Pakistan vs Tasmania...

the warm up match starts tomorrow....

i would imagine Misbah, Malik and Fawad will be fighting for the # 6 spot while Gul, Rauf and Sami will be trying to win the 3rd seamer spot...

THE Pakistan cricket team has arrived in Australia confident their bowling attack can put them into winning positions in the upcoming three-Test series

Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf highlighted his team's bowling as a strength after arriving in Hobart to play a three-day warm-up match against Tasmania, starting on Saturday.

"Our bowlers are capable of taking 20 wickets but we need to improve our batting and fielding," Yousuf told reporters.

"I think we've got good spinners, the best spinners in the world, and fast bowling also."

Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who took seven wickets in the side's last Test against New Zealand, will lead Pakistan's spin corp while paceman Mohammad Sami's recall to the Test side for the Australian tour will bolster the quicks' ranks.

Sami was requested to help ease the burden on the team's fast bowlers in what is expected to be a demanding tour.

He will supplement an attack featuring Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Abdur Rauf.

Pakistan team manager Abdul Raqeeb said Sami, 28, had been playing well in domestic cricket.

"That's why the selectors have decided to send him," Raqeeb said in Hobart on Thursday.

"Not only is he performing well, he is an experienced one, he has played a lot of Test cricket and we know it's a mental game also, it's not only talent that counts, it's experience also and he is a very experienced bowler.

"That's why the selectors along with the captain decided to call him up."

The Australian tour is a chance for Sami to revive his career.

The right-armer played the last of his 33 Tests against India at Bangalore in December 2007 before he was sidelined for poor form.

Sami has so far taken 81 wickets in 33 Tests, and a further 118 in 83 one-day internationals.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/m...f-1225811366920

PAK fast bowling isn't that great...

Asif lacks the pace hence can't pick wickets on flat tracks

Aamer for all his amazingness is only 17 and cant be expected to win test matches against Aussies at such a young age.

Gul is average.

Kaneria is one bowler who will almost certainly trouble the Aussies but he NEEDS full support of the fielders ESPECIALLY Kamran Akmal.

"I think we've got good spinners, the best spinners in the world, and fast bowling also."

Kaneria is one bowler who will almost certainly trouble the Aussies

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Genius.

Kaneria is shit.

doremi wrote:

"I think we've got good spinners, the best spinners in the world, and fast bowling also."

Kaneria is one bowler who will almost certainly trouble the Aussies

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Genius.

Kaneria is shit.

Check out Australia's form against Harris , Swann and Benn ....both bolded statements can be correct

The Aussies don't mind crap leggies because they pay them a modicum of repsect. It's crap finger spinners that trouble them.

And as for this comment:

Asif lacks the pace hence can't pick wickets on flat tracks

There was a guy recently called Glen McGrath who lacked pace but went OK on flat tracks.

doremi wrote:

"I think we've got good spinners, the best spinners in the world, and fast bowling also."

Kaneria is one bowler who will almost certainly trouble the Aussies

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Genius.

Kaneria is shit.

Doremi,
Danish has done well in recent past, he will do much better than our overrated pace attack led by M Asif who himself is quite overrated

I'm hoping to get along to see some play if i can get the Christmas chores out of the way.

is there any WAY to watch this game online?

embee wrote:

doremi wrote:

"I think we've got good spinners, the best spinners in the world, and fast bowling also."

Kaneria is one bowler who will almost certainly trouble the Aussies

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Genius.

Kaneria is shit.

Check out Australia's form against Harris , Swann and Benn ....both bolded statements can be correct

he is not that great but in recent tests he has done well so unfair to call him "shit"

PlanetPakistan wrote:is there any WAY to watch this game online?

No.

solid start from the openers but RR of under 2 is quite horrible

103/1

Faisal and Butt batting

Faisal GONE!

103/2

salman doing EXTREMELY well here...

Test aspirants Geeves and Krezja doing SFA here

Nath wrote:Test aspirants Geeves and Krezja doing SFA here

Geeves, 17 overs, 6 maidens, 24/1, econ 1.41....i bet McKay wished he had figures like that at the moment.

Brilliant performance from Salman...

Butt...

Umar Akmal batting at a SR of 25...now thats a surprise

291/4

ideally PAK would want to play a youngster(Alam perhaps) ahead of Misbah but then Farhat would have to move back to the 1st slip position which means 2/3 drop catches per match(by Imran alone)

yaar kia ha...koi shotain shutain maroo..saalay tuk tuk lagay howay hain.

Umar Akmal's SR is still 25...

Umar hits a SIX and then gets out

poor start to the tour for the youngster

Kamran Akmal hammering the Tasmanian attack here

85 of 69 balls so far

Krazy getting caned.