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*Official* Pakistan in Sri Lanka
- Thread starter Xuhaib
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Noble One
International Vice-Captain
Terrific bowling from the Sri Lankan seamers. Kulasekara, Malinga and Thushara is a good mix. The dependeble seamer, the slingy speedster and the swing of the left armer.
If ever Shahid Afridi after 277 ODI games has grown any brains, now is the time to show it.
If ever Shahid Afridi after 277 ODI games has grown any brains, now is the time to show it.
Migara
International Coach
This is apalling batting from both sides except possiblt Sanga (1st match), Kapugedara and Samaraweera. Still they are also not up to the mark. They should ask Aravinda how to play on these kind s of tracks which resemble mid 90s pitches, where ODIs have been truely thrilling.
Fusion
Global Moderator
Congratulations to SL on dominating the whole tour! They deserved to win the Test and ODI series'. As Xuhaib mentioned, it was a depressing tour for Pakistan. I suppose there was to be some rustiness expected in the Test series, though it also carried over to ODI’s. I hope we give the proper support/coaching to the young talent we have and slowly build for the future.
AaronK
State Regular
wow surprisingly this time when the bating did better the bowling and fielding let them down..
this is my personal opinion... people may dissagree.. I think pakistan needs a batting coach.. Maybe if they could get Javid Miandad for this job...I think he is the only one who could fix the the batting technics of some of these young batsmans...throughout the tournment the fast bowlers bowled very well and the credit could go to Aqib Jawid..their spin bowling has been brillient.. even Danish Kaneria did very well on his single test that he played... this credit goes to Intekhab Alam.. the Batting keeps failing and failing.. maybe they need a batting coach..
this is my personal opinion... people may dissagree.. I think pakistan needs a batting coach.. Maybe if they could get Javid Miandad for this job...I think he is the only one who could fix the the batting technics of some of these young batsmans...throughout the tournment the fast bowlers bowled very well and the credit could go to Aqib Jawid..their spin bowling has been brillient.. even Danish Kaneria did very well on his single test that he played... this credit goes to Intekhab Alam.. the Batting keeps failing and failing.. maybe they need a batting coach..
Fusion
Global Moderator
^ Javed will never take the post because he'll consider being a batting coach a demotion. At this point, I don't think Javed will even agree to the Coach's job. I think nothing short of PCB Chairman will suffice. So someone else needs to be recruited. I'm at a loss for a good candidate within Pakistan.
Faisal1985
International Vice-Captain
I personally think SL bowled expectionally well and triggered various batting collapses for Pakistan. However, i am not going to deny a gut feeling about Misbah and Malik underperforming intentionally. Its a long history of Pak cricket that their have been groups with in the team and these groupings have caused great harm in the past...
Xuhaib
International Coach
Dude we were crap just admit it.
Pakistan handling of Kulasakera has been comical sure he has bowled but the way they kept getting out to the same ball game after game was embarrasing, a slight adjustment in their stance would have done them a world of good all they did was stay rooted to the crease and were dead as a duck when the ball hit their pads.
BhupinderSingh
Banned
If you really watched all the matches,ask your conscience if what Faisal1985 said is totally wrong?
Now,even Abdul Qadir has advised the board to do a thorough inquiry.
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Fusion
Global Moderator
So was EVERYONE in the batting lineup underperforming on purpose? No one had a stellar series. I think it’s silly to suggest they purposely underperformed because of factionalism in the team. How assured are guys like Malik and Misbah of their spot on the team? How can they wager they’ll still have a spot in the team if they suck it up? It would be awesomely stupid on anyone’s part to bet they can get away with underperforming (so Younis can be axed as Captain?) without losing their spot in the lineup.
Xuhaib
International Coach
Abdul Qadir is Sarfraz Nawaz mark II.
Sometimes its good to admit that Pakistan is just good enough. Pakistan has remained barely competitve in this decade due to the heroics of Inzi,Yusuf nd Younis. The only time the team has looked world class for a brief period is when these 3 were backed by Shoaib and Asif with Kaneria and Akmal enjoy their peak form apart from this the results has been largely patchy.
Guys like Misbah, Malik and Butt are limited and they were found out in seaming conditions and unfortunatley both Younis and Yusuf had their first bad series in 4 years and the problems compounded.