Former Pakisan wicket-keeper discusses Pakistan's current area of weakness.

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Watch the video of Inzi's greatest "hits"!

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Will rain play spoiler for Saturday's clash between the two rivals?

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We've seen the Sri Lankans adopt a "no loss" policy with moving Kulasekara up the order when the power play was on today against England.

It's a policy that really is a win win situation for them. If he's out quickly, so be it, if it works and he scores quickly then that's fine.

It's the sort of move that Pakistan has lacked in recent times and a move that shows some innovation and out of the box thinking from the think tank.

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One poster is asking whether we need a reality check on the history of Pakistani batsmen.

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Which 11 players would you go with vs. India on Saturday?

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PakPassion is proud to present the 7th Episode of the exclusive cricket review show - View From The Pavilion!

Your hosts in this week’s episode are Shayan & SOSami!

These two review Pakistan’s poor performance in the on going ICC Champions Trophy, who were the weak links and what Pakistan needs to do now!

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Interesting that one of the balls was changed after 24 overs by the umpires.

Alastair Cook certainly wasn't happy that the ball was changed and seemed to be in lengthy discussions with Aleem Dar who stood his ground regarding the ball change.

Interesting though that the other ball didn't swing either, so I'm not sure why the sour grapes?

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Is there a finer sight in cricket than watching the two of them batting together.

Finesse, skill, power, timing, class and placement.

They are Sri Lanka's second most prolific batting partnership in ODIs with 5261 runs at an average of 44.21 in 125 innings.

Sri Lanka's most prolific batting partnership are Atapattu and Jayasuriya with 5462 runs at an average of 39.29 in 144 innings.

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I know there are lot of Misbah's fans here and people have shown the stats of his performance as a batsman and above all his stats as a batsman. But in cricket, you have to look lot more than just plain stats.

Dominant players during Imran's era: The players were Miandad, Waseem, Waqar, Inzi, Salim Malik. Not only they were great and legend players but all of them went on to become the very successful captains.

Here are some of the least dominant players during Imran's era: Moin Khan, Eijaz Ahmad, Aamir Sohail, Rameez Raja, ( few names might be missing). All of them were decent players and went on to become quite decent captains.

Dominant players during Misbah's era: Afridi, Malik, Hafeez, Ajmal, Kamran Akmal. Apart from Saeed Ajmal, nobody was near great or legend, except Ajmal, all of them became captain and considadrd mediocre or below average captains.

Here some of the least dominant players during Misbah's era: Imran Farhat, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Aizaz Cheema, Sami, Umar Gul, ..Forget about being captaincy material, there spot in the team is highly questionable ( but they are keep getting chances despite being so pathetic and useless ).

When Imran retired from international cricket, we did not feel his absence, he gave us very good team and bench players were very strong. Unfortunately, I cannot the same thing for Misbah. 

In Pakistan cricket, it is the captain who always spot the talent ( not the selectors) and find the top prospects. Misbah has not given any future star to this team, in fact he has destroyed the confidence of young players ( Umar Akmal, Nasir Jamshed, Ahmad Shezad). He is keep giving chances to his tried and tested failure friends and taken Pakistan cricket to stone age, despite his above average individual performance as a player, he failed to live up to the expectation as a captain and as a leader.

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