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1st Test: England vs Pakistan at Nottingham, July 29-Aug 2, 2010

webby i fully agree with you but yasir also got many chances remember in india last time he played all three tests and did nothing yes tafeeq umer might be the some who did not got many chances yes he should have given chances other misbah yasir hameed etc got almost 10 tests did nothing
 
Insha'Allah we will give tough time to England.... our bowlers will trouble them but we just need our batters to perform.... Azhar ali and Umar amin are too young and just played 2 matches... we cant expect something special from them.... I think Umar akmal should play at No.3 and take responsibility and just perform....
 
IMO Younis and Yosuf are the backboon of Pak team. we saw there is nothin in middle order for pakistan, we should have given young player chance to play with a bit relaxe mode, i mean if umer amin and azhar ali given a chance where younos and yousaf stands with them they may learn alot and there will be no pressure on them, in this pressure situation umer amin and azhar ali who are good players may be they fail because of pressure. Umar Akmal did not player well he must take responsibilty.
2. replacing shoaib with younus and playing azhar or amin and making place for yousuf will be good IMO.
3. bowling is doing great only Danish is not doing his job. May be Saeed Ajmal be given a Chance.

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England squad named for 1st Test against Pakistan
Updated at: 1800 PST, Sunday, July 25, 2010 ShareThis story

LEEDS: Kevin Pietersen was named in England's 12-man squad on Sunday for the first of four Tests against Pakistan starting at Trent Bridge on Thursday despite not having played any cricket for nearly a month because of a thigh injury.

England's selectors wanted Pietersen to play for Hampshire on Sunday but the county have not included him in their team after he announced his intention to leave the south coast side at the end of the season.

Former Ireland batsman Eoin Morgan retained his place after two moderate displays in England's 2-0 home series win against Bangladesh in May and June after seeing off a challenge from Ravi Bopara.

Fast bowler Stuart Broad and all-rounder Paul Collingwood have returned to the Test squad after being rested for the Bangladesh series.

Promising quick Steven Finn also retained his place, as did Yorkshire seamer Ajmal Shahzad, who made his debut against Bangladesh.

Ian Bell though will miss all four Tests - England's last before they begin their defence of the Ashes in Australia, where they haven't won a Test series since 1986, in November - after the batsman broke a foot fielding in a shock second one-day international defeat by Bangladesh at Bristol on July 10.

Pakistan go into this series on the back of a three-wicket win over Australia at Headingley on Saturday that saw them level a two-Test encounter at 1-1.

England squad: Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior (wk), Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Steven Finn, Ajmal Shahzad.
England squad named for 1st Test against Pakistan
 
IMO Younis and Yosuf are the backboon of Pak team. we saw there is nothin in middle order for pakistan, we should have given young player chance to play with a bit relaxe mode, i mean if umer amin and azhar ali given a chance where younos and yousaf stands with them they may learn alot and there will be no pressure on them, in this pressure situation umer amin and azhar ali who are good players may be they fail because of pressure. Umar Akmal did not player well he must take responsibilty.
2. replacing shoaib with younus and playing azhar or amin and making place for yousuf will be good IMO.
3. bowling is doing great only Danish is not doing his job. May be Saeed Ajmal be given a Chance.

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well friend i fully agree with u amin is nothing nor have tech to play test just keep blocking he got 4 chances to bat did nothing looking un comfortable in the crease yousuf should be take place of amin and in place of malik yhounis should play that will make team more powerfull

Salman Butt Capt
Imran farhet
Younis Khan
Mohammad Yousuf
Azhar Ali
Umer Akmal
Kamran Akmal
Umer Gul
Mohammad Aamer
Saeed Ajmal
Mohammad Asif
this is Best Available side possible for pakistan in tests i think and fully power full both in batting bowling and fielding
 
If Younus and Yousuf are backbone of Pakistan Cricket team so why Pakistan was waiting for a win against Aus for fifteen years - let your youth play - they both are great players but disciplene comes first - politics should be for politicians only. I very positive about present team.
 
IMO Younis and Yosuf are the backboon of Pak team. we saw there is nothin in middle order for pakistan, we should have given young player chance to play with a bit relaxe mode, i mean if umer amin and azhar ali given a chance where younos and yousaf stands with them they may learn alot and there will be no pressure on them, in this pressure situation umer amin and azhar ali who are good players may be they fail because of pressure. Umar Akmal did not player well he must take responsibilty.
2. replacing shoaib with younus and playing azhar or amin and making place for yousuf will be good IMO.
3. bowling is doing great only Danish is not doing his job. May be Saeed Ajmal be given a Chance.

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If Younus and Yousuf are backbone of Pakistan Cricket team so why Pakistan was waiting for a win against Aus for fifteen years - let your youth play - they both are great players but disciplene comes first - politics should be for politicians only. I am very positive about present team.
 
politics have done by malik why he is in the team than what a double standard u have sir if malik can play after the mistake than i think younis and yousuf are better players than him and they deserve more than him to play weather u dont paly those all or if u play one than u consider them alll azhar ali should play tooo but umer amin just nuts too me younis should come in his place and he is good fielder u cannot say him as bad fieldsman and yousuf come into place of malik thats it our batting is the probleum these batsman plays well in UK
 
If Younus and Yousuf are backbone of Pakistan Cricket team so why Pakistan was waiting for a win against Aus for fifteen years - let your youth play - they both are great players but disciplene comes first - politics should be for politicians only. I very positive about present team.

so whats Shoaib Malik doing in the team?? he didn't perform well in test matches so why he was selected for this tour?? and we all know what he did in past.... Yasir hameed far better player than him... he should be selected for next matches....
 
agreed moin but still younis should be given priority over hameed hameed did what we have seen he strugles against spin so younis is best available choice
 
Is the match being played today or not..??

