Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Though that will be the Scenario of my choice :), I don’t see it happening.
The Indian tail rarely holds the fort for too long. (Kumble , for example, hasn’t learnt to hold the bat after playing 10000 tests !)
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
I think draw is the most likely scenario.
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
I don't get it, if so early on in the game one can tell it's going to be a draw, why make it such a lengthy match by making them bat again.
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Effective without the doosra
On the Ball with S Rajesh and Arun Gopalakrishnan
March 25, 2005
If the first day of the Bangalore Test belonged to Inzamam-ul-Haq, then Younis Khan stole the show on the second. His batting yesterday went almost unnoticed due to Inzamam’s brilliance, but when Inzamam fell, Younis took centrestage quite effortlessly. Younis scored 127 off 267 balls on the opening day – a scoring rate of 47.57 per 100 balls; on the second day, he added 140 off just 237 balls, that’s a rate of nearly 60.
None of the bowlers made much of an impression on Younis – he didn’t decimate any of the four frontline bowlers, scoring at between 2.98 and 3.28 per over against them, but he was rarely troubled: Younis’s in-control factor was a healthy 82.74%, and apart from a chance in the slips which VVS Laxman spilled, Younis offered no opportunities to the Indians. As Younis’s wagon-wheel shows, he was equally prolific on both sides of the wicket, though more than half his boundaries came in the arc between third man and cover.
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India’s star of the day was Harbhajan Singh, who despite almost completely shunning the doosra still managed to take six wickets. He bowled only two doosras on the first day, and none at all in the second, when all those wickets came his way. The key was his exceptional control over both line and length - of the 291 balls he bowled to the right-handers, 222 were pitched on a good-length outside off stump, just the right area which would give him the maximum chance to pick up wickets. On a pitch offering little by way of turn or bounce, Harbhajan relied on control, flight and subtle change of pace, and was finally rewarded for his toil.
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Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
I'm serious, still trying to understand test cricket :p
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
^ It is simple cat woman. Read the following, it explains test cricket in a simple non complicated way. :D
**There are two sides one in and one out on the field, each player from the side which is in goes out and when he is out he comes in and the next men goes in until he is out.
When all the players from the side which has been in are out, the side which has been out goes in and the side which has been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get people in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not outs that’s when the game is over
HOWZAT.**
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
hey!!!!!!! whats the score!
just came in!!!!!!!!!
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
^
yeh bachon ka khel nahin hai....
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
lifts index finger 
Really ehsan bhai, I was expecting a much more logical explanation of test cricket than that! Is there no room for learning in Khail Khilari?
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
hahaha 
born4friends, jao wapis so jao.
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
girls shouldn’t watch cricket. Get out of this thread catty. 
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Well, being a Pakistani, of course I want Pakistan to win, but if I think about it just as a cricketer, I see this match going towards a draw :(
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Pakistani bowlers turned in an inspired performance late in the day to hold the advantage going into the fourth day. It is very important to take early wickets tomorrow and finish with a lead of approx 130-150 and then bat like onedayers whole day. Give india a target which they should fancy to chase in a day (in the region of 300-320) so that they take some risks on a weary pitch.
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Tomorrow, Pakistan should try to take the remaining 4 wickets within the first 20 overs or so...with a lead of 130 runs...Pakistan should go out of its mind and bat some 50 overs @RR of 5.00+...some lead of 400+...then let the Indian give a chance to chase...nothing new...lol
PS: Inzamam won't follow the above strategy...otherwise he could have won at least one of the matches in this test series...lol
PS2: Our bowlers should take control of line and length...and sharp fielding to win this match...alas...its highly unlikely...ummm...but with Pakistani cricketers you never know... :D
PS3: KahiN ho hee na jai...*kahiN Pakistan jeet hee na jai...*India ko subb say bada khatra yehi hai... :)
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
No one can REALLY tell, everyone is an arm-chair cricket expert here, everyone is just guessing what is likely to happen… in case any of guppies “guess” is a hit he is gonna shout out his lungs “I told you so”
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
Very likely India will manage 70-100 runs tomorrow and hopefully all out before lunch which 'd mean Pakistan gets a lead of ~ 100-120 runs. Pak should try to bat rest of the day tomorrow and some 10-15 overs on day 5 with possible lead of around 375+.
Thats about all the "ifs" :)
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
By the way, yet another double century from Sehwag!
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
^yup Allah ka shukar phir bhi younas sey kum hi raha :k:
Masha Allah he played very well!
Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
I Wud Say 95% Draw ....... 2.5 % Each Pakistan And India