Tait vs Pakistan- 1st T20

Only 1 day away now...

100 mph stuff again?

Sorry PP, but your lads will take a bit of a caning

Not if they can scramble Shoaib back into the reckoning.

Basil wrote:Sorry PP, but your lads will take a bit of a caning

I don't think so, it will be a close game.

Tait will be too good for the top order but with the return of Malik, Akhtar and Gul the T20 team looks a lot stronger than it did a few weeks ago.

Punter wants him for the Ashes now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/8785974.stm

Still recall him bombing out against the Indians in Perth and muttering during our past summers how he's rooted after one just one over. Has Punter considered this?

Is this intended as an 'official' match thread?

Red wrote:Punter wants him for the Ashes now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/8785974.stm

Still recall him bombing out against the Indians in Perth and muttering during our past summers how he's rooted after one just one over. Has Punter considered this?

Tait needs his tyres pumped up ...Punter is hardly going to say ' Tait's good in a T20 but he's tits on a bull in a Test Match'

The reality is though that despite what Punter thinks, Tait's stamina issues will probably preclude him from successfully playing in tests again.

"...successfully playing in tests again".

I must have missed the first time

Did you blink?

No ...I dont think I did

I think this bit from the article sums Spud up:

"However, despite his strong performances with the ball, Tait said he was not confident his body could cope with a return to the longest format of the game."

He's explosive but soft and not prepared to do the hard work associated with being a successful Test cricketer.

Still, I'll accept him as a short order specialist.

Someone should have suggested Brett Lee take that kind of advice under consideration several years ago.

Indeed Zog.

Weet Bix paid Dung a small fortune to try and look hard

WOFTEAM

So, is this the T20 thread?

Will be interesting to see what sort of a crowd turns up.

big nosed subis and drunk Ozzies would be my guess

non-cricket purists and the ADD generation

yes people this is the official thread

pak 11 according to gep

Salman butt
Shazaib Hassan
Umer Akmal
Kamran Akmal
Abdul Razzak
Shahid Afridi
Shoaib Malik
Umar Gul
Saeed Ajmal
MOhammad Aamer
Shoaib Akhtrar