*Official* Pakistan in England 2020

[smash84]

it's a shame hasan ali lost his spot. i enjoyed his obnoxious celebrations.

Blech.....you're the only one. Just plain nasty celebration.

 

[Spark]

who did australia collapse to on the regular in the uae? was it zulfifiqar and ajmal?

Ajmal got banned just before we toured. It was Yasir's debut series that wrecked us the first time (although really it was Younis and Misbah who did the real damage with scoreboard pressure) and then Abbas the second time.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Make Broad Scared Again (MBSA)

 

[honestbharani]

England desperate to Yasir a Michelle...

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Broad needs a repeat of last week and then a repeat of Trent Bridge 15 and we may have half a chance then.

 

[Flem274*]

Blech.....you're the only one. Just plain nasty celebration.

they were funny. loved to hate the guy, and just loved the guy when he did it to other teams.

 

[trundler]

This is annoying

 

[Starfighter]

Oh come on.

 

[OverratedSanity]

it's a shame hasan ali lost his spot. i enjoyed his obnoxious celebrations.

Haha yes, always appreciate a bowler who can be annoying

 

[Uppercut]

Yasir definitely bowled far worse than those figures suggest. But he does bowl the odd really good delivery, especially with the dukes, I guess.

I don't think he's bowling worse than the figures suggest, I think that's just what good-but-not-great leg spin looks like.

 

[wpdavid]

This is annoying

There won't be many innings where Broad and Archer have both made double figures.

But you're still fine, trust me.

There you go, Archer's gone.
Caught trying to leave the ball

 

[vcs]

And Shadab Khan gets a wicket now.

 

[honestbharani]

Archer's arrogance gonna be his downfall, IMO. Guy is gonna make KP look humble, I feel.

 

[Pothas]

This performance feels very 90s England.

 

[trundler]

And that's why you go with a test class keeper

 

[honestbharani]

I don't think he's bowling worse than the figures suggest, I think that's just what good-but-not-great leg spin looks like.

Nah, there are many good leggies who can bowl well and control and keep the runs down. Sure, the number is lesser when compared to similar style of finger spinners but Yasir himself gives so much control when bowling in the UAE for instance.

 

[Spark]

Nah, there are many good leggies who can bowl well and control and keep the runs down. Sure, the number is lesser when compared to similar style of finger spinners but Yasir himself gives so much control when bowling in the UAE for instance.

A lot of that has to do with psychology though. Batsmen are clearly just so much more nervous and unsure about playing him in the UAE than on harder, bouncier pitches where the ball is less likely to hit the stumps from even a slightly short length.

It's just a weird quirk that the way to get wickets in subcontinental-type pitches -- bowl fast, into the pitch and at the stumps off a good length and rely on natural variation to do a lot of your work -- is exactly how you get absolutely destroyed in places like Australia. I feel it's not entirely fair to call spinners "bad" just because they have trouble adjusting one way or the other, almost every spinner does.

 

[wpdavid]

Jimmy showing that he knew what he was doing after all when he took that sharp single off the last ball of the previous over.

 

[Uppercut]

And that's why you go with a test class keeper

I was going to post yesterday about Buttler's technique looking very static keeping to spin, like he gets in the line of the ball and waits for it, whereas I remembered the best keepers moving with the bounce or turn. But I didn't because I wasn't sure if my memory of other keepers was right.
Watching Rizwan here though and that's exactly what he's doing. The technical difference is night and day.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I dislike that Stuart Broad is no longer useless with the bat