Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
i personally think too much success get into our cricketer's head. so acha howa.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
aaaj kuch shairee ka mood hai
*Arz kia hai *
Lagh k balley sai baaal ayee tu dil kanp utha
Akmal nai baal per nazer lagiee tu dik kanp utha
pichleey "missed chances" nai wo dukh deyee hain
k kisi bhi bolwer nai baal kariee tu dil kanp utha.
**Mazeeed Arz kia hai
**main shaier tu nahiiiiiiii
liken.....eeey Akmal...
jub sai tu nai, keeping seekheee
mujhey shairee aaa gaee
**aur us per Mazeed Arz kia hai
**Hamara karoobaar chalta hai Akmal k dum sai
Akmal jo na raha tu kidher jaeen gai
"drop" hotey "Catches" k ho gaeey hain aadee
aaab tu catch pakra tu mar jaeen gai
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
I think its ALL becuz of ICC.. (blame game starts ;) )
Had they included Kamran Akmal in the trio investigation and banned him as well, pak wouldnt have faced this day..
Not sure how many more days to come like that..
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
can someone please delete this thread?
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
Cricket World Cup 2011: dropped catches, 100 runs conceded in five overs. Pakistan are back
**Until Tuesday, Andrew Strauss’s England had been the rollercoaster kings of this World Cup. But Pakistan – traditionally the most mercurial outfit in world cricket – have just reclaimed their crown. **
Triumph and disaster: New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor had a field day in Kandy, but Pakistan keeper Kamran Akmal endured a nightmare Photo: AP
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01757/Briggs_60_1757423j.jpg
By Simon Briggs 8:19PM GMT 08 Mar 2011 Simon’s Twitter
Comment
Having held their nerve brilliantly to defeat Sri Lanka last week, Shahid Afridi’s team descended into farce with a bowling performance of such ineptitude that New Zealand were able to blast 100 runs from their last five overs.
The epic six-hitting of Ross Taylor and Jacob Oram set up New Zealand’s 110-run win in Kandy — a result which left these teams level on points at the top of Group A. It is a slightly misleading statistic, however, given that they have each beaten two minnows and only one serious opponent.
Aside from Pakistan’s extraordinary unpredictability, the match is sure to reopen the debate over the wicketkeeping of Kamran Akmal. At best, he is a serious liability behind the stumps.
Akmal’s contribution – if that is the right word – began in the 14th over, with Ross Taylor new to the crease. First, Taylor edged a peach from Shoaib Akhtar just to his right, only for Akmal to stand stock still as the ball raced between him and slip and away to the third-man boundary.
Then, just two balls later, Taylor edged again. This time, the catch went straight into Akmal’s gloves – and straight out again on to the floor.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
A comprehensive defeat by NZ and a reality check for Afridi and Pakistan.
Australia will thrash us. I am saying this not on the basis of today's performance but because of our problems against Australia in recent times. A lot of it is, as we all know, psychological. Even if we beat Zimbabwe, Pakistan will come 3rd or 4th in group A and face India or England in the QF.
Batting is erratic and inconsistent
Openers are failing to give decent starts
Death bowling was a shambles today
Fielding is diabolical
Diabolical keeping by Kamran (dropping Ross Taylor on 0 & 4) and conceding 114 runs off the last 6 overs cost us the game today. Kamran Akmal is the biggest liability in the team
Chasing is not our strong point. Having seen Pakistan struggle so badly today, most sides will opt to bat first against us after winning the toss
I suppose the most consistent thing about the unpredictable Pakistanis is our fielding. It is consistently bad
Reaching the QFs was always easy. The real contests start from KO stage
I stand by my earlier prediction: Exit at QF stage for Afridi's men which given the tournament's format is not an achievement.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
Calamity Kamran seems undroppable
**How to approach this politely? Ian Chappell was pretty polite. “If his batting was as good as Don Bradman’s,” he said on air, “he couldn’t score enough runs to make up for what he costs them with his keeping.” **
There are many ways in which the depth of denial in Pakistan - in all spheres of life - presents itself to the observer. No better example of it exists than the continued presence of Kamran Akmal in the side, the man to whom Chappell refers so politely. The world knows the worth of Akmal as a wicketkeeper: to be short, he is not one anymore. He is, to steal and twist the wonderful sledge Jimmy Ormond dished out to Mark Waugh once, not even the best wicketkeeper in his family. He’s not even the second-best: Umar Akmal has looked safer than him on the occasions he has kept. **
Yet as Pakistan has changed everything about its cricket over the last four years - captains, selectors, chairmen, players, coaches - Akmal has remained unchanged, unchallenged in his incompetency. Until the beginning of Pakistan’s last summer in England, when there was still a will left to count, he was fluffing comfortably more than one chance per Test: 32 in 25 Tests. His ODI rate cannot be far behind.
