Pakistan's warm up matches against RCA President's XI - Team for the first ODI vs. Sri Lanka

Pakistan beat the RCA President's XI in both the warm up games, but worryingly, they were not able to bowl them out in either one. In the first game, Pakistan batted first and scored 280, and RCA XI played out their 50 overs and scored a 187. They lost only 4 wickets. This is pretty embarrasing.

In the second game, RCA batted first, and yet again, Pakistan were unable to bowl them out. They scored a 198, and again lost only 4 wickets. In fact, with the new ball, Pakistan has only taken 2 wickets. (i.e. within 10 overs...)

Perhaps its the pitch, or the RCA team has incredible defense, but its disappointing to know that Shoaib, Rana and especially Asif were unable to get past their defenses.

On the bright side, the batting is looking good. Kamran and Younis both have half centuries. I still am not sure what the lineup for our first game against Sri Lanka will be.

Shoaib Malik has scores of 28 and 18 no.

Faisal Iqbal 22 and 32 no.

Mohd. Hafeez is 25 no.

Farhat has 49.

Malik has been expensive leaking about 6 runs and over and 8 runs an over, so his bowling has not been too impressive. So no one really stands out. But I think Farhat will open with Malik and Faisal Iqbal will go 3 or 4 down. Hafeez will probably sit out.