***Official*** Pakistan in New Zealand 2016/17

[Prince EWS]

In patches he bowled well. I might have been overly harsh but as black_warrior said Arthur getting him into track

Sohail often bowls a beautiful first spell of the day and then drops off dramatically as time goes on; I've always assumed it was a bit of a fitness issue. In England this was less pronounced (but still evident) so I think he's been working on it.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Sohail often bowls a beautiful first spell of the day and then drops off dramatically as time goes on; I've always assumed it was a bit of a fitness issue. In England this was less pronounced (but still evident) so I think he's been working on it.

yeah his biggest challenge will be when he comes later and also in 2nd innings

 

[Prince EWS]

Weakest bowling attack of the top 6 teams doing all right.

To be fair I think it'd be hard to actually pick one out; all six have good attacks in different ways (and all six have weak spots).

 

[Blocky]

Raval doing something the Australian's can't do - leave the ball when it poses no threat to his wicket.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Raval has looked good so far.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Thats 3 straight drives from raval. Beautiful

 

[Flem274*]

raval always looks good. he'll give it away on 40 or so or score 250* and that will be it for the summer.

see his domestic exploits. he and will young are the kings of not cashing in after doing the work.

 

[Victor Ian]

Nothing brings me greater satisfaction, in cricket, than seeing a bloke with a mo doing extremely well.

 

[Red Wingz]

That guy Raval's timing has been superb so far

 

[Blocky]

Very compact, good technique so far, not wafting outside his off stump.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

the moment I make a positive comment about raval he's going to get out

 

[Blocky]

Lazy lazy lazy... so many batsmen let themselves get out to the strangle because they don't seek to do anything but ship it off the hip.

 

[Red Wingz]

Taylor is a walking wicket nowadays

 

[Flem274*]

if henry nicholls could troll another good innings against a good attack in tricky conditions that would be great

 

[Mike5181]

Enough of these plebs, bring in CdG to show everyone how it's done.

 

[Daemon]

Lazy lazy lazy... so many batsmen let themselves get out to the strangle because they don't seek to do anything but ship it off the hip.

Yeah it happens way too often for one to use the term 'unlucky'.

 

[morgieb]

Raval the only person scoring runs so far in the game.

Suck it Athlai

 

[OverratedSanity]

Don't care if he gets out next ball, this is probably already a better innings than anything guptill did in the last year.

 

[Blocky]

Don't care if he gets out next ball, this is probably already a better innings than anything guptill did in the last year.

In these conditions, Guptill knicks off within the first three overs.

Raval's shown enough to persist with him for a while, he just needs to keep his game simple, work at keeping close to the ball and leaving anything that poses a threat.

 

[Gnske]

"DUDE Raval is a myth lmao"

"DUDE de Grandhomme is so bad lmao"

Reminder I advocated both of them many months ago and was ridiculed.