England tour of WI starts today, they will be playing 3 test matches. England is a much better team than the WI side but WI has the advantage here they have not lost against England at home in the test since 2004. Spinners will play a crucial role in this test. The team that wins the toss I think will try to bat first.
England has won the toss and elected to bat first. But they are struggling now. England has already lost their first 4 wickets before the lunch break. They need a long partnership now to get back in the match. The fast bowler of West Indies has done a great job. Still I'm not going to keep the Windies team ahead. This is just the start of the game. 
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No England player is currently playing well, especially in Tests. They lost the series to Australia. He is going to lose the test again with windis. Allready England's 4 valuable wickets have been out. Now there are 2 more batsmen, they end when they are out. I think they can both bring the game under their control.
Most probably we may see this test match ending in a draw. I know this statement looks pre-mature as we have seen only the first day of this first test match. I think that if the pakistan team played so well and managed to lose only one wicket on the first day against the best australian bowling attack, this shows the pitch is very good for batting and its hard to take 40 wickets in 5 days and therefore i would bet on a draw.
In fact, even win probability score states there is a 47% chance of a draw in this test match. Babar Azam remarked that the pitch would be good for scoring runs, after PAK chose to bat first. Pakistan's openers are batting well so far. In this batting-friendly pitch, the Australian bowling attack appears quite faded, with Nathan Lyon the only bowler to take a wicket.
If Pakistan managed to draw this test match, then I am sure it will be a good for Pakistan. Australians are considered as a better test team (of course they are big 3
). A draw for a big 3 is an insult for themselves. The so called "world best bowling attack" is only able to take only 2 wickets in 1.5 days. That's a shame for Australians and those who are afraid to play with Pakistan (India, NZ, England). Don't use the excuse of scariness for the bad performance of the Australians bowling. They are provided with the highest level of security in Paksitan. They have been given the same security protocol which is given to the prime minister of Pakistan.
The question now is when should Pakistan declare the innings? 500 or even more ? We need enough time to bowl them out in the next three days.
@umerIdrees - I have the same concern, seems like you are the right person to ask this. Why did NZ team ran away before the start of the series, I read it on internet that Pakistan PM, who himself is a cricketer went to the field himself and assured them that everything is fine even he spoke to NZ PM but they refused to play and went back. I have heard the same rumors in Aussie case, but seem like they are a bit daring to take the stand.
As per the ICC test ranking, Pakistan is positioned at 6th and Srilanka is at 7th. Both teams at the moment are playing the top 2 teams in test matches. Meanwhile, Srilanka is getting destroyed by India and Pakistan is giving a hard time to Australia. Srilankan cricket has deteriorated gravely after those legends retired. The board need to find talents as soon as possible otherwise they will fall below zimbabwe in the test ranking list and eventually fade away as test playing nation.
In current Sri Lankan team's defence, i would say we shouldn't blame them much. They have never won a single test match on Indian soil, yup that's right even likes of Vass, Murli, Sanga, Jayawardene, Desilva, JayaSurya, Ranatunga etc failed to win a single test when playing in India.Pindi's curator fucked up big time, de-merit and poor rating is about to come very soon from the ICC. I would be very surprise if it doesn't happen.
Forget about the ICC ranting, Pakistan team is nowhere near the SriLankan team. We have the ability to even against Australians and other top teams. You can see the current performance of Pakistan against Australia and see it for yourself.
The boring test match is coming to an end in a few hours. Pakistan will bat rest of the innings but what if Pakistan declare after scoring few more runs and give Australians a target of 200 runs in 20 overs
Pakistan must not and will no do this silly mistake of giving Australia a target of 200 to chase in 20 overs, Aussies loves to take on such adventures. Right now my interest is only in seeing Abdullah Shafique scoring his first test hundred, he is not out on 82 runs. Imam is also looking to score his second century of the test, he has performed well to get rid of nepotism tag placed on him.
@UmerIdrees it’ll really be exciting if Pakistan declare now and throw the challenge for Australia to chase and win it, because I feel that Australia will not take the bait and will play out for a draw. @coinism normally Australia would love to chase it, but on this track I highly doubt that they’ll go for the chase, because they’ll know that they’ll end up losing wickets quickly and probably the match too if they try too hard to chase down the target.
Just trying to find a way to keep myself and others interested in this match.
Look like Pakistani not gonna declare the innings. Now Abdullah Shafique has made 100 runs and the total is also 200+ runs without any wicket loss. Now lets break some records for the highest first wicket partnership in test matches. What is the first target if anyone knows?
The highest first-wicket partnership in any test match is between GC smith and Mckenzie back in 2008. It's impossible to break this record however every score they put on, they are going to move up in this list.
