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*Official* Australia vs Pakistan in England

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
I never fully understood why Hughes was axed after all of two mediocre tests in England given what he had achieved in SA.
North achieved alot in South Africa aswell though.

Regardless, his time is done, thank goodness. I think Hussey would be suited to six. Anyway, we'll talk about it after the Test. Hoping for some Smith runs.
 

SirBloody Idiot

Cricketer Of The Year
Phil Jaques, what the hell was wrong with him? Imo, he is better than Katich.
Got injured at the wrong time, and hasn't captured his form in Shield cricket yet. He's been really unlucky, but needs to start making runs again. Ideally you'd have Rogers up top, but I just can't see them going back to him.

North achieved alot in South Africa aswell though.

Regardless, his time is done, thank goodness. I think Hussey would be suited to six. Anyway, we'll talk about it after the Test. Hoping for some Smith runs.
I reckon if we are any chance to win the Ashes we need Punter away from three. I never feel confident with him these days.
 

NUFAN

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Phil Jaques, what the hell was wrong with him? Imo, he is better than Katich.
Just he got injured at the wrong time and when he came back from quite a long lay off he started slow. Needs a flying start to this years domestic season (I'm talking averaging like 75 plus to get his name up there again).
 

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
This really is a fascinating contest here; Pakistan have some magnificant bowling talent - even an out of touch Gul can produce the odd jaffa at good pace.
 

morgieb

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We're only 39 runs ahead. Worrying. Need Smith and Paine to hang in there to get a target of 150-200 (which is easily defenable imo).

Hopefully that's the last we see of Norff too.
 

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
This really is a fascinating contest here; Pakistan have some magnificant bowling talent - even an out of touch Gul can produce the odd jaffa at good pace.
Really would be a sight to see if he can solve this no ball problem. He doesn't seem to have a consistent run up that can be repeated and so taking the mark back a yard will merely shift his jump forward one step. He has such a brilliant action, it would be good if Waqar could help him get his run up together.
 

WindieWeathers

International Regular
A vital period will be just after lunch, Pain and Clark looked in good nick before the break so it's vital that they regain their concentration quickly, if they put on another 50 or 60 runs together then i think Aus would have done really well, that way the bottom order can possibly push the lead to around the 200 mark, and then we'll really see what Pak are made of, cracking contest though and once again Aamer is looking brilliant, i've liked that kid from start tbh.

This is what the top teams do though, just when you think you've got them in a world of trouble they find a way to get out of it, can Pak buck the trend today? we'll see.
 

mohammad16

U19 Captain
I absolutely hate it when captains have no confidence in their leg spinner. There is nothing that makes a leggie more ineffective than a captain that doesnt back him.
 

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
I wonder how many times Norfy has been dismissed like that in Tests? So common for him.

Enthralling Test this!
 

vcs

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Fascinatingly poised. Pakistan have had the better of this session, not just for the wickets but for keeping the scoring rate relatively in check as well.
 

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
I absolutely hate it when captains have no confidence in their leg spinner. There is nothing that makes a leggie more ineffective than a captain that doesnt back him.
well from what I saw of him yesterday..he was pretty disappointing.. and Kaneria has never really won a test for Pakistan against tough opponents (top batsmen) like Australia, India or South Africa.

You cant take the risk..he was bowling one bad ball and over and Clarke is a fantastic player of spin..you cant give away runs like that now
 

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