3rd. Test @ Karachi on Nov. 27 - PAK vs WI -- Pak won by 199 runs

Cricketfan · November 28, 2006, 5:04am

Re: 3rd. Test @ Karachi on Nov. 27 PAK vs WI

Cricketfan:

Like many experts were suggesting about the cracks on Gabba pitch that every batsman need to play a natural game, and hit the ball with merit, since they can't do anything about unexpected movement because of ball hitting the crack. Same could be applied to Karachi pitch too. If you play your natural game, and hit the ball with merit rather than blocking and building pressure on yourself, you could score.

Look at Yousaf (strike rate 60+), for some period when Farhat and Younis were putting away the bad deliveries, all of a sudden pitch looked a batting paradise. It is not the pitch or bowlers that cause troubles for Pakistan, rather it is negative batting (blocking) that putting Pakistan under pressure and allowing bowlers to settle down and get into a rhythm.

I am sure tommorrow when Akmal will bat (if he stay there for 1-2 hours), the pitch will look extremely flat, since he will punish bad deliveries. since the end of Lahore test, Pakistan is playing for draw in the remaining series, which is a negative cricket.

Akmal makes the pitch look easy, Nazir made it looks tough. Look at Ramiz english comments 'Nazir didn't bother the stat and statistician"; guess he wana say "Nazir didn't bother the scorer"