*Official* Australia in Pakistan 2022

[Daemon]

Why the hell would you declare. Break them ffs.

 

[Burgey]

Fair play they’re backing themselves with sub 500 on the board but today has been odd from Pakistan so far tstl. To the point where the workload on the Aus quicks hasn’t been all that bad given so many overs have been bowled.

 

[ashley bach]

Should've been the McGrath Akram trophy

even the Border/Miandad trophy sounds like more of a dog fight.

 

[Burgey]

even the Border/Miandad trophy sounds like more of a dog fight.

Tbf the Ashes should be renamed the Border-Hutton trophy. Every trophy should be named after TOTAB.

Even one for a SL-India series.

 

[social]

This sucks

I want to see Shaheen

 

[Daemon]

lmao, even worse declaration in hindsight because they can't have a crack this evening for 30 odd minutes thanks to bad light.

 

[ashley bach]

I was so looking forward to this series and now I don’t really care about it.

totally understand how you feel, a seriously sad day for Australian cricket.

 

[trundler]

This is shambolic

 

[Burgey]

really weird declaration. Bat on tomorrow with 600 on the board and it’s all pressure. Now if Aus makes 300 it’s basically a draw isn’t it?

 

[TheJammyTurtle]

Such a weird declaration, even just getting 500 would have been another mental barrier for Australia to overcome.

 

[ashley bach]

Such a weird declaration, even just getting 500 would have been another mental barrier for Australia to overcome.

that's true but if Australia don't struggle mentally in this test don't know when they ever would.

 

[Burgey]

They’ve literally made it easier for Aus to save the game here

 

[Shady Slim]

puzzling tstl

 

[GotSpin]

Terrible declaration

 

[ashley bach]

given the match state, Australian run rate is very good.

 

[Xix2565]

Baffling to not get at least 500, unless there's going to be quite a bit of rain/weather interference later on.

 

[trundler]

Just a terrible declaration, confused batting today, brainless run out and they didn't even get to bowl at them properly. Mental.

 

[Spark]

Well if they're going off for light then Pakistan have messed this up big time, Aus should not be anywhere near this game.

 

[Spark]

Fair play they’re backing themselves with sub 500 on the board but today has been odd from Pakistan so far tstl. To the point where the workload on the Aus quicks hasn’t been all that bad given so many overs have been bowled.

Yeah given that they haven't had a warm-up game and are presumably on the underbowled side of things, this isn't too onerous a workload at all. Massive unforced error by Pakistan, neither one thing nor the other.

 

[ashley bach]

Yeah given that they haven't had a warm-up game and are presumably on the underbowled side of things, this isn't too onerous a workload at all. Massive unforced error by Pakistan, neither one thing nor the other.

yeah this is all baffling to say the least, looking at the run rate, it's hard to understand why they didn't put the foot down earlier.
is there any chance they feel for Aussies today and took it easy?