Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
so all Aus need now is 100 runs in 2nd inning that will give them 205 runs. I am sure Aus are more than capable of making more than 100 even if they collapse ...
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
The first bowl from Amer and a boundary for Watson ...
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Aus in a mood to take a commanding lead ...
Aus in a mood to take a commanding lead ...
even if they weren't in the mood, Pakistan didn't leave them with any other option :D
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
I guess Aus wants to set a target of 300+ for Pakistan, lets hope the rain may help Pakistan ...
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
These Australians are ruthless. Even though everyone knows Pakistan won't make 200 in second innings, yet Ponting will try to give us a 350-400 run target to chase. For once, I'd like to see Australia declare at 100, thus giving us a competitive target of around 200.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Was the decision of Afridi to put Aus into bat after winning the toss was rite?
Also, there was no responsbility in the batting line-up from the Paki players except Salman Butt ... I dont think there was any need for Afridi to play quick inning as he was leading the side and playing a test match not a one-day or a T20 ...
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
^ Why would he want to make a match out of it? I doubt any captain would wanna do that.
These Australians are ruthless. Even though everyone knows Pakistan won't make 200 in second innings, yet Ponting will try to give us a 350-400 run target to chase. For once, I'd like to see Australia declare at 100, thus giving us a competitive target of around 200.
you believe 200 would be competitive? I'd go for around 125 or so. In other words Aus should declare right now :)
PS: On serious note, they have 3 days to kill us. I am sure they will declare by EOD tomorrow with around 400+ lead
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
My concern is feeling the responsibility, he could have played a good inning and stayed at the wicket ... but again, what he did ?
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Shane Watson was Australia's unlikely star with the ball, as he became the first name to be inscribed on the newly unveiled neutral honours board with a career-best haul of 5 for 40, to roll Pakistan aside for 148 on the second afternoon at Lord's. Bowling with a hint of movement on a nagging wicket-to-wicket length, Watson ripped through the lower middle-order after Ben Hilfenhaus had prised open the top, with only Salman Butt and Shahid Afridi providing any measure of resistance, albeit in dramatically differing styles.
After a total of 20 wickets in a fraction over five sessions, the match was hurtling along at a breakneck speed, and thanks to some ropey Pakistan resistance in bowler-friendly conditions, Australia's first-innings 253 was suddenly looking a formidable total. Although Butt did his best to keep his team-mates on track, bedding in for 63 from 94 balls after launching the innings midway through the morning session, he was eventually the ninth man out, five minutes before the tea interval.
With heavy cloud cover and a regular threat of rain, the conditions were once again perfect for seam and swing bowling, and Australia's four-man attack did not disappoint, even though it took a few exploratory overs with the new ball before Ricky Ponting found the right ends to suit the respective merits of his players.
In the morning session, Hilfenhaus was the pick of the bowlers by a distance, as he attacked the stumps of the left-handed openers with a full inswinging length. Having started his work from the Pavilion End, Hilfenhaus switched to the Nursery after two overs and made an instant impact as he nipped an off-stump delivery up the slope to snag the edge of Imran Farhat's bat, for the wicketkeeper Tim Paine to collect the first catch of his Test career.
With the incision made, Australia scarcely looked back, although Butt at least provided Pakistan with ballast at one end of the pitch, as he guarded his off stump with diligent strides down the pitch while cashing in on regular width to crash 12 fours, the vast majority through the arc between third man and extra cover. But without the legendary middle-order stalwarts, Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan, the rest of the side lacked the experience to master the conditions, and were duly scythed down by the Aussie seamers.
Azhar Ali was the first of two debutants to have his mettle tested. He got off the mark with a second-ball single through the covers, and picked off two fours behind square on the off and leg side as he pursued a safety-first approach in his maiden innings. But with five minutes to go until lunch, Hilfenhaus beat him with some extra lift outside off, and Paine was on hand to claim his second victim.
Umar Ali replaced him at No. 4, and having waited for the entire lunch break to face his first ball in Test cricket, which was dabbed to fine leg for a single, he was then made to wait a further 50 minutes for his second, as the umpires took the players off for bad light after a single over of the session. When play eventually resumed, Umar lasted just two more deliveries, as Mitchell Johnson grazed his edge with an off-stump lifter, to bring to an end one of the more staccato debuts of all time.
Thereafter it was all about Watson, who was thrown the ball after six overs of resistance from Butt and Umar Akmal, and struck in his first over as Akmal completely misjudged a straight delivery and was nailed plumb lbw for 5. In Watson's next over, his brother Kamran Akmal fared even worse, as he inexplicably padded up on the line of middle stump, and was sent on his way for a duck.
At 83 for 5, the captain, Afridi responded as only he knows how, lashing four fours and two sixes from Watson's next ten deliveries, before aiming another massive mow across the line, and steepling a massive top-edge to Johnson at mid-on. He had gone for a crazy 31 from 15 balls, and when Mohammad Aamer poked Doug Bollinger to slip for a second-ball duck, Pakistan were in freefall at 117 for 7.
Umar Gul followed suit three overs later as Bollinger switched his line to round the wicket, before Watson capped a remarkable session by swinging a yorker through Butt's hitherto obdurate defences. Five balls after tea, Danish Kaneria dabbed Watson to Steven Smith at third slip to complete an historic haul.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Okay, the collision was created by Ponting and not Aamer..
Still..
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The match referee Chris Broad has advised Mohammad Aamer to take care when celebrating wickets, but no official action was taken after a clash between the bowler and Ricky Ponting on the first day at Lord's. As Aamer was following through having had Ponting caught at short leg, he ran close to the batsman and contact was made.
It was not the first time on this trip that Aamer collided with a batsman after dismissing him. In the second Twenty20 at Edgbaston, he leapt with such exuberance while celebrating the removal of Michael Clarke that he lost control and crashed into the batsman, although he immediately apologised.
Broad said there was no reason to take official action over the Aamer-Ponting incident, but he was keen to ensure there were no further repeats. The umpires spoke to the Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi after the collision and Broad raised the issue with Aamer and the team coach Waqar Younis at the close of play.
"Aamer is a young, exciting, talented player full of enthusiasm for this great sport and that is to be celebrated and nurtured," Broad said. "But there are a few things he still has to learn in relation to how to conduct himself on the field of play.
"I told him that when he takes a wicket, he should celebrate with his team-mates rather than getting himself into the personal space of the outgoing batsman. It's a spirit of cricket issue.
"It has happened twice now so we as a playing control team thought it would be sensible for me to have a word with him. He accepted it graciously and undertook to avoid a repeat occurrence. As far as we are concerned the issue is now closed."
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Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
What happened to seam and swing we saw earlier? 
Aus already has lead of 156 with 20+ overs remaining today. So we are looking at a lead of 200+ by the end of D2.
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
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they are wasting the deliveries.. too much out side off.. :(
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Its the luck that favouring Australians today ...
How can we draw this match
a) Pray for rain
b) Pick a fight with the umpire or someone in the crowd
c) Change the playing eleven for the second innings.
d) Seek forgiveness from the Aussies
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
Finally, Asif takes the wicket of Watson, out of 31 of 51 balls ...
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
I failed to understand why our bowlers are not attacking the stumps and bowling way out ..
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
^ mainay bhi to yehi kaha tha 
Re: Pakistan vs Australia - First Test (July 13-17)
wtf edges going to boundaries..