***Official*** England in Pakistan

[Scaly piscine]

Not sure about Blackwell, but Afridi is establishing himself as a test allrounder, his performance in test matche lately have been great.JUst look at his performance in the last test match and you can see how this guy can take matches away from opponents

Afridi is fine when the ball is doing nothing, he'll look truly awful when he plays a top quality attack on a pitch that has the slightest movement in it.

 

[Muddaser]

He has played a test before and his action looked to be completely legal

Exactly.

Made his debut against Australia and his action looked fine.

 

[Choora]

Afridi is fine when the ball is doing nothing, he'll look truly awful when he plays a top quality attack on a pitch that has the slightest movement in it.

True, but at the same time he has shown great improvement in his bowling, so its not that he's useless.

When he fails with the bat, he makes it up with the ball !!

 

[Nonentity]

True, but at the same time he has shown great improvement in his bowling, so its not that he's useless.

When he fails with the bat, he makes it up with the ball !!

exactly..he has really matured as a bowler

 

[vandemataram]

Younis Khan is out of Lahore test match as his brother has just expired.

England now has the best chance to beat a weak Pak team that will be without Afridi and Younis Khan.

 

[Pratters]

England now has the best chance to beat a weak Pak team that will be without Afridi and Younis Khan.

England is missing quite a few of their players as well..

 

[vandemataram]

England is missing quite a few of their players as well..

Yeah but i think England have good replacement for Strauss, Pakistan on the other hand doesn't seems to have a good replacement for Younis Khan

 

[vandemataram]

Pakistan should really reacall Imran Farhat to open with BUtt in Lahore test match and have Malik bat at one down.Hasan Raza has already failed in the first test match and having him to come at one down in place of Younis in Lahore test match could prove to be disaster.

My team would be

Butt
Frahat
Malik
Inzi
Yousuf
Asim
Akmal
Rana
Akhtar
Asif
Danish.

However the team most likly to end up playing would be like,

Butt
Malik
Yousuf
Inzi
Asim
Hasan
Akmal
Rana
Akhtar
Sami
Danish

 

[greg]

As people have said we will get 75 overs a day (maximum) in the Lahore test (with no time for overtime) why has nobody proposed something sensible like 6 day tests in these circumstances?

 

[greg]

Yeah but i think England have good replacement for Strauss, Pakistan on the other hand doesn't seems to have a good replacement for Younis Khan

Only because they are replacing someone who hasn't scored any runs.

 

[biased indian]

who are those few ????

 

[Shoaib]

Pakistan should really reacall Imran Farhat to open with BUtt in Lahore test match and have Malik bat at one down.Hasan Raza has already failed in the first test match and having him to come at one down in place of Younis in Lahore test match could prove to be disaster.

My team would be

Butt
Frahat
Malik
Inzi
Yousuf
Asim
Akmal
Rana
Akhtar
Asif
Danish.

However the team most likly to end up playing would be like,

Butt
Malik
Yousuf
Inzi
Asim
Hasan
Akmal
Rana
Akhtar
Sami
Danish

According to some very trustable sources,Mohammad Asif or Arshad Khan is gonna replace Mohammad Sami in the 3rd Test.

 

[Jono]

Yeah but i think England have good replacement for Strauss, Pakistan on the other hand doesn't seems to have a good replacement for Younis Khan

What?

England will replace Strauss with a test debutant. Pakistan can replace Younis with Asim Kamal, someone who should make the first XI anyway. I think Pak have the clear upper hand.

 

[Barney Rubble]

What?

England will replace Strauss with a test debutant. Pakistan can replace Younis with Asim Kamal, someone who should make the first XI anyway. I think Pak have the clear upper hand.

It's looking like Collingwood is going to replace Strauss with Vaughan moving up the order, rather than Cook playing. Fletcher doesn't like the fact that he hasn't had a knock on tour so far.

That means Pakistan definitely have the upper hand.

 

[superkingdave]

at least our chances of doing something in the ODI series have improved now that Vaughan will fly home - still they'll probably replace him with Solanki and we'll be back to sqaure one...

 

[greg]

It's looking like Collingwood is going to replace Strauss with Vaughan moving up the order, rather than Cook playing. Fletcher doesn't like the fact that he hasn't had a knock on tour so far.
That means Pakistan definitely have the upper hand.

Nor has Collingwood or Vaughan for months

 

[Scaly piscine]

at least our chances of doing something in the ODI series have improved now that Vaughan will fly home - still they'll probably replace him with Solanki and we'll be back to sqaure one...

Probably right sadly, they should definitely play Prior tho, Blackwell's bowling should be enough to push him ahead of other spinners, giving England the most erratic batting lineup in cricket history:

Tresco
Prior
Strauss
KP
Flintoff
Collingwood
Geraint
Blackwell
Plunkett
Harmison
Anderson (or several other options)

 

[PY]

With that line-up, Freddie will have to bowl all his overs every game really.

Not that I can see any alternative but I really would like to see Freddie man-managed well and rested (bowling 4-5 strike overs) during the ODIs to give him a break from the ridiculous workload he's had this series.

 

[Scaly piscine]

With that line-up, Freddie will have to bowl all his overs every game really.

Not that I can see any alternative but I really would like to see Freddie man-managed well and rested (bowling 4-5 strike overs) during the ODIs to give him a break from the ridiculous workload he's had this series.

Well there's still the supersub (sigh), who would probably be bowler.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Well there's still the supersub (sigh), who would probably be bowler.

Actually, I think there's a strong chance that now he's been called up, the supersub will be Blackwell.