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Originally Posted by brahmachari99
Shoaib's bowling will be eaten up alive by the South Africans. His batting, though comprising ugly hoiks and lead-footed drives, could be effective.
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I see what you are saying, unorthodox batting is harder to plan against, but my point was that Malik will do better than most of our pacers except maybe Gul purely on the bowling type.
Saf have taken almost 8-10/over off pacers on average.
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Originally Posted by brahmachari99
One thing about South Africans is that they prepare well and make plans for the opposition. They will be ready for Ajmal and Afridi's spin, and Gul's yorkers. They would also know how to prevent Akmal and Shahzaib to go for big strokes. They would be ready to pounce on Razzaq's tendency to send half-volleys. And they'd also take advantage of Pakistan batsmen's weak run calling.
All of Pakistan's players must be on top of their game to beat South Africa. Fielding will be crucial, because fielding alone could give a 20-25 run advantage to SA.
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They would have planned for all spinners of course, and they get choked, dont take too many risks. So they dont loose wickets but dont score runs too much either. Ajmal will do well for sure because he is relatively new for them. Afridi has found some new variations, so should be good too.
Fielding will be important yeah, but we need a 50 and a couple of 20s and we will get 140. Razzak, Akmal, Yunis : one of them has to score a 50.
my point was that our pacers will get hit pretty bad at the start & more so in the middle apart from Gul who seems to be doing well bowling his full quota at the end. Much better bowlers have been hit around the park by Saf than Razzak & Amer this tourney.
so 12 overs of spin min. I think.