Pakistan v Australia, 1st ODI, Dubai, April 22

I guess Aus start as slight favourites, but their batting looks very shaky. Pakistan- Who knows?

Likely Pakistan team-

Butt
Jamshed
Younis(c)
Misbah
Malik
Alam
Afridi
Akmal+
Tanvir
Gul
Shoaib

Likely Australia team-

Marsh
Haddin+
Clarke(c)
Ferguson
Symonds
D.Hussey
Watson
Hopes
Hauritz
Bracken
Clark

Gawd, the OD stuff really is a continuous circus, isn't it.

I know I'll be able to watch this live on the teev, but I just don't give a stuff.

Half the Aust side will be pissed off that they aren't playing IPL so I can't see Aust doing well here.

In the last 10 months or so Pakistan have only played 6 ODIs and 1.4 tests so i am trying to get excited about this series.

Ajmal should play ahead of Afridi

Ajmal looks ordinary. At least Afridi can (sometimes) bat.

PP, I understand your looking forward to this series, and I hope it's a good one.

Henry wrote:Ajmal looks ordinary. At least Afridi can (sometimes) bat.

Ajmal has only played 4 ODIs...
3 good performances and 1 very average performance


if Afridi can be given almost 300 ODIs then i reckon Ajmal deserves at least 3 in a row.

Henry wrote:
Likely Australia team-

Marsh
Haddin+
Clarke(c)
Ferguson
Symonds
D.Hussey
Watson
Hopes
Hauritz
Bracken
Clark

apparently Marsh and Watson will be opening, Haddin to possibly bat at 3

PlanetPakistan wrote:In the last 10 months or so Pakistan have only played 6 ODIs and 1.4 tests so i am trying to get excited about this series.

Ajmal should play ahead of Afridi

Could it be because Pakistan is too timid to ask? Just wondering.

jim rich wrote:

Could it be because Pakistan is too timid to ask?

What the hell? at the age of 72 i don't think Ijaz Butt is looking for girlfriends

i may be wrong though

What time does this kick off (Sydney time)?

2.30 Local time ...10.30 GMT ...Farque know what that translates to in Spivtime

Nath wrote:

Henry wrote:
Likely Australia team-

Marsh
Haddin+
Clarke(c)
Ferguson
Symonds
D.Hussey
Watson
Hopes
Hauritz
Bracken
Clark

apparently Marsh and Watson will be opening, Haddin to possibly bat at 3

Throw Johnson, Punter and probably Lee into the mix, and that's about as good as it gets for Oz at the moment . . . the Gilly '11 side will look not too different from this, methinks . . .

Pakistan
Australia
Match scheduled to begin at 14:30 local time (10:30 GMT)


Full scorecard

Hours of play: 14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15
Current time: 06:35 local, 02:35 GMT

embee wrote:2.30 Local time ...10.30 GMT ...Farque know what that translates to in Spivtime

Should be 8.30 - will clash with House and Criminal Minds and Spicks & Specks.


Tough gig.

Afridi to bat at 6? WTH?

Pakistan (probable) 1 Salman Butt, 2 Nasir Jamshed, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Shoaib Malik, 6 Shahid Afridi, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Sohail Tanvir, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Shoaib Akhtar, 11 Saeed Ajmal.

umm...not a good idea at all

Is this being covered on Foxy or Ten's One HD?

skully wrote:Is this being covered on Foxy or Ten's One HD?

On Vixen at 8.30.

"Vixen"?

Aust batting first:

Pakistan (Playing XI): Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan(c), Misbah Ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal(w), Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar, Saeed Ajmal, Rao Iftikhar


Australia (Playing XI): Michael Clarke(c), Brad Haddin(w), Shaun Marsh, Andrew Symonds, Callum Ferguson, Shane Watson, James Hopes, Nathan Hauritz, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Ben Hilfenhaus

What? Another ODI series involving Australia? Seems like they're playing more JAMODIs than the sub-continental teams nowadays.

Aye. It's boring as.

At least Aust is showing solidarity with its Pakistani comrades-in-cricket and not letting their players chase the Rupee while the Pak players can't do so either.

Swampy looks to have done his hammy again.

FFS, he's softer than Watto.

And now his runner gets run out.