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West Indies team has given strong warning before next match. They showed how well they can bat and bowl in practice match against Pakistan Shaheens. Alick Athanaze scored 99 runs and Amir Jangoo scored 63 runs helping their team get good total of 346 runs. West Indies bowlers were just as good with Kevin Sinclair getting 3 wickets and Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie getting 2 wickets each. They stopped Pakistan from scoring a lot and got 9 of their players out for 212 runs. This very good performance shows that West Indies team is very strong and should not be taken lightly.

Muhammad Abbas who find his way back in team after 3 years and gave good performance in two test against South Africa is dropped once again from the squad. Abbas picked 10 wickets in two test series. Muhammad Ali has been recalled once again in the team, he has picked 6 wickets in his 7 innings. It's difficult to digest why Abbas has been dropped despite giving good performance in South Africa. Fast bowler Kashif Ali has been included in the squad for the first time. Three spinners were included in the squad, which means Pakistan will rely mainly on spinners.

This series will be very tough for Pakistan International test cricket team because they are doing decisions on the reference basis and now Iam thinking that Pak team will lose this series and credit will go to the management because they are selecting the third class team . I think there should be only players which are in excellent form but Pak selectors only want money and they only want more money and after the selection of merit team ,they will get nothing. Pak spinners will be flop on these wickets and Pak will lose and draw these test matches and I know West Indies is not quality team but Pak team will lose due to bad decisions of authority.West Indies International test cricket team will try to win this match as they will play in the foreign country but Pak selectors are not loyal to the country.

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Quote from: Rustam Meraj on January 12, 2025, 12:12:54 PM

West Indies team has given strong warning before next match. They showed how well they can bat and bowl in practice match against Pakistan Shaheens. Alick Athanaze scored 99 runs and Amir Jangoo scored 63 runs helping their team get good total of 346 runs. West Indies bowlers were just as good with Kevin Sinclair getting 3 wickets and Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie getting 2 wickets each. They stopped Pakistan from scoring a lot and got 9 of their players out for 212 runs. This very good performance shows that West Indies team is very strong and should not be taken lightly.

Muhammad Abbas who find his way back in team after 3 years and gave good performance in two test against South Africa is dropped once again from the squad. Abbas picked 10 wickets in two test series. Muhammad Ali has been recalled once again in the team, he has picked 6 wickets in his 7 innings. It's difficult to digest why Abbas has been dropped despite giving good performance in South Africa. Fast bowler Kashif Ali has been included in the squad for the first time. Three spinners were included in the squad, which means Pakistan will rely mainly on spinners.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on January 12, 2025, 03:04:18 AM

Before this match, West Indies and Pakistan Shaheens are playing a tour match. In this match some of the West Indies batsmen showed a good batting like Alick Athanaze made 99 runs (missed his century by 1 runs) and Amir Jangoo made 63. Overall everyone batted to some extend and they made a reasonable 346 runs and declared the innings.

Talking about the West Indies bowling, they were even better. Kevin Sinclair took 3 wickets while Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie took 2 wickets each and they did not let Pakistan score. They took 9 wickets and gave away only 212 runs showed that the West Indies team means business in this tour. Don't take them lightly at all.

West Indies team has given strong warning before next match. They showed how well they can bat and bowl in practice match against Pakistan Shaheens. Alick Athanaze scored 99 runs and Amir Jangoo scored 63 runs helping their team get good total of 346 runs. West Indies bowlers were just as good with Kevin Sinclair getting 3 wickets and Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie getting 2 wickets each. They stopped Pakistan from scoring a lot and got 9 of their players out for 212 runs. This very good performance shows that West Indies team is very strong and should not be taken lightly.

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Quote from: UmerIdrees on January 12, 2025, 04:00:13 AM

Pakistan Shaheens did not scored well at the end of day 2. Lost 9 wickets in 212 runs and that time still they were trailing the score by 134 runs. West Inides had such a good lead in the first innings, there was just Alick Athanaze from West Indies in first innings who was the best performer of the team and gave confidence to all of the players, scored 99 sadly due to just single he cannot got 100 runs but still appriciate to him. I was hoping with Imam Ul Haq who is the captain of Pakistan team but he did not scored well.

Pakistan Shaheen disappointing performance in this test match lost his nine wickets at 290 runs. imam ul haq pakistan shaheen captain didn't batting well out after scoring just 5 runs. Muhammad Hurraira responsible batting added 74 important runs from just 73 balls played run a ball inning but unfortunately missed his well deserved century by few runs short. Mohammad Suleman some show batting skill scored 45 runs, just 5 run short from his half century. west indies outstanding batting and bowling performance first declare his inning after scoring 340 plus runs and in bowling their performance is appreciate able especially Kevin Sinclair picked 3 crucial wickets by giving 50 runs only in his bowling spell. I think its very different for Pakistan Shaheen to comeback in this match.

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Pakistan International test cricket team will play next match against West Indies International test cricket team and that match will be in the Multan Cricket Stadium . Pakistan team is much stronger than West Indies cricket team and Pak team will win the test series.

Before this match, West Indies and Pakistan Shaheens are playing a tour match. In this match some of the West Indies batsmen showed a good batting like Alick Athanaze made 99 runs (missed his century by 1 runs) and Amir Jangoo made 63. Overall everyone batted to some extend and they made a reasonable 346 runs and declared the innings.

Talking about the West Indies bowling, they were even better. Kevin Sinclair took 3 wickets while Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie took 2 wickets each and they did not let Pakistan score. They took 9 wickets and gave away only 212 runs showed that the West Indies team means business in this tour. Don't take them lightly at all.

Pakistan Shaheens did not scored well at the end of day 2. Lost 9 wickets in 212 runs and that time still they were trailing the score by 134 runs. West Inides had such a good lead in the first innings, there was just Alick Athanaze from West Indies in first innings who was the best performer of the team and gave confidence to all of the players, scored 99 sadly due to just single he cannot got 100 runs but still appriciate to him. I was hoping with Imam Ul Haq who is the captain of Pakistan team but he did not scored well.

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Quote from: Compromise me on January 11, 2025, 10:16:28 AM

Pakistan International test cricket team will play next match against West Indies International test cricket team and that match will be in the Multan Cricket Stadium . Pakistan team is much stronger than West Indies cricket team and Pak team will win the test series.

Before this match, West Indies and Pakistan Shaheens are playing a tour match. In this match some of the West Indies batsmen showed a good batting like Alick Athanaze made 99 runs (missed his century by 1 runs) and Amir Jangoo made 63. Overall everyone batted to some extend and they made a reasonable 346 runs and declared the innings.

Talking about the West Indies bowling, they were even better. Kevin Sinclair took 3 wickets while Jayden Seales and Gudakesh Motie took 2 wickets each and they did not let Pakistan score. They took 9 wickets and gave away only 212 runs showed that the West Indies team means business in this tour. Don't take them lightly at all.

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Next week, we have a test series between Pakistan and West Indies coming up. This is going to be one of the most irrelevant bilateral series, as both the teams are currently at the bottom of the points table in ICC World Test Championship. West Indies is at the rock bottom, while Pakistan is one rank above them. And talking about the momentum, Pakistan has won two of their last 5 matches, while West Indies have won one out of their last 5.

You may call this an irrelevant series but for both sides it will be an important test series. Also for the audience it will be an interesting to see as both teams have similar performances and therefore we are likely to see a close competition between the two. Unlike if Pakistan were to play with England and West Indies were to play with a country like Australia, then I would have thought it would be a boring one sided series, but not this one. Since the matches will be held in Pakistan, they may get a home advantage.

Pakistan International test cricket team will play next match against West Indies International test cricket team and that match will be in the Multan Cricket Stadium . Pakistan team is much stronger than West Indies cricket team and Pak team will win the test series. Pak team will play with confidence in this match. Pak team has home advantage and that team will win this series easily. The head to head performance of Pak team against West Indies is best .Pak team should try to give hundred percent in this match because that win has great important for Pak team because pan team lost last test series by 2-0 against SA International team.West Indies team is not like South Africa team but they will try to win next match but Pak team is favorite for that match and for series.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 10, 2025, 11:00:35 PM

Next week, we have a test series between Pakistan and West Indies coming up. This is going to be one of the most irrelevant bilateral series, as both the teams are currently at the bottom of the points table in ICC World Test Championship. West Indies is at the rock bottom, while Pakistan is one rank above them. And talking about the momentum, Pakistan has won two of their last 5 matches, while West Indies have won one out of their last 5.

Man I don't think any series is irrelevant because ICC have to complete their procedures for WTC just because of this now these two last series first Pakistan vs West Indies and then Sri Lanka vs Australia are going to be played.

ICC needs to have good check on their system if they want to have less irrelevant series like these but nothing positive happening and cricket is losing its charisma specially in test format which is going down badly as mentioned above in few posts they needed to be had 2 tiers.

If someone from these authorities able to work on this surely cricket will be having some good development and fans will be also able to watch good entertaining cricket 8 teams in 1 tier and 6 into 2 tier is not bad idea.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 10, 2025, 11:00:35 PM

Next week, we have a test series between Pakistan and West Indies coming up. This is going to be one of the most irrelevant bilateral series, as both the teams are currently at the bottom of the points table in ICC World Test Championship. West Indies is at the rock bottom, while Pakistan is one rank above them. And talking about the momentum, Pakistan has won two of their last 5 matches, while West Indies have won one out of their last 5.

You may call this an irrelevant series but for both sides it will be an important test series. Also for the audience it will be an interesting to see as both teams have similar performances and therefore we are likely to see a close competition between the two. Unlike if Pakistan were to play with England and West Indies were to play with a country like Australia, then I would have thought it would be a boring one sided series, but not this one. Since the matches will be held in Pakistan, they may get a home advantage.

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If Zimbabwe had not won a single T20 match and drawn a single Test match, there would have been nothing to say about this Zimbabwe.

Well, even with a single match won and a test match drawn, there is nothing to talk about the Zimbabwe performance. What everyone will be looking at over the years is that Zimbabwe lost the ODI, T20 and a Test series on their home ground. I would call it an hamulating defeat and Zimbabwe are going down as a cricket nation and I don't see any sign of recovery with this performance. Zimbabwe had the poorest of batting performances throughout the series, however I still can't believe how Sean Williams, Brian Bennett and Craig Ervine all made a century in the first test first innings.

Zimbabwe is quite an old team in cricket and from the time they have been playing cricket they should have improved a lot in cricket but this team has not improved in cricket. We can consider Afghanistan as a new team in cricket, but this team regularly defeats the big teams.

We all know that Zimbabwe is a very old team in cricket, even though they are a very old team, they have not yet improved their cricket like Afghanistan. Actually Afghanistan team has many best players due to which this team is able to defeat many big teams nowadays. If Zimbabwe had good bowling and good batting like Afghanistan, maybe they too would have been able to defeat big teams.

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Zimbabwe won against Afghanistan in only one T20 match, perhaps this is their biggest achievement. If Zimbabwe could have improved little by little they would have at least been a team like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by this time but instead of improving they have degraded their team.

In this series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe won only one T20 match which is probably not their greatest achievement, We have also seen them draw a Test match against Afghanistan, in which most of their players were able to perform very efficiently. Zimbabwe has not been able to improve their cricket gradually, mainly because their country's cricket board is not strong. At the moment Zimbabwe needs to be much stronger to become a team like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Next week, we have a test series between Pakistan and West Indies coming up. This is going to be one of the most irrelevant bilateral series, as both the teams are currently at the bottom of the points table in ICC World Test Championship. West Indies is at the rock bottom, while Pakistan is one rank above them. And talking about the momentum, Pakistan has won two of their last 5 matches, while West Indies have won one out of their last 5.

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Quote from: libert19 on January 10, 2025, 01:55:42 AM

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But don't think it would ever be happen when Australia play against a team like Sri Lanka, yes a long time before there was a name of Sri Lankan player test format in current time I don't think they have much ability to beat the Australian bowlers and batter also.

Quote from: libert19 on January 10, 2025, 01:55:42 AM

Australia definitely has more chances in final. No matter how positive form SA is in currently, they are known to choke at big stages while Australia is known to win at big stages.

