Re: South Africa vs Pakistan, 1st Test, 11th-15th January init
When England Won test series in SA couple of years ago, Their Top scorer was Strauss(a left hander), Against that Australian side against whom they have now lost 5 tests out of 6, included 4 left handers in top 7 . Even India had only 1 left hander in the side and, he top scored yeah his name is Sourav GANGULY!!!!!! Last time when pakistan went for 2 tests, Their top scorer was a left hander (Taufiq Umer) Last time when SA came to Pakistan, 3 top batsmen from Pakistan in that series were all left hander(Taufiq and Farhat,who had 3 consective 100+ runs opening partnerships and asim kamal who scored 99 on dabut). Pollock in 2006,against right handers 16 [email protected] against left handers 3 wickets @113 Ntini in 2006 right handers 37 [email protected] Left handers 21 [email protected] Also remember Gayle ,Chanderpaul,s Opening stand against them in CTT,Gayle has also a Triple Ton against them. So I think they should play more left handers in the side in SA especially Asim Kamal, Because it,s quite clear from these stats that SA bowlers tend to struggle against left handers,Last 2 sides to win Test series in SA (i.e AUS and ENG)had both Left handed batsmen as their Openers. One Funny thing is that out of 11 matches that Pakistan have played against SA before this series, INZI have played 9 ,Pakistan won NONE of them,And he has missed 2 and pakistan won BOTH!!!!!!!!!