3rd ODI: England v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Sat Feb 18, 2012

[ehsan]

Re: 3rd ODI: England v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Sat Feb 18, 2012

@phoenixdesi

and all of us shd be thankful that the ODI whitewash has exposed the reality otherwise idiots like ramiz, waqar and aamir were yelling on the screen that this is a special Pakistani team and something really special is going to come up…

what pakistan did in test matches is absolutely SPECIAL … no doubt abt it … but had one english player played the way cook played in ODI series, Pakistan would have lost all 3 matches… just one innings from an English batter would have exposed us right there… but the english team played absolutely pathetic but that is not our problem..that is their problem.…what we shd realize that the brilliance of 2 spinners cannot compensate for inherent shortcomings and strategic deficiencies in our portfolio… they are still there and will ultimately put us into place.

Same could be said of Pakistani bowlers, had even one of them bowled with same zest and commitment England would have lost all three ODI’s. Lets not blow our team away like this and start saying that the whitewash was a fluke. I dont buy it. It is height of emotionalism and us unable to take a defeat. We beat the pants off the best team in the world. Let no one forget that. It was not even close, absolute destruction of the number one team. difference is that English didn’t become emotional like us and start destroying their team. really we need to keep things in perspective. To start calling the whitewash into question is just not on.