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31st January 2019, 16:50 #1
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31st January 2019, 17:00 #2
The good thing is that Pakistan will play 5 ODI's Vs England just before the world cup so it doesn't matter if the warm ups are against the weakest teams of the tournament.The preparation leading to the world cup looks good.
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31st January 2019, 17:02 #3
Also in April: 5 ODIs vs Australia
27th April: Tour match vs Kent
29th April: Tour match vs Northants
1st May: Tour match vs Leics
5th May: T20I vs England
8th May: ODI vs England
11th May: ODI vs England
14th May: ODI vs England
17th May: ODI vs England
19th May: ODI vs England
24th May: Warm-up vs Afghanistan
26th May: Warm-up vs Bangladesh
Pakistan's first World Cup match is on 31st May. Extremely busy schedule.
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31st January 2019, 17:18 #4
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5 ODI against England is the best warm up before world cup.
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31st January 2019, 17:24 #5
Wouldn’t be surprised one bit if some key players get injured in the lead up. This is probably a funny case of having too many games just before the tournament. Should use an extended swuad for the Saud/Eng series and rotate players every game, especially the bowlers.
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31st January 2019, 17:26 #6
I fear fatigue will further harm Pakistan chances considering the England tour until and unless the management decides to rotate players in each match of the series.
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31st January 2019, 17:28 #7
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31st January 2019, 17:34 #8
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31st January 2019, 17:35 #9
Pakistan have been given far less testing warm up games than all the other major nations. If I was into conspiracy theories I would think that the organisers are trying to make sure Pakistan go into the WC under-prepared as possible. Every other nation has at least one tough game against a decent seam attack.
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31st January 2019, 17:37 #10
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31st January 2019, 17:43 #11
More than enough Warm up and ODI games before world cup so there should be no excuses if the team flops during world cup.
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31st January 2019, 17:48 #12
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The prep is a little too much.
I dont want key players getting injured right before the worldcup.
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31st January 2019, 18:19 #13
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Afghanis and BD
couldn't they give us better opposition to play practice games ?
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31st January 2019, 18:22 #14
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Faheem Ashraf will be licking his lips against the Bangladesh bowlers, making full use of the 30m boundary on one side as he did in the CT warm up.
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31st January 2019, 18:25 #15
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It would be good if as a sticky thread on PP, can someone create a calendar or itenary of all Pakistan fixtures till the World Cup.
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31st January 2019, 18:30 #16
Good. Now Pakistani fans have an excuse. Not enough good practice
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31st January 2019, 18:31 #17
http://www.pakpassion.net/fixtures/p...-schedule.html
All confirmed fixtures are here. Five ODIs vs Australia don't have confirmed dates yet but are scheduled to be in April I think.
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31st January 2019, 18:31 #18
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31st January 2019, 18:33 #19
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31st January 2019, 18:41 #20
Bangladesh and Afghans should have confidence going into world cup after winning the warm up games.
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31st January 2019, 18:42 #21
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It would be good top nations do not play us before so they would not get to gauge our weaknesses/strengths, bar Aus and England as we playing them before the practice games.
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31st January 2019, 18:46 #22
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31st January 2019, 18:49 #23
I love the round robin format.
However, you have to be careful not to peak too soon..
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31st January 2019, 18:51 #24
Yup very hectic!
1st Feb - 6th Feb: Pak vs SA T20s
14th Feb - 17th Mar: PSL 2019
End of Mar/Start of Apr: 5 ODIs VS Aus (according to FTP - dates TBC)
27th Apr - 19th May: Tour matches, T20 & ODIs VS England
24th May - 26th May: WC Warm Up Games
31st May - 14th Jul: Pakistans CWC Winning campaign inshAllah
Need to manage the players - in particular the fast bowlers through all of this. Need to rotate the likes of Amir, Shaheen, Hassan, Shinwari, Junaid and even Faheem.
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31st January 2019, 18:58 #25
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31st January 2019, 19:04 #26
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31st January 2019, 19:19 #27
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Last edited by Zeeraq; 31st January 2019 at 19:31.
