Misbah-Ul-Haq Performance

[Sa1eem]

Re: Misbah-Ul-Haq Performance

@ehsan

If Misbah took upon himself to make sure it would not happen the rest of batsmen gave him a big helping hand by throwing away their wickets. You still haven’t answered my question why didnt Afridi take the power play when him and razzaq were batting with Misbah. Maybe Afridi took upon himself to make sure victory didnt happen? Do I believe this, no, I believe it was a collective failure and everyone was equally repsonsible. If Misbah had a bad day Umar gul had a worse one, so why not talk about him? He gave away 69 odd runs and Pak lost by 29 runs. What do you say.

ODI is not about not getting out but it is about making runs quickly. There are only 50 overs and team can only lose if they could not make required runs in available overs, regardless of 1 got out or 9 got out in those 50 overs.

Keeping that in mind, difference between Misbah (and yunus) with rest of the team was that, rest tried to win ODI they were playing, actually they even tried to cover up handicap that Misbah and Yunus were showing, but Misbah (and Yunus) did not even tried to win the game rather tried their best to make the team lose the game.

Yunus got out early and that was probably good for Pakistan. Wished Mishbah had got out early too, than at least chances was that others would have played with less pressure, hence more carefully, and may have achieved the target.

You are right that power-play was not taken early, but maybe Shahid thought that he would take power-play after Misbah is gone, as the way Misbah was playing, he would have done tuk-tuk on maybe 20 out of 30 power-play balls, wasting all advantage of 5 overs power-play.