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*Official* Pakistan in Australia

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
I am liking the fact Ponting has moved to backward point again. Feel he has been a waste in ODI's fielding from the slips. Watson and White are more than capable, and I couldn't think of a better modern day fieldsman in the inner-circle than Ponting. Random comment as he has yet to do anything special tonight, but going forward I would like to see this move more often.
Haha awesome call.
 

Daryl Harper

School Boy/Girl Captain
Lol Afridi. ****ing hell.
What?

Yousef, ****ing hell or playing out 96 dot balls in a situation like this. What's a 100 ball 30 going to achieve?

Afridi smacks Hauritz for 6 first ball, then a single and Youself wastes the next 3 balls before taking an annoying single to keep strike and bat out another over.

Afridi's only mistake was taking the single next ball after the 1st ball six, and giving the boring snail the stike back.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
What?

Yousef, ****ing hell or playing out 96 dot balls in a situation like this. What's a 100 ball 30 going to achieve?

Afridi smacks Hauritz for 6 first ball, then a single and Youself wastes the next 3 balls before taking an annoying single to keep strike and bat out another over.

Afridi's only mistake was taking the single next ball after the 1st ball six, and giving the boring snail the stike back.
And then Afridi got dismissed because he felt he had to go for it the very next ball.

I realise that yousuf just hit a six but then he went back to blocking. I think Yousuf just wants to get the score to 100 for respectability.

One fan on cricinfo is liking his inning

Rishabh: "And once again we see Yousuf putting a price on his wicket, while others around him crumble."
 

Ausage

Cricketer Of The Year
What?

Yousef, ****ing hell or playing out 96 dot balls in a situation like this. What's a 100 ball 30 going to achieve?

Afridi smacks Hauritz for 6 first ball, then a single and Youself wastes the next 3 balls before taking an annoying single to keep strike and bat out another over.

Afridi's only mistake was taking the single next ball after the 1st ball six, and giving the boring snail the stike back.
Pretty ridiculous comment when they're not even going to bat out the 50 overs.
 

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Awesome performance from the Aussies tonight. I missed most of the Brissy ODI with a power-outage, but enjoyed watching tonight. I'm starting a campaign to get Cam White into the top six in the test team, and I don't care that his FC record doesn't justify it, nor that ability in ODIs often proves nothing regarding ability in tests!

So impressed with the new ball bowling from Dougeh and Siddle today. Was awesome to watch.
 
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DaRick

State Vice-Captain
The rout ceases.

What are the chances of Pakistan coming back from 2-0 down? 5%? 10%? Higher? Lower?

A fine bowling and fielding performance by our boys, but you can't help but feel that Watson and White helped to set it up.
 

Redbacks

International Captain
Gotta wonder why Hauritz didn't appeal for that caught and bowled?

Good performance from the quicks. We probably have another quality set of quicks in the wings injured/rested also.
 

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, also gotta wonder why Channel Nine didn't show a hotspot replay of that incident to resolve the question for sure. **** direction.
 

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Amazing that there were three brilliant catches in one innings. Hauritz's was great, White's was much much better again, and Ponting's in another league again.
 

Redbacks

International Captain
Yeah, also gotta wonder why Channel Nine didn't show a hotspot replay of that incident to resolve the question for sure. **** direction.
The commentry team seemed so certain I guess they just didn't bother. If the match was alive, no doubt they would have built the incident up.
 

Jayzamann

International Regular
From the naked eye it looked right off the pads, and even in the replays you have to double take in order to hear the two noises.
 

Uppercut

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Sorry what? He made a single off almost every second ball, that's an excellent rate, especially when you do factor in his ability to reach the boundary.
Haha yeah, but that was the best innings of his career! I'm talking in general here.
 

Uppercut

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45% of his runs come in boundaries mate. 78 fours + 28 sixes = 480 runs out of a total of 1078=45%.

That's not really a relevant stat though. I don't want him to turn one six into six singles, I want him to turn six dot-balls into six singles. It doesn't especially matter whether your runs come in boundaries or not. They don't count double if you run them. But I think he could be a better batsman if he worked strike rotation into his game a bit better to go with his hitting.
 

pasag

RTDAS
a) If Greig calls him Craig White one more time I'll blow
b) The aforementioned Craig White's so good in slips

Very happy with our continued good ODI form. I really like the batting balance with big hitters Watson and White on both ends of the side.
 

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