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Oh Cmon, we have seen Misbah batting before and yesterday. He is quite capable of nudging the ball around for singles. No one is saying that he should have jumped out of his crease and wack the ball around, but, we expected him to rotate the strike. He didnt do it. He didnt take single one one was on. He did not run the second when it could be taken. He was behaving like Gavaskar in 1975 world cup, playing for a draw.
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come on we like to take one person apart. Let me ask you all and please do reply. Im yesterdays match:
What brilliance did Umar Gul show
When Umar was being hit by Indian batsmen even during the second spell why didnt afridi try razzaq instead of persevering with Gul.
What did Hafeez do when he was set and playing the bowling easily
Tendulkar was dropped four times apart from misbah who were the other culprits, why arent we talking about them
When afridi and razzaq were batting with Misbah why was the power play not taken. afridi again could not control his brainless stroke and got out.
In the end the defeat was 29 runs, if one of Afridi or Razzaq stayed with Misbah we might have won the game.
Yeah Misbah was at fault 100%, the rest of them produced absolutely brilliant cricket.
Overall it was a collective failure so get over this Misbah thing.
we as a nation always think we cannot lose and if we do it has to be a blunder on someone's part or the match was fixed.
carry on.
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Misbah has done wonders for Pak cricket in the recent past and if nothing else acknowledge that instead of baseless allegations.
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I am by no means suggesting that he fixed the match but the way he played was preposterous. He was like Miandad in his last days. Miandad used to keep playing dot balls till required rate will reach 8 and we are 5 or 6 wickets down, then come down the track to an pffspinner and hold out at mid wicket. Difference was that Misbah didnt get out. Young guys like Asad and Akmal played better than him, they rotated strike.
Also not taking powerplay is unpardonable. But i dunno if its the captain who has to signal it or the senior batsman on the pitch who does that. It should have been taken by 40-41st over.
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Misbah raised his BAT to take credit for his 50…that alone boils my blood…
what kind of a person does that??? so happy about his 50…
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maybe he should have got out playing brainless shot and Pakistan would have lost by a margin of over 70 odd runs. at least he tried if only someone had stayed with him. Yes he is a slow player but he lets other play around him while he holds one end. Did the collapse allow him to play any faster yesterday, apart from him , Hafeez and to some extent Umar Akmal the rest of the batting was pathetic.
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Misbah is going to be in mohali for 4 more days..to complete the test match he started yesterday. Lols
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maybe he should have got out playing brainless shot and Pakistan would have lost by a margin of over 70 odd runs. at least he tried if only someone had stayed with him. Yes he is a slow player but he lets other play around him while he holds one end. Did the collapse allow him to play any faster yesterday, apart from him , Hafeez and to some extent Umar Akmal the rest of the batting was pathetic.
Misbah undermined the efforts of others when they tried. Umer Akmal scored a boundary and rotated the strike to him and he played 4 dot balls ruining all the efforts. Afridi made him make runs for which he was not willing to run. The pressure created by his test-match inning got to everyone else and they started departing trying to absorb the pressure. Being a slow player is not an issue. He has been great in the past doing exactly that but he was never stuck at one end. Yesterday, he looked totally different than his usual self under pressure. He could not rotate the strike. Whatever was done on the field was still manageable given the runs Pakistan was supposed to chase. The point where Pakistan could seal it despite a bad day on the field, Misbah took on himself to make sure it would not happen.
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Let's not forget Misbah's contribution in previous World Cup matches and even the recent ODI and Test series. He really is an anchor of our batting.
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Cant u think rational??? Player A was wasting balls and putting pressure on other players, only playing dot balls (jo pitch k under rahay), was not putting effort, not taking runs, once they were confirm that we were gonna loose then they start hitting 4's... Does it even make sense to u? He was at the pitch for 25overs...
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Let's not forget Misbah's contribution in previous World Cup matches and even the recent ODI and Test series. He really is an anchor of our batting.
No body is forgetting that. I have been his fan all along. Those contribution can never be an excuse for his dismal performance yesterday. We are talking about what he did in semi final, not what he did before it.
