Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
**Pakistan announce their final team 24 hours in advance:
Pakistan: Imran Farhat, Salman Butt, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Yousuf (capt), Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Danish Kaneria, and Mohammad Asif.**
Akmal, Faisal, misbah and Sami have been dropped for Malik, Manzoor, sarfraz and Aamir.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
such is the shortage of quality batsmen in our middle order that I Cannot even say bringing Malik is a good decision! Lets see how they fare.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
i don't know why they are not dropping Gul who is not bowling into the wickets ....... Sami was a good choice ......
such is the shortage of quality batsmen in our middle order that I Cannot even say bringing Malik is a good decision! Lets see how they fare.
As I said earlier, a failure being replaced by a failure. Seems like a never ending cycle.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
when is it starting?
As I said earlier, a failure being replaced by a failure. Seems like a never ending cycle.
The cupboard is empty.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
I wouldnt have replaced Sami with Aamir, rather than Aamir with Gul. Sami and Aamir would have been more explosive than medicore test level bowling of Gul.
The biggest win for Pakistan in this match, would be Sarfarz taking an amazing catch. That dude would be in the heat and pressure to perform. Hopefully his jet lag will be over by now.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
Malik's exclusion was expected, but Khurram Manzoor is a surprise since Faisal Iqbal had performed reasonably under the circumstances.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
in an unprecedented move, Pakistani playing XI was announced a day earlier I guess to coupe up with the moron akaml's everyday press briefing ...
I wouldnt have replaced Sami with Aamir, rather than Aamir with Gul. Sami and Aamir would have been more explosive than medicore test level bowling of Gul.
The biggest win for Pakistan in this match, would be Sarfarz taking an amazing catch. That dude would be in the heat and pressure to perform. Hopefully his jet lag will be over by now.
No, but both Aamir and Sami are too similar in that both do rely on the ball moving in the air to a certain extent. Having them both in the team probably doesn't give you the best bowling balance. Gul, though less than stellar he has been, does give you a hit-the-deck bowler that can get some more bounce with his height and perhaps some sideways movement off the deck.
I have mixed feelings about this Test. On one hand, the series is lost and gone, as is most of the country's cricketing dignity, especially here down under. Even the West Indies showed more steel and fight despite their inferior talent in the bowling department.
On the other hand, a test match in Aus isn't played everyday and, as heartbreaking as it was, no one can say the last test was boring. In many ways, it was a reminder of how great the game is in its original form and I only hope the wicket is as sporting at Bellerive.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
Yousuf not a captaincy material
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Yousuf's captaincy in wake of Sydney debacle and the issues with the Pakistan cricket team.
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Transcript of Cricinfo Program
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Harsha Bhogle: Ever since Imran Khan stopped being captain of Pakistan, the leadership has been a huge issue, suddenly Younis is there one day and then the next day he is not there. There is Mohammad Yousuf in there at the moment, and his captaincy came in for a lot of criticism, Sanjay your thoughts?
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Sanjay Manjrekar: I am going to deflect that question straight to Australia, because I think Ian Chappell feels very strongly about Mohammad Yousuf's captaincy.
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Ian Chappell: Yes, the criticism was well deserved. And I don't think that Mohammad Yousuf is captaincy material. When selectors are appointing a captain, one of the things that they need to look for is a guy who is going to be buoyed by the responsibility, and not weighed down by it. And I see Mohammad Yousuf as a man who is weighed down by it. I think he did quite a good job in the first innings, and for the first few days of the match. He did a good job in Melbourne.I was in the commentary box for the start of the fourth and the final day, and in the first over I said - if you want blueprint to how to lose a Test match when you have done everything but win it, this is it. If Pakistan keep going down this path, then it won't surprise me if they lose. In the end, they lost and it was a debacle.
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Sure, a lot of the blame has to go to Kamram Akmal for dropping the catches. I mean, the second catch of the three that he dropped of Hussey … My daughter just had twins, and they are about 11 months, and I would be disappointed if Charlie, the boy in those twins, dropped that catch at 11 months. It was just a bobble up in the air from about three feet to metre. So he has got to take lot of blame.
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Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
HB: What’s that line that they say about a team of lambs led by a lion being better than a team of lions lead by a lamb. But do you feel a little bit for Yousuf? He is very happy doing his own thing, he is a classy batsman, Pakistan desperately need a batsman. Can you sometimes lose a batsman by making him the captain?
