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Meanwhile somewhere in Pak, someone takes a chill on this result:
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:) good one
but seriously, ajmal needed to be banned. absolutely banned. man he was bowling with 40+ angel...is it fair to batsmen and other bowlers who are bowling with a fair angle...
ICC went hard on many non pakistani players as well. As a matter of fact, PCB has identified so many suspect actions in the domestic cricket proactively once ajmal was banned. This disease was spreading like a plague in our system. So glad ajmal was banned because he was the most high profile target and the correct message needed to be delivered and it was very important
now if you think there is a certain aussie/English/south african/indian bowler that needs to be banned but did not get a ban, please point out. so kindly lets not make it controversial unless we have legitimate reasons.
But you have been mourning over ajmal ban though you didnt say his ban was unfair. Now you are being overly moral because you think we have got some good spinners.
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Congrats Pakistan. Wel done Misbah and team
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But you have been mourning over ajmal ban though you didnt say his ban was unfair. Now you are being overly moral because you think we have got some good spinners.
sir jee iss tara to na karien na abb
2 different things.....totally
yes ajmal loss is big for us...who can deny .... hence mourning the fact that we lost our only match winner bowler
but as you admitted i never ever declared his ban unfair because i always believed ajmal needed to be banned...show me one single post where i ever said that ajmal shd not have been banned...so technically speaking i was moral before this test match as well!
now you are saying I am trying to be moral just because we have found good spinners? again wrong.... yes yasir showed good potential but I have seen enough Pakistani cricket to be careful before declaring that we have discovered a goldmine....one match or one series performance means nothing....so as far as I am concerned, we still have a serious bowling crisis but ajmal ban is absolutely fair and he shd have been banned long time ago.
Ghazab khud ka, bowling with 40+ angle for god knows how long........and that too every delivery...and remember that is what he bowled under camera scrutiny...he must be super careful yet delivered 40+ angle....in actual matches where he did not have the camera scrutiny he might be bowling 60+... it was becoming so obvious even to naked eyes...
and now PCB has already discovered close to dozen bowlers with suspect actions.....ICC shd have taken this action long time ago.
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is this really afridi or some photo editing …
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Its mimic Afridi :)
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Just winning this test match against Australia is nothing to cheer and joy…Pakistan still need to stabilize on the international level in all formats…from time to
time keep inducting new and young players… 
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Congratulations Pakistan. 
:k:
Superbly played and outclassed Australia in all the ways.
One thing to note is,Pak fielding has also improved.
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Misbah with a million-dollar smile after a long time... :D
Allah Nazar-E-Bad Say Bachay :p
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Thanks
They dropped two catches in a row but victory have over looked these drops but they should improve more. Yes, Azhar and Shafiq round the stumps were super.
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I believe this is one of the few matches when our batter let us win rather only the bowlers
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This match has given us so many things to remember
- Pakistan has defeated World No 2.
- Misbah-ul-Haq is back in batting form.
- Younis Khan became the Pakistani to score most no of centuries surpassing legend Inzi Bhai.
- Younis Khan scored 2 centuries in a same test against Australia after Glenn Turner (1974)..
- Younis Khan becomes the first Pakistani to score a century against All playing nation..
- Sarfraz Ahmed 2nd fastest ton ever in tests.
- Superb debut of Yasir Shah..
- Excellence of Zulfiqar Babar..
- Amazing but shocking slow century of Ahmed Shehzad..
- Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali proving themselves in tough situation.
In the end Pakistan Zindabad
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Superb delivery by Debutant “Yasir Shah” to get rid of David Warner.. A perfect delivery which deceived set Davy Warner.
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Allah nazar e bud sai bachaeey. Wonderful performance overall (excluding fielding as usual). Batting clicked and bowling did more than I was expecting. I was not expecting them to take 20 wickets in absence of Ajmal and Junaid but still key was that batsmen did put runs on the board for bowlers to play with. Most of the time there hardly are any runs on the board.
I hope we can continue performing as we did in 1st game. I just checked the ICC ratings predictor. If Pakistan wins the series by 2-0, Pakistan will become 3rd in ranking
PS: Above all, my performance for NOT watching game was crucial for victory but I had table beside me on nightstand with cricinfo scorecard. Jub bhi aankh khulti theei score update pata chal jata tha
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1st test in a jiffy! Excellent montage by Willow TV
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I was thinking of opening a thread to thank you but will wait till the next test is completed. You never know you might just sneak in and start watching it.
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I was thinking of opening a thread to thank you but will wait till the next test is completed. You never know you might just sneak in and start watching it.
koi nahi. Eik saath hi shukeria aada ker dejyee ga 2nd test k baad :)
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Everybody is surprised with the result of first test:
In praise of Pakistan: a team I love to watch but am at a loss to explain
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Is anyone in cricket rewarded for their suffering with such exquisite performances and such paroxysmic peaks of pleasure as the Pakistan fan?
