Congratulations Poyzzz

[flamy]

here's a (soon to self destruct) link to make it a bit more palatable! link nuked by :emc:

that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cooooooooooooooooooool! :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Bumper]

As long as Pakistanis play cricket, the sport will never die. Woot, what entertainment! Umar Akmal has been a great find. So is Mohd Aamer. The rest are a seasoned bunch of chokers, or should i say, jokers!

[meloveindia]

Congratulations to Imrah Farhat too... What a player What an amazing catcher!! Poor Akmal bros, they dont deserve to be in the 2nd test :--D

[ViruRulez]

We are not ashamed of us :cantstop:

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[nballa]

Pakistan should have won this one easily. Such a sham. But umar akmal damn wht a star, the best pak batsman since inzy.

[SachDan]

Pakistan should have won this one easily. Such a sham. But umar akmal damn wht a star' date= the best pak batsman since inzy.

:hehe:

[vvvslaxman]

So it is a "home" series loss.

[kabira]

yeah is this home series??

[SachDan]

yeah is this home series??

'home series' it is !!

[Captain of Bhangra]

Actually bro, you veggie bro's are acting like morons inni' bro? Take a look at yourselves bro, it doesn't matter that you're almost ranked number 1, you lost lots of Tests last century, and that's more relevant bro. Also, your overrated kafir Tendulkar is bogus bro, he could only maintain an average less than 60 over a tiny 20 year career bro. Kussmeh on my 1991 Toyota Corrolla with a Taxi licence bro, Test cricket is dead so we don't care bro. Mashallah to T20 and Hong-Kong Sixes bro, where inshallah we'll rule at the Kowloon, inni' bro?...

[kooljatt]

Actually bro' date=' you veggie bro's are acting like morons inni' bro? Take a look at yourselves bro, it doesn't matter that you're almost ranked number 1, you lost lots of Tests last century, and that's more relevant bro. Also, your overrated kafir Tendulkar is bogus bro, he could only maintain an average less than 60 over a tiny 20 year career bro. Kussmeh on my 1991 Toyota Corrolla with a Taxi licence bro, Test cricket is dead so we don't care bro. Mashallah to T20 and Hong-Kong Sixes bro, where inshallah we'll rule at the Kowloon, inni' bro?...[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: bro-bro-bro-inni-inni-inni

[Pak_Forever]

7-8 drop catches were the main culprits to lose this game. No doubt our mental aspect of the game has also gone down. b/w we didn't see as many collapse as we did against SL or as we were expecting, so a little relief. In the past we have thrown away games from easy winning situations so such wasn't really the case this time aroung. Our team did fight well in on of the best competitive Test of 2009. Our openers as ever remain clueless about holding a bat, a middle order composed of people like Malik, Misbah, Iqbal have hurt us in the past. As long as such players are in our team we will continue to struggle. Though it was good to see Yosuf, Kamran hitting some form and what to say about Umar Akmal. He's our new Inzy. All in all, bowling was top-notch, batting was ok and catching was simply ridiculous.

[DomainK]

7-8 drop catches were the main culprits to lose this game. No doubt our mental aspect of the game has also gone down. b/w we didn't see as many collapse as we did against SL or as we were expecting' date=' so a little relief. In the past we have thrown away games from easy winning situations so such wasn't really the case this time aroung. Our team did fight well in on of the best competitive Test of 2009. Our openers as ever remain clueless about holding a bat, a middle order composed of people like Malik, Misbah, Iqbal have hurt us in the past. As long as such players are in our team we will continue to struggle. Though it was good to see Yosuf, Kamran hitting some form and what to say about Umar Akmal. He's our new Inzy. All in all, bowling was top-notch, batting was ok and catching was simply ridiculous.[/quote'] Can you tell us a few things about this mystery called Farhat?

[Texy]

Actually bro' date=' you veggie bro's are acting like morons inni' bro? Take a look at yourselves bro, it doesn't matter that you're almost ranked number 1, you lost lots of Tests last century, and that's more relevant bro. Also, your overrated kafir Tendulkar is bogus bro, he could only maintain an average less than 60 over a tiny 20 year career bro. Kussmeh on my 1991 Toyota Corrolla with a Taxi licence bro, Test cricket is dead so we don't care bro. Mashallah to T20 and Hong-Kong Sixes bro, where inshallah we'll rule at the Kowloon, inni' bro?...[/quote'] r u being sarcastic? wtf is inni?

[Captain of Bhangra]

r u being sarcastic? wtf is inni?

It's how Pakistanis in the West Midlands, UK, say: "Isn't it"...

[Indianfan_Hyd]

7-8 drop catches were the main culprits to lose this game. No doubt our mental aspect of the game has also gone down. b/w we didn't see as many collapse as we did against SL or as we were expecting' date=' so a little relief. In the past we have thrown away games from easy winning situations so such wasn't really the case this time aroung. Our team did fight well in on of the[b'] best competitive Test of 2009. Our openers as ever remain clueless about holding a bat, a middle order composed of people like Malik, Misbah, Iqbal have hurt us in the past. As long as such players are in our team we will continue to struggle. Though it was good to see Yosuf, Kamran hitting some form and what to say about Umar Akmal. He's our new Inzy. All in all, bowling was top-notch, batting was ok and catching was simply ridiculous.

