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Y Hameed is injured, instead of Imran Nazir maybe we shoudl try out Salman Butt.
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if Y Hameed is down then bring Salman Butt in place of Hafeez and not Nazir.
ur bangali students must thank yoyo for sparing their lives:hehe:
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did anyone tell you that you look like Yasir Akhtar in that little picture.
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nope you are the firstr one!!!
a very close finish, wont build too much confidense ahaed of the South African series. I hope Shoaib plays in the next match and we really need to win that won by a huge margin to boost some confidence.
Pakistan edge Rawalpindi thriller
Yousuf Youhana scripted another gritty innings to lead Pakistan to a fourth consecutive victory in the one-day series against Bangladesh. Set 223 for victory, Pakistan eked home with five wickets, and one ball to spare, Youhana’s contribution being an elegant 94.
Shoaib Malik and Youhana had restored sanity to the proceedings after Inzamam ul-Haq’s dismissal, and the run-rate came down to a run-a-ball before disaster struck. Malik steered a Tapash Baisya delivery to midwicket, where Alok Kapali made a superb diving stop. He was into the throw almost before he was off the ground, and Baisya whipped off the bails with Malik way short of the crease (205 for 5).
After Mashrafe Mortaza conceded 8 in the penultimate over, Pakistan needed 7 from six balls. But then, Youhana picked off 5 from Baisya’s first three balls, before Razzaq took a single to tie the scores. Fittingly, it was Youhana that sealed it with a four down to deep midwicket. When the pressure mounted, Bangladesh couldn’t cope, with fielding lapses aplenty in the final stages.
Pakistan had bolted out of the stalls in pursuit of 223, with Imran Nazir belting a four off Mortaza in the first over. Runs came quickly early on, with Nazir in punishing form, thumping fours through point and the leg side. Mohammad Hafeez had made sedate progress to 9 when he chipped a delivery from Baisya to short midwicket, where Rajin Saleh took an excellent catch (35 for 1). Nazir, who lost his place in the Pakistan set-up largely as a result of his reckless approach, then showed that he had learnt nothing at all with an ugly hoick off Baisya that ballooned to Hannan Sarkar at cover. Nazir made 28 from just 24 balls.
Youhana and Younis did nothing special:hehe:, but they steadily picked off the runs to ensure that Pakistan didn’t fall too far behind the asking rate. It was an innocuous delivery from Mohammad Rafique that changed the complexion of the game. Younis, who had nudged and pushed his way to 37, went for the pull and was declared leg before when he failed to make contact (135 for 3).
Youhana pulled a four and a six off Khaled Mahmud to lessen the frowns on the spectators’ faces, but when Inzamam miscued a pull off Mortaza to Baisya at deep midwicket, the jitters started in earnest (170 for 4).
Earlier, Bangladesh had recovered from a big mid-innings stutter to rattle off 77 runs in the final 10 overs, and finish with a challenging total of 222 for 8. Tushar Imran, Mushfiqur Rahman and Mahmud thrashed their bats around with some joy in the final stages, after Pakistan had controlled proceedings for much of the first 40 overs.
Having slumped to 144 for 5, Imran and Rahman launched a spirited counter-attack. Junaid Zia, whose every move is scrutinised on account of his being the PCB boss’s son, was the object of their harshest treatment, and he went for 46 from six overs, including one in which Imran slammed him for three fours.
Imran made a 31-ball 33 before Umar Gul, the pick of the bowlers yet again, returned to trap him leg before, playing across the line (193 for 6). But Rahman and Mahmud played some punishing shots to take the score past 200 before being yorked by Gul and Mohammad Sami respectively.
Bangladesh’s experiment of opening with Khaled Mashud was an abject failure. Gul and Sami both threatened in their opening spells, and it was Sami - just back in the side after his injury woes - that sent Mashud packing for a four-ball duck, trapped plumb in front of the stumps (9 for 1).
Sarkar and Saleh chose circumspection over flamboyance as Bangladesh attempted to fight back. But progress was slow, the the first four of the innings, a cover-drive from Saleh off Gul, didn’t arrive until the 12th over. Soon after, Razzaq, just introduced into the attack, struck a second blow.
Sarkar had lashed the second ball of the over through extra-cover for four, and he followed it up with a fortuitous inside-edge that fetched him four more. But two balls later, Razzaq had his revenge, getting a ball to shape back in and rap Sarkar on the pads. Replays seemed to suggest that the contact was outside the line, but umpire Tiffin lifted his finger to send Sarkar on his way for 25 (47 for 2).
Both Habibul Bashar and Saleh struggled to impose themselves on a Pakistan side that bowled with great discipline and vigour. The only blot for Pakistan was Inzamam going off the field for treatment after being struck a nasty blow on the arm by a Bashar drive.
With overs ticking away, Bashar decided to chance his arm. Zia was the victim, being cut powerfully for two fours, and also being flicked down to fine-leg. The partnership had assumed alarming proportions when some brilliant fielding from Sami saw Pakistan wrest back the initiative. He chased down an edge from Saleh, and his throw from the rope knocked out the stumps with Bashar short of his ground (117 for 3). Bashar, after a slow start, made 37 from 66 balls.
Saleh departed soon after, leg before to Hafeez for a patient 47 (126 for 4) and when Kapali played on to Razzaq a few minutes later, Bangladesh were under the cosh. But the lower order put up enough resistance to ensure that Pakistan had to perspire heavily to make it 4-0 later in the evening.
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i think you raise an interesting dillemma...we all believe pakistan should rebuild but rebuilding means losing more than you win (but learning from the losses)...we've proven in the past month that we'd rather win ugly than lose and learn something from it (as fans)...can you fathom losing to bangladesh, it would have been humiliating...so then what do we do? keep applying spare parts and winning or starting from the ground up?
