If we don't lose any more wickets today, we can perhaps dare to dream. Very unlikely though. Australia firmly on top for now.At least they got some runs out of their top 3. Now its up for the real batsmen to try and get them to a historic victory.
Fawad should really be in the team. From what I've seen of his technique I think he'd be much better suited at five or six but he did score than big ton opening and he's only had two games there so I'd definitely be inclined to give him another go opening. Farhat tonning up in his last Test in New Zealand and Butt having done well in the tour game (and actually having a decent record in Australia) makes them hard to drop as such but they should never have been recalled over Fawad anyway.Pakistan top 3 batsmen are just crap. Is it really true that they do not have better openers than Farhat and Salman ?
This will be your faultI've only seen about 2 hours of Umar Akmal, and I must say I am very impressed.
Only as a batsman TBF. Watson's bowling already better than Kallis ATM given that Watson can reverse it which would make him effective on a flat deck - Kallis would be piss poor on a flat deck these days.I'd say Kallis still has it all over him.
He's definitely earning his place with both bat and ball right now though, which is something a lot of people thought Watson would never be able to do.
Crowe said he was 23. Disagree with that though.With the question marks over Aamir's age, is there any doubt whatsoever that Umar is only 19? I'm presuming not, but there's been a lot of scepticism about Aamir.