*Official* Double Match Day - Australia v Pakistan (30th Sept)

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Asif is bowling absolutely terribly. No rhythm, most balls in the high 120s and he's scattering them all over the place.

 

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Shows how little I follow these sort of ODI tourneys, but can someone possibly tell me how the **** Md. Asif is eligible to play for Pakistan anytime before about 2012?

Beats me.

But if NZ faces Pakistan in the semis and he bowls 10 overs of these pies I won't be complaining.

 

[Matt79]

I was going to ask whether Pakistan are REALLY so keen to see India eliminated from the tournament that they'd throw a match to ensure it occurs. 205/6 with Brett Lee going for only 30 off his ten overs is a strange one - especially as the pitch doesn't seem to be creating any difficulties for Watto atm...

 

[Noble One]

Interested to see how Australia approach the Pakistan spinners. Remains a massive weakness is our inability to milk runs off the spinners, Ajmal tormented us in the UAE.

Ripping start from the openers. Super impressed by Paine, few outside of Australia would have heard of Paine before the ODI's in England. The only glaring weakness exposed thus far is that he does play the odd rash shot, a weakness that can be ironed out.

 

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Who's this commentator? "England were really unfortunate to lose the toss against NZ on an unsatisfactory pitch." Wow.

 

[Burgey]

Interested to see how Australia approach the Pakistan spinners. Remains a massive weakness is our inability to milk runs off the spinners, Ajmal tormented us in the UAE.

Ripping start from the openers. Super impressed by Paine, few outside of Australia would have heard of Paine before the ODI's in England. The only glaring weakness exposed thus far is that he does play the odd rash shot, a weakness that can be ironed out.

Won't matter if they bowl 2 full bungers an over mate......

 

[Burgey]

Asif is bowling absolutely terribly. No rhythm, most balls in the high 120s and he's scattering them all over the place.

Bowling to plan then?

Honestly, this has been utterly dire.

 

[Matt79]

Asif looking rusty without his herbal supplements...

 

[Briony]

Who's this commentator? "England were really unfortunate to lose the toss against NZ on an unsatisfactory pitch." Wow.

But conversely they were lucky to win the other two tosses which gave them the best of the conditions.

 

[Matt79]

But conversely they were lucky to win the other two tosses which gave them the best of the conditions.

Subversively logical thinking there...

 

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Asif looking rusty without his herbal supplements...

 

[Noble One]

Incredible that Asif is only playing his 32nd ODI.

Cannot think of another cricketer who in the span of 32 ODI's can create so much controversy, and yet still provide a glimmer of hope in being the future of star pace bowling (not on todays showing).

 

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On today's showing, he's the worst bowler in the tournament.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

100000000000000000000000000000% agreed
shameful & shameless
i guess they will lose semi finals too

In the past,Pakistan also has had "Ghadaars" who would try their best to lose matches against India especially in major tournaments by doing things from faking injuries few minutes from the start of match to conspiring with some other players(some of them have also been accused of match fixing inICL recently) to lose the match to teach the captain a lesson because of their personal conflicts) .Pakistan has last 3 matches in major ICC tournaments because of such a player.I don't need to mention the name of the player,Do I?

 

[pasag]

Asif's always been a rubbish ODI bowler.

 

[GIMH]

LOL, 174/4 after 45 overs. They really don't like India huh.

Nah, they are just scared of playing England IMO

Didn't watch it, but Pak are pretty crap in general, tbf. When we played them in the UAE this sort of total was par for them.

They are a bit like, dare I say it, England. Can be very good but usually aren't.

 

[pup11]

I was going to ask whether Pakistan are REALLY so keen to see India eliminated from the tournament that they'd throw a match to ensure it occurs. 205/6 with Brett Lee going for only 30 off his ten overs is a strange one - especially as the pitch doesn't seem to be creating any difficulties for Watto atm...

Nah, this wicket is the easiest to bat on when the ball is new, but once it gets softer and pace is taken off the ball, it becomes pretty hard to time your shots on this deck, it was pretty much the case with the Pakistan innings and Aussie innings also seems to be following a similar pattern.

 

[pup11]

Asif looking rusty without his herbal supplements...

Indeed....

 

[Uppercut]

Nah, they are just scared of playing England IMO



They are a bit like, dare I say it, England. Can be very good but usually aren't.

Haha, the net result is the same, but England's ODI side is a team of mediocre players who occasionally excel themselves, whereas Pakistan's is a team of pretty good players who regularly underperform.

 

[pup11]

Seeing the way Afridi is bowling, he should definitely be playing ahead of Kaneria in the test series in Australia, its really awesome how much he has improved as a spinner over the last 18 months.