Australia v Pakistan in U.A.E

yes Bollinger was excellent specially because he took 5 wickets in his only  2nd game

Afridi can lead us to a win in T20 worldcup if he play with consistency. He is an excellent T20 player if he clicks with the bat.

Seems a good result from Pakistan fans point of view. Great innings from Akmal. Afridi's consistency is really shocking to me,anyway good for Pakistan.Their key T20 players are  Akmal and Afridi as hitters.Can they repeat this kind of consistency against quality full strength bowling line ups of the world when required is the question to be seen.

Mike Hussey has been in tremendous form in ODIs, he just hasn't been able to carry that into the test game which is very odd. Hope he's on song come the Ashes because that cover drive of his is a gem.
Ponting has been looking okay, he's making runs a bit more consistently than say Younus, but he could definitely have done with this rest.
The Australia bowling attack was the most inexperienced for a very long time and the fact Pakistan couldn't score runs against them on most occasions shows that batting is Pakistan's issue.

 Some good news for Pakistani fans at last. There's every chance that England will play host to a 2 test series between Pakistan and Australia in July 2010. It will be the 1st time since 1912 that England has staged neutral test matches. That match featured SA against Australia and was famously the match where Jimmy Matthews took TWO hattricks on the same day!
          No venues have been finalised as yet , but Manchester , Leeds and Birmingham are obvious choices because of their large Asian communities.

          Obviously it's not ideal for home based Pakistani followers , but this shows that the cricket playing countries around the world are endeavouring to make sure that Pakistan still plays test matches.

Yes , these two match series are not satisfactory , no-one likes them.  Touring Australia will be a tough test and to get selected Shoaib will have to prove his fitness - both in mind and body.

True that. But honestly, I don't want him play International cricket this soon. He deserves to be out for a couple of years.

And they never played together!!!

Yes, Shoaib, Gul and Asif have never played together for pakistan. They played one warm up T20 game together just before World T20 2007. it was after that very match, i think, when shoaib hit Asif with a bat and got suspended for the tounament. It really is a pity and an indication of how pure talent gets wasted when it comes to PAK cricket only because of indisipline.

In this case, it's Akhtar and Asif's fault!

Originally posted by Sledger  Some good news for Pakistani fans at last. There's every chance that England will play host to a 2 test series between Pakistan and Australia in July 2010. It will be the 1st time since 1912 that England has staged neutral test matches. That match featured SA against Australia and was famously the match where Jimmy Matthews took TWO hattricks on the same day!           No venues have been finalised as yet , but Manchester , Leeds and Birmingham are obvious choices because of their large Asian communities.           Obviously it's not ideal for home based Pakistani followers , but this shows that the cricket playing countries around the world are endeavouring to make sure that Pakistan still plays test matches.

Originally posted by spin wizard Pakistan should have been fielding one of the best pace attack in modern Cricket but due to stupidity of the highest ranks from a couple of players, others has had to step in and out.   Akhtar, Asif and Gul would be enough to keep most batsmen in check!

Gul has just shown why he is one of the most well recognised and heralded 2020 wicket taker. Great stuff from him. Pakistan won it fairly comfortably and this continues Australia's poor record in 2020 int'l cricket.

Gul is always great but yesterday he was outstanding. I don't understand why our selecters are showing their confidence in Shoaib Akhtar. He should be out of the team now. enough is enough. Tanveer is out of form, he should get some training from specialist bowlers. In every game we can't rely on just Umar Gul and Afridi.

Yah it can be other way round, but the problem is that we can't just rely on our bowlers. I think in 3rd one day game you have seen that.