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[The_Bird]

I couldn't believe they dropped Asad Shafiq, he looks a very classy bat. Pak need to move on from Taufeeq and Farhat don't you think??

[basket case]

This one day series is a battle between to journeymen(using boxing terms). Pakistan's mediocre batting is making England look a decent ODI side, unfortunately they aren't. Just look at the 5-0 drubbing they received in India. England will remain a poor ODI side until they can get scores closer to 280+ regularly. If this series was against India or Sri Lanka scores of 250-260 would result in an easy run chase.

[johnnyw]

England are carrying too many passengers at the moment. The following changes are needed I think

Bairstow in for Pietersen
Buttler in for Morgan
Bresnan in for Anderson

[Buzz]

yup drop our three most talented players. really good plan.

[junter97]

England are carrying too many passengers at the moment. The following changes are needed I think

Bairstow in for Pietersen
Buttler in for Morgan
Bresnan in for Anderson

Are you serious? All Pietersen needs is to be down the order. Make Kieswetter open with Cook. Keep Anderson as well, one of the best bowlers in the world.

[Nickauger]

Are you serious? All Pietersen needs is to be down the order. Make Kieswetter open with Cook. Keep Anderson as well, one of the best bowlers in the world.

So what you're essentially saying is let kieswetter take the hit, fail at opening and get dropped? He has had one(?) good innings opening. Pietersen should be there and wants to  be there.

[johnnyw]

Pietersen is opening to get England off to a good start. 14 off 36 and 26 off 46 is not exactly what England have wanted.

Morgan has been in poor form for a while now and needs to go back to the county scene for a while and get his form back like Bell did not so long ago

Maybe being abit harsh on Anderson but he has never been great in the sub continent with the white ball and I think Bresnan is a better like for like bowler in these conditions

[Cover_Drive]

I couldn't believe they dropped Asad Shafiq, he looks a very classy bat. Pak need to move on from Taufeeq and Farhat don't you think??

Definitely, add Shoaib Malik as well

[Kaz092]

Pak need to sort there batting out big time apart from Younis Khan no one seems like scoring the tons required just look at the difference Cook's ton's made

Lets be honest Hafeez, Farhat, Azhar Ali, Misbah ul haq aren't really gonna send shivers down the oppos back

Umar Akmal needs to be higher in the order, guy cant keep so why bother, pick his brother Kamran he can open and keep done it in the past and well especially against Eng from what I remember

What happened to Ahmed Shehzad the guy had amazing talent just needed a run did well in New zealand had a poor world cup and dropped

Farhat only in the team because his father in law is ON the selection committee cant field either yet alone bat with his one cover drive here and there

Asad shafiq did well batting lower down the order probably needs to return there

Cant be bothered with starting on the tail lol

Plus Shoaib malik is finished now not the player he was after he lost the captaincy and got married should stick to tennis

Rehman stick to tests against Eng in sub cont conditions

Bowlers haven't had world class seamers since Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib

You could add Amir and asif to that list but we know what happened to them

Is Gul really up to the mark ??

Cheema too predictable and old

Junaid Khan no confidence being in out the team

Wahab Riaz my clubs u-9s bowl better well with better direction anyone

Pak will beat the likes of WI, SRI LANKA, BANGLADESH, ZIMABABWE and maybe now and then INDIA

But can they really compete with AUS, SA AND ENG not for a while in my opinion

Apologies for Rant bit early in the morn

Hope Eng win 4-0 got good odds at the bookies lol

[legger123]

I once saw Fawad Alam play for a Pakistan XI down Taunton, looked a very good player and the ton I believe he scored a very good ton. He used to be in and around the setup of the Pakistan One Day Squad, can some tell me what happened with him?

Like I said I thought he looked a very good player and a huge prospect for the ODI Team of Pakistan.

[Cover_Drive]

Pak need to sort there batting out big time apart from Younis Khan no one seems like scoring the tons required just look at the difference Cook's ton's made

Lets be honest Hafeez, Farhat, Azhar Ali, Misbah ul haq aren't really gonna send shivers down the oppos back

Umar Akmal needs to be higher in the order, guy cant keep so why bother, pick his brother Kamran he can open and keep done it in the past and well especially against Eng from what I remember

What happened to Ahmed Shehzad the guy had amazing talent just needed a run did well in New zealand had a poor world cup and dropped

Farhat only in the team because his father in law is ON the selection committee cant field either yet alone bat with his one cover drive here and there

Asad shafiq did well batting lower down the order probably needs to return there

Cant be bothered with starting on the tail lol

Plus Shoaib malik is finished now not the player he was after he lost the captaincy and got married should stick to tennis

Rehman stick to tests against Eng in sub cont conditions

Bowlers haven't had world class seamers since Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib

You could add Amir and asif to that list but we know what happened to them

Is Gul really up to the mark ??

Cheema too predictable and old

Junaid Khan no confidence being in out the team

Wahab Riaz my clubs u-9s bowl better well with better direction anyone

Pak will beat the likes of WI, SRI LANKA, BANGLADESH, ZIMABABWE and maybe now and then INDIA

But can they really compete with AUS, SA AND ENG not for a while in my opinion

Apologies for Rant bit early in the morn

Hope Eng win 4-0 got good odds at the bookies lol

Ahmed Shahzad is a very good prospect but his attitude is what keeps him out of the side. His performances are good but his attitude is keeping him out of side.

Nasir Jamshed is another opener, he is left hander and he is quite good player! has solid technique and bats well, has been scoring loads of runs in BPL. He should be opener in ODI and even test matches.

Asad Shafiq is a very good player of number three and management should just stick with him at number 3. In ODIs Asad won't work well down the order.

Junaid Khan is a good bowler, again if they keep on playing him he will turn out to be a good bowler.

Hammad Azam is a good all rounder, he should be in the team.

Last but not least they need to play a specialist keeper!!

[Kaz092]

Ahmed Shahzad is a very good prospect but his attitude is what keeps him out of the side. His performances are good but his attitude is keeping him out of side.

Nasir Jamshed is another opener, he is left hander and he is quite good player! has solid technique and bats well, has been scoring loads of runs in BPL. He should be opener in ODI and even test matches.

Asad Shafiq is a very good player of number three and management should just stick with him at number 3. In ODIs Asad won't work well down the order.

Junaid Khan is a good bowler, again if they keep on playing him he will turn out to be a good bowler.

Hammad Azam is a good all rounder, he should be in the team.

Last but not least they need to play a specialist keeper!!

So if Pak have all this talent then why not play them look at the strike rates of Farhat, Azhar Ali, Misbah and to a certain extent Younis Khan cant leave it all to Umar Akmal and Afridi all the time

Pak do really well in T20 cricket so why the batting flop in ODI's

Like I said in that order how many ODI hundreds are they ??

[legger123]

BRING BACK INZI

[Kaz092]

BRING BACK INZI

Since we are bringing back players Mohammad Yousuf would probably walk into most teams

[Cover_Drive]

So if Pak have all this talent then why not play them look at the strike rates of Farhat, Azhar Ali, Misbah and to a certain extent Younis Khan cant leave it all to Umar Akmal and Afridi all the time

Pak do really well in T20 cricket so why the batting flop in ODI's

Like I said in that order how many ODI hundreds are they ??

Farhat and Malik are cancer for Pakistan team!

Misbah is slow and not good but then who will you make captain? Younis won't take captacincy.

YK has 6 and apart from that one or two guys have 1-2 or 3 centuries.

Misbah averages over 40s and has more than 2500 runs but don't have any century yet.