2nd ODI Australia v Pakistan, November 8 1400hrs @ Adelaide Oval

[NYRB]

At least the Australian batting gave me some laughs. Rizwan asking Zampa if he should take the review.

 

[Westend]

Will not make it

No desire to listen or learn

No need when you’ve got all these sycophants blowing smoke up their arses

still time

 

[dumb]

The proliferation of T20 cricket is supposed to make the test batting shit, not ODI batting

 

[NYRB]

I'll never complain about Head or Marsh again

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Yep us Aussie fans took it a bit for granted getting off to those good starts eg 70/1 , 80/2 inside those 10 over powerplays along with David Warner.

The reality is, even the top players dont really care about ODIs outside the World Cup, and possibly the Champions Trophy coming up. England showed how bad they were recently in the 1-2 series lost playing virtually a 2nd string side against Windies. People I have heard , said that 50 over cricket could be pushed aside with the pop-up T20 leagues coming up now. One of the three forms of cricket (ODI, Test , T20) has to suffer as a result, I think we are seeing it now. Players attitude, availability all to see.

Pakistan will have to fancy their chances if its an alive rubber now, and given how much T20 is played these days, they will fancy themselves more in the T20 series against Australia.

 

[hawkman]

Carey would have been helpful too, one of the few Aussie batsmen that bats with a brain.

Except when he is facing spin

 

[NYRB]

Criminal not to be batting 50 overs in an ODI game. Crime by execution to be batting only 35 overs on an Adelaide Oval wicket.

Carey would have been helpful too, one of the few Aussie batsmen that bats with a brain.

Speaking of Carey, why isnt he in this squad or even team? Remember he was on a heater in England in September this year.

 

[rdhopkins2]

I didn’t see it as I was at work but that was a poor batting performance by the sounds of it.

 

[Tugga27]

Criminal not to be batting 50 overs in an ODI game. Crime by execution to be batting only 35 overs on an Adelaide Oval wicket.

Speaking of Carey, why isnt he in this squad or even team? Remember he was on a heater in England in September this year.

Because Inglis has taken over from Wade.

Carey was taking over from an injured Inglis.

 

[PhatBoy]

Michael Vaughan agreeing with me, they were his top 3 Pakistan cricketers too.

Wasim Akram would have agreed with me but he couldn't include himself, he went with Waqar Younis instead.

Younis Khan for me over Javed mostly because I saw f**k all of Javed.

Perhaps the most underrated of the modern greats is Younis.

10k test runs, 34 hundreds, averaged 52, converted his half-centuries at better than 50 per cent, averaged at least 43 in every country he played in aside from South Africa (33) where he still managed a century against Steyn Philander, Morkel and Kallis coming in at 4-23 at Newlands, and perhaps bizarrely the West Indies where he averaged only 23.

He averaged 43 in NZ, 45 in SL, and over 50 everywhere else.

Really really good cricketer and very tough.

 

[hawkman]

Pie shop open

 

[Moonwatcher]

At 4 runs per over it will take 40 overs. Pakistan keeping us in the game.

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[Moonwatcher]

Worth the throw

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[Carbine Chaos]

Worth the throw

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For sure, maybe don't miss it by 5m to allow the fielder backing up to stop it though.

 

[por_please_ya]

Lol that was hilarious

 

[StillAtLarge]

Mohammad Yousuf (3)
Saeed Anwar (2)
Wasim Akram (1)

Waqar was a bit hobbled and Miandad + Imran were long retired. I rate Akram as the best bowler I've ever seen, he made the ball talk

 

[010203]

Andy Maher commentating on sen. **** me.

 

[PhatBoy]

Mohammad Yousuf (3)
Saeed Anwar (2)
Wasim Akram (1)

Waqar was a bit hobbled and Miandad + Imran were long retired. I rate Akram as the best bowler I've ever seen, he made the ball talk

Anwar was beautiful

 

[royboy2]

Andy Maher commentating on sen. **** me.

Could be worse, could be David Warner

 

[StillAtLarge]

Shot of the day that

 

[por_please_ya]

We are royally fked right now hahahaha

 

[por_please_ya]

I reckon we already had 4 out by this point.

 

[Borisdog]

Carey would have been helpful too, one of the few Aussie batsmen that bats with a brain.

Alex Carey?

You're joking, right?

 

[Cleavy]

The reality is, even the top players dont really care about ODIs outside the World Cup, and possibly the Champions Trophy coming up. England showed how bad they were recently in the 1-2 series lost playing virtually a 2nd string side against Windies. People I have heard , said that 50 over cricket could be pushed aside with the pop-up T20 leagues coming up now. One of the three forms of cricket (ODI, Test , T20) has to suffer as a result, I think we are seeing it now. Players attitude, availability all to see.

Does anyone really give a toss about the Champions Trophy?

 

[PhatBoy]

Zaheer Abbas was considered the Pakistan batting kingpin in the early 80s when I first saw Pakistan touring here.

He wasn't that impressive but it was the tailend of his career, the main thing I remember about him was that he wore glasses.

You didn't see many batsmen batting with glasses, Dirk Wellham was another one and Bob Hawke, I can't think of many others.

Imam Ul Haq literally spent last summer wearing them out here

I know you, like me, might not have been old enough to watch him, but there was quite a large West Indian captain who sported them too

Edit: oh, and the second best all rounder you’ve had since Richard Hadlee/best spinner your beloved team ever had might ring a bell too

 

[Cleavy]

see, we dropped Abbott and everything went to crap