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Cant u think rational??? Player A was wasting balls and putting pressure on other players, only playing dot balls (jo pitch k under rahay), was not putting effort, not taking runs, once they were confirm that we were gonna loose then they start hitting 4's... Does it even make sense to u? He was at the pitch for 25overs...
Please do not conclude that he took money for that. At best he performed bad under pressure. He should be kept for tests only.
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Please do not conclude that he took money for that. At best he performed bad under pressure. He should be kept for tests only.
Misbah didn't hit a single four for an hr...
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Pak has beaten Sri Lanka and Australia too... We are professional players, not lalu panju gali players .. How can they miss 4 catches woh bhe Afridi ki bowling per... ?
Over 10.4
Saeed Ajmal raps Tendulkar on the pad and umpire Ian Gould raises the finger. Tendulkar goes for the review, replays show ball will miss leg stump.
Tendulkar on 23; India 75/1
...Over 10.5
Ajmal goes past Tendulkar’s bat with a doosra who lunges forward as Akmal appeals for a stumping. Tendulkar just gets his leg back in time.
Tendulkar on 23; India 75/1
Over 13.1
Tendulkar pulls Shahid Afridi towards short mid-wicket where Misbah ul-Haq drops a sharp low chance.
Tendulkar on 27; India 84/1
Over 19.3
Tendulkar chips Afridi to Younis Khan at covers who drops a sitter at comfortable height near his shoulder. Ball was parried up but Younis failed to latch on off the second attempt as well.
Tendulkar on 45; India 116/2
Over 29.3
...Afridi’s leg-spinner catches Tendulkar’s edge off a defensive push but Kamran Akmal fails to hold on to the ball.
Tendulkar 70; India 163/4
Over 34.6
Tendulkar goes for a whip-pull shot off Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Akmal at short mid-wicket jumps and gets two hands to the ball but it pops out.
Tendulkar on 81; India 183/4
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Misbah didn't hit a single four for an hr...
At one stage, India could not hit a boundary for 15 overs too.
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such a short term memory we have as a nation... here we were in February or so debating whether Misbah should be the ODI captain instead of Afridi since he had shown his calibre in the recent ODI series... and we were all appreciating his innings in the group games - esp. against SL.
Now, one game with a semi-bad performance (still, I maintain others were more at fault than him), and everyone wants his head.
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such a short term memory we have as a nation... here we were in February or so debating whether Misbah should be the ODI captain instead of Afridi since he had shown his calibre in the recent ODI series... and we were all appreciating his innings in the group games - esp. against SL.
Now, one game with a semi-bad performance (still, I maintain others were more at fault than him), and everyone wants his head.
At least, I am not for his head. He did not rotate strike in 42 balls. That's 7 overs. He could have taken at least 30 singles.
At this stage, IMO, he should not be retained in the team. He is already touching 37 and it is very unlikely that he will play the next world cup. It's time to re-organize and work on people who are more likely to play WC in 2015. Same is true for Younis
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Misbah undermined the efforts of others when they tried. Umer Akmal scored a boundary and rotated the strike to him and he played 4 dot balls ruining all the efforts. Afridi made him make runs for which he was not willing to run. The pressure created by his test-match inning got to everyone else and they started departing trying to absorb the pressure. Being a slow player is not an issue. He has been great in the past doing exactly that but he was never stuck at one end. Yesterday, he looked totally different than his usual self under pressure. He could not rotate the strike. Whatever was done on the field was still manageable given the runs Pakistan was supposed to chase. The point where Pakistan could seal it despite a bad day on the field, Misbah took on himself to make sure it would not happen.
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.
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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.
I have already agreed to that in post number 19 second para.
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Misbah did not have a good day. He was struggling with timings, placements and pace of the innings. So was Younis. I guess they could not handle the pressure alongwith Gul.
But it certainly does NOT mean that he did it intentionally. We as a nation HAVE to get over the tendency to find the scapegoat after every defeat. And that too happens within seconds of a defeat. ke yeh match tu akmal ki wajah se haare hayn, yeh misbah ki wajah se haare hain. bla bla