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Quote from: UmerIdrees on March 13, 2022, 12:08:04 AM

Most of you people know that I am from Pakistan and support my country's decision on most of the things related to cricket but I also fail to understand this decision of the PCB to make the result-less wickets. If we make good wickets and loss to Australians, that is acceptable because they are a good team but making dead pitches on the most awaited tour after 14 years is no good thing.

I am sure you wanna right 24 years not 14. Yes this is most awaited tour and people in Pakistan have given up hopes that they will ever see Steve Smith in Pakistani dressing rooms. Day 1 of 2nd Test match went in favour of Aussies batsmen.
Pakistan could have very easily got there 4th wickets if Imam wouldn't drop catch of Lyon on very last ball of Day 1.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on March 12, 2022, 10:40:45 PM

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I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

They probably went on the defensive. And as far as the points table in World Test Championship is concerned, a draw is more beneficial when compared to a loss. But it is sad to see that they don't have any faith in their own pace bowlers. They do have some very good pacers, such as Shaheen Shah Afridi. They could have prepared a neutral pitch and tried to get a result out of this series. If the matches are so boring, then it will negatively impact their future revenue potential, as the TV viewership will go down.

Most of you people know that I am from Pakistan and support my country's decision on most of the things related to cricket but I also fail to understand this decision of the PCB to make the result-less wickets. If we make good wickets and loss to Australians, that is acceptable because they are a good team but making dead pitches on the most awaited tour after 14 years is no good thing.

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I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

They probably went on the defensive. And as far as the points table in World Test Championship is concerned, a draw is more beneficial when compared to a loss. But it is sad to see that they don't have any faith in their own pace bowlers. They do have some very good pacers, such as Shaheen Shah Afridi. They could have prepared a neutral pitch and tried to get a result out of this series. If the matches are so boring, then it will negatively impact their future revenue potential, as the TV viewership will go down.

PCB is only interested in successful conduction of this series that's why there more focus is on security and management issues not on pitches. Pakistan is not a contender for World Test Championship so I don't think they are eyeing in that aspect.
We have to see how Pakistan respond to Aus first innings which will definitely be around 450/500. After very time I am seeing such lengthy test innings.

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Quote from: Minecache on March 12, 2022, 04:10:49 PM

I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

They probably went on the defensive. And as far as the points table in World Test Championship is concerned, a draw is more beneficial when compared to a loss. But it is sad to see that they don't have any faith in their own pace bowlers. They do have some very good pacers, such as Shaheen Shah Afridi. They could have prepared a neutral pitch and tried to get a result out of this series. If the matches are so boring, then it will negatively impact their future revenue potential, as the TV viewership will go down.

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Quote from: Minecache on March 12, 2022, 04:10:49 PM

I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

Preparation of Pakistan team against this historic series was not good enough so just because of this they have done this all shameful act and now after reading statement from Ramiz Raja feeling they need to be more professional and have to accept few things if they want to be big and have some good value for future games here in Pakistan because first test was really bore and now after watching first day of this second test I have feeling it's also going into this same way because pitch is not supportive for bowlers and batsmen can stay as long as they can Khawaja was really in good touch throughout day, and he plays best of his cricket at his home country for first time.

Right now situation is West Indies is also no good as now this first test match is also heading for draw Bonner and Holder at crease with just 15 to 20 overs remaining in day and target is not achievable for them with England is also not good enough to take all ten wickets.

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The pitch doesn't provide any sort of support for the bowlers. Once again, this is going to be another boring draw. Usman Khawaja is getting close to a century, while Steven Smith is nearing his half-century. A total in excess of 400-450 looks very much possible for Australia, but they need to bowl out Pakistan for something less than 300 in order to win this match. And given the pitch conditions, it looks very much impossible. Don't understand the purpose of having these sort of meaningless matches. Another one is going on in West Indies, against England.

It's surely shameful act from PCB that for this historic test series they are bringing pitches like this because surely these are not going to help in any case just dead matches with some good batting practices.
After end of first day Australia in good position with 251/3 and Usman Khawaja is still on crease with his second hundred of this series now most chances we can watch huge target by Australia for Pakistani batsmen because they also understand this all and try to give some good rest to their bowlers on this dead pitch as they already have new spinner for good assistant of Lyon with few part-timers are also available in this team.
After news about Faheem Ashraf and Hassan Ali's entry I was expecting some good supportive pitch and interesting match, but it's another dead rubber with now most chances all matches going to be drawn.