Umer amin is technically sound , He was a bit unlucky against the ausies .. !
More ever yasir hameed should also be included included in the squad .. !
 
well friend i fully agree with u amin is nothing nor have tech to play test just keep blocking he got 4 chances to bat did nothing looking un comfortable in the crease yousuf should be take place of amin and in place of malik yhounis should play that will make team more powerfull

Salman Butt Capt
Imran farhet
Younis Khan
Mohammad Yousuf
Azhar Ali
Umer Akmal
Kamran Akmal
Umer Gul
Mohammad Aamer
Saeed Ajmal
Mohammad Asif
this is Best Available side possible for pakistan in tests i think and fully power full both in batting bowling and fielding

You are missing Danesh Kaneria replace Ajmal with Kaneria... Rest of your selection is balanced...
 
Pakistan need to remain on guard against England
By Khalid H. Khan
Tuesday, 27 Jul, 2010

PAKISTAN go into the England series in what is going to be a stern test of character for Salman Butt’s young brigade which is still basking in glory by ending Australia’s 15-year stranglehold in Test cricket.

More than anything, the tense series-levelling victory in Leeds on Saturday has suddenly lifted Pakistan’s spirits as they head to Nottingham for the first of four Tests against an England side which, undoubtedly, will be much tougher because they play on familiar territory — a big advantage which Ricky Ponting’s Australians didn’t enjoy.

While everybody, understandably, is still in a festive mood after a rare Test win — the Headingley triumph was only Pakistan’s third in 21 Tests since January 2007; they stumbled to 11 defeats in the same period — the general perception now developing is that most of the diehard supporters are pinning their hopes on a successful series against Andrew Strauss’s men.

But it has to be mentioned here that luck, more than anything, favoured Pakistan on a cloudy first morning of the Leeds Test. Ponting’s gamble to bat first was mystifying. No team in modern day cricket has managed to win a match after making 88 in the first innings. And yet, as it transpired later, Pakistan almost made a mess of a 180-run chase.

Without belittling Pakistan’s unexpected triumph while keeping in mind what had prevailed in the week before with appointed captain Shahid Afridi quitting after the debacle at Lord’s, Salman accomplished a mission impossible in his first Test as skipper.

By far, Pakistan’s strongest point is their pace bowling which did a fabulous job against Australia with Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif leading the way and received good support from Umar Gul. Collectively, the trio took 30 of the 39 wickets claimed by bowlers and sent down roughly a fraction above 72 per cent of the 296.3 overs bowled by Pakistan in the four innings.

One fears for the well-being of Pakistan’s main strike weapons, chiefly because their workload against England will increase over the four Tests against an experienced line-up that generally bats deep with the likes of Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad, both boasting decent averages, supporting the main batsmen.

Pakistan, on the other hand, should not expect too much from their inexperienced lot. Their batting is fragile, particularly the middle order which badly flopped against Australia. The biggest disappointment was Umar Akmal with mere 46 runs in four innings. Somehow, he tends to treat Test cricket as if he is playing a Twenty20 match. To watch someone as precociously talented as Umar not putting a price tag on his wicket is quite exasperating.

It’s high time that somebody from the Waqar Younis-led coaching staff pulls up the young man and gives him a proper dressing down. Umar’s overall Test average is now below 40 after twin failures at Headingley.

Perhaps, Umar should take lessons from Azhar Ali who has been the batting find of the series with two promising knocks in the pivotal No 3 hot spot. Azhar certainly has both the technique and temperament to succeed at the highest level.

Pakistan scored only four half-centuries compared to Australians’ seven in tough batting conditions where only Salman managed, on either side, a series aggregate of over 200 — 213 at 53.25 — thanks to scores of 63 and 92 he made at Lord’s.

Azhar and Imran Farhat were the only other Pakistani batsmen to score more than 100 and the only ones to cross the 50-run mark in an innings.

Pakistan’s Achilles heel in the England Tests will be their batting which never made more than 289 — in the second innings at Lord’s — against the Aussies. They were exposed to the hilt at Lord’s not by Australia’s main bowlers but part-timers Shane Watson and Marcus North.

In conditions where experience is the biggest virtue, Pakistan will sorely miss the depth and skills Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan possessed in abundance, and who have some years of top flight cricket still left in them.

In England four years ago, Yousuf (631 runs in four Tests) and Younis (329 in three) were the mainstay of Inzamam-ul-Haq’s side in a four-match series which ended on a controversial note when Pakistan forfeited the final Test at The Oval over ball-tampering allegations to lose the series 3-0.

A blend of youth and experience in the Pakistan ranks would have otherwise set the scene for an enthralling series against England because a shrewd thinker like Strauss is not going to do what Ponting did last week and allow Pakistan to claw back.

DAWN.COM | Sport | Pakistan need to remain on guard against England
 
Agreed with the article umer amin did not have good technique for sure even if he had he still rotated the strike which he was faill to do a batsman who misses 6 bowls and get out on 7th bowl i dont see he has good technique but Azhar Ali who is also debutant did amazing job on one down amin has to go back bring younis khan back if not both
 

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