Dont forget that mcgrath made a 50 againts new zealand,Even though sami is much more younger then mcgrath but mcgrath beat him by one run heheShahid_afridi said:whenever i think of sami i think of him bowling sourav ganguly around the legs with a great cutter(i think it was in the champions trophy last year)...
he can also bat.he made a good 49 against india in a test match last year.
Why just Laxman? Even Dravid, Ganguly and Sachin have had an average last season by their usual yardsticks. Someone please don't tell me, that Sachin averages healthily last season, because he was the most inconsistant of all India bats. If you remove those 2 big 200s and 194 [all 3 innings not out], his consistancy was absolute pits with 17 single digit scores in 26 innings!!! Remove those 3 N.O. big hundreds and his average would be well below Laxman's! I don't think the last 3 tests in Pakistan gave Laxman enough scoring opportunities. In the first test, Sehwag's 309 and Sachin's 194*, ensured India of a very big lead. By the time Laxman came in he had to play fast till declaration and not much one can do in such circumstances except hit out and get out. In the second test everyone except Yuvraj and Sehwag failed and after being in sublime form for 2 years running, Laxman was bound for his turn at failure. In the last test he scored a healthy 77 at number 5, in the only innings India played. Laxman looked like getting back into form in his last Australian innings, where everybody except he and Sachin failed on a highly treacherous Wankhede track!shoot_me said:
Big deal! Even Venkatesh Prasad made a great aggressive 45 on a swinging pitch once.cricket player said:
Dont forget that mcgrath made a 50 againts new zealand,Even though sami is much more younger then mcgrath but mcgrath beat him by one run hehe
imranrabb said:
Rana, Daniesh, Sami plus two all rounders (most likely) are good enough to bowl the Indian out twice on current form. It will be allot closer then u might think, else so India win probably still win 2-1.vandemataram said:
chaminda_00 said:
That's a terrible news for Pakistan, i'm not sure what Woolmer is upto (as i read that Woolmer gave the list of 16 players he wanted for Indian tour to PCB). This Squad seems very unbalanced and inexperiancefor such a hard tour.PAKMAN said:
So you think they would go for 2 allrounders? This would mean Razzak and Afridi in the test squad with no place for Asim Kamal!! Asim Kamal is a batsman that should be given a long run in Pak side, he has done very well at number sixth slot and if he's dropped again for some bits and pieces player then Pak think tank must be crazy.chaminda_00 said:
adharcric said:
Asim Kamal is a pretty good batsman, but I don't know if 4 bowlers will be enough for Pakistan (Kaneria, Naved, Sami, Razzaq), especially considering only one of them is a spinner (spinners tend to be able to bowl more overs then seamers, i think). So if Arshad Khan is preferred to Razzaq, I would go with Asim Kamal. Basically, Kamal/Arshad or Afridi/Razzaq.Choora said: