5th Match - India v Pakistan

[honestbharani]

Beautiful shot to bring up 14K runs there from Virat. He is gonna suck against Abrar and most likely against Khushdil as well. Might go ok against Salman, have to see. Gill is gonna suck against all 3.

 

[honestbharani]

Cant believe they dont have a slip for Abrar for both these batsman. I definitely would.

Gonna see an edge go through the slip for 4 soon.

 

[SkyBlue]

Kohli against spin is as bad as Ganguly with the short ball

 

[honestbharani]

Lol @Rizwan appealing and then discussing the DRS for a ball Virat hit off the middle of the bat off the backfoot.

 

[ashley bach]

Goodnight fellas, see you tomorrow for the match of the tournament NZ V Bangladesh

 

[honestbharani]

Its painful to see Virat struggle against even Khushdil. How the mighty have fallen.

 

[Silver Silva]

Goodnight fellas, see you tomorrow for the match of the tournament NZ V Bangladesh

If NZ win there then Pak vs BD is a dead rubber

 

[Stapel]

Its painful to see Virat struggle against even Khushdil. How the mighty have fallen.

The way I see it: Kohli is 27* from 34, chasing 242. Nothing wrong there.

 

[honestbharani]

The way I see it: Kohli is 27* from 34, chasing 242. Nothing wrong there.

For this game, perhaps. But its a worrying sign and hopefully he does the decent thing along with Rohit and bows out of the format at least. Hopefully they both bow out of all formats.

 

[Silver Silva]

India cruising..a Sunday stroll

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That’s a rippah

 

[SkyBlue]

What a delivery

 

[honestbharani]

I told you guys these two suck against spin. Hopefully Shreyas can bring his spin destruction game here.

 

[SkyBlue]

Fantastic spell from Abrar thus far

Another wicket here and this could get interesting real quick

 

[honestbharani]

Dunno what Sunny G is smoking over there in Dubai. Virat was 100% in control of that hook shot for 4.

 

[Daemon]

Kohli’s playing an excellent little knock here

 

[honestbharani]

That little send off by Abrar to Gill. I cant wait for him to do that regularly and sprain his neck and walk off a game, like Hasan Ali did.

 

[Daemon]

Iyer’s setup these days is purely to combat the short ball. When he finishes his trigger movement he’s way back in the crease with the weight on the back foot. Seems to be working for him.

 

[honestbharani]

Iyer’s setup these days is purely to combat the short ball. When he finishes his trigger movement he’s way back in the crease with the weight on the back foot. Seems to be working for him.

Yeah.. esp. for the LO games as you need to be able to score off the short balls in the white ball formats. You can get away with ducking all day in tests.

Dont think he is exactly convincing even now, esp. as it seems to have made other aspects of his game more vulnerable, but good on him for going back and working on a weakness and overcoming it. I honestly did not think he would do that, given his hubris filled attitude, usually.

 

[SkyBlue]

Pak should've played another frontline spinner in this game

Rauf is more of a miss than a hit these days