I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

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Quote from: LittleBitFunny on March 12, 2022, 03:16:58 PM

I don't think India will win the match by an innings. If India could have collected more than 350 in their first innings, they would have won the match by an innings. Sri Lanka is now only 166 runs behind. And my guess is that Sri Lanka will be able to collect at least 40-50 runs in the coming days. However, the Indian bowlers are very experienced. No wonder Sri Lanka lost all their wickets in the first 10 overs tomorrow.

Most chances tomorrow after taking early wickets India will give some rest to their bowlers and start batting even this happens for two sessions because they will try to give them target of 350+ and then bowl again with current status and form of Sri Lankan team most chances they will lose this match heavily as we watch in first test match. If after winning toss if India have bowl first then surely it's going to be one inning defeat for Sri Lanka but now with current status is going to happen.

But, now we have to wait for some long time for another century from Virat Kohli as now time is not good for this one and his form is also not allowing for this all hopefully for next series selectors will give him chance for this because right now things are not going in his favour.

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India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

What an end for first day of this first day/night match on Indian soil as we have 16 wickets and 338 runs with this result look like here we can place a bet for over/under 3 days because most chances we are going to have very early end of this test match with easy win for home team as Sri Lanka is short in this format and having massive problem for not good and skilled batsmen available after their golden era in this game.

Here India can take very good lead, and then they need some batting for good target even here with current situation any target above 250+ is massive for visitors but still home team will give some good rest to their bowlers and batting practice to their batsmen because tomorrow in first session they are going to bat again.

In my opinion, India is going to win this test match by at least an innings difference. At first, I thought India didn't do a good enough job with the batting and Sri Lanka have a good chance of making a good result at the end of the match if they bat well of course.

But all my hopes ended in smoke as they lost 6 wickets only for 86 runs. And now it seems like they will follow on and it's really unlikely for them to win this match or even draw.

I don't think India will win the match by an innings. If India could have collected more than 350 in their first innings, they would have won the match by an innings. Sri Lanka is now only 166 runs behind. And my guess is that Sri Lanka will be able to collect at least 40-50 runs in the coming days. However, the Indian bowlers are very experienced. No wonder Sri Lanka lost all their wickets in the first 10 overs tomorrow.

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India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

What an end for first day of this first day/night match on Indian soil as we have 16 wickets and 338 runs with this result look like here we can place a bet for over/under 3 days because most chances we are going to have very early end of this test match with easy win for home team as Sri Lanka is short in this format and having massive problem for not good and skilled batsmen available after their golden era in this game.

Here India can take very good lead, and then they need some batting for good target even here with current situation any target above 250+ is massive for visitors but still home team will give some good rest to their bowlers and batting practice to their batsmen because tomorrow in first session they are going to bat again.

In my opinion, India is going to win this test match by at least an innings difference. At first, I thought India didn't do a good enough job with the batting and Sri Lanka have a good chance of making a good result at the end of the match if they bat well of course.

But all my hopes ended in smoke as they lost 6 wickets only for 86 runs. And now it seems like they will follow on and it's really unlikely for them to win this match or even draw.

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India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

Yes I am damn sure this Match again will end within 3 days. It looked like a decent day for srilanka when they bowled out india for 252 but now they lost 6 wickets also and within one hour tomorrow they will get all out and still will give india a very healthy lead. This time not the the spinners but the fast bowlers delivered for India.
3 wickets to Bumrah and and 2 to shami.

The Sri Lankan bowlers looked like they had bowled brilliantly. But when Sri Lanka started batting and started losing wickets very fast, I realized that the performance of Indian batsmen was good enough. The pitch supports the bowlers. Collecting about 300 on such a pitch is enough to win. Sri Lanka may lose all their wickets before 170. Then if India is able to give a target like 320 then India will win.

170? I would be surprised if they even cross 120, I feel no matter how low India scores in the second innings as well, there is no stopping India from winning this match, if you count the batsmen only Dickwella is there on the pitch and on the other end the tail has already started.

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Australia vs Pakistan second test match started in karachi today. So far its Australia that is in command, as they have scored 79 runs without losing any wicket. From Australia side Mitchell Swepson is making his test debut, so far he has played only 7 T20Is. Faheem Ashraf from Pakistan has found his way back in the team. Let's see won wins this game.

