Re: Pakistan vs India at Birmingham ICC Champions Trophy 4th June 2017
just read this ..world is laughing at us. we are the biggest jokers of the cricket world. lakh dee lanat pakistan. what a pathetic team
read below
***In a perfect world, Mohammad Irfan would have been the other fast bowler, making life infrequently uncomfortable, but he’s unavailable because he failed to report a corrupt approach.
Sure, they could have picked Sharjeel Khan - the second quickest scorer in Powerplays who averages 44 with a strike rate of 130 since the last World Cup - but they can’t because he’s in trouble for corruption as well.
Because Pakistan do not bat well, their best chance was to take wickets, and their leading wicket-taker since the last World Cup is Hasan Ali, who takes a wicket every 26 balls. To celebrate that fact, he came on in the ninth over.
Even with Mohammad Amir bowling well, Sarfraz took out the second slip, and an edge went past the solitary wide slip. There was another edge, a top-edged hook that would have been caught at fine leg if they had a fine leg, making you wonder why Amir was trying the bouncer in the first place.
So it seemed Pakistan’s plan was to let India do roughly what India wanted to do.
there was the normal Pakistan jalebi fielding where they run around balls in the deep instead of trying to cut them off.
Even club sides can find one person who’s not got a midriff bulge, who can move, bend and throw to field at point. But no, not Pakistan, they have Ahmed Shehzad. He doesn’t patrol point; he just happens to be standing there. So when the ball comes his way he falls over it, and before Imad has had a chance to build pressure, he’s gone for two runs.
You could argue there were worse crimes than Sarfraz’s captaincy, and most of the time he looked as annoyed and confused as everyone else.
The final over was delivered by Imad, who had been a sea of calm in an ocean of crap for most of the day. He now had to step up for two injured bowlers and did well to restrict the over to 23 runs.