Re: Pakistan vs West Indies: 1st Test @ Barbados
Look at the test results of Australia and India, the dominant bowler from Pakistan was Danish Kaneria followed by Shoaib Akhter (Australia). Afridi can be affective in limited over matches, but can run dry when he has to bowl long spells. Yet, on his day he can be quite affective and this WI squad does hv quite a few chinks in its armour.
As for the Indian dismissal in the third test, well one can say flukes happen, but that wudnt be fair. Lets take a look at the bowling stats for these three test matches.
Danish kaneria played all three matches and took 19 wickets in total (6.33/match).
Mohammed Sami also played all three matches and took 10 wickets in total (3.33/match)
Razak Bhai played al three and took 7wickest in total (2.33/match)
Shahid Afridi played two tests and took a total of 8 wickets (4/match)
Arshad Khan played the last match and took two wickets
Rana played the first only and claimed just one wicket for 133 runs.
What does this mean? Danish is the real weapon Pakis hv, Sami is not fit and Shaibee aint in the team. Therefore, we r left to the same old strategy which Bob and his merry men applied in the Indigo land, Bat it out so the chances of defeat are reduced and lets hope these guys collapse cause we sure aint gonna get them out with this bowling attack…
Finally, you are not giving the South African bowlers the respect they hv earned in recent times. Andrew Nel, Nitini, Pollock are world class bowlers and proven match winners, not like our air bags of one day series…