England tour of Pakistan 2024 | Belt and Road Initiative series Part 2 |3 Tests | Oct 7 - Oct 28 | 10:30 AM IST | Discussion

[Manucrick]

 Pakistan is the worst team in Asia 

Edited October 9, 2024 by Manucrick

[neel roy]

10 minutes ago, CoverDrive said:

Pak has dished up up flat ones but this might take the cake as the flattest pitch i have seen. There is just about no threat at all to batting here. The square also is made nice and green to negate any chance of ball scuffing up and getting any reverse. 

 

This is great for any kind of batsman. If you want to block all day or hit out do what you please 

Sehwag would have scored 400 on this pitch. Hell Jadeja would score a double hundred here

[Tillu]

Brook against Aus/NZ/WI/SA/WI/SL/Ire - 2 Tons
Brooks agaisnt Pak - 4 tons

[rollingstoned]

Adharmasena mila hua hai sazish mein. Lol. 

 

[Manucrick]

4 minutes ago, neel roy said:

Sehwag would have scored 400 on this pitch. Hell Jadeja would score a double hundred here

Vk Miss the chance to bat in Pakistan highway 

[R!TTER]

Just now, rollingstoned said:

Adharmasena mila hua hai sazish mein.

SL are even worse than Pak when it comes to their jealousy wrt India 

[rollingstoned]

11 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

Nope, the tracks they used for SL for most of 2k were even worse this series in particular -

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sri-lanka-tour-of-pakistan-2008-09-343521

So this is the historical baseline for pitches in Pak. I remember only a few series from 90s, Aus tour of Pak in 1998 where Mark Taylor scored 333. And series loss against Saf in 2007 with Kallis being mots. 

Looks like even UAE pitches might be better. Even in 90s Pak used to lose quite often at home, playing in uae was a godsend for them and their home record. 

Edited October 9, 2024 by rollingstoned

[R!TTER]

Without questionable tactics it was always hard to win in Pak vs Pak, I think WI did Pak what they did to others in 91(92?) series to draw it level. If there had been neutral umps & DRS back in 1970-90 it would've been interesting to how how the "second" best team of that era had done!

[jigjig]

Will Maulana Muhammed be able to do his daily rituals today ? Too many situps 

[rollingstoned]

11 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

they are so afraid to lose that the are willing  to torture cricket watching public but still somehow lose anyway-this sums up the Pakistan existence.

Pak curators also are among the worst around, even if they hire only Shivaji park groundsmen their cricket will.be revolutionized. 

[putrevus]

3 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

So this is the historical baseline for pitches in Pak. I remember only a few series from 90s, Aus tour of Pak in 1998 where Mark Taylor scored 333. And series loss against Saf in 2007 with Kallis being mots. 

Looks like even UAE pitches might be better. Even in 90s Pak used to lose quite often at home, playing in uae was a godsend for them and their home record. 

Their grounds have not changed much.They could use bottle caps without impunity and termed it reverse swing..

[deathmonger]

Eng will make 700. Pak will collapse to 200 odd.

 

Naseem/Shaheen out of rest of series.

[Gollum]

Guys like Dharamsena and Nitin Menon are blatantly pro-England, classic brown sepoy mentality. 

Edited October 9, 2024 by Gollum

[Tillu]

Adharmasena is the biggest English sell out. Nobody should hire him for the matches with England.

 

 

 

[Gollum]

Root got 3-4 reprieves against WI and SL as well. Smith OTOH has got many marginal calls against him in recent times, even outright howlers. 

[Gollum]

14 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

SL are even worse than Pak when it comes to their jealousy wrt India 

Asoka de Silva

Malinga denying Sachin his 100 in Cuttack

Randiv to Sehwag no ball controversy

Sanga, Mahela, Dilshan whole career

Ranatunga and his conspiracy theories

 

Murali an exception though, maybe because he is married to an Indian and is based here. 

Edited October 9, 2024 by Gollum

[rollingstoned]

2 minutes ago, Tillu said:

Adharmasena is the biggest English sell out. Nobody should hire him for the matches with England.

 

 

 

Ball immediately after that one was an even better he didn't give that one either. Lol. They didn't bother reviewing that. 

[diga]

Eng scoring almost 1.5 rpo more than Pak... truly a belt/road series

[neel roy]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Asoka de Silva

Malinga dening Sachin his 100 in Cuttack

Randiv to Sehwag no ball controversy

Sanga, Mahela whole career

 

Murali an exception though, maybe because he is married to an Indian and is based here. 

And we Indians have made Mahela Head of MI and Sanga Head of RR. We definitely love our neighbours. Oh dont forget the 1997 odi Robin Singh scoring a century  and in cusp of victory umpires declared bad light and no result. 19 overs were bowled. They were 100 odd for 6 chasing 290 plus. We Needed 1 more over to be bowled for a result I think. Biggest robbery in that era. 
 

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-sri-lanka-1997-62338/sri-lanka-vs-india-3rd-odi-64559/full-scorecard

[Nikhil_cric]

6 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Ball immediately after that one was an even better he didn't give that one either. Lol. They didn't bother reviewing that. 

2nd one was edged off the bat.