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*Official* Pakistan tour of Ireland, England and Scotland 2018

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91Jmay

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Good fight back from Pakistan - they've not been bat out of the game. Curran can bat a bit for sure, just need to make it to close now.
 
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Good from England, uphill battle from here for Pakistan. Almost a mirror image of the first Test so far.
 
Xuhaib

Xuhaib

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Hoping to see some fight in the next innings even if it is a losing cause as it looks now would be good for character building of this young side
 
Mr Miyagi

Mr Miyagi

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Didnt bowl in the first innings and batting at 4 in the second. Is Dom Bess going the Mark Richardson route?
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No.

Mark Richardson debut'd as a test opener and only bowled 11 overs in his entire test career. This would be more Steve Smith like if it was really a transition :P
 
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Mr Miyagi

Mr Miyagi

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Well Butler is making valuable runs at 7, but he is hardly playing with this licence to ball strike that he was meant to have been given.
 
Borges

Borges

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Xuhaib said:
Hoping to see some fight in the next innings even if it is a losing cause as it looks now would be good for character building of this young side
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It is not a completely losing cause as yet.
One would expect the pitch to flatter out a bit when Pakistan bats next, and if they bat reasonably long, variable bounce would once again come into play in the last innings.
 
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***** said:
Didnt bowl in the first innings and batting at 4 in the second. Is Dom Bess going the Mark Richardson route?
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Funny how often young spin bowlers find their feet as batsmen in the end.

As well as Smith and Richardson, you've got guys like KP, Samaraweera and Shoaib Malik. Doesn't seem to happen the other way as much.
 
Mr Miyagi

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TheJediBrah said:
Funny how often young spin bowlers find their feet as batsmen in the end.

As well as Smith and Richardson, you've got guys like KP, Samaraweera and Shoaib Malik. Doesn't seem to happen the other way as much.
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Ashwin, Jadeja, Kumble, Dipak Patel all went bat to bowler route, Patel in tests too.

It happens. Even for faster bowlers in tests like Franklin becoming a batsman later, as against Boult being an age group batsman with KW only to be a #11 bunny by u-19 bowling fast.

A particularly sore case for NZC is Jacob Oram who really really wanted to be a batsman, but NZC kept selecting him for his bowling.

I am pretty sure that Steve Smith always saw himself as a batsman first, but wasn't going to turn down intl selection.

Then some cricketers from NZC are just so bits and pieces, and changed their roles so much over their cricket careers at domestic back and forth, C Kuggeleijn, Bradburn especially, maybe M Hart and Priest too, noone really knows what they're being picked for.

I mean seriously - what is this guy?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37532.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...d-1st-test-new-zealand-tour-of-india-1988-89/

Evan Gray is def a bowling allrounder, but what is Kuggeliejn senior?

By his next test he looks like a specialist batsman.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...d-3rd-test-new-zealand-tour-of-india-1988-89/
 
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