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*Official* Australia in Pakistan 2022

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Kirkut

International Regular
If all batsmen are in sound mental state, Buttler, Stokes and Bairstow would pile up massive runs.
Zack Crawley too would score big and Rory Burns would get to 100 albeit at a strike rate of 60ish.
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Kirkut said:
If all batsmen are in sound mental state, Buttler, Stokes and Bairstow would pile up massive runs.
Zack Crawley too would score big and Rory Burns would get to 100 albeit at a strike rate of 60ish.
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You're more positive than me. I still think a few of them would throw wickets away. Of the teams in the WTC, only SL and probably the WI have less batting talent. I think Bangladesh could score score on it though.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

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Some ringing endorsement of Pak's #4 and #5 fast bowlers and #1 and #2 test openers here from Rambo...

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Ramiz Raja: Rawalpindi draw 'wasn't a good advertisement for Test cricket'

The PCB chairman, however, more or less confirmed that the pitch had been prepared to nullify Australia's fast-bowling strength
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Rameez said:
It's important that when we play at home, we play to our strengths. We also had limited resources, unfortunately. Our opening-ball pair was disturbed because Hasan Ali and Faheem were both unfit. Similarly we had a brand-new opening pair - Abdullah Shafique had only played 2-3 matches, and we were keeping a worrisome eye on his form, and whether he could handle such a good bowling attack or not. Imam-ul-Haq was also making a comeback.
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I suppose a bit of honesty is good though.

Rameez said:
We need to beat Australia, and we need to prepare our strategy accordingly, and the strategy is for low-bouncy tracks where reverse can happen, where lbw and bowled will be in play, where our spinners can show their performance, and where the batters, who have grown up on low-bounce pitches, can utilize that advantage.
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Asking fans to keep their morale high :laugh:

Rameez said:
I want to say again that it wasn't a good advertisement, but keep your morale high and keep watching.
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Gob

Gob

International Coach
It doesn't have to be fast and bouncy just assist spin thank you very much. Also deteriorate as the game progress
 
TheJediBrah

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How about just prepare the wickets how they would naturally come out without trying to give your team an advantage? Is that such a weird mentality?
 
CricAddict

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
TheJediBrah said:
How about just prepare the wickets how they would naturally come out without trying to give your team an advantage? Is that such a weird mentality?
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This has been been a norm in general. Even in the England and SA tours that India just attended, the pitches were totally prepared with zero spin assistance so as to neutralize Ashwin and Jadeja.

Australia have good all-round players, otherwise I do believe the Australia pitches will be prepared likewise too.
 
trundler

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No Faheem Ashraf sucks balls. Really messes with the balance of the attack. Hasan Ali being back is huge, of course. I'd drop Sajid and play Shadab ideally but he's not in the squad for some reason. A fit Abbas would be golden too. :(
 
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