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3rd Test: England vs Pakistan at Kennington Oval, Aug 18-22, 2010

"It'll be the Hilly and Billy show"


Billy Bowden looks forward to officiating the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan with fellow New Zealand umpire Tony Hill.
 
well hope in lords what My did he do the same and score double ton INSHAHALLAH
 
well hope in lords what My did he do the same and score double ton INSHAHALLAH

I heard that Yusuf said he is not fit for test cricket but will try to play with his experience... lets see what will happen tomorrow...
 
Moin i did not heared it any where where di you got it from sir i think he is the best test player in the team
 
It's a cakewalk for England


but not this time sir as a indian i expect this from you becoz i know you will always wanted us to loose well we do the same too





Pakistan have made four changes - two of them enforced - to the team that played in last week's defeat against England at Edgbaston. Two middle-order batsmen, Shoaib Malik and Umar Amin, have been dropped to make way for Mohammad Yousuf and Yasir Hameed, while the injured pair of Zulqarnain Haider and Umar Gul have been replaced by the squad's senior wicketkeeper, Kamran Akmal, and the debutant left-arm seamer, Wahab Riaz, respectively.

While Salman Butt, Pakistan's captain, had confirmed during his afternoon press conference that Yousuf and Kamran were in line for recalls, he had been cagey about revealing any further news. "We could make six changes because we have six sitting outside, but we will make only the ones required," he told reporters.

Later in the evening, however, during the selection meeting, it was decided that the right-handed Hameed, the reserve batsman, would come into the side as an opener. One of the two left-handers, Butt and Imran Farhat, will shift down to three, with Butt arguably the likelier given that he is both the captain and struggling for form at the top of the order, with just 16 runs coming from four innings in the first two Tests.

"Hameed is an experienced batsman. We just wanted to test the two youngsters [Azhar Ali and Umar Amin] because they have scored well in domestic cricket over the last two years," a senior official told Cricinfo.

Hameed, primarily an opener, returns to the Test arena after a long gap of three years. His last outing was against India in Bangalore at the end of a series in which he logged 158 runs at 26.33 without registering a half-century. But he has an aggressive streak which, if he clicks, can release the pressure of the new ball. At New Road over the weekend he opened with Azhar Ali in the rain-abandoned match against Worcestershire and played a few good strokes in his 27, but generally seemed a little distracted before chasing a wide delivery and edging it to the slips.

Though it might seem to be a dicey move to include Hameed, the team management had been left with little alternative after a summer of constant batting failures. The former captain Malik was especially disappointing as he failed to lead by example and a sum of 89 runs in the three Tests in the summer did not give any confidence to the tour selectors to retain him. Amin, who made his debut at Lord's against Australia in July, showed enthusiasm but was initially defeated by a series of unplayable deliveries, but later he failed to apply himself.

On the bowling front Riaz was preferred over the right-armer Tanvir Ahmed because of the prevailing overcast conditions. Riaz, lanky and tall, has enough pace to make the ball bounce and move, something he showed in the practice match against Leicestershire last month. "Both are good bowlers - one is very good new-ball bowler and the other is very good with the old ball," Butt said earlier in the day.

Pakistan 1 Yasir Hameed, 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Salman Butt (capt), 4 Azhar Ali, 5 Mohammad Yousuf, 6 Umar Akmal, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Mohammad Amir, 9 Wahab Riaz, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Mohammad Asif
 
so basically 4 changes has been made.

In: Yousuf, Hameed, Akmal, Wahab Riaz
Out: Malik, Amin, Haider, Gul
 
well we have left two best craps in the team amin should not have played any tests by me with his crap face and his crap bat he should not be allowed to play any cricket anyway still there are two more craps are playing but with inclussion of MY we can go pst 150 easily INSHAHALLAH im not counting on MY yet because still it is a team game you must have 3 best batsman and we have one now and too much on him is not fair but i think if he got out on duck i will take his duck anyday over amin duck because he can give me ton in next inning and amin not in 10000 tests
 
SF,

Calm down bro. Umar Amin needs more grooming, and needs to be more consistent. He has all the talent unlike Shoaib Malik.
 
Webby he is worst than gali wala bacha cricketter in second test he was saying he will play from front foot what happened result was even worst even umer gull batted better than him he should be thrown out forever these type of cricketters never going to do anything we have many examples why make one more
 
Broad actually is a sub-standard test bowler. Averages nearly 35 with England as his home country and only has three 5 wicket hauls in tests. If 4 wicket hauls are worth anything, he only has 2 of them. That record in 30 test matches is pretty bad.

Has a strike rate of 65. That's pretty bad for a fast bowler.
 
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