Date and Time: December 25th 2012, 18:30 PST
Venue: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, India
Coverage: PTVSports
Teams:
Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez (c), Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal (wk), Umar Akmal, Umar Amin, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Babar, Ahmed Shehzad
After Sachin has gone and India up in arms protesting the delhi rape there is rarely any excitement here. May be overseas Indians are more excited about it.
The old rivalry of the 80s doesn’t exist anymore despite what the media & fans might tell you (see below). Times have changed. Besides the present teams lack big names. If we win I will be happy, if we don’t, congrats to India … it is not the end of the world! The two teams might meet again in CT next year
It is just a limited overs series. Had tests been included as well the series would have carried much greater significance imo
Besides if India win, it won’t tell us things we didn’t already know, that our current batting is just not good enough, that our our players can’t handle pressure etc.
If we do manage to spring a surprise and beat them it won’t suddenly mean that our batting is world class
All we want to see is a good tight contest, some fight
1.Ahmed Shahzad
2.Nasir Jamshed
3.Hafeez ( I hope he comes at 3 and doesnt open)
4.Umar Akmal
5.Shoaib Malik
6.Kamran Akmal
7.Shahid Afridi
8.Mohammad Ifran
9.Saeed Ajmal
10.Umar Gul
11.Junaid Khan
good choice apart from Mohammed Irfan. isnt this the tall guy who played for Pak in tests in England. we already have 6 bowlers without playing Irfan, so why play him, bring in another batsmen instead, maybe umar Amin.