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Pakistan’s Ahmed Shehzad, third from right, celebrates during the win over Australia in Dubai. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
Andy Bull
Tuesday 28 October 2014 07.21 EDT
A GLORIOUS AND INEXPLICABLE MYSTERY
Last 25 May, during a talk about Pakistani cricket at the Southbank Centre, I found myself lost for a word. Just one. I couldn’t find it because, so far as I know, it doesn’t exist. I needed something to capture the embarrassment I felt when I thrust my arm confidently into the air, fully expecting it to be one in a thicket, and found, instead, that I was one of the very few people in the room willing to admit to be being a fan of Shahid Afridi. Raised hands were so few and far between, in fact, that the speaker, that talented man Osman Samiuddin, as he surveyed the rows of seats from the theatre stage, was able to pick me out, a way away in the gloom at the back, and say: “Oh look, it’s Andy Bull.” At which point heads turned to see the lone fool with his arm up. Umm … Hi. I would say Afridi has achieved the impossible and exhausted the patience of the Pakistani fans. Except that he is still in the team.
If you’re a neutral, Afridi is an easy player to love. A ball-biting, boundary-hitting, pitch-ripping, wicket-tricking, cricketing lunatic. Even Geoff Boycott loves to watch Afridi play. “Fantastic, great for the game,” says Boycott. “And daft as a brush”. For many Pakistani fans, on the other hand, Afridi is insufferably infuriating. I thoroughly enjoyed what was, to me, one of the archetypal Afridi performances when, at Lord’s in 2010, recalled to the Test team for the first time in four years, and as captain no less, he was caught at cow corner off his fourth ball. Off the bowling of Marcus North. In a fourth-innings run chase. He then told the press “with my temperament I can’t play Test cricket” and quit the game for good. Others, those who have an emotional investment in the success of the side, seemed, surprisingly, somewhat less amused by it all.
What a curious affliction it must be to be a full-time Pakistan fan, to follow a side who go through such giddy swings of form. Does anyone in cricket suffer so much? And is anyone in cricket rewarded for their suffering with such exquisite performances, such paroxysmic peaks of pleasure? In the last week the world watched, ever-more slack jawed, as they destroyed Australia in the first Test at Dubai. The result gave just as much pleasure to cricket-lovers in this corner of the world as Pakistan’s 3-0 demolition of England in 2011 must have done to those Down Under.
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And yet it was only a fortnight ago that Pakistan lost two wickets for no runs at all in the final over of an ODI whenthey only needed two to win. Off Glenn Maxwell’s bowling. They won this Test with a bowling attack who had all of nine caps between them, two rookie spinners, one of them 35 years old, the other a leggie playing his very first game. Their batting lineup was propped up a green wicketkeeper, Sarfraz Ahmed, who rattled along lickety-split at a run-a-ball, and the 36-year-old Younis Khan, who had just been dropped from the ODI side and who was so pissed off with his own cricket board that he made a point of refused to thank them when he was asked to do so. All marshalled by a 40-year-old skipper, Misbah-ul-Haq, who has just dropped himself from the ODI side because of his slow-scoring, and whose own coach attributes his good form in this very Test to the fact that he has put on weight.
It has been over five years now since Pakistan’s fans last got to see the team play a Test at home. Among the current side, only Younis, Misbah, and Mohammad Hafeez have ever played an international game on their own soil. And though the first two of them seem to be altogether impervious to the effects of advancing age, it is likely even they will be in retirement by the time the team is able to play in their own country again. There will be an entire generation of Pakistani cricketers who have no idea what it is to play for their country in front of their own fans. An entire generation of Pakistani fans who have only seen their side on TV.
And that isn’t the half of it. The current attack is the third Waqar Younis has had to build in his two stints as coach. The first, of course, was torn apart by the spot-fixing scandal orchestrated by Afridi’s successor as captain back in 2010, Salman Butt, who seemed such an impressive skipper at the time. The second was built around the spin of Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman, the first of them now suspended from cricket while he fixes his crooked action, the second dropped from the squad because he failed a fitness Test. English cricket seems to have been torn apart by injuries, egos, and Twitter accounts. Imagine the state of the game here if we’d had to cope with even half of what Pakistan have put up with.
For Pakistan, the sacking of the best batsman in the side seems to be an annual event. Younis has been dropped five times in the last four years. Which is nothing at all when you compare it to the hokey-cokey going on with the country’s cricket board. In the last 18 months Zaka Ashraf has been appointed as chairman, suspended as chairman, reinstated as chairman, dismissed as chairman, re-reinstated as chairman, and sacked again. They have had five chairmen in the last two years. And yet, despite it all, they still find a way to win more than they lose, and as often as not they do it in style. It’s a mystery. A glorious, inexplicable mystery. Samiuddin has a book out soon, a history of Pakistani cricket, which has, understandably, taken him years to put together. I’ve rarely felt so much relish for a new publication. I’m hoping to find a few answers in it. Because Pakistan are, to this England fan, a team I’m delighted to watch and at a loss to explain.
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