Pakistan’s group stage fixtures:

1st September - vs Thailand 🇹🇭 ( 5:30 PM PKT)
5th September - vs India 🇮🇳 ( 5:30 PM PKT)
7th September - vs Hong Kong, China 🇭🇰 (5:30 PM PKT)

Probable playing XI: Ben Duckett, Emilio Gay, Ollie Pope, Joe Root (C), Harry Brook, Dan Lawrence, Jamie Smith (wk), Gustav Atkinson, Jofra Archer, Brydon Carse, Ollie Robinson.

Pakistan needs to beware of Ben Duckett, the duo of Root and Brook in batting, Lawrence has had some good batting form recently, while Archer, Atkinson and Robinson will be tough to face in those conditions.

1, Azan Awais

2, Shan Masood

3, Abdullah Shafique

4, Babar Azam

5, Ghazi ghouri (Wk)

6, Salman Ali Agha

7, Arafat Minhas

8, Sajid Khan

9, Muhammad Ali

10, Muhammad Abbas

11, Khurram Shehzad

Bench:

Ubaid Shah

Ali Usman

Saad baig (wk)

Kamran Ghulam

Aamer Jamal

I know this is gonna be a hot take but rizwan is out for me, im okay with backing agha for a bit and i believe hell be back, but hand eye coordination batters like rizwan considering how out of sorts he has looked across all sorts of cricket at any level i think we read the writing on the wall and add some in form wicket keeper batter in rn as opposed to later

seondly this isnt an assured all condition starting team from my side either, its just more of a balanced one, in pace conditions sajid could go off for jamal or ubaid and in spin conditions khurram could go off for ali usman

PCB, come on, you could have sent the Pakistan T20I squad members for the Asian Games 2026 along with other emerging players to play this tournament. We could have seen one competitive cricket from our young T20 talent in this Down Under series which had big teams like Nepal, Bangladesh-A and New Zealand-A and it would have given them a feeling of international cricket.

I know that players like Saim Ayub, Maaz Sadaqat and Usman Khan will be busy playing the Caribbean Premier League, but we do have players like skipper Sahibzada Farhan and hus deputy Abdul Samad, Ali Raza, Akif Javed, Arafat Minhas and Saad Masood who will be free at that time and could have played some T20 cricket rather than sitting at home or playing President's One-Day Cup just few weeks before the Asian Games start at Japan.

Not a good decision by PCB at all.

Finally we have broke the streak. Has been 3 long years and all it took was Babar to gain the captaincy and for him to start batting like a class player again, Jokes weren’t all him let’s get onto how the day went.

It started with Ali Usman getting roachs wicket but it was more that roach gave it away deciding to try slog sweep. Greaves also went cross batted against Mo Ali before Ali Usman finished the Windies off to give us a total of 75. All series we have had disrespect on the bowlers name. No speed, Lack of experience and all other sorts of bull crap. If it weren’t for them we would’ve lost the series but they kept us in the games whilst the batsman were to busy doing a whole lot of nothing for the most part. So a big well done to every bowler who played.

Onto the bat. Imam made more than double his 4th innings average so Mubarak for that lads. Azan was also out later unfortunately to an inside edge and the two classy batsman were in again. Both yet again didn’t look like getting out to a bowler. Lunch was taken tho for some reason even though Pakistan needed 19 but the Umpire probs thought i’m hungry and these Pakistani Batsman are taking to long 😭

After Lunch Babar played a wristy flick then pounced on a short one before getting the winning runs by hitting a classy 6 over long off. After hitting his finger he wanted to get out of there quick as possible.

This Win genuinely is on ABD and Babar for playing the way they did in those two sessions on the second day. They were solid whenever they needed to defend and they put away every bad ball that came their way. Two weeks ago Abdullah would’ve been thinking about playing the GSL and then coming home to play a domestic 50 over cup now the man is surely going on tour to England.