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i thought Our Cheif selector Sb. said no more experiments
but since we've won the ODI series and r 4-0 up why not give atleast those a chance who r busy carrying only drinks on to the field
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nope you are the firstr one!!!
a very close finish, wont build too much confidense ahaed of the South African series. I hope Shoaib plays in the next match and we really need to win that won by a huge margin to boost some confidence.
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I dont think batting first matches arent confidence booster.... They were easy wins... Pakistan needs a comfortable chase in the last match, with or without shoaib. Though i believe that we are getting better at chasing, Since the WC we have chased successfully quite a few times!
does anybody have any idea y naved-ul-hasan was dropped after sharjah cup even though he performed pretty good.
FIRST-CLASS
(1995/96 - 2002/03)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 46 66 9 1535 117 26.92 1 6 24 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 1458.1 275 4801 211 22.75 7-49 13 2 41.4 3.29
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1999/00 - 2003)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 35 31 9 658 70* 29.90 0 4 16 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 277.5 15 1370 47 29.14 4-48 2 0 35.4 4.93
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does anybody have any idea y naved-ul-hasan was dropped after sharjah cup even though he performed pretty good.
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ND u will hear that question here plenty of times with reffering to different players
Good game. What happened to Yassir? He is injured you were saying Ehsan bhai, cause I have'nt seen that anywhere else.
This whole Junaid Zia thing has gone too far, time to let the guy go. His dad should do it for his own good, there is just too much pressure and criticism of him (most of if being fair)
I have had enough of Hafeez as well. The guy just does'nt look to great, especially in ODI's. There are too many good players out there to have him struggling every game to make 8 or 9 runs in 20-30 balls then get out. It is getting out of hand.
Umar Gul impressed again, man this guy could be something special in time.
Youhana is in full-swing! Damn, I love thriller matches. Just one ball to spare and Pakistan won. Must be an exciting game!
Mohammad Sami came back from injury, took 3 wickets, made one run-out.. 
ahaan ahaan… though gave away 7 extra runs (Maatlab he bowled 1 extra over) 
Kaab sudray ga Sami! This is the only flaw Sami has got…else I like this fella!
Shoaib Malik’s bowling figures were decent, Razzaq, Hafeez and Gul were good. Bangladesh couldn’t have passed 200 runs if Junaid Zia hadn’t been in today’s match.
Damn! that was one close match!
Glad to see Abdul Rauf given a chance :k: He is a highly successful domestic bowler , lets see if he makes some impression in this last match!
How old is Abdul Rauf and how long has he been around? It'll be good to finally see the guy in action but Shabbir Ahmed's a bit unlucky to be left out, he's bowled well since he came in.
Shabbir Ahmed is in the squad. The full squad for the game on sunday is as follows:
Squad: Inzamam-ul Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Imran Nazir, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami, Abdul Rauf, Shabbir Ahmed, Umer Gul, Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt, Danish Kaneria.
I would like Pakistan to chase again to gain some more experience before the SA tour begins next week.
Junaid Zia not in the team?? 
How could they do it?
Yes I am heart broken too. 
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Yes I am heart broken too. :D
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me toooo Ehsan Bhai :( Sheesha Ho Ya Dil Ho...Aakhir Toot Jaata Hai
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Inzamam-ul-Haq gets advice from Javed Miandad
Pakistan set for clean sweep against Bangladesh
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan is set for a clean sweep against its first foreign cricket visitors in 15 months when it meets Bangladesh for their fifth and final one-day match in the southern port city Karachi.
A win Sunday would also shoot Pakistan from eighth to fourth spot in International Cricket Council (ICC) one-day rankings, behind world champions Australia, South Africa and England.
“It would be icing on the cake to take fourth spot,” said Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq. “We definitely set a 5-0 win (as our goal) against Bangladesh before the series.”
Pakistan has already whitewashed the tourists 3-0 in a Test series and won the four one-day matches played so far.
“The most important thing for me is the winning run. Once a team develops the habit of keeping the winning sequence it doesn’t matter who the opponent is.”
The match also provides Pakistan a chance to rehearse security drills for Friday’s one-day match against South Africa, who have agreed to play in the city of 14 million only after clearance by their security delegation.
Stringent security will be in place to avoid any mishap.
South Africa has warned that any minor incident could change their decision of playing in the city.
For Sunday’s match Pakistan has dropped controversial pacer Junaid Zia, the 19-year-old son of Pakistan Cricket Board chairman retired general Tauqir Zia.
After taking three wickets for 127 runs in four games, Zia will be replaced by uncapped fast bowler Abdul Rauf.
Bangladesh are still licking their wounds following a close five-wicket defeat in the fourth match at Rawalpindi.
“We couldn’t field well in the last two overs, perhaps the players were never in a situation like that before but I am sure they would do better,” Bangladesh skipper Khaled Mahmud said.
Teams are:
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Pakistan : Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir, Yasir Hameed, Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain), Yousuf Youhana, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan, Shabbir Ahmad, Umar Gul, Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Sami, Danish Kaneria, Salman Butt
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Bangladesh: Khaled Mahmud (captain), Hanan Sarkar, Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful, Sanwar Hossain, Razin Saleh, Alok Kapali, Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Murtaza, Tapash Baisya, Mushfique Rehman, Hasibul Hossain, Tushar Imran
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Umpires: Russell Tifin (ZIM) and Nadeem Ghauri (PAK). TV umpire: Aleem Dar (PAK). Match referee: Mike Procter (RSA)
I hope Abdul Rauf able to make his debut tomorrow!
Isn’t Pakistan in the 4th place now? 