Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Pakistan should get RR +2(plus) added to their current RR inshAllah
(something like PK350/50, Cn115/50)
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Pakistan should get RR +2(plus) added to their current RR inshAllah
(something like PK350/50, Cn115/50)
u r betting on Pakistan batting first and a lot of other things....
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Looking forward to this one tomorrow
IS
March 2, 2011, 9:07am
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq during a training session on the eve of Pakistan’s match against Canada in Colombo
aminas
March 2, 2011, 10:45am
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
InshAllah our joker team will do well :k:
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
now thats rude
aminas
March 2, 2011, 10:56am
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
now thats rude
Yes Mr MODERATOR? what did you find so offensive ?
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Yes Mr MODERATOR? what did you find so offensive ?
Why u said joker team
aminas
March 2, 2011, 10:58am
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Why u said joker team
Now do we have to ask YOU before posting anything ?
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
That’s wahab Riaz in the shot with bat in right hand..and the player with his back is perhaps Misbah..
IS
March 2, 2011, 11:56am
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
it was written by cricinfo :sid:
IS
March 2, 2011, 12:57pm
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Pakistan mull changes ahead of Canada game
[Osman Samiuddin in Colombo](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/503866.html#)
March 2, 2011
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Pakistan might choose to rest Shoaib Akhtar for their game against Canada © AFP
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Players/Officials: Waqar Younis
Matches: Canada v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS)
Series/Tournaments: ICC Cricket World Cup
Teams: Pakistan
Pakistan are striving to strike a balance between experimentation and momentum, always a tricky proposition, ahead of their group game against Canada at the R Premadasa on Thursday. Pakistan are currently unbeaten at the top of Group A, and have fielded unchanged line-ups in their first two games against Kenya and Sri Lanka.
Under normal circumstances they would be loath to change a winning XI, but an injury and an opportunity to rest senior players in what is still a long road ahead, is likely to see them make changes in personnel, if not strategy. Abdur Rehman is out with an adductor muscle injury, so Saeed Ajmal has a strong chance to make his World Cup debut.
Pakistan will also consider whether or not to rest Shoaib Akhtar ; the management are keen to handle the 35-year-old fast bowler with care and he played a starring role in a full ten-over performance against Sri Lanka.
Wahab Riaz would be a more than able replacement, but as a former fast bowler, Waqar Younis , the Pakistan coach, knows that rest is not always the best way to go.
“We haven’t decided on the team yet,” Waqar said. “We are thinking about it [of resting Shoaib] but then again, at this age or time, sometimes rest is not good, because you want to get that rhythm and momentum going. You don’t want to take too long a rest because it is too hot and you need to be used to that. So I’m not sure at the moment.”
The magnitude of the event also means that Pakistan want to keep their best XI playing in every game for the sake of momentum and togetherness. “To an extent it is true but then this is a big tournament and you don’t want to take a risk, you want to have you best team available to play every match so that you don’t lose momentum,” Waqar said. "There are a couple of niggles, like Misbah’s
hamstring, but he is okay. Rehman has a problem, but the tournament is such that we want to play our team every match.
“I don’t think there is any easy match or one that can be taken lightly. We played well against Sri Lanka, but it’s still early days. There are bigger teams ahead. It’s good that we won against Sri Lanka, but tomorrow’s another game and we need to come out and keep the momentum going.”
Pakistan have only played Canada once in an ODI, an eight-wicket win at the 1979 World Cup, so this is unchartered territory for both teams. They met at a Twenty20 quadrangular tournament in Toronto in August 2008 but that is it. “We played against them last year in Canada [2008] and we have seen a little bit of them,” Waqar said. “We have seen the videos, so we are going to see the game before we play them tomorrow but we are fully prepared for every single game.”
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of ESPNcricinfo
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Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
So I was on my way to work this morning listening to local new on rAAAdio. Sports news came up and after NHL, next news was abt Cricket :)
"meanwhile on the other side of the world, in Cricket World cup, Zimbabwe beat Canada by 175 runs. Canada has now lost 2 games out of 2 they have played and you can easily count as 3 losses in 3 games as their third game is against one of** Cricket Super Powers Pakistan**"
:)
we are such hypocrites, we live in one country and support another :D but who cares, i love pakistan.
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Should not take Canada lightly tomorrow
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
Why not turn the team upside down like Pakistan opening from the bottom...once they did against the Netherlands and Mushtaq Ahmed opened the innings to bat and Pakistan won... :D
Batting order:
Shoaib Akhtar
Abdur Rehman
Umar Gul
Abdul Razzaq
Shahid Afridi
Umar Akmal
Mishah ul Haq
Younis Khan
Kamran Akmal
Mohammed Hafeez
Ahmed Shehzad
Bowling order:
Abdur Rehman
Shahid Afridi
Mohammad Hafeez
Umar Gul
Abdul Razzaq
Shoaib Akhtar
Canadian Captain: Damn...we took a few wickets but the stalwharts are yet to bat... :D
that would a hilarious match to watch :D
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
:@: Can Rizwan Cheema do an O'Brien tomorrow ?
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
u r betting on Pakistan batting first and a lot of other things....
umm that was just for an example! ...
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
:@: Can Rizwan Cheema do an O'Brien tomorrow ?
No he cant coz the other team does not have Bowlers like Sreesanth and Yusuf Pathan and Zaheer Khan and mubaf patel........:@:
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
we are such hypocrites, we live in one country and support another :D but who cares, i love pakistan.
I am not a Citizen yet. Speak for your self :D
Re: Pakistan VS Canada | 3rd March
I am not a Citizen yet. Speak for your self :D
i am not even canadian, i am american, but i was only saying it as a hypothetical situation. i will support pakistan's team regardless.