Re: Pakistan V Australia - 3rd T/20
Australia also collapsed badly in the first game but you have got to admit, among the major teams, Pakistan batting is more likely to misfire than any other team. You just hope that it doesn’t happen in one of the KO games … a huge huge ask imo. To win a mega tournament like the world cup, your batsmen have got to deliver in EVERY game. That’s a very big ask considering our unreliable batting
I know the series was already won but this was an international match not a benefit match. A more professional team like Australia would not have surrendered like us. Quite a disgusting batting performance. No excuse for it
If Australia were in Pakistan’s position they would’ve played yesterday’s T20 like it was a T20 WC Final. That is the difference between the respective approaches of the two teams
Sending a “batsman” (Malik) at #3 who’s atrocious against the swinging ball was plain stupid
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The dead rubber excuse is irrelevant and unacceptable to me**
And the most important point … Our entire batting line up is made up of bits and pieces batsmen, with the possible exception of Nasir Jamshed. Besides Jamshed I don’t rate anyone else as a specialist batsman in today’s lineup, not even Umar Akmal. Sooner or later it was going to catch up with us and it happened yesterday. It all starts at the top, too bad Hafeez won’t put his ego aside and let a proper batsman open with NJ.