Yeah best cricket of 2009. Two no.7 & 8 teams on a flat track competing against each other to prove which once a minnow team...:finger:

[jusarrived]

You are right about all of them except Alam.

joke right ? hes should not bat higher than no8 ....i dont get the hype around this kid . if he avgs more than 35 after having played 20 test matches , i know nothing about cricket ...trust me , am being generous here .

[jusarrived]

It is not a theory. It is a fact. Alam' date=' Flynn, Fart, Manzoor, Mcintosh, Elliot, Fulton.. If you are going to pick world's worst XI team these guys will definitely feature.[/quote'] I dont think you seen enuf of Flynn , looks very classy t0 me ...& techincally correct , very unlike most NZ batsmen ....hes 45+ avg batsmen imo

[jusarrived]

7-8 drop catches were the main culprits to lose this game. No doubt our mental aspect of the game has also gone down. b/w we didn't see as many collapse as we did against SL or as we were expecting' date=' so a little relief. In the past we have thrown away games from easy winning situations so such wasn't really the case this time aroung. Our team did fight well in on of the best competitive Test of 2009. Our openers as ever remain clueless about holding a bat, a middle order composed of people like Malik, Misbah, Iqbal have hurt us in the past. As long as such players are in our team we will continue to struggle. Though it was good to see Yosuf, Kamran hitting some form and what to say about Umar Akmal. He's our new Inzy. All in all, bowling was top-notch, batting was ok and catching was simply ridiculous.[/quote'] i agree , Umar Akmal looks in Inzy mould & Aamer is another huge positive , though he has to start taking wickets & not just beat batsmen with good balls

[Pak_Forever]

Test cricket at its finest Test cricket at its finest Sidharth Monga November 28, 200 Sheer pace? Shane Bond. Wily craft? Mohammad Asif. Swing and reverse-swing? Mohammad Aamer. Persistence? Chris Martin and Umar Gul. Coming back and seizing the moment? Iain O'Brien. Just for the high quality of consistent fast bowling throughout the match, the Dunedin Test needs to be celebrated. Add to that the match itself ebbed and flowed so beautifully that almost every session had a story to tell, and even in the last session either team could win, and there was an outside chance of a draw too. And the relief at watching Bond and Asif in their national whites, and realising that they still had it. That the Asif wrist still controlled what the ball did. That Bond could still bowl bouncers at 150kph, and yorkers, and quick legcutters. And the joy of watching Umar Akmal's debut, rivalled - in a long, long time - only by Ajantha Mendis'. Also that his elder brother was with him for the majority of his first-innings century, and that he was the first person to congratulate him. That Umar changed his game completely in the second innings, when he had much more to be responsible for and much more to lose. And that the first ball of the match was a swinging yorker from Aamer to clean Tim McIntosh up. And the same bowler reducing New Zealand to 0 for 2 in the second innings too. Also, the captain, coach, selector, major batsman, major bowler, all in one, rescued New Zealand from a rut again. Relentlessly good fast bowling is mine; pick your own story, and tell it. And the bottomline was that despite the rain, despite the bad light, the match was wide open in the final session. This hasn't been a good year for Test cricket. Australia in South Africa couldn't replicate South Africa in Australia; Ashes were a good story because England regained them, but not many of the neutrals will remember them for sustained high-quality cricket; India played one tense Test in Napier, but the pitch there hardly tested the batsmen; and West Indies and Bangladesh played out a farce in the Caribbean. India didn't bother to play one for more than seven months, and when they finally did, they did so on flat roads. Sri Lanka in Pakistan is best forgotten. And it's not just what happened or didn't happen in Tests. It's what happened outside the Tests that has been bad news for the format. The ICC talked of four-day Tests, and pink-ball Test cricket. A Test captain turned up for a series with his mind still back in the IPL, and openly talked about how - compared with Twenty20 - Test cricket is not where it's at. The crowds found more entertainment in the shorter formats, and in the modern consumer-driven world it was no surprise that questions were raised about Test cricket's survival. For entertainment, though, don't look beyond Pakistan in Sri Lanka, with all the myriad collapses and sharp turns, but how those collapses came about still remains inexplicable. Younis Khan couldn't make any sense of them, Kumar Sangakkara smiled and accepted the gifts, and those who watched are yet to get over it. In this Test, though, you could see the build-ups, the plans, the execution. And then the extraordinary knocks to foil those plans too. Bond v the Akmal brothers in the final session of the match was one such plan that came through. Four times in that spell he made the batsmen play and miss outside off, and twice he got edges that fell short of slips. Twice Kamran got close enough to those balls reversing away, and drove them for four. Then came the first ball to jag in, and got Umar. Game over. This, and other such plays, over a eight-over spell; no other format affords such sustained contests. Such plays need to be preserved. Such plays need to happen more often. This was perhaps the Test of the year. Unlike the Cardiff Test, which came alive only on the final day and was played on a lifeless pitch, this one kept going back and forth throughout. The fragile batting line-ups on both sides gave the proceedings an edginess, a feeling that there was drama looming. It was played on a fair pitch, despite this being the first-ever November Test in Dunedin. The surface provided just enough help to the bowlers, there was no maddening seam movement, and batsmen got value for their shots too. This was a reiteration that when played the right way Tests are superior to any other format. That such one-off matches come as reassurance for Tests cannot be good news. That these Tests come at all, given so many duds in the year, cannot be bad news. http://www.cricinfo.com/nzvpak2009/content/current/story/437128.html