are batting at the moment. The new ball has gone and Tendulkar still to come. Kiss this one goodbye people
Looks like another four day job here with Pakistan on the wrong side of it. After losing the ODI's they are now going to lose the test series as well. :(
Ladies and Gentlemen, after yesterdays 1st ball debacle, I was thinking its not worth losing sleep, (Biwi ki Bak Bak, rooz Office late Jaana, etc etc).
But hey could I sleep?? hell no so here I am back, and am pleasently surprised.