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31st January 2019, 19:25 #28
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31st January 2019, 19:38 #29
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31st January 2019, 19:45 #30
Worst preparation ever.
#Hum apko container deingaye dharnay ke liyay
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31st January 2019, 19:49 #31
Both BD and Afghanistan will bring their A game vs Pakistan.
What we must do is play proper batsmen.
It's gonna be a tough tourney but only Pakistan can knock out India; otherwise, it is India's world cup
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31st January 2019, 19:53 #32
Thank God there is no India v Sri Lanka.
Have some Sehwag in your life.
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31st January 2019, 20:04 #33
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Pakistan have the best preparation possible for the CWC. You are playing 5 ODIS against ENG in ENG. What more do you need? lol
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31st January 2019, 20:19 #34
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Pakistan's schedule reminds me of India's before 2015 WC. It's too much. Even if we ignore the possibility of injuries, there is a danger of mental fatigue. The way India tried to solve this was to take the tri series easy before the 2015 WC. They were pathetic in every game against AUS and Eng and come the world cup time, they flipped the switch on. Can Pakistan afford to do that? One needs to be fresh for a gruelling tournament like the WC.
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31st January 2019, 22:28 #35
5 games against best ODI team is an overkill right before WC. If PAK lose all 5 games, it will completely shatter their confidence.
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31st January 2019, 22:35 #36
Part of the reason I brought it up was to flush out those who would quickly trot out the 'victim mentality' spiel. As you can see, those Pakistanis who were aware of the England ODI tour quickly pointed this out which proves the stereotype is completely false and probably due to prejudice.
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31st January 2019, 22:35 #37
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31st January 2019, 22:46 #38
I think those ODIs against England will be invaluable, they will have as good a seam attack in English conditions as anyone. Should sort out the wheat from the chaff as far as the Pakistan top order is concerned. If they can't handle it, they aren't going to perform in the world cup anyway.
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31st January 2019, 22:50 #39
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31st January 2019, 22:51 #40
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31st January 2019, 22:51 #41
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31st January 2019, 23:44 #42
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1st February 2019, 01:08 #43
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It's going to be good opportunity for Pakistan to test their preparation and to form a combination. One thing they must sure they adopt the rotation policy and need to have a good bench strength. Good thing about Pakistan team is they have a settled top 3 and if any of them get injured or unfit they have a very good player Shan Masood as backup . They are weak in middle order and lower order . They don't have any backup players in the middle order. Perhaps Umar Akmal should be selected as a backup for Hafeez and Mallik. umar has almost similar average and better strike rate than these 2. They don't have any power hitters in 7 and 8. They can utilize Imad who is a decent player but not power hitter and can give some confidence to Hassan Ali who can play the role of power hotter at 8. All in all Pakistan have a decent squad with good pace battery comprises of Shaheen, Hassan Ali, Shinwari, Junaid , Amir and Faheem. Shadab leads the spin department supported by Immad and Hafeez. Yasir shah shoukd be kept as a backup in case of non availability of Shadab.
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1st February 2019, 01:11 #44
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1st February 2019, 02:17 #45
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But he's not even getting selected for the t20is. So is he even a part of the plans of the pcb.
He isn't even that good in the t20s. He's a pure odi/test player. Doesn't like (or can't hit) sixes. Has like only 10 in his whole list a career. That's like 2 sixes every 10 games.
If he doesn't do well in the psl, he might not even get selected.
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1st February 2019, 03:01 #46
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1st February 2019, 04:00 #47
5 ODIs vs England is good preparation . I would rather be facing top teams.
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1st February 2019, 04:23 #48
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Would have liked to see us face some tougher opponent.
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1st February 2019, 19:16 #49
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Bangladesh and Afghanistan?! Seriously ICC? Has BCCI prepared the schedule or what? Why not schedule our matches against stronger teams like England and Australia?
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1st February 2019, 19:44 #50
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1st February 2019, 20:05 #51
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Can't believe people are actually saying that why are pakistan facing ban and afg for the warm up matches.
I would take 5 odis against arguably the favourite of the tournament any day of the week than play india and aus in the warmups.
