Jinju,
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/...e;view=results
Btw UAE is a neutral venue? :P
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Jinju,
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/...e;view=results
Btw UAE is a neutral venue? :P
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Originally Posted by 19thmay
Pak played one test in colombo and another in sharjah in that series
Aamer told to take care after Ponting clash
http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan-v-a...ry/467275.html
ponting than idikkuraan... :twisted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTpqBesP9VA
Shahid Afridi c Johnson b Watson 31 (15b 4x4 2x6) SR: 206.66
Ivan-laam test team captain :banghead:
Plum thattikOnga... :Open Palm:
The most consistent performer in Hub - Mr. Plum :D kantinue the kood work!Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Note: Pricky Ranting out for nought in 2nd innings :yay:
19 _ :openpalm:
Sathya _ ennatha. Ipdi dhaan 5 innings sodhappinaalum, 6th inningsla double century pottu average restore pannuvaan. Idhula vayatherichala kelappa paki fielders vera catch kOttai visuvaanga.
Btw, atrocious behaviour by pricky. And even worse is broad's justification of this. Chris Broad should be banned! Mr pawar enna sorinjukittirukkinga
Kamman Plum. This is Secularism in Cricket :wink: Sub-continent players are monsters. Aus / Eng / SA are holy saints :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
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Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
:lol: adeii...apdinna first unnai thanda thookkanum...Quote:
Ignore average players to build strong Test side, says Afridi:
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi feels they need to ignore “average” cricketers to build a formidable Test side. The all-rounder said while Pakistan is on track in oneday and Twenty20 formats, it will take a mammoth effort from them to form a good Test team. “Our biggest challenge is to prepare a Test team that is capable of doing well in what I believe is by far the most difficult of all three formats,” Afridi was quoted as saying in The News on Wednesday.
“We haven’t done well in Test cricket in recent years because mostly we have tried to rely on average players.
MCC Spirit of Cricket Series 1st Test
Pakistan 151/1 (45 overs) 2nd innings
Pak require 281 runs to win
Aus require just 9 wickets to win :lol2:
Channel 9 siteaa? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dinesh84
hope pakistan will get over the line finally against australia this time! :roll:
:rotfl: solli vaaya moodala.. one wicket gone..
kirikinpo :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
Pak 216/4.. U Akmal gone.. avalo thaan.. matter over..
:rotfl3:Quote:
Originally Posted by cricinfo
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Originally Posted by Dinesh84
he played over 50 games against aus in all formats and scored just 1 fifty.... y they selecting him for tests....ithula captain vera... :oops:
Afridi said that, the selectors had no other option than him to lead the side..Quote:
Originally Posted by Sourav
enatha mean panni sonnanu theriyala..
PS: Aus win by 150 runs.. M North takes a 6 for..
Shahid Afridi to retire from Tests
Shahid Afridi made the decision that seemed inevitable from the day he took over as Test captain, by announcing his Test retirement immediately after leading his side to a 150-run loss against Australia at Lord's.
Afridi has been a reluctant Test player over the years and this Test was his first in four years. A poor personal performance, capped by a four-ball 2 on the last day - out slogging to deep midwicket - didn't help matters and the second Test against Australia at Headingley, starting on Wednesday, will now be his last. Afridi's participation at Headingley, however, will depend on whether he passes a fitness test for a side strain in the days leading up to the match.
Salman Butt, the vice-captain, is likely to take over the leadership for the England series though that is not set in stone until the PCB makes a final decision. Whoever does take over will be Pakistan's fifth Test captain since the start of 2009.
"With my temperament I can't play Test cricket," Afridi said. "It is better a youngster comes in my place, probably a genuine batsman or even a genuine bowler. I picked up a side injury during the Asia Cup and unless you are 100 percent fit you can't perform in Test cricket.
"I wasn't interested in playing Test cricket but the board asked me to go and take a look as they didn't have a choice. So I took up the responsibility. They asked me to take a chance and may be I would enjoy it. But I wasn't really enjoying Test cricket but I tried. I wasn't good enough. A captain should lead by example which I did not. And if I played the way I played in this match it is better to leave."
If Afridi's side injury rules him out of the second Test at Headingley his final shot in the five-day game will be the slog-sweep that picked out Mike Hussey and Afridi was honest enough to admit he just couldn't hold back. "You are right," he said. "I am coming back to Test cricket after four years and in the interim I'd played a lot of ODI and Twenty20 cricket so I came in with the same [attacking] temperament. I was in two minds. You can say I was not strong mentally."
Yawar Saeed, Pakistan's manager, confirmed Afridi's decision to Cricinfo, though he insisted he wouldn't call it a retirement. "Afridi had a side strain and felt that he shouldn't keep a specialist out of the side. Temperamentally he feels not comfortable with the format so Leeds will be his last Test," he said.
Saeed said that Butt is likely to take over, but that any decision would have to be made in consultation with the board. Ijaz Butt, chairman PCB, is in England currently. "Salman Butt was appointed vice-captain for the tour and he will take over unless the PCB meets and decides otherwise. But as per procedure, he will take over," Saeed said.
"Salman is the vice captain and he should ideally be the man," Afridi added. "The way he has shown the maturity he is good enough to carry forward the responsibility."
The development will bring into sharp focus the PCB's decision to appoint Afridi as Test captain in the first place. He had already retired from the format once before, in 2006, only to return, ironically, for the tour to England that summer. He played a couple of Tests before pulling himself out of the format again.
