Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
just imagine by wed tak is thread main kitne replies a jayein ge.
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
sounds like you took the wrong medicine! call the doctor
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Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Come on Afridi and co
i know u can do it
Pakistan Zindabad
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
I was just thinking...what if we include Rehman the left hander(can bat a bit too) in place of Riaz...so we will have 4 spinners...Afridi, Hafeez, Ajmal & Rehman...40 overs man...these just concede some 140 runs and take 8 wickets...hmmmmmm :D
Mohali pitch seems to be a paradise for spinners... :)
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
We need Akhtar for sure
No rehman plzzzzzzzzz
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
I have full faith in Afridi and his captaincy that he can give us a win against Indians this time 
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Akhtar is mentally not sound at this time…no control of line & length…so he is out of question for sure…
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Akhtar is mentally not sound at this time...no control of line & length...so he is out of question for sure...
i dont agree
Half injured akhtar is fit lethal than full fit wahab
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Bhai merey hosla rakho … Allah swt ko yaad karo … Dua karo aur baqi sab uss hasi pay chorr do 
Win or no win … Har baat mai koi behtri hoti hai
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
i dont agree
Half injured akhtar is fit lethal than full fit wahab
You can include him in your fantasy team...thats all... :D
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
lol 
U just wait and watch he will play and crush the opponents too
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Latest update: Indian bowling attack is at par with Pakistan’s
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/507893.html
Yuvraj Singh is turning this World Cup into his own, but India chose the right match to turn in their most wholesome performance of the tournament so far. Apart from about ten minutes of headless running, from which they were lucky to escape with only the loss of one wicket, it was a display worthy of a knockout match; and it impressed Ricky Ponting enough to anoint them the favourite to win their semi-final clash against Pakistan.
India were always expected to win on the back of their batting, but for the second consecutive match, the bowling delivered. Against West Indies, it was difficult to ascertain the quantum to which the bowlers had been assisted by the opposition batsmen, but against a far more purposeful group of batsmen on Thursday, the Indians gave little away. And the most noticeable, and dramatic, improvement was in the field. Even MS Dhoni, who has worn a look of resignation whenever asked about Indian fielding, reckoned that his team might have saved 15 runs on the field. It might have made the difference between victory and defeat.
It helped that they put up their best fielding side. Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli were both electric in the ring, not only saving runs and keeping the batsmen honest, but visibly lifting their team-mates. Early in the innings, Kolhi stopped a scorching drive at short cover and had a lightening shy at the non-striker’s end. Raina dived to his left and then his right at point to cut off boundaries, and suddenly India looked a perkier team, determined not to give an inch. Yuvraj Singh joined in, making desperate strops off his own bowling, and R Ashwin hared around in the outfield, turning fours into twos.
The fielding never reached a level where it could be described as consistently spectacular. Munaf Patel was still sluggish and Yuvraj failed to pick the ball a couple of times near the boundary, but it was miles above the embarrassment it had been throughout the tournament. Maybe, it was all part of a grand design: they were saving themselves up for the real matches.
The bowling rose to the challenge too. Ashwin’s figures might not say it, but he has been a vital addition to the attack. He provides the control that India had missed at the start of the innings, and in both the matches he has played so far, he has also provided an early breakthrough.
Shane Watson’s wicket was among the most crucial today. With his reach, and the ability to generate his own pace for strokes, Watson is a dangerous batsman on the slower wickets, and he was forced to swipe at a ball because Ashwin starved him of space.
Ashwin’s presence in the XI also seems to have spurred Harbhajan Singh, the senior offpinner, to bowl more attackingly. Harbhajan was much fuller on Thursday and though he went wicketless, he was the spinner who looked most likely to make a breakthrough. And as it has been the case throughout the World Cup, Yuvraj was the one who picked up the wickets, and it was not by coincidence.
Yuvraj may still look the innocuous handyman bowler who must quickly and unobtrusively get his overs out of the way, but it’s clear that he has worked on his bowling. The trajectory is consistently higher now, and consequently, there is more spin. When a spinner gets batsmen out driving, he is doing it right. His two scalps, of Brad Haddin and Michael Clarke, derailed the Australian momentum mid-innings.
And then there was the magnificent Zaheer Khan. What he has lost in pace, he has more than added with his mastery over his craft. He has been Dhoni’s talisman in the World Cup. He has provided both the brakes and the breakthroughs every time Dhoni has needed them. He did Mike Hussey in today with that wonderfully deceptive slower ball he has developed for left-handed batsmen. It’s bowled full, at drivable length, but it’s never there for the drive, because it arrives after the bat has made its arc. Inevitably, Hussey’s bat met with air, the ball found the stumps.
And then, apart from two balls down leg, Zaheer’s yorkers were virtually unscorable of in the batting Powerplay. Even Ricky Ponting, then batting in the 90s, was forced to work him around for singles. Asked later at the press conference to compare the Indian and Pakistan bowling attacks, Ponting said, and he looked like he meant it, that they were quite similar.
That’s as big a compliment as the Indian bowling attack could have hoped to get.
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Who cares what ponting says 
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
I do, now.
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Just found out from my Boss that i’m scheduled to leave for a 2 day Conference on the 29th + 30th March and will be back the evening on 30th … This means no web stream, no cricinfo and no GS as Boss will be alongside me the whole time 
… Means i’ll find out Tuesday and Wednesday evening repectively who gonna play the Final … Maybe iss main bhi koi behtri hai
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
I do, now. :)
No one dared to ask him why he scored only 19 and clearly struggeled against Pakistan as did his Team mates .....
It was a better wicket and the weaker bowling that helped Ponting otherwise today early in his innings he had his now usual problems especially against Offspin
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
well pakistan did rely heavily on spinners in their aus match. but that doesn't mean what they have in store for india is going to be a bunch of spin..
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
No one dared to ask him why he scored only 19 and clearly struggeled against Pakistan as did his Team mates .....
It was a better wicket and the weaker bowling that helped Ponting otherwise today early in his innings he had his now usual problems especially against Offspin
If Sachin gets out at 0 against Kenya and scores a century against Aus the next day, does Kenya's bowling attack become better than Aus's?
That's what you are saying.
Anyway, I quoted the article in jest, but there is some truth to it. The Indian bowling unit is coming together with Chawla gone, Ashwin in. The only problem is the second seamer. Munaf/Nehra/Sreesanth. I think Sreesanth will be tried, he might go for runs but he's a wicket taker. Pakistan still has a better bowling attack, but India has a MUCH better batting side. My 2 cents.
Re: 2nd Semi-Final: Pakistan v India at Mohali, Wed March 30
Pakistan's bowling attack is WAY better than BOTH Australia and India. Ponting can say what he wants, but its pretty clear India's strength is its batting and Pakistan's strength is our bowling.
That said, India seem to have gotten away with influencing the ICC curators to make turning tracks for them ever since they got hammered on that flat track against England so Im expecting Mohali to be a slow turner yet again.
Now if Afridi can win the toss and bat first for once, I doubt whether India would be able to chase a Pakistan score of 260 270. Our bowling attack would never have allowed India to win todays game in similar conditions.