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Originally Posted by Seamer 35403 Bad toss to lose. Australia might have struggled as they did against the Windies the other night if they had to bat first in those conditions. |
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Originally Posted by workkey 35411 toss was the winner in todays match  |
We certainly should not blame today's result on the toss alone. The poor start was somewhat understandable, Pigeon was just bowling superbly and the condition were tough, but from the half way onwards mark, particularly from the time when Razzaq was batting with Inzi, batting conditions had improved, and we were batting well before (yet again) a very poor display of running gave Australia a crucial breakthrough. I thought kids were told from school to ground their bats and not just pop them over the crease - these are such basic things that we tend to forget time and time again. Razzaq was batting well, he'd hit a couple of glorious drives against Watson, and who knows what could have happened had he stuck around a little longer with Inzi than he did. Credit to Afridi, who must be thinking he is the big-hitting form of his life, he played superbly, just ran out of partners in the end. 200 would have been a goot total in those conditions.
Michael Clarke in the end got to his hundred, after we gave him umpteenth lives.
Over all wery depressing performance this
, especially with Inzi coming out and saying he is contemplating resigning from captaincy at the end of this tour, all our first choice bowlers (Shoaib Ahmed Gul Sami -not in order of preferamce-) are injuried, Mohammad Hafeez can't score any runs and he's also been reported for his action, yet we still have to play him such is the desperate shortage of bowling options we are facing
, still there is no news of Kaneria being called back from Pakistan - we seem to be a sort of minor crisis here surely
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