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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread
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cnerd123
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This team played again this Sunday. Had to chase 64 to win again. Got there with 9 wickets in hand - but the one wicket they lost...was a runout
This shits hilarious, I can't wait for their third game
TheJediBrah
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Look on the bright side, they've managed to bat for 2 innings without losing a single wicket to the bowlers. If they learn to run between the wickets they could be serious prospects
Starfighter
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Pakistan's spinner-free squad for Australia tour game raises eyebrows - ESPNcricinfo
Pakistan doing a Sri Lanka. There's no point in warm up games if home boards are going to treat them as cynical jokes.
Pakistan doing a Sri Lanka. There's no point in warm up games if home boards are going to treat them as cynical jokes.
Gnske
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At least we'll get practice seeing off the first 20 odd balls of the first innings.
TheJediBrah
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Why would they expect that? Afaik most tour games are at least an attempt at a decent hit-out. India never do this. It's only been Sri Lanka and now Pakistan (that I'm aware of).
GotSpin
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They spent most of the preparation for the previous Indian series in Dubai didn't they?
TheJediBrah
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That was just for extra practice, not because they thought India would do something dodgy. I'm pretty sure before the 2017 series there was still a regulation tour match in India.
Starfighter
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I recall watching videos of one of our Aus' up matches for one of the 2013 and the most recent series in India and thinking 'jeez, those are some unusually grassy pitches for India', and the teams were much more pace-oriented, though we did face some amount of decent enough spin (Nadeem, Rasool, Saxena etc). They definitely did it against England in '12-13 and maybe SA '15-16 too.
Daemon
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Well Rasool took 7-45 so I don't think it was a pace bowling wicket.
Australia followed on in the 2nd warm up as well, losing 0 wickets to pace.
SeamUp
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Pretty pathetic.
Starfighter
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You missed the nuances in the comment.
Borges
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It is not unreasonable to expect that there would be tit for tat in these matters.
Australia put out an utterly rubbish team for the warm up when Pakistan toured; now it is Pakistan's turn to retaliate.
Reciprocity is the key; this kind of nonsense will keep going on till the various BCCIs come to their senses and reach some kind of agreement regarding the quality of opposition provided to visiting teams for their warm up games.