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SM: Pakistan’s problem over the years, after Imran Khan, has been to find the right leader. Unfortunately, perhaps their system doesn’t throw up personalities who are good leaders. Younis Khan is the best of the lot. I was watching day three, Pakistan had a huge advantage in the Test match, and I said, Pakistan is in front but Australia will win this Test match. I had not anticipated Mohammad Yousuf’s tactics. So I look at Pakistan from a larger perspective, and I see a cricket team that lacks self belief, and doesn’t believe that it can win.
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HB: Cricinfo has got it’s very hardworking reporter in Australia, Osman Samiuddin. His heart beats for Pakistan, as it should be and he had his own little take on Mohammad Yousuf.
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Osman Samiuddin: When I saw him at the press conference, he looked disappointed then. But it was after that when myself and a couple of other Pakistani journalists took him aside, and it was then that I sensed how shattered Mohammad Yousuf was. I think a lot of criticism that he received was probably justified, but when you sit and talk to him and try and understand why such a loss comes about, it’s then it really hit home. I don’t think Yousuf understood, even then. I asked him about the defensive field settings and the attitude with which Pakistan came out on the field, but he did not think that it was a big point.
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It was just a tactical failing. There is a lot of criticism, and everyone in Pakistan is up in arms about this. Presidential spokesman are passing statements about this, appealing for calm in the aftermath of this. People are, predictably, calling for everyone’s head, including Yousuf himself. Which is okay, I can understand that to an extent. But when you see it at a human level - someone who has made such a big mistake, and it’s just about settling in, and at that moment you don’t even know whether it has hit him as to what has happened. To lose a Test from such a position, it is a very rare thing that you see in Test cricket. And most of the Australians understand that the Test was handed to them rather than them having won it.
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It was very affecting thing to just see Yousuf trying to come to terms with defeat, and he did say very sensible things. I can understand the criticism that it there, but I felt for him a little as well. But, he was tactically short, naïve, and that is a mistake, it’s a failing; and it gets punished in the modern world of sport. It’s something that he understands now that he might not ever live down, and god only knows what is going through the minds of the likes of Kamran Akmal, who played such a central part in that huge loss.
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HB: There is one this about Pakistan that I relate a great deal to India. Most teams that win, have a culture of winning, they have certain process, and I know the word process has lost its meaning because it has been overused such a lot. But I think teams like India, Pakistan, to a lesser extent Sri Lanka, and to a greater extent Bangladesh, we thrive in chaos. And sometimes we seek chaos in order to do well. When there is a structure or format, we don’t seem to be able to do well. So I sometimes think that it is Pakistan’s strength and failing as well. The chaos throws up a Wasim Akram, the chaos throws up a Mohammad Aamer now, but the chaos doesn’t allow you to win more consistently.
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HB: There is one this about Pakistan that I relate a great deal to India. Most teams that win, have a culture of winning, they have certain process, and I know the word process has lost its meaning because it has been overused such a lot. But I think teams like India, Pakistan, to a lesser extent Sri Lanka, and to a greater extent Bangladesh, we thrive in chaos. And sometimes we seek chaos in order to do well. When there is a structure or format, we don't seem to be able to do well. So I sometimes think that it is Pakistan's strength and failing as well. The chaos throws up a Wasim Akram, the chaos throws up a Mohammad Aamer now, but the chaos doesn't allow you to win more consistently.
Harsha's last comment is the best piece in the whole discussion for me....and mighty true as well!
I mean 'chaos' is the first word that comes to mind when one talks about desis in general....be it traffic, public transport, politics within a desi organisation etc.
The converse holds true for goras. PROFESSIONALISM (Discipline and organisation) best describes their way of life
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
Maulvi toss karne se pehla bimillah nahin parta kya? hamesha harta hay
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
phenti shuru!
He should’ve practiced like Inzi used to do 
4.5 Mohammad Asif to Watson, 1 run, back to a short ball, attempted hook that goes horribly wrong, it goes off his glove high in the air behind square on the off side, two Pakistani fielders, Imran Farhat and Khurram Manzoor, run hard underneath the flight of the ball, colliding into each other as the ball drops in front of them
I wanna see the video of that, looks like cartoon movie to me.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
1st wickut Simon goes back to pavillion.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, Hobart Jan 14-18, 2010
First wicket falls....Katich gone LBW Asif good delivery