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**Official** India v Pakistan
- Thread starter dudeurfriend
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PAKMAN
State 12th Man
yoooooo hoooooooo !!!!
great great win for pakistan
and i really feel for the india supporters i could imagine their pain when afridi was hitting nearly every ball to the boundry ,but it brot absolute joy to us and we codnt stop screeming infront of the tv very very very very entertaining ,im sure you guyz will have ur days wen sehwag shines again
great great win for pakistan
and i really feel for the india supporters i could imagine their pain when afridi was hitting nearly every ball to the boundry ,but it brot absolute joy to us and we codnt stop screeming infront of the tv very very very very entertaining ,im sure you guyz will have ur days wen sehwag shines again
Shahid_afridi
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
afridi just rocked the indian site.....when is sony going to show the highlights(please in uk time)???????i really want to see afridi taking on the bowlers
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Seeing the swing that Naved-ul-hasan was getting, the Indian selectors may have to consider Jai Prakash Yadav for the next ODI, or at least the next series against Sri Lanka- they can then play a batsman less. But what went wrong with the Indian new-ball attack? Balaji, at his pace, is a target for batsmen like Afridi, but still, Naved got those top-order wickets, but they didn't.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
It was great stuff. Its no fun losing the game and even worse when your bowlers are treated like fodder but it was truly amazing stuff.PAKMAN said:
I too have always felt Afridi is gifted but plays like a "jat" (or a Pathan as you might say) but today he was a killer.
I have a feeling he will not be comfortable against really quick short stuff on his body but India hasnt had bowlers who can do that since I have been watching and thats from a millenium back
. What do you think ?How is he against short rising very fast stuff?
deeps
International 12th Man
Well i think it was about 5 years ago now, when Brett Lee first came onto the scene.. There was a one day series around that time and afridi looked very shaky against the short quick stuff from Lee. But there is alot of batsman in the world that can be made to look shaky against that stuff from Lee delivered in the high 150's. However afridi managed to not get out to him.SJS said:I have a feeling he will not be comfortable against really quick short stuff on his body but India hasnt had bowlers who can do that since I have been watching and thats from a millenium back
How is he against short rising very fast stuff?
But the last VB series, i noticed afridi was launching Lee around the park... Don't know if any short stuff was tried, (didn't see it myself ) but he did manage to whack lee.
When Pathan drops it short, the ball is usually somewhere in the stands... i know that much
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
The Indian team should do a rethink on that fifth bowler combination and stick to the same bowler for all five overs- look at the performance of that bits-and-pieces combination in the last 3 ODI's-
- MATCH 3: 11.4-0-84-2
- MATCH 4: 12-0-73-1
- MATCH 5: 9.1-0-64-2
deeps
International 12th Man
nah i dnt think that was suspect. He missed his pull shot, and it struck him in the helmet.. he didn't even flinch. Wasn't really the short sharp stuff that SJS was talking about i dnt think.Arjun said:
I think it was more the angle from the left hander that did it more than anything
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
The Indian seamers depend too much on seam and swing movement, which makes it a lot harder for them on flat pitches, when it's very hot. When they're not getting the ball to move, at their pace, they're all targets. QUESTION- Why was Nehra dropped? They can try picking some tall, muscular pace bowler who's known to bowl at serious pace and has been identified by the press (Abid Nabi, Vikram Singh and Munaf Patel are supposed to be a lot faster than the average Indian medium-pacer) for the last ODI or even the next series, just to try something different. Agree about openign with a spinner, but that should just be for an over or two, and should be a non-regular spinner. They can even consider promoting Zaheer Khan to number 3!James said:
