Amir and Ajmal set up Great Win

Pakistan's outstanding fast bowler, Mohammad Amir, and their Spectacular spinner, Saeed Ajmal, set up a great win for Pakistan in the third test against England. England were 194/3 at tea break, there was very little hope of Pakistan winning the test match since England were in such a good position with their star Player Kevin Pietersen still standing in his crease. But after the tea break wickets started to tumble all of a sudden, 7 wickets fell for only 28 runs after the tea break. Mohammad Amir and Saeed Ajmal just destroyed the England Middle and low order batsmen. Some of the reverse swingers Mohammad Amir bowled were examples of reverse swingers bowled by Wasim Akram. Mohammad Amir finished with his career best test figures of 5/52. On the other hand, Saeed Ajmal's marvellous spin bowling, he spun the bowl both ways. The England batsmen had no idea which way Ajmal's bowl would spin, and the way he bowled out Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan, those 2 deliveries were just amazing. Ajmal finished with figures of 4/71. This win will give Pakistan a big boost heading into the 4Th NPower test match, and this win will hopefully bring smiles to the faces of people who were victim of the flood Back home in Pakistan. Now let's hope Pakistan bowlers and batsmen perform in a similar matter in the 4Th test match and tie the series at 2-2.

Zulqarnain Haider ruled out of series

Pakistan's wicketkeeper, Zulqarnain Haider, has been ruled of the remainder of the test series against England. The blow was originally sustained in training before the second Test against Australia and was then aggravated when Stuart Broad hurled the ball at him in his follow through at Edgbaston last week. The throw from Broad was unneccessary which did cost him 50% of his match fee, but it has proven to be more costly for Haider since he was looking forward to a start in the third test match at the Oval, but instead has been ruled out of the remainder of the series. I believe Zulqarnain has shows great talent behind the stumps and also with the bat, when he made his 88 to save Pakistan from an innings defeat. He also got support from the tailenders Mohammad Aamer and Saeed Ajmal. The 52 runs partnership between Haider and Aamer, and the 115 runs partnership between Haider and Ajmal really did help the team, even though they were only able to give a target of 119 runs to England. Well the tailenders have played better than the opening batsmen and the middle order batsmen, and I think this should be a wake-up call for the top order batsmen because they should be ashamed of themselves for leaving the bowling and the batting to the tailenders.

Pakistan rule out Gul replacement

The Pakistan team management in England has decided against calling up a replacement bowler for the injured Umar Gul, who suffered a hamstring injury during the second Test against the hosts at Edgbaston. "We have two back up pace bowlers, Tanvir Ahmed and Wahab Riaz in the touring squad and either one of them can replace Gul for the remaining Tests," team manager Yawar Saeed told PTI. Both Ahmed and Riaz have been with the team since the start of the tour. The Pakistan touring squad presently includes 17 players. "The tour selectors will decide who will play but for now we are not asking for a replacement as Gul is also due to have another scan on August
18," Saeed said. It would be known after the scan whether Gul can recover in time for the two Twenty20 and five one-day internationals against England next month. Gul is said to have ruptured a muscle in his thigh while bowling in England's first innings, although he batted freely, albeit with a runner, during Pakistan's second innings. Gul had also missed the ICC World Twenty20 and Asia Cup earlier this year due to injury. Meanwhile, chief selector Mohsin Khan and limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi are due to fly to England during the third Test to finalise the limited-overs squad.

Inzamam-ul-Haq wants to offer his expertise to the Pakistan side.

Former Pakistan captain and Pakistan's second highest run scorer in tests, has offered the national team to be their full-time batting coach. Paksitan batsmen are really struggling on a tour of England, where they were all out for 182 in the first innings and 88 in the second innings. "The team definitely needs a full-time batting coach and, if any offer is made to me for this position, I will definitely give it serious consideration," Inzamam said. Paksitan's batsmen also struggled in the 2 tests against Australia where they lost by a huge margin in the first test at Lord's and barely managed to win the second test at Headingley to even the series at 1-1. Well I believe that Inzamam will really help the batting of the national team, but on the other hand Ijaz Ahmed was a great batsman himself and I think Ijaz Ahmed is a great batting coach, who can also help the team with fielding since he was a great fielder also. In my opinion, the Pakistani team don't really need a new batting coach becuase the coach's job is to let the batsmen know of the different techniques, the coaches won't go on the field and play for the batsmen, its the batsmen's job to follow the techniques and go play properly on the field which I think the Pakistani Batsmen are not doing. If we look at the bowlers of the national team, they are really following the techniques of the bowling coach Aqib Javed and their head coach Waqar Younis that's why Pakistan's bowling is so successful. So lastly it really doesn't matter who the batting coach is, it is all up to the batsmen to follow the techniques of the coaches and play properly out there.

Yousuf recalled to test Squad by Pakistan.

Mohammad Yousuf has been recalled to the test squad for the remainder of the England Tour. The PCB reacted very quickly after Pakistan's 354 runs defeat in the 1st Npower Test match at Trent Bridge. Danish Kaneria has also been dropped from the group due to his dissapointing bowling display, he will be replaced with the left-arm spinner Raza Hasan in the 2nd Test match. I believe with Mohammad Yousuf back in the squad, Pakistan's batting order should have some hope, but since Danish Kaneria will not play in the second fast match, it'll be a big lose to the Pakistani Bowling becuase even though Danish Kaneria's bowling performance in the first test was poor, but we still cant compare Raza Hasan with Danish kaneria. Ahh well let's see if these 2 changes in the team can help Pakistan win the 2nd test match inshAllah.