Sigh No More Mendis

The Pakistanis are making Kulasekera and Thushera look like the second and third coming of McGrath. Apart from what they have done against Pakistan they have not done much. True that they are relatively new but it is hard to believe that lightening has struck twice at once. Only time will tell. At this point one has to bet on the side of this being another case of Balaji, Harris or Herath. For one the Pakistanis can't seem to bring down the bat straight and when they can manage a bit of stay, runouts are the order of the proceedings. Suddenly, Afridi and Razzaq lack the power to take the leather off the ball. The history of the Pakistani batsmen falling to mediocre bowlers while tackling the better ones with relative ease is long. One is reminded of Malik showing the way on handling Warne (Though Warne did wreak havoc against later sides) and even as weak as the Pakistani batting has been it has done reasonably against Muralitharan. So Mendis should not lose hope.

All Time XI for Pakistan

Well since cricinfo is doing these here it is for Pakistan. Well its actually more than eleven depending on the opposition, pitch and conditions (Tests).

Openers:
Saeed Anwar
Hanif Mohamad
There are really no other choices for openers.

The rest of the batsmen choose from
Zaheer Abbas (In English conditions),
Miandad
Wasim Raja (Against mostly pace attacks besides with the other players of spin and grafters in there one risky batsman may be ok. Liked a challenge and did well against pace and under trying conditions when others fell.)
Inzamam
Salim Malik
Mohamad Yousuf

If one wants to go with a four man pace attack this is as competitive as any with almost all having the ability to bowl long spells and covering a large variety of pace bowling.
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Fazal Mahmood

Wasim Bari (with the other batsmen and all rounders he can be in there purely for the keeping)

Spinners
Iqbal Qasim (Left arm)
Saqlain (Right arm)
Qadir
Mushtaq

For All the TV Umpires

Once they have actually seen the incident here are some guidelines to go by when judging a low catch.
1. Look for the bounce.
2. Look for the shadow.
3. Look for blades of grass in "front" of the ball.
4. Look at the position of all ten fingers.
5. Look for other markers in the video that may give a clue as to how low the ball is.

A ground level camera in the stumps facing the slips and the keeper would be nice to have.