tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post4165788720041240078..comments2024-03-27T16:15:30.783+07:00Comments on Supporting Captain Misbah's Team Pakistan: Kamran Must GoAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10913294475730240925noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-26830612395180119572011-03-10T01:00:02.778+07:002011-03-10T01:00:02.778+07:00TJ
Totally agree on Kamran Akmal. Enough is enoug...TJ<br /><br />Totally agree on Kamran Akmal. Enough is enough. How bad does a keeper simply have to be before he can be removed? <br /><br />Razzaq's role needs to be defined properly and they need to maximise his effectiveness and involvement with the bat otherwise it is virtually pointless even having him in the starting line up. They need to utilise his batting strengths and wants as opposed to treating him like dirt.<br /><br />You make a very good point in regards to Afridi's lack of animation and interaction when the bowlers were being dispatched. He was just standing there watching and following the flow of the game.<br /><br />Also, thanks for notifying Wasim.Abdullahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17788388194637445444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-56014207861509221802011-03-10T00:24:21.759+07:002011-03-10T00:24:21.759+07:00@Maaz
Actually I kept on visiting your old site u...@Maaz<br /><br />Actually I kept on visiting your old site until stani told me about your new blog. Congratulations and hopefully it will be a success I will update your link in my blog roll my current theme doesn not have a blog roll but very soon I will revert back to my old theme and will update the blog roll.<br /><br />I think that the move to bowl Rahman wasn't out of the box but was Bhair chaal. I can give the management the margin that they did it as a trial for the preperation of Quarter finals or the Indian wickets they should have done it in the warm up matches or against the weaker teams, on a seaming track against a good team we should not have done it.<br />And even if they used Rahman upfornt I believe they should have used some of his overs in the middle over to save some overs of Afridi and Gul for death.<br /><br />I hope Afridi will learn from this experiment and this match won't be so damaging in the long run. Because I fear Afridi loses confidence in players very quickly remember since Ajmal got a mauling from Hussey we have turned him from a first choice spinner to a bench player.<br /><br />As regards Akmal only Acsu or ICC can help us in getting rid of him as PCB keeps on bringing him back.Wasimhttp://www.cricketfiles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-37562776878243961462011-03-09T23:44:59.890+07:002011-03-09T23:44:59.890+07:00Thanks for your visit Wasim. Yes, I decided to joi...Thanks for your visit Wasim. Yes, I decided to join forces and change location as my articles and posts were successfully being posted by a platform called PCT and they are looking for articles written by bloggers to be published on their site. A couple of the bloggers over there including me jointly agreed that we should make a blog together as well as contributing on the main official forum and platform which plans to be a big hit having attracted a 150K fan base on fb and received many hits and reads. We are willing to put up any threads or posts which have been written of good quality on the main website and we can link them to your blog too. For example Q from Well Pitched is writing at the site as well, but this blog is here to stay as well and is really closely connected to the main website. So basically I decided to move on to on to bigger and better things. I must have forgotten to notify you in the process, but it’s nice to see you sharing your analysis here now.<br /><br />In regards to your comments, we often are very critical for the defensive and poor decision making of Afridi as captain and rightly so as he is a mediocre captain generally speaking and in many ways is holding back our chances of being as good as we actually can be and playing under full strength conditions. He is no great thoughtful strategist or tactical expert like Misbah, Younis or even Malik for example who can control proceedings and extract the best out of the players. He is just the so called talisman. Yesterday, his captaincy was shocking, but the actual move of appointing Rehman to open the bowling was “out of the box” thinking. New Zealand are vulnerable to spin and there has been a lot of pressure not to open proceedings with Razzaq. Therefore, this particular decision was praiseworthy and in fact worked out. However, I totally disapprove of Razzaq and Rehman bowling at the death stages. It was asking for trouble. Rehman should have bowled in the middle too, not at the end, otherwise it would have worked out perfectly overall. Also, we are playing a bowler short. Wahab should be in the starting line up and he can be excellent at the death with his reverse swing, variations and ability to bowl quick and steamy, but the team management think tanks feel otherwise and are showing a more defensive and concerned mindset. <br /><br />I agree that despite the comical keeping display the execution and captaincy at the death was extremely poor, however we cannot deny the damage Kamran has done. Had he held on to the chances, the situation could have become a whole lot easier and simpler in the first place and of course this is nothing new to us. His keeping is morale shattering. Of course as we all know he has the most important fielding position and presence and we cannot underestimate the significance his costly misses bring both statistically from a match situation and mentally from a bowling perspective which is undisputedly infuriating. Akhtar produced 2 absolute snorting delivers outside the off stump channel and had Taylor feeling for the ball only to be let down by a well regarded architect in the infighting and spot fixing sagas.Abdullahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17788388194637445444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-63193080304758786542011-03-09T23:15:20.732+07:002011-03-09T23:15:20.732+07:00What I dont understand is why they continue to pic...What I dont understand is why they continue to pick Akmal? His mistakes are obvious. Any player in any other team would not have a international career by now.