Bouncer
State Regular
Nope...Harbhajan telling NZ customs officers "We do not do this to you - When you come to India" was the weirdest start to a tour as it happened on the airport.
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***Official*** Pakistan in New Zealand 2015
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Nope...Harbhajan telling NZ customs officers "We do not do this to you - When you come to India" was the weirdest start to a tour as it happened on the airport.
Gnske
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Harbie is a gentleman
BigBrother
U19 12th Man
I think it's not a stretch to say Pakistan feels a worse ODI side than WI.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Hmmm...nah. Now that WI have lost Bravo, Pollard and Narine they're seriously short on quality. Pakistan aren't great either but I'd say they have more international standard players across the board.
Jezroy
State Captain
Funny how a couple of years ago I thought the feeling was group B was the much tougher group - SA, Pak, Ind, WI, plus much tougher minnows in Zim and Ire. Group A seemed to be the "easy" group - Aus, Eng, and SL - then Bangers and NZ (who were ranked 9th at the time and quite poor). Now I think 3 of the semi finalists will come from Group A.
Pakistan and WI to me are on a pretty similar level. Not as consistent as some of the other teams, but with the odd individual who can make the difference (eg. Gayle/Samuels/Afridi/Sarfraz etc).
bahadurhussain
Banned
Possibly Umar Akmal
I believe he might have seen Umar Akmal in his new haircut, or it could have been a prank but this is some next level strange thing to hear.
Greetings to all. I just signed off in the SL thread. It was a good series so now let's see how we get on against Pakistan.
One difference we'll face when playing Pakistan will be their hitters. SL have a number of stroke makers in their top order but no real big hitters in their middle/lower order. Pakistan has the likes of Afridi, Akmal and Misbah who can slog the ball a long way when they need to. We'll need to find a way to contend with these guys.
One difference we'll face when playing Pakistan will be their hitters. SL have a number of stroke makers in their top order but no real big hitters in their middle/lower order. Pakistan has the likes of Afridi, Akmal and Misbah who can slog the ball a long way when they need to. We'll need to find a way to contend with these guys.
Mike5181
International Captain
Brownlie would go all right, especially in these conditions. Can't do anything with the squad locked in already though.
GGG
State Captain
Well no, unless someone gets injured. The rules to me seam crazy, it is suppose to be your best team so you should be allowed to make as many changes as you wish.
jcas0167
International Debutant
I suspect that might give home teams an unfair advantage?
I wouldn't worry about Guptill too much, he apparently looked pretty good in his 66 not out at Eden Park before the rain came. He was also in good domestic form beforehand. Before the 92 World Cup apart from Rutherford, the batsmen didn't really have much form going into it. Greatbatch in particular was woefully out of form. I think Guptill will be fine.
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Athlai
Not Terrible
Rubbish, it wasn't the most fluent innings in the world but after the first 20 or so balls it was a perfectly fine Guptill innings.
Athlai
Not Terrible
The idea that you have to rotate the strike as fluently as Sangakkara or Williamson to play an effective ODI innings is erroneous. He was picking runs off his legs and hitting the occasional gap. That is what Guptill does.
He also didn't get bogged down at the start of his innings like he has been in the last year.
He also didn't get bogged down at the start of his innings like he has been in the last year.