I have also thinking that and as so I also mention in my post about this but there will be always a risk because in todays South Africa really did good in test format. But I saw the last series between them on that serious we have saw the South African team really face hard to face the Australian players as they also lose on that series.
So yes it is true that there is a high chance of winning Australian team in the final.

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Zimbabwe is quite an old team in cricket and from the time they have been playing cricket they should have improved a lot in cricket but this team has not improved in cricket. We can consider Afghanistan as a new team in cricket, but this team regularly defeats the big teams. I have already commented on the full series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe where I said that Zimbabwe will not have a very good record. Zimbabwe won against Afghanistan in only one T20 match, perhaps this is their biggest achievement. If Zimbabwe could have improved little by little they would have at least been a team like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by this time but instead of improving they have degraded their team.

Zimbabwe lack of improvement in cricket is surprising considering they have been playing sport for long time. Recent matches between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe showed this clearly with Zimbabwe only winning one short game. It is sad to see Zimbabwe not getting better because they could have become as good as teams like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by now. But instead they seem to be getting worse which shows that they need to make some big changes and improvements to their team.

Zimbabwe team has good record in the past as comparison to Afghanistan International cricket team. Afghanistan team gave excellent effort in last match and we saw match in the side of Afghanistan team . Afghanistan team won the match by 72 runs and we are watching Afghanistan team as they are improving their performance in the test format. Afghanistan bowlers could not play well in the first test but in the second match , Rashid Khan changed the side of match and he took 11 wickets in the second match .Rashid Khan is top class player and he gave power to his team when he joined the team and before Afghanistan team was not quality team but now Afghanistan team is one of the top team of the World.

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Quote from: Haunebu on January 10, 2025, 06:50:49 AM

This is hardly surprising in my opinion. Zimbabwe has been playing like crap across all formats for a long time now and they have somehow not given up on the sport just like Kenya etc.

Extremely few players from their team over time have become well recognized cricketers such as Raza, Flower bros etc.

LOL.. this is like the biggest joke. Kenya gave up on cricket as the ICC refused to support them. On the other hand, Zimbabwe were always the blue eyed boys of the ICC. Every year, they receive the ICC funds worth $18 million, compared to a few hundred thousand USD for most of the top-level associate nations. Keeping Zimbabwe as a full member nation is the biggest injustice ever being performed on the top associate nations such as Netherlands, Scotland, Namibia and Nepal.

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Quote from: Publictalk792 on January 10, 2025, 04:22:31 AM

Zimbabwe lack of improvement in cricket is surprising considering they have been playing sport for long time. Recent matches between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe showed this clearly with Zimbabwe only winning one short game. It is sad to see Zimbabwe not getting better because they could have become as good as teams like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by now. But instead they seem to be getting worse which shows that they need to make some big changes and improvements to their team.

This is hardly surprising in my opinion. Zimbabwe has been playing like crap across all formats for a long time now and they have somehow not given up on the sport just like Kenya etc.

Extremely few players from their team over time have become well recognized cricketers such as Raza, Flower bros etc.

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Quote from: Lidger on January 10, 2025, 01:09:12 AM

Zimbabwe is quite an old team in cricket and from the time they have been playing cricket they should have improved a lot in cricket but this team has not improved in cricket. We can consider Afghanistan as a new team in cricket, but this team regularly defeats the big teams. I have already commented on the full series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe where I said that Zimbabwe will not have a very good record. Zimbabwe won against Afghanistan in only one T20 match, perhaps this is their biggest achievement. If Zimbabwe could have improved little by little they would have at least been a team like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by this time but instead of improving they have degraded their team.

Zimbabwe lack of improvement in cricket is surprising considering they have been playing sport for long time. Recent matches between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe showed this clearly with Zimbabwe only winning one short game. It is sad to see Zimbabwe not getting better because they could have become as good as teams like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by now. But instead they seem to be getting worse which shows that they need to make some big changes and improvements to their team.

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Australia's squad for SL tour announced.

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Smith (C), Head (VC), Starc, Abbott, Boland, Carey, Connolly, Inglis, Khawaja, Konstas, Kuhnemann, Labuschagne, Lyon, McSweeney, Murphy, Webster.

