Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Well I don't understand this.. Pakistan' isn't taking any chances making runs runs because the ball is old and is swinging. Pretty soon the new ball will be due and Pakistan will slow down even more because, well, the ball is new.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Misbah, just dropped by Ponting at 2nd slip.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
rare drop by ponting.... Misbah survives...
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Farhat's butteriness rubbing off on Ponting... awesome!!! Hope some of his batting skills rub off on Ponting too.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Channel Nine is Showing Rawalpindi Express,, An excellent blst form the past highlights of Shoaib Akhter.... lovely to watch ten years old cricket team of Pakistan.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
^^^
at the last tour in aus akhtar ripped through hayden many time........Akhtar is un comparable at least if he plays the match pak wins it.......he is a match winner
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Let's count the runs Aamir gets against the new ball and if he scores more than Farhat, let's have him open the innings and make room for another batsman in our team.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Maybe not...
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
So we are going to have follow-on 
Akmal gone on 12 runs… Pakistan reeling at 215/7.
if I were Yousuf, I'd talk to Ponting and ask him if it'd be cool if instead of Farhat, Butt and Iqbal batting their turns, Yousuf, Umar and Kamran got two turns instead...
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
Stupid Kamran Akmal ..... Just 39 needed to avoid follow on he cant control his shorts ... we have to avoid the follow on somehow ..... else no hope whatsoever
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
yeh dono bhayon ko jaldee kiss baat kee hai... really.. dont they have any nerve to play like a test is suppose to be played... I dont think Umer Akmal will be able to prolong his career in this fashion, a quick fire fifty odd runs and then he gets out cheaply....
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
I fail to understand why cant you juts hit 1 FOUR? Is is MANDATORY to hit four in PAIRS? at least Kamran (and to some Extent Umer) do that.
you can't blame the Akmal bros. that's how they play... and they've done well with it. the problem is the trash around them. Yousuf and Misbah are class and pretty good respectively but seem to have had a bad run recently.
but what about the other clowns? what the hell are the three morons that are Farhat, Butt and Iqbal doing in the team? I think by the end of the series, Aamer will have outscored the three clowns combined. argh...
you can't blame the Akmal bros. that's how they play... and they've done well with it. the problem is the trash around them. Yousuf and Misbah are class and pretty good respectively but seem to have had a bad run recently.
but what about the other clowns? what the hell are the three morons that are Farhat, Butt and Iqbal doing in the team? I think by the end of the series, Aamer will have outscored the three clowns combined. argh...
Other have already got the fair share of criticism . Akmal brothers cant be let of by saying "this is how they play". Then we should get Imran Nazir and Afridi in the playing eleven too. OK I can give Umer a benefit of doubt that he is NEW to test cricket but Kamran is on field for long enough time ..... he should act responsibily...
we have been told from the days of street cricket that first goal in chase is to avoid the follow on and then re access the situation. You ask any kid on tape-ball cricket street he will tell u this ..
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
^^ Yess... agreed...
8th down now.. I think MIsbah will go for the overkill to overcome the deficit and avoid the follow on..
Other have already got the fair share of criticism . Akmal brothers cant be let of by saying "this is how they play". Then we should get Imran Nazir and Afridi in the playing eleven too. OK I can give Umer a benefit of doubt that he is NEW to test cricket but Kamran is on field for long enough time ..... he should act responsibily...
we have been told from the days of street cricket that first goal in chase is to avoid the follow on and then re access the situation. You ask any kid on tape-ball cricket street he will tell u this ..
did you seriously compare the Akmal bros to brain-dead morons like Nazir and Afridi?
the reason why I'm not complaining about the Akmals is because the two have practically scored all our runs in the last few matches. they deserve some slack...
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
MIsbah should not have taken the single on the 3rd ball of the over... if Asif gets out in this over, Misbah would be blamed like anything..
Stupid Kamran Akmal ..... Just 39 needed to avoid follow on he cant control his shorts ... we have to avoid the follow on somehow ..... else no hope whatsoever
Guys, how many times do I have to repeat myself.... there will be NO FOLLOW ON regardless of whether Pakistan gets to 254 or not. Ponting always likes to bat a second time and then set a target.
Re: Pakistan v Australia 1st Test Melbourne , Dec 26-30
^^^... See that was Misbah's mistake to take a single on the rhid ball of the over... ASif cant play that kind of bowling from Aussies...