The pitch doesn't provide any sort of support for the bowlers. Once again, this is going to be another boring draw. Usman Khawaja is getting close to a century, while Steven Smith is nearing his half-century. A total in excess of 400-450 looks very much possible for Australia, but they need to bowl out Pakistan for something less than 300 in order to win this match. And given the pitch conditions, it looks very much impossible. Don't understand the purpose of having these sort of meaningless matches. Another one is going on in West Indies, against England.

I have seen lot of criticism being done on social media for making dead pitches. I understand that home teams make the pitches in their favor in order to minimize the strength of the opponents but this does not mean that you start making dead pitches which produces no result.

After the first match I was like okay both the teams might have great batsmen, but if all the matches go like this obviously no team would like to play on such tracks, These days bowlers are given much more importance in test crickets, Pitches have to be suitable for either pacers or atleast spinners otherwise no point playing matches. Even India has impressed remarkably in this context, I remember how 15 years ago test matches in the subcontinent used to get scores of 500-600+ you don't see that hapenning these days.

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India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

Yes I am damn sure this Match again will end within 3 days. It looked like a decent day for srilanka when they bowled out india for 252 but now they lost 6 wickets also and within one hour tomorrow they will get all out and still will give india a very healthy lead. This time not the the spinners but the fast bowlers delivered for India.
3 wickets to Bumrah and and 2 to shami.

The Sri Lankan bowlers looked like they had bowled brilliantly. But when Sri Lanka started batting and started losing wickets very fast, I realized that the performance of Indian batsmen was good enough. The pitch supports the bowlers. Collecting about 300 on such a pitch is enough to win. Sri Lanka may lose all their wickets before 170. Then if India is able to give a target like 320 then India will win.

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Australia vs Pakistan second test match started in karachi today. So far its Australia that is in command, as they have scored 79 runs without losing any wicket. From Australia side Mitchell Swepson is making his test debut, so far he has played only 7 T20Is. Faheem Ashraf from Pakistan has found his way back in the team. Let's see won wins this game.

The pitch doesn't provide any sort of support for the bowlers. Once again, this is going to be another boring draw. Usman Khawaja is getting close to a century, while Steven Smith is nearing his half-century. A total in excess of 400-450 looks very much possible for Australia, but they need to bowl out Pakistan for something less than 300 in order to win this match. And given the pitch conditions, it looks very much impossible. Don't understand the purpose of having these sort of meaningless matches. Another one is going on in West Indies, against England.

I have seen lot of criticism being done on social media for making dead pitches. I understand that home teams make the pitches in their favor in order to minimize the strength of the opponents but this does not mean that you start making dead pitches which produces no result.

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Quote from: LittleBitFunny on March 12, 2022, 12:59:33 PM

India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

What an end for first day of this first day/night match on Indian soil as we have 16 wickets and 338 runs with this result look like here we can place a bet for over/under 3 days because most chances we are going to have very early end of this test match with easy win for home team as Sri Lanka is short in this format and having massive problem for not good and skilled batsmen available after their golden era in this game.

Here India can take very good lead, and then they need some batting for good target even here with current situation any target above 250+ is massive for visitors but still home team will give some good rest to their bowlers and batting practice to their batsmen because tomorrow in first session they are going to bat again.

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Quote from: LittleBitFunny on March 12, 2022, 12:59:33 PM

India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

Yes I am damn sure this Match again will end within 3 days. It looked like a decent day for srilanka when they bowled out india for 252 but now they lost 6 wickets also and within one hour tomorrow they will get all out and still will give india a very healthy lead. This time not the the spinners but the fast bowlers delivered for India.
3 wickets to Bumrah and and 2 to shami.

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Australia vs Pakistan second test match started in karachi today. So far its Australia that is in command, as they have scored 79 runs without losing any wicket. From Australia side Mitchell Swepson is making his test debut, so far he has played only 7 T20Is. Faheem Ashraf from Pakistan has found his way back in the team. Let's see won wins this game.

The pitch doesn't provide any sort of support for the bowlers. Once again, this is going to be another boring draw. Usman Khawaja is getting close to a century, while Steven Smith is nearing his half-century. A total in excess of 400-450 looks very much possible for Australia, but they need to bowl out Pakistan for something less than 300 in order to win this match. And given the pitch conditions, it looks very much impossible. Don't understand the purpose of having these sort of meaningless matches. Another one is going on in West Indies, against England.

