Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
On a 300+ runs pitch, Its just ridiculous batting by Pakistan in last 20 overs. From Umar Akmal onwards, everyone really struggled.
Should be an easy win for Australia.
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Pakistan lost the match in last 15 overs, i say with departure of Malik, Umer Akmal was just there trying to get out or waste deliveries putting extra bit of pressure of Babar Azam and later Rizwan couldn;t even touch the ball
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
3.00pm First thoughts? Pakistan are at least 40 short of where they should have been. Babar Azam was sensational and became the joint-fastest to 1000 ODI runs during the course of his 84. But the pressure of being unable to score quickly towards the end got him to play a big shot. The early running was done by Sharjeel Khan, before Travis Head’s double strike pegged them back. The last 10 overs were far from productive, and credit for that should to go Pat Cummins and James Faulkner, who mixed up their slower deliveries with some rip roaring bouncers. Just 50 off the last 10 overs for Pakistan. Advantage Australia at this stage! Join us in 30 minutes for the chase
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Hafeez been spanked by Australians.. it is just not his day… he have played his 1 in 10 match
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
So our spinners are not restricting them. For last decade we are depending alot on spinners . Once they tighten up only fast bolwers have something to bowl at the end.
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and it is same old news
we lost it..
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
If top order score, lower order fail.
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
same ole same ole
can anyone tell, which team scores 50 runs in last 10 overs with 6 wickets in hands on a good pitch? only Pakistan. selfish behavior by some players to save their own seat. akmal scoring 39 runs on 51 balls when he needed to score 51 on 39 balls. that says it all
how many times i have to say: test a player with potential, give him fair amount of chances and then rate him. either he is in for a long haul or he is not. if he is not, move on and then dont come back to same option again. umr akmal overall is a pathetic player. MOVE ON PCB from him.
asad shafiq is not made for ODIs…mentally weak and cannot rotate the strike. MOVE ON from him. MOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE ON
sharjeel need to covert his starts into big scores.
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Pathetic totals of 260-270 are not going to trouble Australia esp. in their own conditions.
320 is the new 260 of the 70s, 80s and 90s and Pak batting is simply incapable of scoring 300 (they might do it on the odd occasion like every 15th game!)
India have an amazing batting line-up. They are playing at home but even when playing away they regularly post 300+ like every 2nd or 3rd game, such is the depth and quality in their batting.
Against England today they managed to still post a mammoth 381 despite being 3 down for 25!
And in the first game India chased down 350 despite being 63/4 at one stage. Pak would not have made 250!
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Bowling has looked pedestrian for the most part in Australia
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
So Pakistan was doing perfectly fine when Malik and Babar were at crease. Especially Malik looked like the old one when he was really looking dangerous.
But then came Umar Akmal. He tried one big shot and the Australian WC Wade missed his easy stump chance. After that it felt like UA crawled into a shell where he started play dot-balls or may be singles. It was a pain to watch. Ofcourse as a result the pressure went to Babar Azam who got out of a amazing catch near boundry (though one camera showed that the ball touched the grass). Either way, none other player could swing the bat and it was clear Pak had lost the match right there. They were atleast 60 runs short.
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Bowling has been a big failure on this tour. It suddenly lacks penetration outside UAE and England. As I mentioned before even the two Ws had less success in Australia than England. You can blame the batting as well
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
As I said in another thread UA has regressed as a batsman. The fluency and timing is just not there
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Our batting is really the problem if they put up a score regardless of our bowling failure they would defend it, but give them something to defend.
Look at England/India series in the two matches England scored 716 runs in 100 overs. That is an average of 7.16 runs by Indian bowlers and that at home as well. They have the batsmen who can put up such scores but Indian bowling is pathetic even in their own backyard. So lets not be too harsh on our own bowlers.
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Thats exactly what happened, 260 was not even at par score at that wicket, 290+ would have been a fighting total…Pakistan lost match because of pathetic display of batting by Umer Akmal and Mohd Rizwan…
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Pakistan need to find two or three good attacking batsmen from somewhere. With the current batting, Pak will struggle to beat BD even. There is a reason why BD is ranked above us in the ODIs
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Mickey Arthur “Today we had 152 dot balls, which was more than 50%…it isn’t good enough. We have to rotate the strike better”
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
This has been a recurring problem for us the last few years i.e. poor strike rotation…apart from hitting ability (or rather lack of it!) of our batsmen
**152 dot balls = 25 overs wasted
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Even 80 dot balls is just too many in a 300-ball game
Re: Australia v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Perth
Babar Azam given out on 84 on this catch. Was the TV umpire blind.
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