ICC World T20 - West Indies 2010

Nazir is playing short balls better than the full balls. In my opinion in T20 a team like Pakistan can afford such a swinger. 

Gul and Arafat have been oficially ruled out of World T20... big set back this for pakistan, esp. Gul who will be missed very badly.

I heard about Irfan, the guy is huge... he'll be the tallest ever cricketer to play international cricket I believe. Although he's not too youthful. Pakistan will be a long shot to win, but look at the IPL - season 1 RR won the tournament with only 2 or 3 players of notability. 

 The chances of Oram getting going is on a par with getting going a clapped out car with a flat battery!

Irfan would still have been a better choice perhaps. Strange that Rehman has been selected because as pointed out by kahmed they already have so many spin options!!!

Could be a blessing in disguise, shewag was not in great form though, but great players rise to occassion.

Infact IPL increases their chances, last time they did not play good coz going into the T20WC not many were in great form.It was evidant last time.

I hink spinners will do well in the west indies and perhaps IND should have gone in with 2 regular spinners instead of a pace bowler. Vinay, Praveen and Nehra may leak runs heavily,

On Pakistan alternatives for Gul and Arafat - there should not be this much of debate. Both wont get a game to play most likely. Pakistan will go ahead with the trusted trio of Aamer, Asif and Razzaq in the pace department and Hafeez, Ajmal anad Afridi in the spin.

On Mohammad Irfan, he is tall, very tall but certainly not the tallest, he is 6'8 and a good bowler but nothing exceptional. He lacks pace which does not help him as he drops the ball too short too often.

Pakitsna may well play Kahlid Latif and Akmla as openers and sacrifice Fawad.

Heard that there is a drought in windies which suggests that the pitches might be lower and slower. Advantage - spin.

Last I checked Clark was bowling medium pace and I dont think he is in the squad even if he has started spin bowling all of a sudden.

Aussies spin attack is good enough, but it will depend more on how the batting sides tackle good spin bowling. this is where BD can be mighty effective - both Pak and aus cannot take the group game against BD lightly

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Last I checked Clark was bowling medium pace and I dont think he is in the squad even if he has started spin bowling all of a sudden. Aussies spin attack is good enough, but it will depend more on how the batting sides tackle good spin bowling. this is where BD can be mighty effective - both Pak and aus cannot take the group game against BD lightly

Micheal Clarke is a decent left arm spin bowler.
In this format BD is definetly in with a chance. Pakistans Bowling will also depend more on spin.


Edited by kahmad - 22 April 2010 at 11:27am

For the last 2 weeks, it's been raining enough in St. Vincent to freshen up the Earth.  The weather hardly differs that much in the Caribbean, well, except in Guyana, which always seem to rain whenever Cricket is around!

If the wickets favour fast men than slow men then surely Australia and SAF could go a long way into this tournament.

I think Australia is hot favourite for this competition. After them their are lot others like SA, Pak, Ind, SRL, NZL & WI.
SRL has a very good bowling attack but unfortunately their batsmen are not in good form as last year. Thanks to ipl they dont have enough time to get their confidence back.

It could well be an early exit for Pakistan - even if they have one bad game. Pakistan's group is the group of death in this tournament - no team can afford to be complacent in their first matches.