Australia v Pakistan, 2nd Test, SCG, January 3-7

PlanetPakistan wrote:well this is horrible

Yousuf's the key.

Haddin might be a terrible keeper, but that was some catch.

Maybe Pakistan has decided to bat like Australia did in the first innings to make it fair. FFS, they have 5 sessions to get less than 200, why go for them at 5 an over?

IF Pak lose this, there would be a national outrage against Akmal Sr.

3fer after a shuper ketch from Haddin. My little heart's racing.

Skully, you must be gutted to have missed this today!!

[Johnson to Salman Butt, OUT, caught behind! what a catch! full down leg, the batsman tries to tickle it fine but he can't get past the wicket-keeper, because Haddin was diving to his right with his body airborne and full outstretched to take a spectacular one-gloved catch. A thrilling dismissal. ]



in state of bemused shock, Horrie salutes Haddin's effort in taking 2 chances in the one over

Aus got to nail Yousuf NOW.

horace wrote:[Johnson to Salman Butt, OUT, caught behind! what a catch! full down leg, the batsman tries to tickle it fine but he can't get past the wicket-keeper, because Haddin was diving to his right with his body airborne and full outstretched to take a spectacular one-gloved catch. A thrilling dismissal. ]



in state of bemused shock, Horrie salutes Haddin's effort in taking 2 chances in the one over

Is the end of the world nigh?

Hauritz losing it for Aus.

horace wrote:in state of bemused shock, Horrie salutes Haddin's effort in taking 2 chances in the one over

I owe h an apology. I received a text from lardy asking whether h had lauded Haddit's catch. I said "no farkin chance" but it appears even horrie can admit Spiv class through clenched teeth.

We need Moyo badly. Drunky farked up in not giving Bolly that last over before Tea.

apology accepted S...of course Lardy was winding you up - knowing I would acknowledge that the over-rated spiv had done his job (at least in that over - hehehehe)

SG wrote:Hauritz losing it for Aus.

You aren't making any friends in Pakistan you know...

Yousuf gone now.

Huge huge wicket that.

And who takes it? Its Hauritz.

great play from moyo who thus far is playing a really good knock...momentum back with the visitors ....just saw that moyo has gone - thought about changing the first line of this post but have resisted...suddenly I have an insight into the eerie JGK world of the champion woofer

Misbah gone as well.

Well, this display of batting by the Pakis is showing that it is indeed possible to bat in a more foolhardy manner than the Aussies when they're in self-destruct mode. GIven the task they had to win the match and stay alive in the series, and the extremely ill-disciplined way they've gone about it, they now deserve to lose this one. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Hauritz takes 2 in 1 over.

i still think they'll get there

Extremely forgettable game for Misbah.

All depends on the 2 brothers now.

Would be the heroes in Pak if they win it for them.

Dropsy snr owes a few runs to the stanlander cause

Got to say Umar isn't playing his natural game which might be a dangerous thing.

6 more crucial runs scored in that Hauritz over.

Only 90 needed now.

Well, this display of batting by the Pakis is showing that it is indeed possible to bat in a more foolhardy manner than the Aussies when they're in self-destruct mode.

They've done that before. Last year against SL in SL, they lost a test from even more impregnable position.

Mind you, this Test cricket is grouse, isn't it? A side doing as badly as Aus in the first innings, or as Pak in this one, in a t20 or a MODI would be gone, gone, gone. Here we are, with the game still in the balance.