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The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple RSS / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 16 October 2007 /

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Watching Inzamam play his last full international on Friday brought about an end to an era for me as he's been around ever since I've been watching cricket. People may question his attitude, fitness, running between the wickets and anything else they want but cricket is a game best explained by stats. The man averaged 49 in Test cricket and 39 in ODI cricket and if that's not good enough, you must have been one of the lucky people who were around when Don Bradman was playing.

But life goes on for Pakistan and they fared pretty well without him at the Twenty20 World Cup anyway and were just a single boundary away from winning it. South Africa were excellent in winning the Test Series just gone but this is another ball game...literally. Jacques Kallis was instrumental in the Proteas' win with the bat but having missed out on the Twenty20 World Cup I wonder how sharp he is in the shorter version of the game and whether he can come back in and score at a decent rate. If he can't or if he gets out cheaply I think South Africa might struggle, particularly with so many players (Duminy, Philander, Langeveldt, Kemp, Morkel and Botha) in the squad making their debuts in Pakistan. I see no good reason why Pakistan are the outsiders in this one and I'm backing Shoaib Malik's men at 2.14.

In the world of football, I think England will seriously miss their skipper John Terry who has been ruled out of Wednesday's match. Luckily for England, it will take more than a change of surface and a fall in temperature to put Sol Campbell off his game and he's been there and done it in terms of strong away performances away from home throughout his career.

I won't read too much in to the fact that England have scored 12 goals in their last four matches as with the exception of the Russia game at home, the opposition wasn't of the highest calibre. The four consecutive clean sheets are a different matter though and even the absence of Ashley Cole doesn't put me off thinking England can keep another clean sheet on Wednesday. England could nick this one by a single goal but I'm always a little wary of backing teams to win matches they don't necessarily need to win. So I'm resisting the temptation of backing England at 2.41 and instead laying Russia at 3.54.

The Pacman's midweek acca comes to 2.96.