*Official* Pakistan in England and Ireland 2016

[Pothas]

Hales reviewed as well.

 

[Furball]

Interesting to see that Yasir has probably won two Tests this series with the ball and yet his series bowling average is over 40. I cannot imagine that has happened very often in a series of four matches or less..

Yasir Shah has nothing to do with why Pakistan will win this game.

 

[GIMH]

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[hendrix]

Interesting to see that Yasir has probably won two Tests this series with the ball and yet his series bowling average is over 40. I cannot imagine that has happened very often in a series of four matches or less..

It goes to show how much spinners are somewhat inherently downhill skiers.

 

[Shady Slim]

clicked on the wheel is forever thing in cab's sig

-compdogs
-root
-robson
-carberry

all have a better opening average than hales

bell drummond or bust

 

[Cabinet96]

The way Younis treated Moeen from 150-200 was incredible, and some of those drives off the seamers today. Woof.

 

[Cabinet96]

Read this good article yesterday which was written between the 2nd and 3rd test. Blogs: Hassan Cheema: The truth about Younis Khan and Yasir Shah | Cricket Blogs | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Flem274*]

It goes to show how much spinners are somewhat inherently downhill skiers.

burgey is going to love this post

 

[Viscount Tom]

All those 20,000 runs count for nothing if he's gone to **** by the time you pick the bloke.

If your going to say you'd take Younis over Cook fine but don't try and imply he'd get into a team ahead of Cook as they are playing now because its patently false especially in regards to this current series.

Well ****...

Accidental super-reverse-jinx.

 

[Adders]

Was a fair enough comment at the time........but ****, what a way for Younis to respond!!

 

[hendrix]

burgey is going to love this post

It's not even a criticism really.

Just something to consider when judging poor and good performances.

 

[Zinzan]

That is pretty classic, poor VT.


Younis' best ever innings given the context?

 

[Prince EWS]

I was actually so close to ripping into some of you guys at the time for knee-jerking over Younis, but given I'd actually missed a couple of his terrible-looking innings and it seemed to be the whole forum vs weldone, I wasn't ready to put my balls on the line for that one.

Missed opportunity for an epic I-told-you-so.

 

[viriya]

I was actually so close to ripping into some of you guys at the time for knee-jerking over Younis, but given I'd actually missed a couple of his terrible-looking innings and it seemed to be the whole forum vs weldone, I wasn't ready to put my balls on the line for that one.

Missed opportunity for an epic I-told-you-so.

Most comments sounded like they hadn't really seen Younis much.. that's what happens when you only watch Tests that your team plays in.

 

[Zinzan]

I was actually so close to ripping into some of you guys at the time for knee-jerking over Younis, but given I'd actually missed a couple of his terrible-looking innings and it seemed to be the whole forum vs weldone, I wasn't ready to put my balls on the line for that one.

Missed opportunity for an epic I-told-you-so.

Yup, good lesson to never be afraid of unpopular opinion on here. Too many seem overly worried about 'towing the popular line'. Independent thinking ftw!

 

[viriya]

That is pretty classic, poor VT.


Younis' best ever innings given the context?

This is probably the main competition:
cricrate | Test #1743

vs Kumble + Harbhajan when they were both bowling well.

 

[nightprowler10]

I thought most people here were talking about how fidgety he looked all series long, with very few calls for a drop. Pretty fair comments if you ask me (aside from the drop calls), as he looked like ****.

 

[nightprowler10]

This is probably the main competition:
cricrate | Test #1743

vs Kumble + Harbhajan when they were both bowling well.

Yeah this certainly came to mind first up when the question popped up. Currently I'm a bit biased towards today's knock simply because I watched a big part of it and it's in England.

Though I feel like I'm missing a big one.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Yup, good lesson to never be afraid of unpopular opinion on here. Too many seem overly worried about 'towing the popular line'. Independent thinking ftw!

Pretty much. Thought PEWS wouldn't be one to tow the popular line. After a YK milestone or after he retires, when people get together and say "omg why doesn't this guy gets more attention, or why is he so underrated or why don't we know he has these achievements' PEWS you should remember this one time you didn't speak up. when it was needed for fear of not getting 'likes'

 

[Prince EWS]

Pretty much. Thought PEWS wouldn't be one to tow the popular line. After a YK milestone when people get together and say "omg why doesn't this guy gets more attention, or why is he so underrated or why don't we know he has these achievements' PEWS you should remember this one time you didn't speak up. when it was needed for fear of not getting 'likes'

I didn't see any posts calling for him to be dropped; I definitely would have argued with those if I'd seen them.

I thought about getting involved in the debate about whether he could be considered better than Cook despite looking like **** in his last few innings but I'd actually only seen one of them at the time (I think it was after the second Test, yeah?) so I thought perhaps I'd missed something really telling. I definitely regret not saying anything now obviously, but I don't think I 'towed the popular line' so much as I just didn't say anything at all.