*Official* Pakistan v New Zealand in the UAE 2018

[SeamUp]

Hafeez has to make runs with Dale Steyn coming up

I do wonder if this is just is all horses for courses and Fakhar replaces him for SA

 

[Gnske]

Give Wagner the new ball just once you ****s

 

[SeamUp]

Give Wagner the new ball just once you ****s

They must be trying to make him all angry inside having to watch CdG take the nice hard shiny cherry before him.

 

[Moss]

Hoo boy Hafeez is enjoying himself.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hafeez has to make runs with Dale Steyn coming up

I do wonder if this is just is all horses for courses and Fakhar replaces him for SA

Yeah you'd hope so. I like Hafeez and I defended him on here recently but picking him to open in SA would be dumb.

 

[Gnske]

They must be trying to make him all angry inside having to watch CdG take the nice hard shiny cherry before him.

I take it back, CDG is a scholarly genius.

 

[SeamUp]

I take it back, CDG is a scholarly genius.

Double benefit.

Let CdG get cheap wickets with his floaters and still make Wagner red with rage.

Kane you genius.

 

[Flem274*]

lord colin has always proven handy with a new pill

 

[Black_Warrior]

Hafeez has to make runs with Dale Steyn coming up

I do wonder if this is just is all horses for courses and Fakhar replaces him for SA

Horses for courses it should be but not sure if Arthur can introduce this sort of policy in Pakistan. He was the guy who dropped Hafeez for Asia Cup which is now seen as a massive blunder. And now if he wants to rightly not play him in SA, he might not have the bargaining power anymore
Ideally they should go with the formation they went in England

Imam/Fakhar
Azhar
Haris
Shafiq
Babar
Sarfraz
Faheem
Yasir
3 pacers

 

[Flem274*]

lol that's a gift. boult has bowled well here but you wouldn't pick that to be the wicket ball

 

[Prince EWS]

lord colin has always proven handy with a new pill

Yeah and Wagner banging it in halfway down definitely makes more sense as a tactic once it's stopped moving in the air. It was the right call, even if Colin only bowls four overs or so.

 

[Flem274*]

cdg is so bloody useful in the 5th bowler role. he can keep it tight like a traditional 5th bowler, but give him a new ball and he's genuinely dangerous even on roads.

 

[Moss]

Wow the openers will sure be cross with themselves.

Good on CdG for making his promotion to the new ball count.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Pakistan throwing this away in classic Pakistan fashion

 

[Black_Warrior]

PEWS what number do you think Shafiq should be batting?

 

[Flem274*]

im not pews but shafiq should stop hiding and bat at #4. he's too good not to.

 

[Black_Warrior]

im not pews but shafiq should stop hiding and bat at #4. he's too good not to.

Lol it's not him who's hiding. It's Pak management who don't rate him and keep pushing him down. Guy would bat at 3 if he could

 

[Prince EWS]

PEWS what number do you think Shafiq should be batting?

Five in this lineup, four in any overseas Tests they wanted Azhar to open in.

So basically one spot higher. I really don't get Babar batting ahead of him.

 

[SeamUp]

Honestly that ball from CdG was a pure gem. You don't see too many jag like that in the UAE.

 

[Flem274*]

how did that miss everything

colin #canbowl