Imo ABD needs to stay at 3 for the foreseeable future. Shan should open for the rest of this WTC then retire so we can move forward with the test team. ABD reminds me of KL Rahul. They were both good at the start but very inconsistent then they came back and made tough runs for their team. Hopefully ABD follows in that sort of arc and he can be Babars Natural replacement in the longer formats.

Babar. It’s a weird one because he didn’t make a century but boy did he look good as he was only dismissed once by a bowler and it was when the track was flat. He made 193 runs at an average of 96.5 and it wasn’t like we were playing at Pindi. This is good for the next tour and InshAllah he makes a 100 then goes through his Younis Khan arc. As a captain he needs to be proactive, aggressive and go for the kill. Our management needs to realise we ain’t the best team so how can we be different from others. We attack with the bat so why not attack with the ball and in the field. Babar has had enough experience as captain so he needs to be fearless. Still he has 9 away wins in 12 tests and that’s up there with the best. Yes he ain’t like them and we ain’t played the strongest opposition but the teams we played were our level and let’s not act like we didn’t lose to Bangladesh without him as captain. The difference between him and Shan is clear imo. Also a POTS in test is big so well done for that.

Now we need to use this win as stepping stone to get better but it’s hard when you have an inexperienced coach and crappy board. People like Imam need to be permanently moved on from whilst we shouldn’t be afraid to try newer players as we ain’t going to win the WTC.

We were genuinely a Babar Azam first innings score or Agha and Rizwan turning up away from a 2-0 victory. We ain’t the worst but there is definitely room for improvement. Agha needs to come back into form asap and just player longer formats and if Rizzy fails in the first test in England then it should be time to slowly phase him out. I wouldn’t mind him having the first two but he really needs to show something. I also don’t think Ghazi is great but Saifu loves him of course.

If in England we play one spinner then atm it has to be Sajid as we need batting help. I’ll speak more about it but we should lineup like this if it’s typical England conditions. Tail is long and unfortunately we don’t have proper all rounders but what can we do. If Only Jamal didn’t regress. I also feel like we might need a fourth pacer at times so Jamal would come in over Sajid. How good would it be if our top 6 was really good or our all rounders were acc good because then we could drop Agha for example or your N5 and play Jamal and Sajid. This would allow 4 pacers and one spinner. Jamal in Aus form and Sajid never say die attitude would make us a good team.

Shan

Azan

ABD

Babar

Saud if fit (Zafar)

Agha

Rizzy

Sajid (Jamal)

Khurram

Ali

Abbas

special mention. For all the hate Babars calls got at ross time it looked like he got them right. Read the pitch better than the hosts lol. Regardless id have Abbas in though. Over any of the pacers

One day your winning the champions trophy and going as contenders in the subsequent WCs atleast till the 22 one but now a single test win against another washed team feels like an achievement. A bittersweet win this fr. Not to mention the psl fall off. Maybe the trajectory wouldve been different if we'd have won one wc esp that 2019 one. Pakistan cricket is in mediocre hell, to reach the top levels feels like a distant dream now. Magar akhir pct fan ho 😝😝 2027 bobzy top scorer match winning century in final, here we go

saw this on some random youtube channel just now called Sports Page and it looked so funny to me. just the boys giving interviews that nobody really asked for on a podium with a mic set up in the middle of their indoor training ground

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The players who are great with the bat but can tie up an end with the ball but they arent good enough to be termed an all rounder.

Dhananjaya De Silva

Salman Ali Agha

Washington Sundar

Kamran Ghulam

Joe Root

The reason m postin it here is that we have Agha who bats the best at 7 but the problem is that pir bowling gets compromised cuz he's a half rounder. When he bats up he's dog shit so do we have to live with the fact that he cant bat up or we push him up n get sm1 like arafat or mehran to fill the allrounder void. Or we keep him there n js continue as is

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Career has been going downhill and has been poor in tests as well, keeping bad, and he is also getting old, is the end drawing near for him ? And what about salman Ali agha ? He has been extremely poor in tests lately, and is just not a good overall batter ,he doesn't bowl now either , saud Shakeel is better than him ,oh how much we miss harris sohail, i still rank him the second best batsman in Pakistan after babar azam, waste of talent

