***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

[Faisal1985]

Azhar!!

 

[nightprowler10]

Well done Azhar! That's a load off.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Congratulations Azhar Ali..Thank you for this....Junaid Khan and Azhar Ali..the two players I have very high hopes from in the future...

 

[Subhadeep]

3-0 is only a matter of time now.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

How do guys like Pieterson and Azhar Ali manage to become good batsmen, despite starting off as spinners.

 

[Prince EWS]

How do guys like Pieterson and Azhar Ali manage to become good batsmen, despite starting off as spinners.

Erm, by working on their batting?

Pietersen always considered himself a batting allrounder anyway; it was just the selectors that disagreed with him.

 

[salman85]

I think that's a very common phenomenon in sports.A lot of players end up playing in different roles compared to the ones they actually started off in.And this is not just true of Cricket.

For example,Rudd Gullit started his career as a defender.Only to later go on to become one of the finest attacking midfielders in the world during the late 80s.I also remember reading somewhere that Gianluigi Buffon initially started off as a Striker,but was asked to become a goalkeeper by his coach later.

 

[silentstriker]

300-350 is chaseable on this pitch - it's about the English batting showing up.

 

[Z-Man]

Azhar 111 (333)

Do the nelson work :O

 

[Zinzan]

Azhar 111 (333)

Do the nelson work :O

And a strike rate to match .... 33.33

 

[Agent Nationaux]

It's still incredible though that they change their discipline and still manage to stay good.

 

[silentstriker]

Hussain, for when England bats: "If it turns and bounces, LBWs will be harder to get."




TBF he did say he was clutching at straws.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

300-350 is chaseable on this pitch - it's about the English batting showing up.

It's starting to spin quite a bit now.

 

[silentstriker]

That spun but Prior should have gotten that.

 

[Z-Man]

KP should ball more often.

 

[silentstriker]

lolsweep might work for England this time.

 

[Black_Warrior]

What is all this talk about delcaring? It doesn't matter if England can't chase anything over 71. Pakistan needs to take this opportunity to ton up and boost their averages.... A ton for Misbah now....bloke hasn't scored a hundred in quite some time.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

It's still incredible though that they change their discipline and still manage to stay good.

They probably changed because they realised that they were pretty good batsmen already.

 

[nightprowler10]

I think that's a very common phenomenon in sports.A lot of players end up playing in different roles compared to the ones they actually started off in.And this is not just true of Cricket.

For example,Rudd Gullit started his career as a defender.Only to later go on to become one of the finest attacking midfielders in the world during the late 80s.I also remember reading somewhere that Gianluigi Buffon initially started off as a Striker,but was asked to become a goalkeeper by his coach later.

Was reading just today actually that guys like Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard started off as point guards before turning into dominating big men.

 

[Burgey]

Azhar 111 (333)

Do the nelson work :O

Nicely backs up the 2-222 stumps score last night.