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*Official* Pakistan v New Zealand in the UAE 2018
- Thread starter Fuller Pilch
- Start date
Any ****ing chance to talk about golf.
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah not like they had any easy games against Zimbabwe this year where they could have tried out these experiments
Xuhaib
International Coach
This is Pakistan we don’t do logic
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Hasan is not 100%. I just feel like it's a massive gamble to rely on Hafeez/Haris to complete 10 overs when you probably needed some cushion for one of your specialist bowlers
Moss
International Captain
Good wicket for NZ, brought about through building pressure, but been off key since then. Not consistent enough in stringing tight overs together. CdG has been very good, Sodhi less so.
Fakhar looked excellent while he was there, rather gave it away as soon as the screws were applied. Haris looks in ominous touch now.
Fakhar looked excellent while he was there, rather gave it away as soon as the screws were applied. Haris looks in ominous touch now.
Moss
International Captain
280 probably a bit too much for NZ based on what we've seen this series. Good batting performance though did feel NZ were flat in the field.
Top performance from Ferguson, he adapted very well to this pitch and has surely become a first choice player now. Otherwise, bad time for Boult and Sodhi to have an off day.
Top performance from Ferguson, he adapted very well to this pitch and has surely become a first choice player now. Otherwise, bad time for Boult and Sodhi to have an off day.
SeamUp
International Coach
I see Pakistan picked their test squad for New Zealand with the 4 quicks being Mohammed Abbas, Hasan Ali , Mir Hamza & Shaheen Shah Afridi.
I can understand moving on from Wahab Riaz and Rahat Ali in all formats. But where do you think Mohammed Amir & Junaid Khan are ? Will they be in the test squad to SA and the WC squad ?
Also saw a kid open the bowling with Shaheen Shah Afridi for Peshawar in that T20 tournament and was bowling 150kph yorkers at will. Think his name is Haris Rauf. Where is he now ?
I can understand moving on from Wahab Riaz and Rahat Ali in all formats. But where do you think Mohammed Amir & Junaid Khan are ? Will they be in the test squad to SA and the WC squad ?
Also saw a kid open the bowling with Shaheen Shah Afridi for Peshawar in that T20 tournament and was bowling 150kph yorkers at will. Think his name is Haris Rauf. Where is he now ?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
My instinct here was to point out that it 'working' against Zimbabwe's Second XI wouldn't have proved much either way, but to be fair the same actually largely applies here anyway -- Hafeez 4.0 and Harris are much more likely to come off as bowlers in the UAE than England, so if it works here it may actually give a false impression of what the best balance actually is for the WC.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Junaid is injured; he should be back for the big away tours.
I reckon Amir is just out of favour at the moment though. They gave him a lot of games post-ban and he didn't look awful but did end up with some largely awful figures and disconcertingly just wasn't moving the ball off the straight.
SeamUp
International Coach
Yeah such a pity. Amir did lose that zip and early on he had quite a number of catches dropped off him but I think he deserved his dropping.
Left-armers just seem to grow on trees in Pakistan (make that Asia) so they will have options.
He did win pakistan the icc champions trophy final