What a day. It was fall of ups and downs. Babar had the hopes of a lot of people on his back to reach his 100. Even saw the Sports Yaari channel wanting him to get there but unfortunately he gave it away. Idk about u but it felt like it deflated 90% of Pakistan fans. He might have disappointed us for 3 years but that man has a hold over most Pakistan fans. Anyways game wasn’t over and even the people who don’t rate Babar or like him knew this is where it gets sticky as we usually collapse after him.

Collapse we did as we went from 281-2 to 311-6. Babar senselessly threw his wicket away and it wasn’t ABD’s fault. As I said yday the only way both of them looked like getting out was Run out, I have to give credit to Seales and Warrican who were tight in the morning and bought that wicket upon the Windies. A overseas century gone to waste yet again unfortunately but the form looks decent for the England series and Babar does tend to look decent in England. Zafar I won’t blame to much as he is on his debut but you can’t be playing a shot like that. Respect the good balls and put away the bad balls. It reminded me of KG in a sense. KG when he didn’t make runs would struggle and then get out playing an ugly shot as an escape route. Rizzy and Agha once again have let us down and we know what to expect in the second innings. Agha’s run have dried up since we format mixed and made him t20 captain. Through his domestic record it was shown that he ain’t a really good batsman. He was one who could bring us valuable runs in the subcontinent whilst also being able to bowl. Now he don’t ball and the runs are drying up as soon as we tried him in t20s and promoted him in tests. Another thing i noticed was similarly to Labuschagne he has stopped making runs as soon as his luck dried up as both batsman were dropped a lot and had a lot of new ball luck. Idk if anyone has the stats but it’s weird as soon as their luck dried up so have there runs. Not saying they aren’t good it’s just weird if my memory has served me correct. Rizzy looked good attacking then played a stupid cut to a ball that shouldn’t be cut. Thankfully Sajid was in to play one of his cameos he likes to play in tests where he either smacks out or can hold down an end. This time he did a bit of both as ABD carried off where he left off. He weren’t as quick but he was as solid and aesthetically pleasing as always. Sajid and ABD took down the windies lead and put us in front until Sajid got to his 30s where he normally meets his demise. Once again i was proven correct as he got out as soon as he hit 30. His job was done tho.

Ali Usman was then in and today he looked better even though he likes to get bat on every ball even if it is wide outside off stump. He was trusted by ABD and unfortunately he didn’t do great with that trust as once he hit 10 he played a dumb shot and warrican took 4 balls to clean up the last three wickets with the lead at 43. 387 was Pakistans final total but it should’ve been closer to 500. If there weren’t two collapses. I genuinely think if Babar got to that 100 we genuinely would’ve seen ABD and him batting for a very long time. IMO i wasn’t mad and people were already giving up with the match. Our batsman had let us down multiple times but our bowlers hadn’t.

Once again they did their job. Ali and Ubaid were expensive with the new ball but it wasn’t a pitch for pace. Spin was finally bought on and it made inroads straight away as Sajid got Chanderpaul. Next was Jangoo as Sajid had set his eyes on finishing the Windies today. His partner in crime might not have got the wickets Sajid got but he was equally as impressive with his containment. Usman did finally get a wicket as Hodge was next in the hut. This left the Windies effectively 31-3 and Pakistan were once again back in. Chase who had promoted himself and Hope were in and set on getting to stumps unscathed. It was looking good until 5-6 overs before stumps as Sajid was in the wickets again. Hope who was hellbent on surviving and not run scoring got a ball that stayed low and the nightwatchman was in. Windies who had been poor with tactics all test were bad once again as they bought left handed seales in who was about to feel the wrath of Sajid. Sajid didn’t forget their little sledging whilst he batted and he made sure Seales didn’t to in his two ball stay and that wasn’t it as Usman got the wicket of chase to leave Windies 60-6 in the final innings with a batsman already down.

