Only T20I: Afghanistan v Pakistan at Sharjah

[phoenixdesi]

Re: Only T20I: Afghanistan v Pakistan at Sharjah

@GoldenAsif

No Sir Jee. Both Hafeez and Afridi seemed under huge pressure because of their recent bad performances with the bat

I am not talking about the two over the head wide balls. The second ball was a widish delivery which Hafeez misjudged and left. A better batsman would have negotiated it past the keeper for four. And then on the 4th ball Afridi went for a wild slog, missed it and was almost run out at non striker’s end!

we can agree to disagree on the last over

but if we talk about our overall innings, i do agree that hafiz was under pressure…umar akmal too. we played way too many dot balls. afghans bowled some good yorkers but they also bowled many length balls and somehow every time we tried to hit those balls, they ended up straight to a fielder…that shows execution was poor because some of our players are short on confidence.

I still think we could have finished the match earlier and we made it too tense and too close…had the bowler not bowled 2 wides in the last over (and 4 byes in the previous over), we would have lost the match..we played alomst 50 dot balls…so out o0f 20 overs, 8 were maiden!