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**Official** Pakistan v New Zealand in the UAE 2014

hendrix

hendrix

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Spark said:
Yeah but the gap between the sides since Day 2 has been staggering. Pakistan have lost 11 or 12 wickets for ****-all whilst NZ have put on about a million.
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On day 2, Pakistan's tail was exposed for the first time without Sarfraz being in god mode. Williamson has finally turned up - he was always going to make a century in this series.

Look at the batting averages from 8-11. It's a very weak tail that Sarfraz and the top order had been hiding for a wee while. This was going to happen at some stage.

Their bowlers are all also inexperienced at Test level.
 
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cnerd123

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Zinzan said:
Haha, Craig just seems to be one of the cricketers who has Lady L on his side. Forget bowling, even batting alone he's had more luck his short career than Stephen Fleming had in over 100 test matches.
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As a bowler you make your own luck. Bowling in such an innocuous fashion in order to lull the batsmen into complacency and false shots...that's a skill in itself.

Nice easy action, reasonably accurate, decent amount of revs on the ball, tall, gets drift and bounce...he's always going to look innocuous on TV, and will not bowl many ripping offbreaks to dismiss batsmen, but will definitely invite a lot of false shots. With runs on the board he can afford to bowl himself into a rhythm, and count on the under-pressure batsmen to play those false shots.
 
Flem274*

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IIRC the Pakistani side have been pretty quiet on their feelings about the series continuing. I bet they're pretty cut up right now but I think the "we don't care and we wish we weren't here" combined with the McFlounce which the rest of the New Zealand team channelled has just caught an already down Pakistani side completely by surprise. When a team is already flat and some bloke is belting an idgaf double ton at a million miles an hour then I guess this happens.
 
Spark

Spark

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hendrix said:
On day 2, Pakistan's tail was exposed for the first time without Sarfraz being in god mode. Williamson has finally turned up - he was always going to make a century in this series.

Look at the batting averages from 8-11. It's a very weak tail that Sarfraz and the top order had been hiding for a wee while. This was going to happen at some stage.

Their bowlers are all also inexperienced at Test level.
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True. I guess I was just getting used to 3/300 becoming 5/500 or whatever. Certainly didn't expect the top order to fold here.
 
Spark

Spark

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****ing hell, two of those in less than a session's equivalent.

though personally i thought it was going well down so i guess it's a fair call from the on-field ump
 
Spark

Spark

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hendrix said:
Gee I thought that looked out.
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I tend to instinctively think it's going down leg when the ball deflects towards fine leg. It's when it rebounds back down the pitch or towards cover that you have a serious problem as a batsman.
 
wellAlbidarned

wellAlbidarned

International Coach
Spark said:
****ing hell, two of those in less than a session's equivalent.

though personally i thought it was going well down so i guess it's a fair call from the on-field ump
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I don't blame the umpire for not giving it, but I can't understand how that's not overturned on review. Is the umpires call system automated or in control of the third ump?
 
Spark

Spark

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wellAlbidarned said:
I don't blame the umpire for not giving it, but I can't understand how that's not overturned on review. Is the umpires call system automated or in control of the third ump?
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Hawkeye is definitely automated. Middle of the ball needs to lineup with the middle of the stump at a bare minimum.
 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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Flem274* said:
there go our reviews to two balls crashing into leg stump:laugh:

udrs is so good but so frustrating sometimes too.
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Yeah the umpires bias effects the margin by about 25% for LBW's considering they're often robbed for height as well as outside off & leg. Moral of the story only review it if it's absolutely plumb.
 
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