Since his appointment recently, his hesitancy towards the format has surfaced repeatedly. In an interview to The Wisden Cricketer before the series began, Afridi hinted he might not play Tests for long. "I'm confident I am fine fitness-wise," he said then. "But I came back to Tests because I am doing it for the team only. If I think I am fit to do it, I will continue playing Tests. Otherwise I will not burden the side."
In a more recent interview to Cricinfo, Afridi said, "If down the line I become aware that I am not a good captain, or not a successful one, and the team is unable to make any use of me as a captain, I will not chase it. If I don't have the ability then I will leave it on my own ... I did not ask anyone forcibly to give me the captaincy, nor will I forcibly captain the team. If I am good I will prove it through my performance. If I am not good I will say khuda hafeez [God be with you]."
Another new beginning for Pakistan - Butt takes over test captaincy
Oh Pakistan, what will you come up with next? After the tour of Australia, life bans were handed out and overturned before the team had even played its next Test, and now it has lost its new captain to retirement after one match. Admittedly, Shahid Afridi wasn't exactly in a Test-match state of mind, but it will be a huge challenge for Salman Butt to take over the reins for the first time as well as be Pakistan's most important batsman. Butt was described during that trip to Australia as "a little lazy runner" by the then leader Mohammad Yousuf, and we will soon find out whether he has the respect of the rest of his team-mates. His vice-captain is Kamran Akmal, who was dropped two Tests ago. Go figure.
For Australia things are considerably more stable. Since Pakistan last beat Australia in a Test, in November 1995, Australia have had four Test captains and Pakistan have had 12, soon to become 13. Still, Ricky Ponting is in charge of a side that had two debutants at Lord's and the team has handed out 17 baggy green caps since the start of 2008. By the standards of Australian cricket, that's Pakistan-like instability. However, things are coming together for Ponting six months out from another Ashes series and his men have won their last seven Tests.
There are some areas Australia will hope to improve at Headingley. In the first Test, Australia gathered 11 wickets via the bowling of their top six batsmen, thanks to Shane Watson and Marcus North. That means the strike bowlers have plenty of room to lift while some key batsmen, including Ponting himself, also struggled at Lord's.
http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan-v-a...ry/468078.html
Australia - 29/4
Ponting : 6 out :victory:
indha matchavathu jeippanungala... :roll:
Australia - 41/5 - Hussey gone!
60/6 - North Out.
73/8
Wow GP! LTNS mate? How are you? :D
86/9
Interesting stat
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/...tsval1=wicketsQuote:
"Every time Australia has been bowled out for under 200 in the first innings of a Test this century, they have gone on to win the game,"
88 all out. :clap:
That is, incidentally, the lowest score by a team electing to bat first since 1957, and their seventh-lowest first-innings total of all time ... and their lowest for more than 50 years.
Pak 60/0 :clap:
Such a golden opportunity PAK got from yet another world top class bowling crew! நீ ஜெயிக்கணும்.. ஜெயிச்சே ஆகணும்! மவனே ! ஜெயிக்கலன்னா பாரு !Quote:
Originally Posted by cricinfo
But their kottampatti class batting will collapse to let australia climb back into the game.
(Actually, apoplogies to kottampatti!)
Plum, Pranting adikkaraan. Please put Chattergie! (a la put satny)
oNyum paNNa mudiyAdhu Sathya. idhu vazhakkam dhAn. 3 innings fail aagittu, avLo dhAn gaalinu nenaikkarachE Double Century pOduvAn Pricky Ranting. Indha inningsla already 61*. Century nichayam. Australia eppadiyum jeyikkum adhula varutha pada oNyum illai but ivan adangittAnnu nenaikkarachE apdiyE marubadiyum rise aagi varradhu dhAn kaduppA irukku.
Plum, thanks for the chattergie! Mission accomplished :D Ur consistency exceeds Sachin's and Bradman's ferfaarmances!
sathya, dont celebrate too early. innum 2 innings irukku indha series-la Ponting-ku. oru double century nichayam. oru century parama nichayam.
In any case, the real thing will come when England visit Australia. Ponting-in viswaroopathai appO pArka dhAna pOrOm!
Note: Both last post and this post are genuine predictions. Not chatterjee, nambunga!
Kantinee the kood work!
sathya :evil: nejamAvE idhu chatterjee illaipA, nambu!
I have this really, really churning feeling in my stomach that a big innings and a golden period is due for Ponting.
I mean, his career has definitely mirrored Sachin's in terms of success - in the sense that started slowly, then had a outstanding period, followed by a relative slump. But all through, except for that Indian tours, he never is in dumps for long. Within 3-4 tests, he scores big. So, I guess like Sachin, he will have a revival period(as Sachin has been having post 2007).
I mean the way it has been happening is that when Sachin during 2002-2003 was on top, he was the undisputed king, then a few successes for Ponting and relative failures for Sachin led vested interests to anoint Ponting as the best taking full advantage of Sachin's lean period. Today, the situation is reverse but given that everything that has happened to Sachin has happened to him at a broad level, I expect that Ponting has a revival period before he retires.
Long and short of it, in my books, Ponting is still the front runner for maximum centuries in Test Cricket and highest run aggregate in test cricket. And THAT IS NOT CHATTERJEE!!!
Ok :roll:
Isn't it a two test series :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
I thought it was a 3 test series. illaiyA?