Apart from a couple of periods of Starc bowling 2m down leg trying to inswing it, you wont find a better fast bowling performance on a subcontinent pitch.Holy smoke, just seen scorecard for first time today.
How's the pitch been playing, it's still the same one right?
Can only imagine a combination of Australia have been superb, and Pakistan very poor?
Yeah surviving 160 overs is from easy. Possible? Sure. Likely? Almost certainly not."Easily”
That is the point. Their season is not in April-May which is when IPL is played.Yeah but on the flip side you can't blame other outfits whose seasons are at the same time for wanting a piece of that pie tbh.
The 'pie' is basically the Indian cricket audience and they're not going to watch the PSL instead of the IPLYeah but on the flip side you can't blame other outfits whose seasons are at the same time for wanting a piece of that pie tbh.
The first three wickets - so, the most important ones to take - were all 100% rank awful cricket by Pakistan (and some very good out-cricket by Aus in two cases tbf). Just horrible decision making and execution more than any bowling brilliance on Aus's behalf. That's what really opened the door for Starc and Cummins to then barge through.Apart from a couple of periods of Starc bowling 2m down leg trying to inswing it, you wont find a better fast bowling performance on a subcontinent pitch.
Pakistan certainly weren't great, but some of the deliveries were absolute brutes.
Reverse swing masterclass.
I think they did the right thing with the F/O, no need to work the quicks into the ground with only a 5 day break to the final test. They only bowled 50 overs in the first, but there's no reason Pakistan can't score 300+ even in the last innings, the pitch isn't doing a whole lot, it was reverse swing that was the factor, it's turning, but certainly no bunsen.
Why bother?Seriously though if they were going to declare, why didn't they slog like crazy?
So he's basically their Ganguly. What is it with mediocre 90s/2000s SC batsmen being spud Chairmen of Boards?The 'pie' is basically the Indian cricket audience and they're not going to watch the PSL instead of the IPL
Ramiz has been an absolute embrassment to Pakistani cricket since taking on post of Chairman. Someone needs to shut him up.
Dunno man if Pakistan end up 270 for 1 today..**** i'm starting to sound like morgieWhy bother?
It was reversing in the 20th over of Aus's second innings.Maybe Australia got a lucky ball and there won't be any reverse swing next time.
If they're 270/1 then declaring earlier would only have meant they'd have been 290/1Dunno man if Pakistan end up 270 for 1 today..**** i'm starting to sound like morgie
If they're 270/1 then declaring earlier would only have meant they'd have been 290/1
okIf they're 270/1 then them chasing 530 instead of 510 is not going to make a lick of difference either way