*Official* Pakistan in the West Indies

[aussie]

King is bowling like a drain as usual

 

[Beleg]

Inzy and Younis going along nicely. Spat seems to have been forgotten in the greater intrest of the team.

 

[Beleg]

Younis khan is playing a very mature knock here.

 

[Beleg]

Pakistan in the dominant position at tea. I can easily see a score of 400 looming, specially with the downspirited approach of WI at the moment.

 

[Beleg]

No one else is interested in the match?

 

[The Baconator]

Good knock by Younis, well supported by Inzi and Kamal, Pakistan could get a 500+ total.

 

[aussie]

well look at that, that delivery came from nowhere and suprising Chanderpaul dropped it. WELL that could miss could cost west indies

 

[Beleg]

Collymore snags Afridi of what might have been the last ball of his spell. Really Afridi's ability to counter swing is atrocious. Razzaq should have kept note of that and refrained from rotating the strike.

 

[aussie]

Collymore bowling quite well today and has i type Akmal blasts him throught the covers

 

[roseboy64]

The umpiring in this series has been shoddy to say the least.Who knows what could be the consequence of that miss.

 

[roseboy64]

Best has had a nice little spell here.

 

[Beleg]

Best had a nice spell because the batsmen were willing to play it down and not take even an iota of chances.

He bowled rubbish.

 

[roseboy64]

He got Akmal out didn't he.

 

[Beleg]

that doesn't make his overall bowling any less crap though. Batsmen were leaving the balls at the end because they didn't want to mistime a short and end up losing their wickets just before stumps. Otherwise he was bowling the same line which got him dispatched to the cover-point fence during the earlier part of the day.

collymore on the other hand deserved a wicket or two more. he got some really nice shape and swing going. beat afridi all ends up on countless occasions.

 

[roseboy64]

That's the only part of the match I saw but he did look to be bowling at least better than i've seen him recently.

 

[mofo123]

pakistan...the jekyll and hyde of cricket!
at times immense at times not so...

 

[Duncan]

Pakistan has had a serious opener problem since Anwar retired... there has been so many failed combinations it is getting ridiculous... Butt/Hameed, Butt/Afridi/, Afridi/Hameed, Hameed/Malik, Taufeeq/Farhat, Hameed/Farhat, Hafeez/Hameed, Nazir/Umar..

However, dropping Butt and keeping Hameed really baffles me.

Pakistan needs 450+ if they want to win this... knowing them... they are equally capable of scoring 500 as well as collapsing to 350.

 

[aussie]

ah yes Pakistan's top order dilemma. A weakness that England look at when they tour Pakistan latet this year.

 

[Nate]

No one else is interested in the match?

I am... to the max. Just on at exactly the wrong time.

 

[honestbharani]

looks like Pakistan had the better of the exchanges on the opening day, albeit to a rather slight degree.