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283611.html
Forget about the ICC ranting, Pakistan team is nowhere near the SriLankan team. We have the ability to even against Australians and other top teams. You can see the current performance of Pakistan against Australia and see it for yourself.
The boring test match is coming to an end in a few hours. Pakistan will bat rest of the innings but what if Pakistan declare after scoring few more runs and give Australians a target of 200 runs in 20 overs
Pakistan must not and will no do this silly mistake of giving Australia a target of 200 to chase in 20 overs, Aussies loves to take on such adventures. Right now my interest is only in seeing Abdullah Shafique scoring his first test hundred, he is not out on 82 runs. Imam is also looking to score his second century of the test, he has performed well to get rid of nepotism tag placed on him.
@UmerIdrees it’ll really be exciting if Pakistan declare now and throw the challenge for Australia to chase and win it, because I feel that Australia will not take the bait and will play out for a draw. @coinism normally Australia would love to chase it, but on this track I highly doubt that they’ll go for the chase, because they’ll know that they’ll end up losing wickets quickly and probably the match too if they try too hard to chase down the target.
Just trying to find a way to keep myself and others interested in this match.
Look like Pakistani not gonna declare the innings. Now Abdullah Shafique has made 100 runs and the total is also 200+ runs without any wicket loss. Now lets break some records for the highest first wicket partnership in test matches. What is the first target if anyone knows?
Forget about the ICC ranting, Pakistan team is nowhere near the SriLankan team. We have the ability to even against Australians and other top teams. You can see the current performance of Pakistan against Australia and see it for yourself.
The boring test match is coming to an end in a few hours. Pakistan will bat rest of the innings but what if Pakistan declare after scoring few more runs and give Australians a target of 200 runs in 20 overs
Pakistan must not and will no do this silly mistake of giving Australia a target of 200 to chase in 20 overs, Aussies loves to take on such adventures. Right now my interest is only in seeing Abdullah Shafique scoring his first test hundred, he is not out on 82 runs. Imam is also looking to score his second century of the test, he has performed well to get rid of nepotism tag placed on him.
@UmerIdrees it’ll really be exciting if Pakistan declare now and throw the challenge for Australia to chase and win it, because I feel that Australia will not take the bait and will play out for a draw. @coinism normally Australia would love to chase it, but on this track I highly doubt that they’ll go for the chase, because they’ll know that they’ll end up losing wickets quickly and probably the match too if they try too hard to chase down the target.
Forget about the ICC ranting, Pakistan team is nowhere near the SriLankan team. We have the ability to even against Australians and other top teams. You can see the current performance of Pakistan against Australia and see it for yourself.
The boring test match is coming to an end in a few hours. Pakistan will bat rest of the innings but what if Pakistan declare after scoring few more runs and give Australians a target of 200 runs in 20 overs
Pakistan must not and will no do this silly mistake of giving Australia a target of 200 to chase in 20 overs, Aussies loves to take on such adventures. Right now my interest is only in seeing Abdullah Shafique scoring his first test hundred, he is not out on 82 runs. Imam is also looking to score his second century of the test, he has performed well to get rid of nepotism tag placed on him.
Well this test match is an easy easy draw now. We dont see these kind of matches these days as test matches dont even do go to 5th day. As we saw india vs srilanka, india winning within 3 days. And this test match not even 2 innings finished and 4 days are gone. I think I could have last for 2 more days. The pitch is really dead having nothing for the bowlers.
It is good to see Pakistan being competitive against the big-4 nations (helped by the pitch in a big way). But at the same time, teams like Sri Lanka are proving again and again that they are incapable of doing so. I don't really understand the point in allowing Sri Lanka to play test matches against a team like India. The gap is too big, to have a meaningful competition. And after the retirement of star players like Muralitharan, Jayasuriya, Malinga and Sangakkara, Sri Lanka is struggling even against weak teams like Scotland and Oman.
As per the ICC test ranking, Pakistan is positioned at 6th and Srilanka is at 7th. Both teams at the moment are playing the top 2 teams in test matches. Meanwhile, Srilanka is getting destroyed by India and Pakistan is giving a hard time to Australia. Srilankan cricket has deteriorated gravely after those legends retired. The board need to find talents as soon as possible otherwise they will fall below zimbabwe in the test ranking list and eventually fade away as test playing nation.
Forget about the ICC ranting, Pakistan team is nowhere near the SriLankan team. We have the ability to even against Australians and other top teams. You can see the current performance of Pakistan against Australia and see it for yourself.
