1st ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Feb 13, 2012

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130/9

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Pakistan reach 130 :O

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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.

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Lo ji, game over

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Time for us To Open Our Eyes Cant Afford One More Loss In This Series

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This is also Cook's first win as one-day captain

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Malik Out Hammad In

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I think it depends on whether Firdous Ashiq Awan is able to call Misbah/Mohsin/Zaka or not :D

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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

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And Probably she will call Misbah

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But we have two world class parchis

Enough said

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Misbah - Please drop the parchis, not for the supporters but for your own captaincy record. PLEASE!

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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.

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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.

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Like this team. The two parchis need to go

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2 Pakistani players are definitely not in the X1 because of their cricketing abilities. Can only happen in Pakistan that a bowler who was so instrumental in winning you the test series wasnt even considered and your most talented batsman is used as a make shift wicket keeper and asked to slog at number 6 or 7. Misbah and Mohsin have to get rid of sifarashi culture which has plagued us so much and get rid of the 2 Damads. Also be more aggressive and ask Umer to open and play a proper keeper in Adnan.** No need to play A Wahab on these pitches specially when u r giving the new ball to Hafeez.

**1. Umer Kmal
2. M. Hafeez
3. Younis
4. Asad
5. Misbah
6. Hamad Azeem (should be given a consistent chance to cement a place as an all rounder instead of parchi Malik).
7. Afridi
8. Adnan
9. A. Rehman
10. Ajmal
11. Umer Gul.

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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

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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.