answered my own question, BBC has it live and online:
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*Originally posted by ehsan: *
My team for Tuesday's match against England:
- Imran Nazir
- Hafeez
- Yasir Hameed
- Yohanna
- Younis Khan
- Azhar Mahmood
- Shoaib Malik
- Razzaq
- Rashid
- Sami
- Umar
Four fast bowlers, two spinners, four all rounders.
Batting right down to number 9.
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i have two questions:
Why not use Misbah in place of Yoyo, and Bilal Asad instead of Razzaq. Both Yoyo and Razzaq seem hopelessly out of form to me. rest of the team looks good.
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*Originally posted by ChthonicPowers: *
i have two questions:
Why not use Misbah in place of Yoyo, and Bilal Asad instead of Razzaq. Both Yoyo and Razzaq seem hopelessly out of form to me. rest of the team looks good.
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Misbah for yoyo could be a good move btu I think yoyo needs one good knock in the middle and he will be back in form. Razzaq has been performing badly but seems to be regaining form and bowled well in the match against Leicester, so I would keep him.
Yeah all Yoyo needs is one good inning to gain his confidence back then he will be back to his usual self.
This is NUTS. 43 extra runs given in a match against a County team. No disrepect to our team but this is absoultely disgusting. Shabbir Ahmed, who has been economical, looked pathetic going by his figures. Shoaib Akhtar, economical but didn’t seems to be a threat. Hafeez and Umer Gul were economical. Razzaq was expensive but took four wickets. Good replacement by PCB. :k:
The batting department has improved, except of Yoyo. Hafeez seems to have found his form. Yasir Hammed hang in there with Younis Khan coming back in his form.
What to do in NatWest Challenge? Keep Misbah, replace Yoyo with Razzaq or Bilal Asad. In order to defeat English, we need more attack with ball than bat.
Thats the trophy they are playing for.
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**England could climb five places this summer **](http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/JUN/196665_ICC_13JUN2003.html)
A successful summer on home soil, starting with the first NatWest Challenge match against Pakistan at Old Trafford on 17th June, could propel England from eighth to third place in the ICC ODI Championship table.
England – currently eighth in the table - goes into its first One-Day International matches since the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 with the potential to climb rapidly up the ratings.
A 3-0 victory over Pakistan would boost England’s rating to 103 – higher than it has been since the table was launched in October 2002 and good enough to climb ahead of New Zealand and level with West Indies.
If this form were to continue in the NatWest Series against Zimbabwe and South Africa, England could also overtake West Indies, India, Sri Lanka and even Pakistan in what is one of the quietest periods of the international cricket calendar.
Pakistan, on the other hand, needs a winning series to maintain a firm hold on third position in the table. A 3-0 victory for the visitors would see Pakistan’s lead over fourth-placed Sri Lanka extended to six points but a 3-0 defeat would reduce the gap to only one point.
ICC ODI Championship table (correct on 12th June 2003)
Team Matches Points Rating
1. Australia 53 7013 132
2. South Africa 57 6972 122
3. Pakistan 54 5930 110
4. Sri Lanka 67 7132 106
5. India 58 6047 104
6. West Indies 45 4637 103
7. New Zealand 50 5027 101
8. England 34 3337 98
9. Zimbabwe 44 2844 65
10. Kenya 25 704 28
11. Bangladesh 23 101 4
The NatWest Challenge between England and Pakistan is a sell-out](http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/JUN/196200_ENG_12JUN2003.html)
The England and Wales Cricket Board today announced that next week’s NatWest Challenge matches between England and Pakistan are sold out.
England are due to play three One-Day Internationals against Pakistan next week; at Old Trafford under lights on Tuesday, the AMP Oval on Friday and Lord’s on Sunday week.
ECB Marketing Manager, Stuart Robertson, said: “The NatWest Challenge is a new competition and we are delighted that it has generated such strong demand for tickets from the public. With capacity crowds at each venue, it promises to be an exciting addition to the international cricket calendar.”
thanks for the update ehsan bhia..
so wat do u tppl think.. who will win this cup??
although we hav new players in the team but i think they r in good shape.. lets see..
so when the game will start in eastern time??
It starts at 1.30 GMT, which is 9.30 am New York time.
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It starts at 1.30 GMT, which is 9.30 am New York time.
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Nah... it will be 0830 EST.
Anybody have an idea of what the capacity at these stadiums in England are?
Are they like Soccer sized or in the 20,000 range?
^ I believe 'Lords' has the largest capacity - 28000.
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..... but I think England will make a clean sweep of it i.e. 3/0....
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Brilliant..
Insha-Allah.
Who is broadcasting the match?
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:D
**Miandad autobiography resurrects match-fixing scandal **
Wisden CricInfo staff - June 16, 2003
Ahead of the one-day NatWest Challenge series against England, Pakistan’s coach Javed Miandad has resurrected the spectre of match-fixing, insinuating in his recently released biography that a game against England , just before the 1999 World Cup, may have been fixed.
In the “Coaching Pakistan” chapter of Cutting Edge, Miandad recollects being “livid” at Pakistan, chasing 207 for a win, being skittled out for only 144. “It was a pathetic performance in cricketing terms, which was bad enough, but with all the talk of betting syndicates … and with match-fixing allegations swirling … I was also concerned that our performance may have had little to do with cricket.”
