**Official** Pakistan Tri-Nation Series

[King Kane]

O'Rourke's luck has changed, he just picked up the wicket of Fakhar with a lazy flick off his pads to mid wicket.

 

[Moss]

Intelligent stuff from O’Rourke, though Fakhar gave it away. Deserved that wicket and it’s that of a dangerman.

 

[anonymouskefe]

Not duffy friendly pitches these

 

[King Kane]

Duffy is releasing the pressure that O'Rourke is building, we need a bowling change at his end.

 

[King Kane]

Bracewell on for Duffy and he strikes with a wicket in his first over, good bowling change.

 

[Moss]

Dropped catches didn’t cost much but need those to stick on good batting surfaces like this. Macewell’s started very well.

O’Rourke quite brilliant with the new ball, might have enjoyed more success if he went a touch fuller.

 

[slowfinger]

my God this pakistan innings is like watching cricket in a time capsule.

Dot,Dot,Dot, boundary, dot

as i say that a wicket has fallen

Terrible batting. They've lost the game already

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Good to see cricket going well. Brilliant Super Rugby match on

 

[Moss]

my God this pakistan innings is like watching cricket in a time capsule.

Dot,Dot,Dot, boundary, dot

as i say that a wicket has fallen

Terrible batting. They've lost the game already

Waste of good batting conditions for sure, but it does bring arguably Pakistan's most effective batting duo together.

 

[King Kane]

A good effort to remove the top 3 Pakistan batsmen early but Rizwan and Salman are capable of a counter attack.

 

[Moss]

Getting Williamson-Taylor 2019 WC semifinal vibes from this partnership, wonder what their assessment of a par score is. Pitch certainly on the slower side.

Might be worth bringing O’Rourke on to try breaking the partnership.

 

[King Kane]

Getting Williamson-Taylor 2019 WC semifinal vibes from this partnership, wonder what their assessment of a par score is. Pitch certainly on the slower side.

Might be worth bringing O’Rourke on to try breaking the partnership.

A good partnership from Rizwan and Salman to steady the ship but it shouldn't be panic stations yet, they aren't scoring all that quickly at this stage.

Rizwan is currently going at 28 runs off 62 balls, that is more test match pace than ODI pace, that being said O'Rourke has just been brought back on.

 

[King Kane]

O'Rourke strikes to break the partnership with Rizwan chopping on.

 

[King Kane]

Bracewell removing Salman, down to the Pakistan lower order, we should be able to restrict Pakistan's score to under 250 now.

 

[King Kane]

Duffy back on to release the pressure.

We might need to give Mitchell a bowl.

 

[Moss]

Duffy back on to release the pressure.

We need need to give Mitchell a bowl.

Mitchell usually comes on in the 50th when everyone else has bowled out and they don’t want to chance a spinner.

 

[King Kane]

Mitchell usually comes on in the 50th when everyone else has bowled out and they don’t want to chance a spinner.

He should be a last resort option, he doesn't bowl much these days and for good reason.

Duffy has responded in this over, bowling a better length and has just picked up a wicket

 

[jcas0167]

Duffy back on to release the pressure.

We might need to give Mitchell a bowl.

Jamieson might have been a better selection although Duffy did play well against Sri Lanka.

 

[Moss]

This is a great comeback after Tayyab was threatening to pull away. Santner is simply on top of his game.

@jcas0167 Jamieson was bowling brilliantly on return in the Super Smash no doubt, but would much rather he focuses on red ball. I don't know that there's that much upside to playing him in limited overs.

 

[King Kane]

The Santner strangle is on with two wickets in an over.