How will Pakistan perform outside Asia?

How will the current team do in AUS and SA? Asif and Aamer have not been missed in these "home" matches but i wonder if the relatively weak pace bowling attack will be exposed outside Asia. Batting as always can also be a bit of problem as the likes of Misbah and Shafique may struggle against pace.

Pakistan's attack is just as good as England, South Africa, or Australia's, imo. The question is the batting. I reckon they'd do better outside of Asia than India and Sri Lanka at the moment.

Although the Islamabad under 14bs would do better outside of Asia than India at the moment.

They should do well. Bowling is very good, with the spinners and decent pace bowlers, and the batting is at least patient. With a renewed/reinvigorated Hafeez, Younis and Misbah, the batting should be decent as well.

surely they can't do worse than us

They should be solid. Wondering how they'll handle bounce, we'll see. Bowling should be good... probably Ajmal, Cheema, Junaid and Gul should be able to be competitive.

Before Mohsin Khan's arrival the selectors were NOT very good and made some blatant mistakes e.g Faisal Iqbal 26 tests compare to Asim Kamal's 13 tests, Shoaib Malik as a test batsman ahead of Misbah!

Thought Asim Kamal was going to be big. Looked the business to me. Faisal Iqbal was always shite. And a massive twat.

Misbah Ul Haq deserves a lot of credit ... but I did not realise he was already 37, so his late career resurgence cannot endure; a successor will need to be found within the next couple of years. YK will be gone by then, too, you'd think.

At the least, Misbah has returned the Pakistani cricket team to credibility.

lardbucket wrote:Misbah Ul Haq deserves a lot of credit ... but I did not realise he was already 37

Miserable Old Fuq?

Nice one there Zat

Anderson and Broad exposed the batting line up today so as always that will remain a weakness. In the fantasy world a bowling attack of Asif, Aamer, Rehman and Ajmal is almost a dream attack.