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Pakistan bowling in England and England Batting versus them,Overhyped?


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Posted
12 hours ago, MechEng said:

Pak bowlers are not overhyped. They probably have the best bowling attack from Asia. We need to be patient with Amir, he has bowled well till now but hasn't bowled those freakish banana swing spells like he bowled in 2010.

 

England batting on the other hand has never been the same since KP , Bell and Prior left.

where is Jonathan Trott . I will put his name before prior and bell

Posted
9 hours ago, Asim said:

^ Obv Im not talking about any particular poster, its just about 'overall impression' which gets dramatically change based on one match... one spell, one session... (and yes ofcourse there r diff opinions at the same time too)

that's because different people are posting....

Someone like me who likes amir come here and post when he does well and keeps quite when he doesnt do well....

Similarly, someone who hates Amir will keep quite when he does well and starts posting when he doesn't...

It's not just with one player....same thing happens with DHONI, KOHLI, PUJARA and more

 

Posted

Pakistani bowling is hyped. No matter what Pakistanis think, they are average, and I wont even bet if they are better than Indian bowlers. But what I loved is, the way they are competing against English team. Its a good sign. 

 

And I for one, genuinely like Amir. I think he is a soft spoken, nice guy who just wants to prove himself on the cricketing field. He is more Indian than a Pakistani bowler of the past. 

Posted
12 hours ago, Asim said:

I like how the opinion of you guys kept changing 180 degree and is based on hardly one day's of play... sometimes even it changes session-by-session...

I dont think anyone opinion has changed .. 

I rated Amir much before he played the England series in 2010 & I still do ..Pak fans though cant see that when conditions are not in favour he looks pretty average , for a SC bowler those are not good signs . He only averages around ~30 inspite of playing all his games away from home ( only 3 of 15 in Asia/SC ) . That puts him somwhere in category Good to Very good ...not Great !!

Posted

Indian Fab 3.5 vs Eng 2011

 

196 runs

319 runs

an innings and 242 runs

an innings and 8 runs

 

Eng scored 700+, no prob! but Fab 3.5 were never able to cross 300+

Posted
2 minutes ago, Asim said:

Indian Fab 3.5 vs Eng 2011

 

196 runs

319 runs

an innings and 242 runs

an innings and 8 runs

 

Eng scored 700+, no prob! but Fab 3.5 were never able to cross 300+

not sure who is the .5 in the fab 3.5, anyways the entire set was out of indian team within a year of that series (heck even the indian captain from that series retired over a year ago) goes to show they all were on last leg. No point taking stats from that series to build a case.

 

You will experience it soon with mishab and younis both on last leg

Posted

@Asim

 

The Fab 5 whose stats you have quoted were all in their last leg of their careers and the England tour was an aberration.

 

I thought Indian cricket was over then, but I was wrong and we are fighting back now.

Posted (edited)

overrated players in england side - hales, vince, ali and ballance.. rest are all fine

 

in the pak side - both openers, rahat ali are waste players

middle order - azhar, younis, misbah and asad are decent - not to India's level but decent IMO

keeper is good, needs to put a price on his wicket

bowlers - amir, yasir, wahab are fine...

 

so only 7 passengers in 22 players - which is allright.

Edited by Temujin Khaghan
Posted
19 minutes ago, Temujin Khaghan said:

overrated players in england side - hales, vince, ali and ballance.. rest are all fine

 

in the pak side - both openers, rahat ali are waste players

middle order - azhar, younis, misbah and asad are decent - not to India's level but decent IMO

keeper is good, needs to put a price on his wicket

bowlers - amir, yasir, wahab are fine...

 

so only 7 passengers in 22 players - which is allright.

Based on actual performances and not just potential,  England  has  4   stand-out  test players   in Cook, Root,  Anderson and Broad.  Pakistan has 3  in  Younus Khan, Misbah  and Yasir Shah.   Only one bowler there.

 

England's problem is that they have too many mediocre batsmen apart from the 2 mentioned above.  

 

Pakistan's  batting is usually inconsistent and often crumble under pressure.  That is perhaps the case with this team too. 

Their bowling unit is too dependent on Yasir Shah to take wickets and if he doesn't then the opposition will pile up runs.

Posted
58 minutes ago, express bowling said:

Based on actual performances and not just potential,  England  has  4   stand-out  test players   in Cook, Root,  Anderson and Broad.  Pakistan has 3  in  Younus Khan, Misbah  and Yasir Shah.   Only one bowler there.

 

England's problem is that they have too many mediocre batsmen apart from the 2 mentioned above.  

 

Pakistan's  batting is usually inconsistent and often crumble under pressure.  That is perhaps the case with this team too. 

Their bowling unit is too dependent on Yasir Shah to take wickets and if he doesn't then the opposition will pile up runs.

other than the four you have mentioned... woakes, stokes, bairstow have all performed... 4 bad players left in england

azhar ali and asad are not on par even with Indian substitute batsmen like rohit and rahul ... but they are ok-ish batsmen nonetheless

mohammed amir is a very good player..

you can argue about wahab riaz though... Thats the only player i would take from my above list...

other than the 4 players - openers, rahat and wahab... rest are all fine...

I wish we were playing pakistan team rather than west indies right now...

Posted

actually i almost agree with what OP said

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Yasir is a class bowler and Amir is good.But rest of the bowling is avg.

 

Similarly England batting is only about Cook and Root.Rest is quite avg.

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Pak bowling and england batting is a little overhyped... especially pak bowling

but england has two brilliant batsmen in cook and root and their lower middle order (6,7,8) is strong... because stokes, bairstow are good batsmen and woakes is able to manage well with some defensive batting...

 

current england lower middle is stronger than ours

bairstow, stokes, woakes > ashwin, saha, mishra

 

but our top 5 is super class.. so... its allright... I am not complaining.. just pointing out :)

Posted

/\ Boss, Misbah is a class player! The guy bleeds for Pakistan. Did you see how he played when everybody around him was getting out? I liked this Asad guy too, who scored 39. He has the intent, looks like Moin Khan, Salim Malik kind of player to me. 

Whereas, I am highly disappointed with Amir. As it stands today, Pakistani bowling is not as good as Indian bowling.

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