Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
130/9
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Pakistan reach 130 
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
130 all out
Crushing win for England
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
130/10
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
England win by 131 runs.
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Lo ji, game over
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Time for us To Open Our Eyes Cant Afford One More Loss In This Series
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
This is also Cook’s first win as one-day captain
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Malik Out Hammad In
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
I think it depends on whether Firdous Ashiq Awan is able to call Misbah/Mohsin/Zaka or not 
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
I had no illusions about our batting despite the white wash of England in the test series. It is fragile and prone to collapses. None of the current one-day batsmen is world class. Batting lacks both quality and depth so expect such low scores from time to time
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
And Probably she will call Misbah
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
But we have two world class parchis
Enough said
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Misbah - Please drop the parchis, not for the supporters but for your own captaincy record. PLEASE!
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Ditto! - I hope these changes come in the next match. We need a stable batsman and a good all-rounder in place of these two. I don’t know about the bench strength but am hoping they can be substituted easily.
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
From cricinfo:
So, England win by 130 runs, ending Pakistan’s seven-match ODI winning streak in the process. Not even Nostradamus saw this result coming. Winning the toss looks to have been key, as batting under lights was so difficult for Pakistan - there was only a little seam movement for Finn but he exploited it ruthlessly. Alastair Cook, meanwhile, can have a wink and a smile ready for the next time he bumps into the likes of Botham and Atherton.As Khurram notes: "So Pakistan lose by 7 runs to Alastair Cook."Pakistan, meanwhile, looked a shadow of their hungry, relentless selves of last week. Ajmal’s second spell aside, the bowling was workmanlike and none of the batsmen was able to last very long at the crease - Umar’s 39-ball innings was the longest. Still, I’m sure we can let them off the odd slack showing, given the sustained excellence of some of their cricket in recent weeks.
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Like this team. The two parchis need to go
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
My team for second ODI
Asad Shafiq
Mohammad Hafeez
Younis Khan
Umar Akmal (our best ODI batsman currently) should not overburden him with additional (keeping) duties
Misbah-ul-Haq
Hammad Azam
Shahid Afridi
Adnan Akmal (wk)
Abdur Rehman
Umar Gul
Saeed Ajmal
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Ja apni hasratoon pe, aansoo baha k soo ja
and I second GA’s team above for next game
Re: 1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012
Overall poor performance from a team that was not hungry today and yes some parchis piya jees in the team, ut the burden rests on the whole team.
lookat gul he was the most expensive and so was wahab.
Misbahs strategy to believe that spin will win himevery time failed. This should be an eye opener for team selectors and captain. And lets not blame farhat when hafeez failed as well. Yes he made up with the ball, but what did asad do. or misbah or yk.
However yes hammad should be brought in, malik’s job of water boy needs real attention since he is back. Whole team needs to regroup and come back strong.