Pakistan Tour of South Africa 2018/19

[StephenZA]

We should not be comparing bowlers here... we should be comparing batsmen. One set of batsmen looked like dear in headlights and lost to many wickets up front (and later) playing poor shots. The other set of batsmen played well and took the shine off the ball...

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Remains to be seen. The number of matches he's played is still in the teens. I don't think he played in the practice match either.

And his average is in the teens.
And I'm replying to a teen.

teeny.

 

[trundler]

We should not be comparing bowlers here... we should be comparing batsmen. One set of batsmen looked like dear in headlights and lost to many wickets up front (and later) playing poor shots. The other set of batsmen played well and took the shine off the ball...

Essentially this. The Pakistani batsman were simply clueless against bounce and some movement early on.

 

[Ahmad Zahir]

See. Abbas is not as good as people thought he was.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Nice and tight.

Stick to line and length.

Precision is key

 

[trundler]

See. Abbas is not as good as people thought he was.

Knee jerk reaction

 

[Ahmad Zahir]

Shan looks more threatening than the so called best bowlers of Pakistan. (Yasir and Abbas)

 

[StephenZA]

KP putting the mockers on Markram there.... unplayable delivery. Sad wanted to see the ton tomorrow.

 

[SeamUp]

Pretty **** that.

 

[Ahmad Zahir]

Shan takes the big wicket of Markram.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Yeah Shan!

 

[GRAB]

That is pretty unplayable. Unfortunate, because a 100 was in the offing...

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The amount of nip back in was quite substantial. Kept a shade low too. The undoing of Palindrome.

 

[trundler]

WTF lol

 

[trundler]

Excellent Gambhiring by the noob

 

[Ahmad Zahir]

Why couldn't Abbas bowl like this? He's not faster than Shan? What the eff has he been doing?

 

[StephenZA]

Why couldn't Abbas bowl like this? He's not faster than Shan? What the eff has he been doing?

Because none of his grubbed along the floor at ankle height and came off the pitch like a leg break?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Why couldn't Abbas bowl like this? He's not faster than Shan? What the eff has he been doing?

I was stressing on him not keeping it simple with his line and length.

 

[trundler]

He's not a robot. Hopefully he'd have a better idea tomorrow. SA 140 all out courtesy of a Ambrose like spell by Abbas? One can dream.

 

[GRAB]

Tell me about it.

Did we really have to get another non-SA based commentator ? Nicholas, Haysman, Holding already.

Suppose SA based former cricketers Smith, Pollock, Robbie P, Ntini. Then there is Pommie.

We've lost Robin Jackman, HD Ackerman and Kepler Wessels most recently.

Already tried their hand at commentary and either chose a coaching career path or another (Donald, Gibbs, Boucher, Kallis, Simons, Adams, Klusener) or didn't try comms at all (G.Kirsten, Hudson, Rhodes, McMillan, Richardson) kicked off because they voice strong views (P.Kirsten, Cullinan, Symcox). Obviously Fanie on Afrikaans comms. I would have got someone like Craig Matthews or even Eric Simons who isn't doing any coaching at the moment. Forgot Paul Harris. He tends to commentate on international cricket and domestic.

I'm pretty sure after the "koelie creeper" scandal no-one would have employed Big Mac... Cullinan and Symcox just had "engage mouth before brain" syndrome on occasion. Would blurt out ridiculousness.

What are ladies like Crizelda Brits up to these days?