The boring test match is coming to an end in a few hours. Pakistan will bat rest of the innings but what if Pakistan declare after scoring few more runs and give Australians a target of 200 runs in 20 overs
West Indies VS England
England tour of WI starts today, they will be playing 3 test matches. England is a much better team than the WI side but WI has the advantage here they have not lost against England at home in the test since 2004. Spinners will play a crucial role in this test. The team that wins the toss I think will try to bat first.
England tour of WI starts today, they will be playing 3 test matches. England is a much better team than the WI side but WI has the advantage here they have not lost against England at home in the test since 2004. Spinners will play a crucial role in this test. The team that wins the toss I think will try to bat first.
Today last day of first test match, and we have nothing special just few peoples waiting for Imam can do second century in his second inning because due to very slow wicket we have only 14 outs in five days, and it's very poor from current test cricket standard they require some better and supportive wickets for next matches which help Pakistani batsmen for better preparation for Australia and England tours as well.
Its a historic day for PCB and cricket in Pakistan that Australia is completing its first test today at Rawalpindi, it took 24 years for Aussies to return back to Pakistan. For Pakistan its a win-win situation, first they are going to draw a match against worlds best test team and secondly its a revival of international cricket in Pakistan.
Good chance for Abdullah Shafique to score its maiden test hundred and that too against Australia.
It is good to see Pakistan being competitive against the big-4 nations (helped by the pitch in a big way). But at the same time, teams like Sri Lanka are proving again and again that they are incapable of doing so. I don't really understand the point in allowing Sri Lanka to play test matches against a team like India. The gap is too big, to have a meaningful competition. And after the retirement of star players like Muralitharan, Jayasuriya, Malinga and Sangakkara, Sri Lanka is struggling even against weak teams like Scotland and Oman.
Muralitharan and Jayasuriya left quite early and after there departure responsibility was taken over by Manling, Dilshan, Sangakkara and Jayawardene. The real damage was done when the later 4 left SL at the same time and its SL board fault that they have not prepared replacement of these 4.
Batting and Bowling practice continuous at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium where 5th day play is in progress b/w Pak and Aus. Nauman Ali will be happy guy as he has his BBI performance 6/107.
As per the ICC test ranking, Pakistan is positioned at 6th and Srilanka is at 7th. Both teams at the moment are playing the top 2 teams in test matches. Meanwhile, Srilanka is getting destroyed by India and Pakistan is giving a hard time to Australia. Srilankan cricket has deteriorated gravely after those legends retired. The board need to find talents as soon as possible otherwise they will fall below zimbabwe in the test ranking list and eventually fade away as test playing nation.
Sometime rating not justified all things but still I am really disappointed with Sri Lankan way they lost against India, and they are playing cricket in last few months because once I was sure about them that Sri Lanka could be very competitive team in this game, and we will have some good number of exciting players, but sadly they fail due to their domestic issues and corruption in SLCB. After retirement of few legendary players now they are facing big dilemma and having not suitable replacement which is hurting them and most chances they could be also gone more down like West Indies if they not settle things in positive way.For Pakistan, they are unpredictable for many years and having some exciting players in their team which helps them for having good fight against top ranked teams even they are also not good in SENA countries but still better than Sri Lanka.
Well this test match is an easy easy draw now. We dont see these kind of matches these days as test matches dont even do go to 5th day. As we saw india vs srilanka, india winning within 3 days. And this test match not even 2 innings finished and 4 days are gone. I think I could have last for 2 more days. The pitch is really dead having nothing for the bowlers.
It is good to see Pakistan being competitive against the big-4 nations (helped by the pitch in a big way). But at the same time, teams like Sri Lanka are proving again and again that they are incapable of doing so. I don't really understand the point in allowing Sri Lanka to play test matches against a team like India. The gap is too big, to have a meaningful competition. And after the retirement of star players like Muralitharan, Jayasuriya, Malinga and Sangakkara, Sri Lanka is struggling even against weak teams like Scotland and Oman.
As per the ICC test ranking, Pakistan is positioned at 6th and Srilanka is at 7th. Both teams at the moment are playing the top 2 teams in test matches. Meanwhile, Srilanka is getting destroyed by India and Pakistan is giving a hard time to Australia. Srilankan cricket has deteriorated gravely after those legends retired. The board need to find talents as soon as possible otherwise they will fall below zimbabwe in the test ranking list and eventually fade away as test playing nation.
Well this test match is an easy easy draw now. We dont see these kind of matches these days as test matches dont even do go to 5th day. As we saw india vs srilanka, india winning within 3 days. And this test match not even 2 innings finished and 4 days are gone. I think I could have last for 2 more days. The pitch is really dead having nothing for the bowlers.
