[Match Thread] Zimbabwe v Pakistan (Only Test)

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Another to Price.

Pakistan all out for 466, a 54 run lead. So that will be the first milestone, the openers have to get at least 54 to ensure we erase that deficit. Then just bat for as long as possible.

What concerns me is how quickly Zimbabwe ripped through Bangladesh on day 4 and 5 in the Harare Test. That pitch was more lively, but Pakistan have Ajmal...

[FlowerPower]

Another to Price.

Pakistan all out for 466, a 54 run lead. So that will be the first milestone, the openers have to get at least 54 to ensure we erase that deficit. Then just bat for as long as possible.

What concerns me is how quickly Zimbabwe ripped through Bangladesh on day 4 and 5 in the Harare Test. That pitch was more lively, but Pakistan have Ajmal...

The idea will be to be in survival mode. So batsmen should go out with the carrot of make a hundred, even at a SR of 20, dont take any risk, dont play anything that doesnt need to be played, take your time...I know it sounds negative, but this is also part of the game, if you cant win it, dont lose it. In this respect I believe we seem to be better than the Bangladeshi, for whom everything must be hit!.....I see Vusi isnt listening to me!...I mean the guy is trying to pull in the very first over.....eish!!!

[brmtaylor.com admin]

I absolutely agree, you have to be negative at this stage of the match. Only one team can win so the batsmen have to make sure that they can't.
As Campbell said, Zimbabwe have to bat for 100 overs.

So 99 to go.

[FlowerPower]

I think I prefer the old Vusi better...come on! And its the same old pull shot! Come on, if it were something else....but the same old shot....4th time out to the pull shot in sucessive series......

[FlowerPower]

Alister should threaten wilderness if he ever pulls again!

[brmtaylor.com admin]

95 overs to go, 9 wickets in hand.

One big partnership is all that's required to save this game.

[FlowerPower]

95 overs to go, 9 wickets in hand.

One big partnership is all that's required to save this game.

I can almost picture you begging! Its mutual!

[foreignfield]

All right, the examination starts now.

I'm not sure the pull is the problem per se, it's the skiddy bowlers who cause him problems, Rubel and now Cheema. Maybe he should put up a poster on his bed-room wall: 'I shall never pull skiddy bowlers unless it pitches in their half!'

[brmtaylor.com admin]

It was almost inevitable wasn't it.
2/19... on the brink now.

[maehara]

Uh-oh.