<br /><br />As regards the end of the game...Afridi should have taken the bowlers to one side when Taylor started as they clearly stopped thinking and got caught up in the Taylor blitz so ended up giving him easy balls to hit. A captain needs to recognise situations like that quickly and get in there rather than stand in disbelief. Some of them balls were a joke. Usually he's talking to the bowler every ball but then he disappeared.<br /><br />The Rehman move was good, but after Akhtar's two overs, Afridi should have seen the ball seaming and pulled Rehman out and told Gul to warm up leaving Rehman with just the one over. I think that was where the mistake was. On a different track, there is nothing wrong with opening with Rehman as other teams have done so with their spinners and got success. Maybe Razzaq's trash bowling has forced the captain to look elsewhere and open with Rehman. It was certainly why Afridi went with Shoaib and Rehman rather than Razzaq at the end. I just think Razzaq is causing a lot of issues at the moment.<br /><br />Also, I still think we're a bowler light. Had Wahab been in the side, the opening with Rehman would thus not have had a consequence come the latter overs because we would have had another option. The selection is too concentrated on our batting and our bowling options are suffering as a result.TJ for Stani Armyhttp://www.staniarmy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-25444631313626997172011-03-09T07:53:31.202+07:002011-03-09T07:53:31.202+07:00@Maaz
You never told me you joined a new blog.Any...@Maaz<br /><br />You never told me you joined a new blog.Anyways congratulations on you new blog looks nice.<br /><br />As regards todays match man we gave the match away as a birthday gift to Taylor. Iam not sure if he played superbly or our bowlers bowled garbage in the end. The ball was moving around in both innings and Shoaib and Razzaq took the wicket out of equation and just made sure that they bowl full tosses.<br /><br />You said" Opening with Rehman was a creative and innovative move from the skipper. The SLA bowled economically and the experiment proved to be a revelation with only 14 being conceded from his 5 overs in his opening spell during the PP overs! Credit must be given here for the surprise tactics and successful execution." <br /><br />I disagree with you yaar on this one, it was a very poor move and I think it was the biggest reason due to which we lost the match.<br />On a seaming track what was the logic behind opening the bowling with Rahman?<br /><br />Yes Rahman was economical but if you take into account all the other problems which stemmed from this decision only then you will realize that how damaging this decision was.<br /><br />Every single bowler was given a role which was unfamiliar to him and didn't suited his abilities.<br />Rahman bowled upfront and at death which he has never done before, Razzaq who could have been more effective upfront with the new ball was given the ball in the 11th over and then later at death usually when we do good Afridi very quickly gets rid of the overs of Razzaq and Hafeez. <br /><br />Despite the dropped catches we lost the match after the 45th over and that happened only because the bowlers who bowled the last 5 overs were not used to bowl at death and Rahman and Razzaq were totally not equipped to bowl at death. <br />If Afridi had followed the usual bowling order he would have used Rahman in the middle overs and would have used Gul at death.<br /><br />Just because every bowler was given an unfamiliar role and we lost the opportunity to cause early damage by not attacking from both ends NZ in the end were able to launch an attack ofcourse our bowlers helped them in making the score they eventually did but overall it was a poor decision of Afridi.Wasimhttp://www.cricketfiles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-12484558914340236142011-03-09T04:57:52.790+07:002011-03-09T04:57:52.790+07:00“Yeah, the luck came early on. Perhaps, I owe a tr...“Yeah, the luck came early on. Perhaps, I owe a treat to Kamran (Akmal) and I think I should take him out for a dinner and give whatever he likes. This has been the slice of luck I have been searching for the last few months and today it came my way,” Taylor said on Tuesday.Abdullahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17788388194637445444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888557122708765993.post-82059190370036222752011-03-09T02:55:00.669+07:002011-03-09T02:55:00.669+07:00He is the biggest SOB. Deserves to be shot as he h...He is the biggest SOB. Deserves to be shot as he had too many chances now! After Karachi century against India, I thought we finally got a fighting wicket keeper who can bat but he is a fixer and deserved to be treated worse than the spot-fixing trio!Kallerzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673085500910557510noreply@blogger.com