NZ tour of Pakistan 2022/23 - Discussion Thread

[Gollum]

33 minutes ago, speedracer said:

Nha kiwis get walked and smacked around in India everytime. They haven't won a test match iirc in what 20 years? 

Embarrassing. 

But yes in n.z. they catch everything on their rigged pitches. 

30+ years , their last win here was before most of us were born, a match involving Hadlee, Vengsarkar, John Wright, Kapil etc. 

[Gollum]

Bracewell is another lodu spinner, wonder how he managed 2 wickets here. NZ have no right winning on SC pitches 

 

Absolute duds outside NZ and Eng. 

[speedracer]

11 minutes ago, Gollum said:

30+ years , their last win here was before most of us were born, a match involving Hadlee, Vengsarkar, John Wright, Kapil etc. 

I guarantee if India had won a few tosses in n.z the result would have  been different even in those green seaming rigged fields. 

They won't win in India for a long long time. 

[Austin 3:!6]

Such a good batsman Babar Azam is, so consistent and yet get criticized like no tomorrow by their fans and media.

 

Then we have our Kings and Kela's to whom no question ever being asked.

[King6]

Harmless bowling from nz

[Sgattick10]

Another hundred loading for Babar. 

[Number]

Nothing in NZ bowling.

May be Lockie Ferguson would have been useful like Mark Wood.

[Frustrated]

Eng had the X factor in M Wood.  Regardless of the pitch, his 150 kmph thunderbolts created lot of trouble for poyz batters.   Nz don't hv that type of bowler.  Ajaz Patel is overhyped/overrated.  Sodhi is *****     Poyzz need to choke really bad in order to lose this test and the series

[Lone Wolf]

Some Lallu bowling by Sodhi released all the pressure...  Kuldeep the Chinaman bowler has 10X the control compared to this guy

[Number]

21 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

Eng had the X factor in M Wood.  Regardless of the pitch, his 150 kmph thunderbolts created lot of trouble for poyz batters.   Nz don't hv that type of bowler.  Ajaz Patel is overhyped/overrated.  Sodhi is *****     Poyzz need to choke really bad in order to lose this test and the series

 

Playing Wagner on this pitch was a blunder. Ball doesn't rise above waist height here. What will he do ?

Edited December 26, 2022 by Number

[Lone Wolf]

Wagner is clearly past it....  That new guy Matt Fisher & Ben Sears might have come handy in Pakistan. 

[Frustrated]

5th wicket partnership 110*

[SM2907]

looking like two boring and dead teams playing . There is no sweet but Rasgulla

[Frustrated]

Tondu Sarfaraz falls down on ground awkwardly and calls for physio....  

[Frustrated]

Sarfaraz has a SR of 71 in tests. Avg 37.  SR is amazing.   Can quickly take the game from the opponent.  Like today.    Not sure why they persisted with rizwan for so long.

[raki05]

If our lodu current team would have played on this pitch ,meek Kela would have started playing like 5 runs on 60 balls. Kela had all the shots in the book he can easily score anywhere he wants but this idot inspite of being captain choose to play like a selfish coward and more so ever since Dravid started coaching. Our current team mindset is play like a coward, captain kela openly said we knew that 145 is gonna be tough chase.I mean they already have preconceived looser mentality even before starting to chase that too against bd who doesn't have any threatening bowler other than may be taijul. Gill slowly getting infested with same mindset ,Gujara can only score in damn easy condition on Asian pitch and Chokli is just a waste of space. Zimbabar was really under the pump but scored at good sr when Pakistani were 4 down, our kela would have got loose motion sensing the situation. If bacci really doesn't want to be a laughing stock plz get rid of chita and bada kela asap.

Edited December 26, 2022 by raki05

[speedracer]

5 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Wagner is clearly past it....  That new guy Matt Fisher & Ben Sears might have come handy in Pakistan. 

Both are mediocre in tests. 

[speedracer]

Wagner was never good outside SAN conditions. 

 

 

[Number]

Could have been an excellent day for NZ if they held on to their chances and Shoddy wouldn't have been such a dud. He is such a poor test bowler. No loop, no variations in speed.

Edited December 26, 2022 by Number

[Lone Wolf]

50 minutes ago, speedracer said:

Both are mediocre in tests. 

They haven't played in Tests...  Fisher was impressive during India A series..  Unlike Eng...  Kiwis don't throw their guys into the deep end.