England played well against Aus in theur last game. They seemed charged up with youngsters like Owais.
How will Pak fare ?
Without Shoaib and may be Wasim, who are our strike bowlers ?
Who is this Owais Shah guy? Is he of Pakistani origin by any chance?
PAKISTAN WONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
that was tense
'Hate your enemy mildly; he may become your friend one day' - Hadith
'as for those who are slain in the cause of allah, he will not allow their work to perish ... he will admit them to the paradise he has made known to them' - Surah 47:7
After a good match Pakistan has won the game. Congratulations
Phew..............................
That was one of the closest finishes I've seen for a long while.........
Trecothick getting out was just the break we needed..... if he didn't get out the odds of us winning would have been slashed.....
Really, it was a nail biting finish. I was thinking that hopefully it won’t be the case of Javed Miandad in Sharjah when he hit the sixer.
catty khala, Owais Shah is a Pakistan born.
Absolutely marvellous. Well played Pakistan.
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Only Pakistan....
I’m well and truly gutted. I’ve always been a shifty supporter - always supporting the losing team but from this day forward I will most defintely support England.
Todays match brought tears to my eyes and i realised that all this time i’d spent not sure about who to support had been a cover up. I AM ENGLISH AND I WILL SUPPORT ENGLAND.
Phew, just had to get that off my chest
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More serously, those pakis who were booing when that guy with the long name beginning with T (I’m not even gonna attempt to spell it …) got awarded man of the match made me feel physicaly sick.
Why?
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Originally posted by Sadi Sobi:
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I'm well and truly gutted. I've always been a shifty supporter - always supporting the losing team but from this day forward I will most defintely support England.
Todays match brought tears to my eyes and i realised that all this time i'd spent not sure about who to support had been a cover up. I AM ENGLISH AND I WILL SUPPORT ENGLAND.
Phew, just had to get that off my chest :)
More serously, those pakis who were booing when that guy with the long name beginning with T (I'm not even gonna attempt to spell it ...) got awarded man of the match made me feel physicaly sick.
Why?
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Man of the match should have gone to Yohana he was on the WINNING SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. T-REX was excellent but HE WAS ON THE LOSER 11… so he does not deserve it .. and as far as you being ENGLISH .. are you kind of ENGLISH FAN like Nasser Hussien and Shah or RamParkash etc. are English Players.. cause it seems that only DESI-ENGLISH have some substance in cricket matters .. and you will probably end with couple of British old-timers rubbing the ‘old English glory’ thing … well my condolences the Brit got kicked again .. lucky if they manage even a single game out of the tournament … you could have claimed to be Australian .. why even bother with half baked Englsih team …
Hey one more thing
These things are hard to explain
For some it seems strange... to swallow
The frontier of our minds
Is the last place we find
But maybe the first place we should go
Much as I am delighted at Pakistan's victory, I think the decision to give Trescothick the man of the match award was the correct one. He single handedly brought England so close to victory. Youhanna the man of the match? Not after he dropped a simple catch, and that also of Trescothick when he was on 5.
Both Youhanna and Trescothick batted excellently. Let's be sporting and give credit where it is due.
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Originally posted by ehsan:
**Much as I am delighted at Pakistan's victory, I think the decision to give Trescothick the man of the match award was the correct one. He single handedly brought England so close to victory. Youhanna the man of the match? Not after he dropped a simple catch, and that also of Trescothick when he was on 5.
Both Youhanna and Trescothick batted excellently. Let's be sporting and give credit where it is due.**
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Its not matter of being a good sport .. if you are counting the dropped catch by Youhana then you should consider the two runout follies by T-Rex one involving Shah-jee which did cost them the GAME! .. so point is Youhana won the game when we were detained for a small total he fought back to put a decent total .. and Mr. T-REX got out (and got Shah out as well) at the crucial moment .. Man on the Match goes to the victor he played an excellent inning but YOHANA won the game for PAK! It is ridicules ! in any sports the man of match kind of awards goes to the winning side .. its not a consolation prize .. this Man of the Match award sounds like “ you lost but you made the effort Shabash GOREY but you Paki won so why you want one?? .. anyway we will kick their behind again in few days !
Hey one more thing
These things are hard to explain
For some it seems strange... to swallow
The frontier of our minds
Is the last place we find
But maybe the first place we should go
Record-breaking batsman Marcus Trescothick bemoaned England's lack of finish in one-day games after their two-run defeat by Pakistan in the triangular series at Lord's on Tuesday.
Trescothick, who compiled his biggest ever one-day score of 137, said: ``We had it sealed but we just couldn't finish it off.''
England, needing 243 in 50 overs, collapsed from 196 for three to 240 all out, their last seven wickets going for 44 in 60 balls.
``We're inexperienced. We just need someone in at the death,'' an exhausted Trescothick added after his 232 minutes innings in which he needed treatment for cramp.
The last over proved more than usually tense after Pakistan players remonstrated with the umpire when he called a wide on the fifth ball. Television replays suggested the ball had hit Alan Mullally's arm before bouncing wide.
Pakistan captain Waqar Younis said the argument just happened in the heat of a very tense moment.
``I saw it go off Mullally's glove which is why I went up to the umpire. It's a human thing to do. But once he's called a wide he can't take it back,'' Waqar said.
Waqar acclaimed his side's fielding. ``I was really pleased with our fielders and the way we ran them out,'' he said after they hit the stumps directly three times for three run outs.
``The fielders were magnificent. You may call it luck. Every time we threw we hit the stumps but we really made them work.''
Forget about the Man of the Match award now, will ya!
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Look at the next match. Pakistan is continuing in an unusal losing streak against the Aussies… are we hoping to reverse it, or are we satisfied being 2nd out of 3 teams? Do we have some sort of mental block that we can’t win against the Aussies or the Springboks (SA)?
And as far as Man of the Match is concerned, there is no rule or precedence saying it can ONLY go to someone in the winning team. It is the single person who had the most contribution in the match. If his team lost in the end, that is not the single-deciding factor. Many times Pakistani players have received Man of the Match awards even when Pak lost the match.
And pls stop looking everything from a racist inferiority complex.. we didn’t get it because we are brown and they got it because they are gora. This is a game, we won, they lost, their one player played well, and got Man of the Match. Move on, now!
I can only empathise with Trescothick who has now had the mixed fortune to hit three international centuries for England to date, and his team have lost on each occasion.