It's surely shameful act from PCB that for this historic test series they are bringing pitches like this because surely these are not going to help in any case just dead matches with some good batting practices.
After end of first day Australia in good position with 251/3 and Usman Khawaja is still on crease with his second hundred of this series now most chances we can watch huge target by Australia for Pakistani batsmen because they also understand this all and try to give some good rest to their bowlers on this dead pitch as they already have new spinner for good assistant of Lyon with few part-timers are also available in this team.

After news about Faheem Ashraf and Hassan Ali's entry I was expecting some good supportive pitch and interesting match, but it's another dead rubber with now most chances all matches going to be drawn.

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Quote from: Mahdirakib on March 12, 2022, 10:41:36 AM

The pitch of ‘Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium’ has received one demerit point from ICC: PAK vs AUS: Rawalpindi pitch given one demerit point, rated 'below average' by ICC

Why everyone so worried about Rawalpindi pitch? Man it was home ground for Pakistan and they made it as they liked. Right now WI and England test match is also high scoring and will end in a draw. Is icc also giving demerit points to North Sound pitch?

Imam: 'When we go to Australia, they don't make pitches consulting us'
"I didn't tell the curator to make a pitch according to me. It was the same for Australia, yet we got their 10 wickets"

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on March 12, 2022, 03:31:51 AM

England are at a comfortable position 217/1. This game is now no more heading towards a draw it still can be won by the English side. They have already a lead of 153 runs and I am sure they will add 50 more runs and then declare. WI will try to draw the match but if English bowler bowl well they do have a chance on the last day.

Now we are in second session of fifth and final day of this first test match between West Indies vs England Centuries from Root and Crawly help England to manage some interest in this dead match as pitch is not helping bowlers and target of 286 in just 70 overs look very interesting in this match even most chances we are heading for a draw but still West Indies can take some chance for having lead in this series because they have few batsmen which can provide them very good position against poor England which is already without their main bowlers and now lost Mark Wood due to elbow injury in first inning of this test match.

Here start is not positive from West Indies as they are going for defence but let's watch what happen in last session as it looks very good decision from Root and England.

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India VS Sri lanka

India scored only 252 runs in the first innings. But Sri Lanka's situation is worse. They lost 6 wickets to collect only 85 runs in the third session. And most likely they will lose all their wickets in the first session of the next day. I guess we will see the result of the match in 3 days. So far, India is far ahead. But to win, the batsmen have to play well in the second innings.

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Quote from: JSRAW on March 12, 2022, 10:18:03 AM

This pitch is paradise for the spinners but seamers taking early wickets under the light is kinda -out of the syllabus- situation.

The kind of help pitch was offering to spin during first 2 session, i had no idea that Indian seamers will also have some fun on this pitch, guess bowling under the light do have some effect in India, sample size is small tho (it happens only in SENA countries). In their short spell i've already seen fair amount of outswing and inswing.

The wicket looks interesting as the pitch is helping spinners and fast bowlers and that is what is needed to see interesting matches, i did not expect this kind of match as the batsman was struggling and that is what is interesting to watch.

Quote from: JSRAW on March 12, 2022, 10:18:03 AM

BCCi should host more D/N test. Let's say 2 D/N if its 4-5 test match series (against Eng and Aus) and 1 fixed D/N when its 2-3 match series. Crowd is eccentric and have some sort of IPL vibes.

Ofc venue also matter.

Looks like the day night matches are fun to watch as everyone is throwing their bat and end up loosing wickets, Sri Lanka lost their 5 wicket and this is the third session of the first day and already 15 days lost in the day and by the speed of the match it will be over within 3 days Cheesy

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Quote from: Mahdirakib on March 12, 2022, 10:41:36 AM

The pitch of ‘Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium’ has received one demerit point from ICC: PAK vs AUS: Rawalpindi pitch given one demerit point, rated 'below average' by ICC

If i'm being honest then i think they got the sweet deal and got off easy because this is historic series but what a shame.

I remember Aus vs Ind boxing day test match. That particular pitch received a shitload amount of hate from the fans and guess 3 demerit points from the ICC, also some ban threats locally.

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