Pakistan had already lost two overs due to their slow over-rate, and apart from an unbeaten 47 from Salim Malik - who himself was implicated in the match-fixing controversy - few contributions emerged from a strong batting line-up. Mark Ealham took 4 for 30 in 10 overs of medium-pace, earning him the Man-of-the-Match award.
“During the dinner interval … I received some telephone calls from people who said they were certain my team would not overhaul England’s total and would end up collapsing for a low score,” writes Miandad. “I called the boys in for an urgent meeting and confronted them … I made them swear on the Holy Quran. They said they knew nothing.”
He continues: “As the wickets began to fall, I still kept giving explicit technical instructions to each of the batsmen before he was due to go in, but no-one followed any of the instructions I had given. They played like undisciplined amateurs, getting out to irresponsible shots.”
Miandad added that after that debacle, his lecture about trust and honesty achieved his aim of getting the team focussed on the cricket, enabling Pakistan to “blast away” India in the final.
** Pak captain, manager brush aside tabloid story **
KARACHI: Pakistan manager Haroon Rasheed and captain Rashid Latif insisted on Monday that the raking up of the match-fixing issue again would not affect the team’s confidence in the NatWest Challenge series against England starting on Tuesday (today).
Haroon and Rashid told ‘The News’ from Manchester that a story carried by tabloid ‘The Mail on Sunday,’ had not affected the spirit of the team. The paper carried a story that former captain Javed Miandad had said that Pakistan might have deliberately lost a One-day International against England in Sharjah prior to the 1999 World Cup. The timing of the story suggested that it was yet another attempt by the tabloid press to create dissension in the touring side and cause mental anguish.
Quoting from his autobiography ‘Cutting Edge,’ ‘The Mail’ said Miandad claimed that concerns over the conduct of his team in the match on April 12, 1999, led him to resign as coach just a month before the World Cup. It also said that Miandad’s claim backed up allegations about the Sharjah game made earlier by current captain Rashid Latif. Pakistan lost that game by 62 runs.
“We are not bothered about the story. The match-fixing issue is now history and whatever happened was in the past,” said Rashid. “For me the match-fixing issue in Pakistan died the day the Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum Commission submitted its report. If Miandad has written something in his book it is about the past not present, so why should it bother anyone now including our players?”
Rashid said that the fact that the International Cricket Council (ICC) had set up the Anti-corruption Unit proved that they’d accepted the existence of the match-fixing problem. “But now it’s the ICC who’re handling everything and they’ve measures in place to curb the problem. We’re here to play cricket and everybody has been told to just concentrate on the game.”
Haroon said the players were focussed on the series and since most of them were young they’re not even interested or affected by what the paper had reported. “The team spirit has been excellent with everybody adjusting well. We’ve not had a single case of disciplinary problem. If we keep our fighting spirit the team can surprise a lot of people in the one-day series.”
Miandad, the highest run-scorer in Pakistan’s Test history, says in his book that he was “concerned that our performance may have had little to do with cricket.” According to the report, Miandad claims that during the interval between innings, he received telephone calls which suggested his players might have been bribed to lose the match. “I called them to swear on the Holy Qur’aan; they said they knew nothing. It ended up being a turbulent team meeting during which some of the senior players were especially riled up.”
“Pakistan will be wanting revenge” James Anderson’s
“Pakistan Will be Wanting Revenge” James Anderson](BBC SPORT | Cricket | Pressure on both sides)
On Tuesday I will be playing in front of my home supporters at Old Trafford for the first time in an international, and I hope I can do something special for them.
It’s a day-night match against Pakistan, the same team we beat under lights in Cape Town during the World Cup.
It’s a bit of an advantage bowling at night because later on the ball seems to do more for bowlers like me who swing it.
Prior to the World Cup, I had played a couple of matches for Lancashire under lights.
We had always bowled first so I never had the chance to use the conditions before the match in Cape Town, but it seemed to suit me alright!
I think Pakistan will be wanting revenge against England because we beat them so convincingly that night.
They have got a new-look side as well so they will be looking to impress and may not feel they have much to lose. Really there’s a lot of pressure on all of us.
We’ve got a bit of footage of them from when they played in May against New Zealand in Sri Lanka so we have a bit of an idea of what we are going to get.
But I am sure they will still be something of a surprise package for us.
There are a lot of new faces in our own team and on Saturday we played together for the first time against Wales.
For me personally it went OK. I didn’t bowl brilliantly but I didn’t bowl badly either.
It was good for the team to get to know each other.
I was at the academy with people like Jim Troughton and Kabir Ali but there were a few guys in the team who had not played with them before.
Wales had beaten England last year so we were really up for that match on Saturday - we wanted to get our own back.
The Welsh were very competitive all the way through and in the end we did very well to win.
Incredible
It’s exciting for me, being quite inexperienced, to share the new ball with Darren Gough. He is someone I can really learn from in the weeks to come.
He has been opening the attack for England ever since I’ve been watching cricket. It’s incredible really to be standing at the opposite end from him.
We have a very busy summer ahead of us still but that’s the way international cricket is now. Australia were in the West Indies just days after winning the World Cup.
I would be a bit disappointed if I was ever rested for a game but I suppose in the long run if it’s going to benefit me and England then I would be happy to do it.