It is good to see Pakistan being competitive against the big-4 nations (helped by the pitch in a big way). But at the same time, teams like Sri Lanka are proving again and again that they are incapable of doing so. I don't really understand the point in allowing Sri Lanka to play test matches against a team like India. The gap is too big, to have a meaningful competition. And after the retirement of star players like Muralitharan, Jayasuriya, Malinga and Sangakkara, Sri Lanka is struggling even against weak teams like Scotland and Oman.
this test match is an easy easy draw now. We dont see these kind of matches these days as test matches dont even do go to 5th day. As we saw india vs srilanka, india winning within 3 days. And this test match not even 2 innings finished and 4 days are gone. I think I could have last for 2 more days. The pitch is really dead having nothing for the bowlers.
After first day of play things were all clear how they are going to do so it's surely not good from home side they need to change things for some interest of fans and spirit of game because with these tactics they are not going to have any positive lesson from this historic tour. We are already having nothing positive in fifth day of play so tomorrow mostly we will watch empty stadium and useless play it's going to be bore start of good series now all eyes on Karachi which is usually a batting track, but now we can home some better things can happen after this disappointed match and start of series from PCB.With now, they have all players available for second test, surely they can take some good risk with entry of Hassan Ali and Faheem Ashraf as both done good in last few matches for Pakistan.
Day 4. Stamps in Rawalpindi. 449/7, Aus trail by 27 runs.
Pakistan got five wickets in the day but with good RR Australia managed to put a decent total, they need another 27 runs left away. 11 wickets falling over 4 days is not a good advertisement of modern day test cricket. Hopefully, the upcoming matches in Karachi and Lahore pitches will be more result oriented. To be honest, It's really discouraging to see such level wickets for test cricket. Let' see whether Australia can bowled out Pakistan tomorrow which will bring the fight for sure.
Pakistan is unpredictable team from day one but not upto that extent that they can lose such test match. There are 925 runs scored so far and just 11 wikcets fallen. Its a good test match for Nauman Ali who has picked up 4 wikcets on such dead track and that too of Australia top order.
'Dead, benign' - Smith's assessment of Rawalpindi pitch
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There is nothing interesting in the test match between Australia and Pakistan. If you want to see some quality batting performance by the top quality players from both teams, then you may enjoy this test match. Most people like me want to see results in the test match and unfortunately, we may see no result after the end of 5 days. Both teams had a good batting practice which may help them in coming tests.
Absolute road... so for batters its like stat padding and have some match practice. Usually Pindi's pitch are green top, not sure why curators opted for dead pitch. May be they were gunning for complete 5 day quota for historic test match.There is nothing interesting in the test match between Australia and Pakistan. If you want to see some quality batting performance by the top quality players from both teams, then you may enjoy this test match. Most people like me want to see results in the test match and unfortunately, we may see no result after the end of 5 days. Both teams had a good batting practice which may help them in coming tests.
We need 1 epic collapse in this match, looks tough but that's a only hope left.
Yeah, we can hope but I don't think it's going to happen because only one day of play left and the first innings of Australia have not even ended. Not going to get a result out of this test match without a draw for sure.
Day 4. Stamps in Rawalpindi. 449/7, Aus trail by 27 runs.
Pakistan got five wickets in the day but with good RR Australia managed to put a decent total, they need another 27 runs left away. 11 wickets falling over 4 days is not a good advertisement of modern day test cricket. Hopefully, the upcoming matches in Karachi and Lahore pitches will be more result oriented. To be honest, It's really discouraging to see such level wickets for test cricket. Let' see whether Australia can bowled out Pakistan tomorrow which will bring the fight for sure.
Pakistan is unpredictable team from day one but not upto that extent that they can lose such test match. There are 925 runs scored so far and just 11 wikcets fallen. Its a good test match for Nauman Ali who has picked up 4 wikcets on such dead track and that too of Australia top order.
'Dead, benign' - Smith's assessment of Rawalpindi pitch
For Australia, this might be just another series or country they are touring but for Pakistan, this definitely is a higher pressure series. If they win it not only will they prove their strength as a good test team, other countries too might reconsider the idea of touring Pakistan in the future. A big thing to see will also be the viewership this match gets. An international match after so long for Pakistanis at their home soil. Playing the spin would be the most difficult task for Australia tomorrow obviously. They also will definitely play with 2 full time spinners.
Australia is only touring Pakistan because of there strength as a strong cricketing team. If Pakistan manage to dominate this tour then surely rest of the cricket teams will also tour Pakistan. England and New Zealand are scheduled to tour Pakistan later this year. Pakistan is a safe bet in ODI and T20 but slightly sloppy in Test. Let's see how things went tomorrow.
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