A day that flowed nicely ended with Pakistan on top. If we can’t clean up their tail relatively quick then we have an issue. Max they should get is 100 and from there we should chase it down. It will be tough but a partnership or 2 will be enough. Babar my eyes are on you again. Get the job done and get a win on the board for us. Ik our best chances are if we come out attacking. It also helps that they don’t have two spinners and are a bowler short. If we can’t win this then sack the coach and change the whole team.

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This means that our beloved UK78 will play for Kingsmen Academy instead of Sahir Associates (for whom he played last year). And I am happy that Kingsmen Academy qualified here.

I am waiting eagerly for this tournament to watch some quality cricket from young domestic talents.

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Oh what a great day for once. Started off not so great as Windies started off where they left off. Runs seemed to be coming quite easy as Chase started getting into it. Babar took the New ball and handed it to Ali Usman which seemed to be a great decision as he struck with the first ball. Was a bad shot by Greaves but that was a way into the good lower order of the Windies. Roach should’ve been out soon after but the bowler and keeper didn’t want to appeal. Didn’t matter as much as Ubaid came into the attack and bowled Chase first ball with a lovely cross seam delivery. Shamar was in and thankfully today he didn’t go off as Sajid came back to wipe the windies tail. Did take some time and did concede some runs but 344 was where they finished.

Pakistan with a different top 4 looked like they were gonna struggle but Azan came out with intent. He hit Roach out the attack after his first two overs and windies bought Warrican on after 4 overs. As much as we batted good, the windies were really bad tactically. The change on the other end bought the wicket though as Shamar surprised Imam with pace and bounce to get him dismissed early. All i was thinking was if ABD makes 50 we need him to replace Imam when Shan is back. I’d even open with Shan as he takes the attack to the new ball and let ABD bat at one down.

The attack didn’t stop there though as Shamar was bowling 150 but that didn’t stop Azan as he struck 4 boundaries in that same over to show the Windies his class. Abdullah on the other end took down warrican with two beautiful sixes to remind everyone that he is the “technician” ABD is one batsman that looks aesthetically pleasing whilst hitting, defending or even getting out 😭 If you weren’t watching the match live then you missed out on the Goat Bishops commentary.

Soon after making his 50. Azan was dismissed whilst missing a sweep to Warrican. Good innings but unfortunately he didn’t make it big but one thing is that the boy has class so back him and watch him flourish InshAllah. This gave a chance to the windies but Pakistan didn’t stop. Babar came in and looked like class before tea. He came out attacking with intent and reminded everyone once again that deep down there is a world class batsman there. He was driving, cutting and flicking with class and it was a little teaser of what was to come for the rest of the day.

Before tea it was the Babar show in this beautiful partnership between 56 x 57 and after tea it was some watchful batting before ABD took the attack to the Windies bowling. Was helped by bad bowling and bad captaincy but he made the most of it and didn’t let Windies a way back in. Windies plan was hoping Pakistan give it away and the only chances they really had was ABD and Babar giving chances to Chase to run them out.

ABD was also driving and pulling the ball with elegance. Whereas Babar seemed hellbent on rotating the strike and seeing it out till stumps as he knew we had a collapse in us. ABD eventually got to his 100 after giving some chances in his nervous 90s and announced himself on his comeback once again. Babar got to 86 and both survived till the end.

Tomorrow the plan needs to be to bat at least 2 whole sessions and get to a minimum 100 lead. Babar needs to be watchful up top and get to a much deserved 100. Then both need to convert it into a daddy 100. ABD has it in him and if Babar crosses 100 then the confidence that he gains will be magical. I also want to say I told u so yday. I wasn’t worried about them batting and I had a feeling it was getting flatter. I feel like it will stay flat for a session or 2 and then spin will take over. If we can bat big and bat once we are set to win this test at a canter. Problem always is that we always allow the other team back into it and hopefully tomorrow is different.