Smith to captain as Cummins on paternity leave. This series could have been interesting for Indian viewers had India were able to win the last game in BGT, since SL defeating Aussies would have opened door for India to qualify for WTC final but now it's meaningless.

PS: I did read Sithara007's comment the other day that Aussies can still lose their spot in final with over rate penalty, but let's be honest, that's impossible to happen.

Source: https://x.com/cricketcomau/status/1877160916057313759

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Moreover, we can already see that only Pakistan and West Indies series and Australia series with Sri Lanka are left before the ICC World Test Championship final.
And in the final, Australia and South Africa have already confirmed themselves. But if we talk about over-rate penalty, from my point of view, Australia and South African team have played 101 test matches so far, out of which Australia has won 54 and South African team has won 26. The difference is understandable, but currently the context is a little different, South African team is in a very positive form, which can be an obstacle for Australia. But still, in the final, I think Australia has more chances.

Australia definitely has more chances in final. No matter how positive form SA is in currently, they are known to choke at big stages while Australia is known to win at big stages.

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Quote from: Lidger on January 08, 2025, 08:08:45 AM

If Zimbabwe had not won a single T20 match and drawn a single Test match, there would have been nothing to say about this Zimbabwe.

Well, even with a single match won and a test match drawn, there is nothing to talk about the Zimbabwe performance. What everyone will be looking at over the years is that Zimbabwe lost the ODI, T20 and a Test series on their home ground. I would call it an hamulating defeat and Zimbabwe are going down as a cricket nation and I don't see any sign of recovery with this performance. Zimbabwe had the poorest of batting performances throughout the series, however I still can't believe how Sean Williams, Brian Bennett and Craig Ervine all made a century in the first test first innings.

Zimbabwe is quite an old team in cricket and from the time they have been playing cricket they should have improved a lot in cricket but this team has not improved in cricket. We can consider Afghanistan as a new team in cricket, but this team regularly defeats the big teams. I have already commented on the full series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe where I said that Zimbabwe will not have a very good record. Zimbabwe won against Afghanistan in only one T20 match, perhaps this is their biggest achievement. If Zimbabwe could have improved little by little they would have at least been a team like Sri Lanka or Bangladesh by this time but instead of improving they have degraded their team.

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Quote from: libert19 on January 09, 2025, 01:54:43 AM

Australia's squad for SL tour announced.

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Smith (C), Head (VC), Starc, Abbott, Boland, Carey, Connolly, Inglis, Khawaja, Konstas, Kuhnemann, Labuschagne, Lyon, McSweeney, Murphy, Webster.

Smith to captain as Cummins on paternity leave. This series could have been interesting for Indian viewers had India were able to win the last game in BGT, since SL defeating Aussies would have opened door for India to qualify for WTC final but now it's meaningless.

PS: I did read Sithara007's comment the other day that Aussies can still lose their spot in final with over rate penalty, but let's be honest, that's impossible to happen.

Source: https://x.com/cricketcomau/status/1877160916057313759

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Moreover, we can already see that only Pakistan and West Indies series and Australia series with Sri Lanka are left before the ICC World Test Championship final.
And in the final, Australia and South Africa have already confirmed themselves. But if we talk about over-rate penalty, from my point of view, Australia and South African team have played 101 test matches so far, out of which Australia has won 54 and South African team has won 26. The difference is understandable, but currently the context is a little different, South African team is in a very positive form, which can be an obstacle for Australia. But still, in the final, I think Australia has more chances,

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Australia's squad for SL tour announced.

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Smith (C), Head (VC), Starc, Abbott, Boland, Carey, Connolly, Inglis, Khawaja, Konstas, Kuhnemann, Labuschagne, Lyon, McSweeney, Murphy, Webster.

Smith to captain as Cummins on paternity leave. This series could have been interesting for Indian viewers had India were able to win the last game in BGT, since SL defeating Aussies would have opened door for India to qualify for WTC final but now it's meaningless.

PS: I did read Sithara007's comment the other day that Aussies can still lose their spot in final with over rate penalty, but let's be honest, that's impossible to happen.

Source: https://x.com/cricketcomau/status/1877160916057313759

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