Pakistan A vs Australia A Thread

[workkey]

watched the whole match today and it was really a very nice effort..good to see that we have improved with our throwing at the stumps (shoaib malik hitting twice )...
a very nice efffort in the end by shoaib and bazid but i am still worried about our opening pair as imran farhat didnt looked very best ..
all eyes now on the third and final match on tuesday

[ahsan32]

yes Shoaib Malik was the real star in the match, but one thing that was not good that Umpire didn't notice the no ball which got Ashar Zaidi

[Zainub]

We lost the final game and the series, thanks to another of those trademark batting collapses that are beyond most rational explanations and sadly they are so frequently associated with Pakistani teams that in the end you almost get the hang of them instead of being shocked every time - I think that's exactly what happened to me today.

[Orchid]

Originally Posted by Zainub

We lost the final game and the series, thanks to another of those trademark batting collapses that are beyond most rational explanations

And what about the axillent bowling by our man Sami? I have this feeling that there is a scientific or statistical or whatever it's called explanation behind his (inconsistent) bowling. One day I'll have to compile his bolwing performance and see whether there is a recognizable pattern. If it's already available somewhere, I'll be forever grateful.

I noted that he was subbed out, hopefully it was just due to his bowling and not any injury.

[Zainub]

I thought we bowled decently in the first half of the match (Australia A were 4 down for less then 90 at one stage) but then we struggled in the later half after that. Sami struggled with extras today (2 no balls and 5 wides spoiled his figures massively)...when he got that bit right, he bowled very nicely, the sole wicket he took, that of James Hopes was a great dilvery (although not a very good shot either by any means!). Oh and yes, Salman Butt bowled very nicely given the circumstances, and once again he bowled his full 10 overs. 48-1, not bad for a part timer, is it? We bowled poorly to Cameroon White though, who's looked very good all tour, but he still shouldn't have been allowed to score that quickly. Generally speaking bowling was not that bad as a score of 273 would suggest - just a very good innings by Phil Jacqeus, and some great power hitting by White, added to a very, very good one-day pitch and a lightenning fast out field. The batting though was an entirely different matter altogether...I better not start talking about it in depth, that would make me quite annoyed. So in brief: 273 was always a good but still chaseable total on a wicket like that , but we never got started...wickets fell like nine pins all the time...and in the end Bazid was left for him self to play for a bit of pride and his 100, which sadly he couldn't get. The crowd (again) sizeable must still have been entertained though despite that, since it was an innings filled lots of cracking boundaries .

[Zainub]

Drat and double drat!



Turns out Sami is injured after all! A report in FM 107 Radio Station this morning said he left the field with back pain after bowling five overs and didn’t return after that. Later team manager Haroon Rashid told reporters that although Sami was still “in pain” it is only a “minor injury” and “god willing in the next two or three days he should be completely healthy”.

[Captain]

Originally Posted by Zainub

Drat and double drat!



Turns out Sami is injured after all!

if thats true we may as well turn 1/4th of our attention to the India series.

[Orchid]

Hope it's not anything serious.