Many old cricketers are saying this that since Pakistan is missing two A’s and considering the pitches in WI, they should attack with Spin bowling.
Specially seeing some recent batting of Aussies against spin, we know they can struggle against spin. So what do you think? Maybe Pak can go spin heavy against such team, although I would not want to weaken my batting at any cost now.
thoughts?
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we need Mohamad Asif and get rid of RANA JI he cant do **** lol... Rana ji is only good for score khaing
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ji very much to your title 
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I should have posted : "No Hollowman allowed to Post"
in the title.
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^ ya please only once 
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Fast bowlers are OK to start for any team during first 15.
(1)Just stick to line and length...
(2) no need for innovative bowling in One Day game.
(3) If team field placement is off-side..why to waste even a single bowl, bowling on leg side?
(4) No short pitch bowls.
(5) Avoid giving room to a batsmen
summary: maintain the Line and Length..that's it!
I hope our Indian bowlers will follow this :)
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Many old cricketers are saying this that since Pakistan is missing two A's and considering the pitches in WI, they should attack with Spin bowling.
Yes, these old cricketers should be attacked by the spinners.
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^ funny you say that....
none of them had to play cricket in todays era....yet they keep making these suggestions of how others should bat or bowl....
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ofcourse they should but not at the cost of sacrificing batsmen. When Afridi is back then Malik,Hafeez and Afridi will be handful.
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AA we have no option really but to boost our batting and attack with three seamers (Sami, Gul and Azhar) and three spinners (Afridi, Malik and Hafeez) i.e. 6 bowlers to share the 50 overs among them.
**We know our bowling is weak in this tournament. **
So the issue really is our batting. All our main batsmen must realise that they have to score big in every game or just forget about winning any games in the super-eight round
So my team when everyone’s available
Hafeez
Imran Nazir
Younis
Yousuf
Inzamam
Malik
Afridi
Akmal
Azhar
Sami &
Gul
This team bats well down to 9 (Sami is no mug either)
In the absence of a match-winning bowling attack we really do need to bat deep (till 9 that is). In the game against WI our batting effectively finished at 7 and we all know what happened.
I am losing my top here but our blo**y openers MUST give us decent starts i.e. 50-60 runs atleast (is that asking too much?) for our experienced middle and late middle-order to click.
And I am not convinced that Kaneria is needed in ODIs. He leaks too many runs (for that reason I won’t play Rana chacha either) and isn’t really a proven match-winner in ODIs. If either of the two Hafeez or Nazir fails consistently then a case could be made for dropping one of them and sending Akmal or Malik to open the innings AND playing Kaneria.
In summary: Pakistan needs to score big in the absence of a match-winning bowling attack](http://www.geopakistani.net/gpforums/showthread.php?t=25695)
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azhar (don't start jumping on me, hold on) should open and here is why?
We need someone to stay on the wicket and hold one end. Of all the current players, Azhar has more reasons to stay.
He needs his confidence back and the best way to get it, is to stay on the wkt for as long as possible.
He needs to prove the critics wrong. So lets give him time and space to do that. Its better than sending him in the end overs merely for slogging.
The more he stays, the better he gets. plus one wicket stays safe. Who has more reasons to stay on the wicket?
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Ye din bi aagaye hain ke India ki fast bowling resources teek hain or humaray bowling stars part-time spinners hain.
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I withdraw this thread.
I believe Pakistan just needs to attack . Period.
With a game plan in mind, use the best option available and attack. That means Inzi batting up in the order, Younis opening, and etc.
The reason is our Captain is already in the “lets just focus on the next 2 matches” mindset.
He is crawling back into isolation IMHO from the team by making such negative comments. He should say we will win and you will see a changed plan from the next match. I mean this is the same team that can post 300+ on good days. So how are these pitches any different then india or SL? or even Pakistan. Come on.
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why did abdul razzaq have to go and get injured as well?? his absence seriously upset the team balance, and pakistan should now play the following once afridi's ban is over:
mohammad hafeez
malik
younis khan
inzi
yousuf
afridi
akmal
azhar
arafat
sami
gul
that gives us 5 allrounders, and sami being no mug either, our batting would be going down to atleast 9 that way...and yasir has a first class hundred, and about 23 first class 50's, so he can bat for sure...and the guy is a pretty decent bowler...
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the cricninfo staffs profile on yasir:
"Yasir Arafat is an all-rounder of typically Pakistani ethos; ideal for ODI cricket but also you suspect capable of occasionally critical feats in Test matches, though he is yet to play one. He is useful as a lower-order plunderer - he averages nearly 27 at first-class level though his bowling remains much his stronger suit.
His type of straight, full, skiddy bowling courtesy a slingy action accounted for Andrew Flintoff's wicket at an ODI in Karachi in December 2005. It has also helped him to nine wickets against England in a warm-up game earlier during the same series and it once accounted for five wickets in six balls in a domestic game in December 2004 (four of the five were either leg-before or bowled), a feat performed by only three other bowlers. He can generate pace and when conditions are helpful, swing.
He has good experience of English conditions; having played league cricket and for Scotland, he was recruited by Sussex in the 2006 Championship season. In his first three games, he took 17 wickets with two five-wicket hauls as well as scoring a couple of fifties. He has been on the fringes of the Pakistan squad for a number of years thoughj given the allrounders ahead of him - Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi and even Shoaib Malik - he isn't likely to become a permanent member anytime soon."
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Pakistan should attack with ghorrays and khachars...they already have one khachar (Rana) in the lineup...
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Pakistan should attack with ghorrays and khachars...they already have one khachar (Rana) in the lineup...
Who are the 'ghorrays' ?