*Official* - Pakistan in New Zealand 2010/2011

[straw man]

Has everyone forgotten todays game? Aren't you all at work looking for distractions?

Turns out you're all a bunch of bad luck charms - we were cruising before you lot showed up.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

1 run in 4 overs after the fall of a wicket. Sort it out guys.

 

[straw man]

Last 5 overs: 8/3.

Good..... definitely looking like a World Cup winning team

 

[Agent Nationaux]

It looks like How is susceptible to the short ball. Good teams will bounce him out with a well placed fielder. And on that note it seems New Zealand can't magically pull out players from nowhere like Pakistan.

 

[straw man]

Crazy how much these batsmen have fallen away since 2008 actually. Back then we were looking at a team that could have gone all the way in the world cup.

Then Bond retired and the rest of the good players forgot how to play this format.

I blame 2020.

I mean, look at Jamie How's last two innings

 

[Flem274*]

It looks like How is susceptible to the short ball. Good teams will bounce him out with a well placed fielder. And on that note it seems New Zealand can't magically pull out players from nowhere like Pakistan.

Jamie How loves the short ball.

Tight bowling screws him over, because early in his innings he can bat very slowly if no boundaries are on offer. As a result he picks one of his go to shots and holes out.

I hope teams feed him short pitched bowling though.

 

[TT Boy]

Razzaq getting away with murder here. These two need to consolidate but this wicket is so flat that a bowler sending down 3 maidens in six overs is taking the Mick.

 

[Flem274*]

On a sidenote, Taylor needs to bat at four.

 

[Bahnz]

On a sidenote, Taylor needs to bat at four.

Nah, he should be at 3.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Razzaq getting away with murder here. These two need to consolidate but this wicket is so flat that a bowler sending down 3 maidens in six overs is taking the Mick.

They need to charge razzaq

 

[Flem274*]

Nah, he should be at 3.

Nah, four. Make him rotate the strike instead of herp derp must hit fours every ball because its powerplay herp derp

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Pakistan should try Mohammad Talha or Junaid Khan because currently they don't have a good new ball bowler, even Rana is pretty decent with the new ball.

What do you guys think of Riaz or Gul as new ball bowlers

 

[Flem274*]

Dire. Appallingly dire.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Kane Williamson caught ball watching

 

[straw man]

This is just so awful

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Franklin can't distinguish between a Pakistani and a New Zealand accent He ran after hearing Akmal's scream

 

[Flem274*]

I might end up having Ireland as my first team at the world cup at this rate. They're less likely to do stupid things.

Another nail in the coffin for rotation. This lot look so rusty and so do the batting combinations.

 

[TT Boy]

Laughably bad. No wonder Zim have targeted NZ as their WC scalp.

 

[smash84]

Franklin can't distinguish between a Pakistani and a New Zealand accent He ran after hearing Akmal's scream

franklin should have been run out

 

[straw man]

This whole batting performance so far just screams of a side that has no confidence and cannot do anything right. Even when we're 37/0 after 6 overs, it only takes one wicket for all the other wheels to fall off and roll down the road into a collection of priceless Ming vases.