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1st February 2019, 20:48 #52
i have shafiq/azhar squeezing in to the squad due to injury.
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1st February 2019, 20:51 #53
It's good. 5 ODIs vs England and then 2 against lower ranked teams. Losing 5-0 against England won't shatter our confidence if we win the warm-ups
If you Can Believe In Something, Than why not believe In Yourself.
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1st February 2019, 20:57 #54
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1st February 2019, 21:02 #55
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1st February 2019, 22:15 #56
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Will be funny when they beat afg and bangladesh in warm up and then bottle it in the actual league games.
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1st February 2019, 22:40 #57
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1st February 2019, 23:12 #58
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Why play warmup with your international opponents? We dont see football WC teams playing warm up matches with their group teams.
This warm up should have been against county teams.
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2nd February 2019, 04:33 #59
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2nd February 2019, 05:00 #60
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2nd February 2019, 05:23 #61
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2nd February 2019, 05:38 #62
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These warm ups are useless.
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2nd February 2019, 15:25 #63
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2nd February 2019, 15:41 #64
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2nd February 2019, 15:57 #65
I don't see the problem. Pakistan is the only team that will get two play two matches against evenly matched opposition. All other teams are either playing a much stronger or a much weaker team in at least one of their games.
The only problem is that Pakistan will be battered and bruised because of the inevitable thrashing at the hands of England in the ODI series, so Afghanistan and Bangladesh will probably start as favourites.
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2nd February 2019, 16:10 #66
First of all, I do not believe that Pakistan will lose 5-0 to England. Infact, I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan manage to win the series 3-2 against England.
Secondly, Bangladesh in England is not the Bangladesh in Asian conditions. I'd give it 70 30 to Pakistan vs Bangladesh in England.
Third assumption of yours is the worst that Afghanistan is on some planet equivalent to Pakistan. Pakistan will smash Afghanistan 10 times out of 10 in any conditions.
That being said, Pakistan is getting adequate preparation in the same month against Australia and England, so weaker teams makes sense.
And I get so high.. And I just can't feel it....
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2nd February 2019, 17:00 #67
You won't be surprised if Pakistan beats England 3-2 in England? Oh well, I admire your astonishing optimism.
As far as Bangladesh are concerned, it is time for Pakistani fans to drop their arrogance and give them their due. They are a solid ODI team. Since the whitewash in 2015, our fans peddled the narrative that we lost because our 2015 team was poor and Azhar was a dud captain, and if they were to play Pakistan under the inspiring leadership of Sarfraz against this so-called new and improved team, they will get smashed.
However, the truth was laid bare in the Asia Cup. Sarfraz and the new age fearless PSL cricketers were blown away. Now the narrative is that they can only compete with Pakistan in Asia, a narrative that will last till the time they actually go on to beat Pakistan overseas as well.
I think a Bangladesh vs Pakistan ODI series would be competitive anywhere in the world. They have a solid batting lineup and on flat wickets (basically 90% of ODI wickets) they stand a very good chance of beating Pakistan. Instead of 70-30, I would give Pakistan 55-45 outside Asia due to stronger pace attack.
As far as Afghanistan are concerned, I hope they get more and more matches because their spin attack is world class. They will definitely trouble teams in the World Cup if their batting lineup is able to post decent totals. If the Afghani sloggers and tuk tuks (their is no in-between for them yet) can post 250-260 odd against Pakistan, they can definitely push them to the limits like they did in the Asia Cup.
As we have seen with Kuldeep and Chahal, a wicket-taking spin duo in the middle-overs is a handful in any conditions.
All in all, calling Afghanistan and Bangladesh "weak" when Pakistan are themselves hovering just above minnow level is highly disrespectful. Both teams are fully capable of beating Pakistan and the whining of our fans will only be justified if we go onto smash both teams, which appears to be doubtful as far as I am concerned. I would still put my money on Pakistan in both games because of better pace attack, but I see them limping to the finish line.
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2nd February 2019, 17:39 #68
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2nd February 2019, 17:48 #69
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2nd February 2019, 18:39 #70
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2nd February 2019, 18:39 #71