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The way the Lankans have grinded our bowlers in this series, the Pak bowlers will be glad to have this series over with. I think it's been a while since we have had to bowl so many overs in a test match.
Test cricket is where your quality is exposed. Junaid in all the matches I saw looked very weak in his third spell onwards and his pace dropped to 127-130 km/hr, now that is just not good enough certainly not good enough on these wickets, nor did I see any reverse swing from any of our pacers in this series barring Talha. When the ball moved junaid and rahat wasted the new ball with the back of the length stuff and not a single ball pitched up.
A top quality bowling attack needs to know how to pick up wickets in all conditions. I won't blame ajmal because the Lankans are good players of spin, it was insanity to expect him to run through them in the first place.
Mohd Akrams position needs to be reviewed, I don't see much value he has added to the team, I remember once reading an article on how the bowlers didn't respect him due to his lack of success as a player
Discuss!
Just saw in the England vs Australia ODI Butler hits a ball which is clearly going over the boundary for six, the fielder Marsh steps over the boundary rope than jumps up while he is still over the rope and pushes the ball back on to the field and saves a six.
Do you think it's the most ridiculous rule in cricket?
Pakistan has four major weaknesses that prevents them from being a top Test team. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be anything/anyone on the horizon that will rectify this in the foreseeable future.
1. The perennial problem of not having a solid opening partnership, currently exacerbated even more by the lack of arguably the most important batting position in a Test lineup, the no. 3 batsman.
2. No reliable wicketkeeper/batsman. Not just simply someone who can do both well, but Pakistan don't even have anyone who is a quality batsman/ fair wicketkeeper, or a good, solid, reliable wicketkeeper/ half-decent batsman.
3. Lack of a genuine quality all-rounder, preferably someone who is medium/fast.
4. A tail far, far too long. Exacerbated by points 2 & 3 above.
If it was only one, or at maximum, two, of the areas mentioned above, then perhaps they could still compete consistently with the best. But with those four weaknesses, not a chance.
Discuss.
Kallis as we all know has retired from tests and hardly plays many limited overs and even when he does, he still isn't the all-rounder he once was.
So who now across all forms is the most promising or best performing all-rounder?
Potential names - Bravo, Jadeja, Watson, Ashwin, Broad, Bresnan, Philander, Shakib, Sammy, Hafeez, Afridi, Matthews, Maxwell, Faulkner, Anderson, Stokes, Pollard, Steyn etc
So who now across all forms is the most promising or best performing all-rounder?
Potential names - Bravo, Jadeja, Watson, Ashwin, Broad, Bresnan, Philander, Shakib, Sammy, Hafeez, Afridi, Matthews, Maxwell, Faulkner, Anderson, Stokes, Pollard, Steyn etc
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