Re: 3rd T20 :PAKISTAN VS NEWZEALAND
Btw, the record for the lowest T20 total of a Test playing nation is not of Bangladesh or Zimbabwe but of India i.e. 74 
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283172.html
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i just checked it out
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r u back from cafe 
u took too much time to write above words 
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A Good win
Lessons to be learnt from T20:
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Shoaib Akhtar is not a T20 bowler. He sure takes wickets but he has also been going for 9-12 RPO in recent matches which you cannot afford in such a short format as T20
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Younus Khan does not belong in T20
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NZ are traditionally not good players of spin, so playing 4 seamers Akhtar, Gul, Wahab and Razzaq in the first two games was a mistake. Against them it was easy. Better to play 3 seamers (2 out of Tanvir, Umar Gul & Wahab Riaz + Razzaq) and 3 spinners (Afridi, Ajmal and Abdul Rehman)
And it goes without saying that our batting is woefully unreliable and unpredictable
Ahmed Shehzad seems to be a very good find for Pakistan. must surely be selected for World Cup
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Asad Shafiq is also not T20 player and keep him just for Tests or ODI
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Waleed Bhai
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Well if Akhtar canāt bowl in T20s then whatās the point of carrying him only for ODIsā¦he is supposed to be good in short burstsā¦I think he was just not in his rhythm in first 2 matches.
Second I agreeā¦and why was YK forced by PCB egaaaz buttss to come back to all formats??? t20 team is for the non test playersā¦
thirdā¦well so where was this same batting line up hidingā¦wasnāt the first loss enough to tell Mr. Boom bust that he is needs to send Shehzad up to open and slide himself downā¦?
also can I addā¦
what is the point of UA in any side now? he debuted as a test bat and now he can barely keep up in t20sā¦
Asad needs to be in the ODI and Test teams only.
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well of course I am very happy but i am just sick of these dramatic winsā¦kaya team ha yaeā¦na koi sar na koi pairā¦na koi strategy na koi visionā¦na koi outlook na koi consistencyā¦.kabiee hero kabiee zeroā¦.look at their body language and fielding today..it was outstanding..but the million dollar question is why was it missing in first 2 matches? are they only going to display professionalism when they will be warned of being dropped from the team?
I just wonder the level of IQ and wisdom of our think tankā¦a strategic think tank - comprised of coach, captain and senior players - is supposed to set up a strategic plan before the series and before every matchā¦its job is to understand the situation on ground before hand, do a deep SWAT (strength opportunities, weakness and threats) analysis, rationalize/debate its decisions and then set up a strategy/planā¦.
As goldenasif has summed it up, it was so obvious that we need more spinners than seamersā¦that was a big mistake which cost us the seriesā¦
and why and I mean WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY is freakin Younis khan playing these T20 matches? For god sakeā¦. You donāt need depth in T20ā¦you donāt need a player to hold your innings togetherā¦.there is no time for itā¦and if we need a senior āproperā batsman in the team for T20 matches for whatever reason, it should be misbah not younis khanā¦
and why was afridi opening the innings out of no where? he has already tried this option 100 times before as well and if there is any chance for this trick to work, it would be on sub-continental pitches not on seaming wickets where the ball swings little too much with a lot of bouceā¦is it too difficult to strategize this option?
and why do we want poor old razaq to open the bowling for us? he did well today but it is a strategic blunder, if you ask meā¦he has no pace, lost his swing long time ago and all the fielders are in circleā¦so it is way too easy to score runs of himā¦we already have 5 regular bowlers in the teamā¦so why do we need to open with razaq everytime, get hammered and bring other bowlers in pressure? razak should be used strategically on as-needed basis depending upon the pitch condition and match situationā¦his main worth is his batting down the order, not his bowling upfront!..his bowling is just a bonus and frankly spekaing he should not be bowling at all in most of the matchesā¦we should get this straight as soon as posisbleā¦
Strategic blundersā¦they finally got it right in this match for most part but the real job is to figure it out before the series..not when you have already lost itā¦
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Look at the positives
Today,
- Afridi became the first player in the world to take 50 wickets in T20I.
- Tanvir Ahmed became the first bowler in the world to take wickets in his first over in both T20I and tests.
- Ahmed Shehzad became the third youngest player to hit a 50 in T20Is.
- Afridi bowled cricketās fastest delivery by a spinner i.e. 134 km/h.
- Pakistan restricted NZ to their lowest total.
- Pakistan became the 5th country to restrict a teamās 10 batsmen before reaching the double figures.
- Pakistan shared the record with NZ to restrict any teamās top 4 players on āZeroā in T20Is.
- Pakistan became the fourth team to restrict 5 or more players on āduckā in an innings in T20Is.
- Afridi shared the record with Umar Gul for taking most 4 wicket hauls in T20Is.
- Pakistan became second after SA to take first 5 wickets on lowest runs in T20Is.
- Pakistan recorded the largest margin win in 2010 and the fourth overall in T20Is.
- Razzaqās career best All Rounding performance in T20Is.
We Love You Pakistan, Good Luck for the big Year 2011.
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Look at the scorecard
http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zealand-v-pakistan-2010/engine/current/match/473920.html
Stryris apart no one else reached double figures incl. extras
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hence the importance of batting well and putting runs on the board be it tests, ODIs or T20s
Had Pakistan scored something like 150 or 155 which is still a good total, I highly doubt that NZ would have folded like that
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Highlights
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oh, now I got what waleed meant, I was lost in his wordings
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For the record Pakistan scored 76 runs in the last 6 overs, 46 in the last three!!
107/4 >> 183/6
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Mashallah
but how come we have to always wait to do the scrub the bottom of the pot to get some inspirationā¦
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thanks pal!
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and the man responsible was the same who won us the ODI in almost same amount of overs and runs against SA
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I thinkā¦Pakistan are in the making of three separate teams/squads for the three formats: T20I, ODIs & Testsā¦then it will be only Boom chikka Boomā¦Boom chikka Boomā¦ 
PS: There should be separate coaches & tactical planners for each format. 
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With the Pakistan cricketā¦you never knowā¦that means kay kisi ghlat fehmi mein na rehnaā¦