**Official** Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2012

[smash84]

@AN ....Sami is 31

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Ramiz Raza never short of amusement:

RamizSpeaks:
Only if Pak could develop talent with the bat they would be unbeatableBy the way most horrific kits What's this colour yellow on their bums?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Yellow on the bum is horrible. Reminds me of the Bangladeshi kit where the green was darker on the bum and looked like they had **** their pants.

 

[smash84]

btw AN you have dark green ****?

 

[Migara]

SL batting has been below abject in both matches. The pea head selectsucker keeps bringing failures back.

 

[slowfinger]

btw AN you have dark green ****?

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

btw AN you have dark green ****?

got to be constipated

 

[Migara]

Must be Gloriosa poisoning. (A differential diagnosis for having green ****)

 

[Agent Nationaux]

****s the lot of you.

 

[smash84]

Must be Gloriosa poisoning. (A differential diagnosis for having green ****)

 

[Winsome]

Pakistan squads:

Test squad: Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Azhar Ali, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal (wk), Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Sami, Faisal Iqbal, Junaid Khan, Afaq Raheem, Mohammad Ayub, Aizaz Cheema

ODI squad: Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Umar Akmal, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Sami, Asad Shafiq, Aizaz Cheema, Azhar Ali, Imran Farhat


SAMI!

Faisal Iqbal and Imran Farhat recalls are seriously, seriously weird though. As is the Sami recall really but it's awesome so it doesn't matter.

Needs more Salahuddin.

I think our 11 is perfect in their playing abilities.. Sami is very good pacer, Asad should play in every game.

 

[Lostman]

ODI's start tomorrow, books have Pakistan as underdogs for the series which is a really good value imo.
SL just have one batsmen (MJ) capable of tackling the Pakistan spin attack especially when chasing. And for whatever reason, SL batsmen have been really ineffective at home lately.

some numbers since 09 in ODI's
(matches/average/100's/50's) and away includes neutral

Dilshan home: (32/41/3/5)
away: (54/44/8/7)

MJ home (37/34/2/6)
away (48/37/3/12)

Sanga home (37/45/0/11)
away (53/42/3/17)

Mathews home (32/23/0/2)
away (39/39/0/7)

Chandimal home (3/5/0/0) really small sample
away (32/42/2/7)

Minus Sanga, all of their performances are worse at home and when you include big scores (50/100) they have all been worse at home.

 

[smash84]

Pak are the underdogs for the ODI series?

Woah....I would like to bet on Pakistan

 

[smash84]

so first ODI begins today in about an hour.........

SL will probably win today's game if they don't lose too many wickets to Ajmal and Afridi

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

let's see what Pallekele has to offer as pitch

 

[smash84]

3 wickets down SL for 25 in 10 overs.....itstl

 

[Prince EWS]

This has been an awesome spell from Gul.

I'm pumped for Sami's introduction.

 

[smash84]

I knew it that PEWS would come in and post for Sami....was just thinking that

damn you tanvir....going for 6 runs off the first 2 balls on this pitch

 

[Jager]

Could have been four wickets too. Clear edge, ah well. Sangakkara's going to want to score properly this match, he was terrible in the IPL.

 

[Prince EWS]

And he's on!