*Official* Australia vs Pakistan in England

[Spark]

This could be an entertaining passage of play. Afridi's not going to hang around.

Entertaining indeed.

 

[Woodster]

Such disdain from Afridi against a guy that's just ripped out the Akmal brothers. He's deposited that one in the stand for a maximum!!

 

[benchmark00]

Last six scoring shots have been five fours and a six.

Rotate the strike ****s.

 

[Burgey]

I just can't believe a country, any country - even Pakistan, could contemplate making Afridi captain of its Test team.

 

[wpdavid]

This could be an entertaining passage of play. Afridi's not going to hang around.

Intelligent cricket by Afridi imo. No point in poking around before getting a great ball from Johnson, Hilf or Bollinger. Makes absolute sense to take on Watson.

 

[Jayzamann]

Some would panic at 83/5, but people like Shahid take it as an opportunity to light some fires.

 

[Manee]

C'mon Ricky, bring Smith on to Afridi.

 

[Johnners]

Haha Afridi, what a nutter. Hope he gets out going for the slog, disgraceful really.

 

[Jayzamann]

Haha Afridi, what a nutter. Hope he gets out going for the slog, disgraceful really.

Not a quintessential start to a test innings. Sure there's been more than a few MCC monocles being popped as we speak.

 

[Johnners]

Mmm, there's playing your shots, and then there's swinging for the fences. Much more sensible since the last swing 'n a miss though tbf

 

[King Pietersen]

This isn't slogging, he's playing proper cricket shots. The six in Watson's last over was glorious, and he's just taking advantage of some pie served up from Watson. If you bowl full and wide to Afridi, he's going to smack you around. It's not like he's wildly swatting across the line, not yet anyway, this is good, sensible counter-attacking cricket. Hope he sticks around for a while yet.

 

[Manee]

This is excellent batting from Afridi, really taken it to the Aussies rather than allow the team to fold for 150.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

One too many.

 

[Manee]

I'm sure that is an opinion dividing innings from the captain.

 

[Spark]

Lolz. That was fun.

 

[King Pietersen]

Boo. The shot was on again, but he ultimately played it poorly. Was entertaining whilst it lasted anyway.

 

[Jayzamann]

Yeah Watto that was your plan all along right? Heh.

 

[Furball]

Wish Afridi would re-arrange Watson's smug face with his bat.

 

[Pothas]

Afridi lol, was fun whilst it lasted.

Probably better than him trying to hang around.

 

[Spark]

*Shane Watson (rfm) 3.0 1 30 3 10.00

One has to laugh.