Pakistan Cricket

[Beleg]

Did we ever suck more?

 

[Pratters]

Pakistan cricket was going great till mid 2006. Then all hell broke lose and one disaster happened after another. They do have some very good fast bowlers and some more upcoming ones and it has been a bit of a transitional phase post ODI World Cup 2007. There is hope according to me.

 

[shortpitched713]

Did we ever suck more?

Possibly in our early days.

 

[haroon510]

i just worry that the current political situation of pakistan may influance the team's performance big team.. if it gets bad .. the performance of the team may get worse than the year 2007..

 

[bond21]

maybe if people stopped assassinating politicians in pakistan they would get teams touring

 

[Evermind]

The day Pakistan play Gul, Akhtar and Asif in a test will be the day we can say their cricket is on the road to recovery.

Of course, Akhtar shouldn't really be playing for 2 years, so whatever that may mean.

 

[Xuhaib]

All we need is to get rid of these retard selectors who keep on picking mediocre tripe like Hameed, Iqbal and Sami.

Pakistan cricket was best in the 80's and 90's because the selectors were bold and they were not afraid to throw raw youngsters in the deep end and if they failed they were quickly replaced by some more raw young players.

 

[haroon510]

maybe if people stopped assassinating politicians in pakistan they would get teams touring

say what.. politicians are the reason why the situation is this ugly in pakistan.. if the current president of pakistan left government in good terms and earlier..this chaos could have been avoided. i think that every politician who gets assisnate .. they deserve it.. politician don't do anything but cause trouble..

 

[Prince EWS]

Did we ever suck more?

Jeez, how can I not reply to that question? I'll leave it at that, but jeez, worst wording.

 

[Richard]

All we need is to get rid of these retard selectors who keep on picking mediocre tripe like Hameed, Iqbal and Sami.

Pakistan cricket was best in the 80's and 90's because the selectors were bold and they were not afraid to throw raw youngsters in the deep end and if they failed they were quickly replaced by some more raw young players.

And the fact that youngsters happened to be the Wasim Akrams, Waqar Younises and Inzamam-ul-Haqs instead of the Hameeds, Iqbals and Mohammad Khalils helped too...

 

[Pratters]

And the fact that youngsters happened to be the Wasim Akrams, Waqar Younises and Inzamam-ul-Haqs instead of the Hameeds, Iqbals and Mohammad Khalils helped too...

I urge you to see highlights of some young Pakistani bowlers. Anwar Ali and Jamshed for the win. Haven't seen any one swing as much as Anwar Ali since Malcolm Marshall.

 

[Richard]

That's quite something. The key, though, is that he does that more than just that once. I'm sure he, like many other young Pakistan seam-bowlers, can bowl stunningly of times, but he - like so many others - needs to do it for a career.

I'll be delighted if he does, but there's already Asif and Umar Gul for starters. That's not a bad place to begin.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I urge Pakistan to stop picking Sami. Honestly, who has he slept with??

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I urge you to see highlights of some young Pakistani bowlers. Anwar Ali and Jamshed for the win. Haven't seen any one swing as much as Anwar Ali since Malcolm Marshall.

Shame they haven't pushed on with it at all really. Still young, but very unflattering statistics for Anwar Ali thus far, for someone who can swing the ball like that.

Pujara looks a good shot for India in future though.

EDIT: Jamshed's not done too badly actually.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Shame they haven't pushed on with it at all really. Still young, but very unflattering statistics for Anwar Ali thus far, for someone who can swing the ball like that.

Pujara looks a good shot for India in future though.

EDIT: Jamshed's not done too badly actually.

TBH, thought Jamshed actually looked like more of a bowler than Anwar Ali.

 

[Pratters]

Shame they haven't pushed on with it at all really. Still young, but very unflattering statistics for Anwar Ali thus far, for someone who can swing the ball like that.

Pujara looks a good shot for India in future though.

EDIT: Jamshed's not done too badly actually.

TBH, thought Jamshed actually looked like more of a bowler than Anwar Ali.

Interesting.

Can you suggest why Jamshed looked more the bowler while Anwar Ali didn't Jack? Jamshed did seem to have an excellent yorker too if I am not mistaken.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Just felt as though Anwar was getting wickets largely due to pure outrageous swing, while Jamshed bowler better areas more consistently and had a few more tricks up his sleeve. Mind you, only played against them twice and watched that game against India, which is a very small sample space in which to make a judgement about a couple of players.

 

[Pratters]

Just felt as though Anwar was getting wickets largely due to pure outrageous swing, while Jamshed bowler better areas more consistently and had a few more tricks up his sleeve. Mind you, only played against them twice and watched that game against India, which is a very small sample space in which to make a judgement about a couple of players.

Right. Thanks.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Just felt as though Anwar was getting wickets largely due to pure outrageous swing, while Jamshed bowler better areas more consistently and had a few more tricks up his sleeve. Mind you, only played against them twice and watched that game against India, which is a very small sample space in which to make a judgement about a couple of players.

What's Imad Wasim like?

 

[vic_orthdox]

What's Imad Wasim like?

a) That scorecard is wrong, I got off the mark.
b) That scorecard is wrong, I was caught and bowled.
c) I can't believe he caught it, he dislocated his thumb in doing it. Why couldn't the ball pop out instead of his digit.
d) Imad changes his pace really well, but generally bowled pretty flatly. May well be a bit different to how he does it in the longer version. Seemed like a very smart and accomplished bowler. Also bats OK.