Thread: Australia v Pakistan: build-up
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Old 20-11-2004, 12:10 AM in reply to adeel_r's post "Pak team for first test at Perth"
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Now there's a brutally honest post... but sadly.. one that rings very true.

Having just convinced Zainub to go for a nice balanced side that is best able to compete and go for a win... this post brings me back down to earth: even the NZ side have gone to Aus looking merely to survive.. stacking the batting to no 10 in order to not get wiped out.

it would be seriously negative.. because in order to get the batting deep enough you'd probably be looking at an attack that read: Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi + one from Shoaib Akhtar and Danish Kaneria.. and that really would be a sorry excuse for an attack!

You'd be betting on Inzi and his friends batting 5 sessions in the first inings and 4+ sessions in the second to scrape a draw.. but I guess it could work :-p