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ok, congrats once again guys :-)
I was worried for bad display not for losing the match, losing makes Pakistan better!
but anyway its relief for inzi and boys as well!!! that they still can beat SL... :-)
oh haan yaad aaya ... we are definately ready for WC - 2007 ;-) :-)
Gud-day to all :-)
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What a terrible wicket, the test series is going to be dreadful if the conditions continue to be similar.
Lessons to be learnt from this game:
Bowlers don't have to bowl according to a predetermined script, they can change according to the situation. INNOVATE INZI!
Why would you have only 4 fielders in the ring when the opposition is 7 down for 50 odd? ATTACK INZI!
Afridi should never return to the top of the order.
Akmal is at his best in the lower order where he belongs.
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^ I disagree with Akmal bit. He is good enough to play at the top. Just needs to bat the way he does in tests in pressure situations.
Premadasa stadium will not hold any tests I think. And thankfully too. Sri lankans grounds have usually been terrible though. It seems occassionally but the irritating part is that it becomes soooooo slow. 
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^ Excluding the hundred in West Indies over a year ago, and two hundreds recently on flat decks, Akmal hasn't even been close to 50 yet at the top.
Think about it. 3 innings of 50+ out of 22 chances. The rest are pretty much all 25 or below. Another interesting stat, 7 out of those 22 dismissals were bowled.
I am not saying he isn't good enough, God knows his technique is probably better than most batsmen in the team. But it just seems he isn't comfortable, maybe it's too much of a burden with keeping?
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Oh god.....I could not believe that i missed the whole match.....I did not even know that pakistan had a match today.....it never happened to me before but i never became a father before either.........Any way,it is always good to see pak winning.... uncle razaq has again shown why he has one of the lowest batting SR in the test cricket (41.56). But he played really well on this horrible track.......good job razaq...i have to agree with saby that sri lanka has one of the worst picthes...over the years, i have seen so many low scoring macthes in sri lanka...i still recall a test match back in imran khan days which pakistan won because of tauseef's brilliance.The pitch was so slow and dreadful that it was almost impossible to bat on it. It was also a very low scoring match.....i have not see the highlights but it is good to see rana back in form (but i guess in this match, every bowler was in form)........
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seriously, complaing that the "pitch" was bad was the lamest thing I heard from Inzy. I think Pakistan is **too **used to batting Pitch and this attitude needs to be addressed.
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this pitch is horrible,will the third odi be played on this same pitch?
anyways,congrats to every1
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shuker hey jeet gaey … i was amazed the way afridi and butt threw away their wickets …but the questions remains …why doesnt our captainwant to attack?
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ummm…
…maybe he’s too lazy 
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Congrats to all, just one more win and we wouldn't have to go thru qualifying hassle for ICCCT :)
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Fortunately/unfortunately SriLankans couldn't do well on the same pitch as well :)
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he is not lazy…was just busy eating!
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We got the win we needed.
Now regardless of the outcome of 3rd ODI we will be safely placed in the top 6 sides on April 1st. And the top 6 sides on April 1st in ICC table will automatically qualify for Champions Trophy.
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^ good to know that fkhan2, thanks :k:
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but Srilankans didn’t go about complaining!
A good pitch is a bowlers pitch, not a batsman pitch.
A mixed pitch works fine as well - but then it does not test the batsman ability to its full extent. 
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“Honestly I did not think in the morning that the pitch would play that badly,” stand-in skipper Mahela Jayawardene said.
“When we started we found it difficult, the ball was doing a lot and stopping.”
(source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4822636.stm)
Inzamam didn’t “complain” per say. He said that “It was not a good one-day pitch. It kept very low and slow and did not come on to the bat.” His comments seem to be on par with Jayawardene’s… but Inzamam is stating the obvious. To say that the pitch was “good” would be a ridiculous statement.
If you want to know about real complainers, look east of the border at the Indian team. If Inzamam want’s to start complaining, he needs to start taking notes from them.
Don’t get it twistedddddddd.
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Goodone Abbas bhai. :k:
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uh?
if the ball is travelling at 85MPH - the pitch is considered slow? -fine the ball didnt bounce as high - but by no means the height varied.
These batsmen need to learn how to play on Bowling Pitches.