Congratulations Pakistan on a record chase in Galle

[coffee_rules]

Kya shaandaar team! Bismillah!!

[nitinbwj]

Jinx is not going to work. Only 132 runs remaining and Prasidh Jayasuriya has bowled crap in 2nd innings. It will be a record breaking win for sure. Pak play all their tests at Home. If they beat everyone, they will qualify for WTC final. 

[rageaddict]

Just 120 more runs to go. Wicket hasn't deteriorated like SC pitches do on Day 4 and Day 5. I would be very surprised if Pakistan don't chase it from here .

[Vk1]

something wrong with balls or pitches in test cricket.. last few years teams are easily able to chase high 4th innings scores

[Frustrated]

1 hour ago, nitinbwj said:

Jinx is not going to work. Only 132 runs remaining and Prasidh Jayasuriya has bowled crap in 2nd innings.

120 more to get.  

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, Vk1 said:

something wrong with balls or pitches in test cricket.. last few years teams are easily able to chase high 4th innings scores

Only the Dukes ball has issues. Both SG and Kookaburra have improved in recent years. 

 

Kookaburra especially has been great in the past 2 years or so. Was key to our series win in Australia. 

[gattaca]

1 hour ago, Vk1 said:

something wrong with balls or pitches in test cricket.. last few years teams are easily able to chase high 4th innings scores

May be weather it has been hot all over the world. If the pitch doesn’t break hard to get wickets but SL wicket had cracks though surprising may be they didn’t bowl well

[Vk1]

41 minutes ago, gattaca said:

May be weather it has been hot all over the world. If the pitch doesn’t break hard to get wickets but SL wicket had cracks though surprising may be they didn’t bowl well

imagine our situation at home once Ashwin retires.. teams will fancy chasing 250+

[Norman]

I'm still hopeful of an India vs Pakistan WTC final next year now that Pak are likely to win 2-0 in Sri Lanka. 

 

All we need is India to win 5 out of the 6 Tests against Ban and Australia (which is very much likely) and Pakistan to win at least 3 out of the 5 tests against NZ and England at home (likely too if they don't prepare highways again). 

[nitinbwj]

Sad Day for pak youtubers. Won't get much indian viewership due to pak win.. 

[Clarke]

SL & Pak fans

 

 

[sandeep]

3 hours ago, Norman said:

I'm still hopeful of an India vs Pakistan WTC final next year now that Pak are likely to win 2-0 in Sri Lanka. 

 

All we need is India to win 5 out of the 6 Tests against Ban and Australia (which is very much likely) and Pakistan to win at least 3 out of the 5 tests against NZ and England at home (likely too if they don't prepare highways again). 

I think India’s going to struggle to win 5 out of 6. 

[Norman]

50 minutes ago, sandeep said:

I think India’s going to struggle to win 5 out of 6. 

 

Won't be easy but very much possible. 

 

Unless it rains in BD, we should be winning 2-0 no questions asked. 

 

If not for the 5 penalty points or that bizarre draw against NZ, we could have even afforded a 2-0 or 2-1 type result against Australia. But now we must win 3-0 or 3-1 at least. Possible, if we go completely ruthless and prepare wickets that turn from day 1.

[gattaca]

On 7/20/2022 at 1:22 AM, Vk1 said:

imagine our situation at home once Ashwin retires.. teams will fancy chasing 250+

We still have jadeja and axar. But will need a good off spinner 

[Lord]

On 7/20/2022 at 6:07 PM, Norman said:

 

Won't be easy but very much possible. 

 

Unless it rains in BD, we should be winning 2-0 no questions asked. 

 

If not for the 5 penalty points or that bizarre draw against NZ, we could have even afforded a 2-0 or 2-1 type result against Australia. But now we must win 3-0 or 3-1 at least. Possible, if we go completely ruthless and prepare wickets that turn from day 1.

 

Its our batting thats the issue. Bowling will be fine.

 

If we can post 350+ scores regularly, we'll win even 4-0