Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Congratzz to all GS friends for another thrilling victory
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
yep…YK or Moyo…there role is to be the senior and anchor from one end…
which is what he did…
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Yeah Exactly 
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Younis, Razzaq, Hafeez & Asad played a real responsible innings…though with some suicidal runouts..Riaz did with bat and bowl well too…in the future…he could be a menace to the world…lol
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Nice piece…better than the usual CI stuff…
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/1091687/1/.html
Cricket: Younis-inspired Pakistan shock South Africa
DUBAI: Pakistan tail-end batsman Zulqarnain Haider and Wahab Riaz pulled off a sensational one-wicket win for their team over South Africa in the fourth one-day match after Younis Khan’s fifty on Friday.
Younis’ sedate 73 built Pakistan’s run-chase but they owed it to their tail-enders Haider (19 not out) and Riaz (18) as they put on 28 runs for the ninth wicket to help their team chase down a challenging 275-run target.
Fit-again Graeme Smith played a captain’s knock of 92 to steer South Africa to a challenging 274-6 but once again his team choked in the final moments despite having grabbed all top wickets.
Pakistan still needed 31 when they lost Abdul Razzaq (33) - whose robust 72-ball 109 not out which shocked South Africa by one wicket in the second match in Abu Dhabi - but Haider and Riaz held their nerves.
Even when Riaz was run out with three needed off as many deliveries, Haider kept his cool, scoring two off paceman Wayne Parnell and then pulled the penultimate delivery for a single, much to the delight of a 25,000 capacity crowd.
The win helped Pakistan level the series at 2-2 and set up an intriguing fifth and final match here on Monday.
It was Younis whose 115-ball half-century with only one boundary that put Pakistan on course for a tight run-chase, adding 58 for the second wicket with Mohammad Hafeez (42) and 56 with Asad Shafiq (36).
So cautious was Younis that his first boundary came in the 37th over, but he kept Pakistan on course with another 49 for the sixth wicket with Razzaq before paceman Morne Morkel dismissed both to finish with 3-48.
Captain Shahid Afridi also bolstered the run-chase with a swift 25-ball 29 studded with four boundaries.
Earlier Smith missed his ninth one-day century by just eight runs on his return after injuring his hand during South Africa’s eight wicket win in the first match in Abu Dhabi.
South Africa took a 2-1 lead with a narrow two-run win in the third match here on Tuesday.
Smith put on a 94-run stand with AB de Villiers (49) to put South African on course for a big total before he was trapped leg-before by off-spinner Hafeez in the 31st over.
De Villiers then took charge along with Jean-Paul Duminy (36) as South African added 84 in the last ten overs. De Villiers’s 70-ball knock was without a boundary but he batted sensibly after Smith’s departure.
Paceman Wahab Riaz briefly put brakes on the South African innings by dismissing Duminy and David Miller (nought) off successive deliveries but Colin Ingram (27 not out) and Johan Botha (28 not out) lifted the total in the last five overs.
The two added an invaluable 54 runs in the batting power-play.
It was Smith who gave South African innings the required pace, putting 35 for the first wicket with Hashim Amla (10) before Shoaib Akhtar removed Amla in the seventh over.
Smith paced the innings with three boundaries off Riaz in the 15 over before raising his 42nd half-century off 57 balls.
- AFP/de
saffies…chokers…
:rotfl:
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Congrats Everyone! what a winnnnnnnnnnn!!!
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Mubarak Fellow Guppies. Awesome Match.!
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Congrats to all the Paki lovers around, it was really a great match to watch !
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
I will still say that otherwise we shouldn’t be criticizing Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez or any player in the team as they have performed one day or the other, stats are not lying.
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
does anyone have a link to the highlights?
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
wow what a game.
pakistan should get rid of damad and fawad alam. i think they have had enough chances.
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
I will still say that otherwise we shouldn't be criticizing Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez or any player in the team as they have performed one day or the other, stats are not lying.
Please show me those stats
Younis though is not a ODI material but still he has played match winning innings for pakistan many times
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
We have had 3 nail-biting finishes in a row!!!
With a bit of bad luck we could be 4-0 down in the series by now
With a bit of good luck Pakistan could have won it 3-1 today
Good innings from YK. When chasing 270+ you do need 1 or 2 solid batters in your line-up as well and Younis played the sheet anchor role to perfection today
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
What a great series this is turning out to be! I did not catch the game live because of work but I can feel the tension looking at the scoreboard. Good job to the Pak players. Hafeez looks like a good potential.. others stepped up too.. there you go Pak.. you dont need corrupt like butt amir asif.. you can win against the #3 ranked ODI team...
As for the Saffer.. what bloody chokers! hahaha.... old habits die hard.
Can't wait to catch the highlights.
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
What a great series this is turning out to be! I did not catch the game live because of work but I can feel the tension looking at the scoreboard. Good job to the Pak players. Hafeez looks like a good potential.. others stepped up too.. there you go Pak.. you dont need corrupt like butt amir asif.. you can win against the #3 ranked ODI team...
As for the Saffer.. what bloody chokers! hahaha.... old habits die hard.
Can't wait to catch the highlights.
be civil, keep that language in your forums
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
oh bhai mai bhi to yahi keh raha hoon 
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
be civil, keep that language in your forums
my forums? i dont understand what that means.
Re: 4th ODI: Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai - Nov 5, 2010
my forums? i dont understand what that means.
ehsan bhai edited his post and this '... in your forums' is addressed to him.