There appears no sane reason for it and even an insane one right now would be handy. Shoaib Malik thought him the second-best wicketkeeper-batsman behind Adam Gilchrist during his captaincy, a hallucination rather than delusion. The pair are close, so nepotism was as good a reason as any. But what were the reasons for Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Salman Butt and now, Shahid Afridi to persist with him?
After every show of calamity, when the question is put to anyone in charge, the response is to say it is only one match, that everyone drops a catch occasionally, or the line Waqar Younis trotted out today, that we can’t just blame the one person. We can at least blame those who keep selecting him. Those who argue that he compensates with his batting will kindly direct themselves to the brutality of Chappell’s verdict: no amount of runs can make up for the matches, and as importantly the moments in matches, he has lost. **
The few times he has been dropped in the last four years - for the Asia Cup 2008, after the Australia tour last year, during the English summer - the performances leading into it have been so monumentally negligent that not dropping him might have risked the kind of revolution in Pakistan seen in the Arab world. It would probably take that still to shift him.
In any case he has returned back to the side at the first opportunity. Whether they forget or choose to overlook his errors is irrelevant: it is criminal in both cases. He sneaked into this squad only after being cleared by a board integrity committee. A wicketkeeping committee might have been better placed to rule on it.
Akmal’s three misses - two off Ross Taylor - set the tone for the rest of the innings, Pakistan’s most bedraggled performance in the field in this tournament so far. Their last one, against Sri Lanka, was sparked incidentally by two missed stumpings.
Short of injuring Akmal and sending him back, the only option Pakistan could explore is to play the younger Akmal as a wicketkeeper. In keeping with the cautious nature of the team’s leaders, that seems unlikely. Asked whether they would consider it, Waqar Younis said, “After the World Cup maybe we can think about it, but we are in the middle of the tournament and I don’t think we can make such a change. We have five days off in which we will try to rectify his mistakes because in such a short time we can’t rectify all mistakes. We can’t kick him out at the moment, we can try to make him better for the next game and make sure he won’t make the same mistakes.”
Meanwhile, the state of denial Pakistan remains in about the balance of its side should also take a few knocks here, hopefully. They persist in playing a specialist bowler short to buffer their batting. Playing a batsman at eight - Abdul Razzaq may open the bowling but he is no opening bowler, as tournament figures of 21-4-111-1 testify - has not helped their batting much in their last two games, precisely the situations the strategy is aimed at. Razzaq’s 62 will, no doubt, be used as justification at some point in the future.
When Umar Gul had to be bowled out during the batting Powerplay - and his fine bowling will not even be a footnote - it left the last four overs to be bowled by someone who wasn’t Gul. Those four overs, shared by Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar and Abdur Rehman, went for 92. Razzaq’s four overs of the day went for 49, “a bit off-colour” Waqar said: a little yes, like black and white.
Yet the top order collapse seemed to confirm to Pakistan they need the batting. “We were 120-7 so we were short of batsmen,” Waqar said. “I think 300 was chaseable. We can’t afford to have another bowler in the side, as we are playing with six if you consider Mohammad Hafeez and Razzaq. I don’t think we can manage another bowler.”
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/504885.html
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
Kamran Akmal was pathetic to say the least but, that does not take away the ill-manged game Pakistan played today. Captaincy was flawed. Openers failed again. Shot selection by the middle order batsmen were unsatisfactory. Bowlers failed to close the game.
There has to be some changes in the team. Pakistan has a lot of work cut out for them before the QF starts.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
win / lose - all part of the game
you cant win all the time
laikin - as per mirza Ghalib
aik hota hay haarna
aur aik hota hay zaleel ho kay haarna
zaleel karwa diya iss team nay aaj 
i just cant believe the royal chitrol in the last 5 overs :no:
have never ever seen anything like this - except maybe for that infamous inning by Hussey 
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
It is good to have one bad match out of the way. Better to lose badly than a close game. Pakistan should be fine as the tournament progresses.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
It is good to have one bad match out of the way. Better to lose badly than a close game. Pakistan should be fine as the tournament progresses.
I actually was thinking along the same lines, hopefully Pakistan's share of all 'losses' will be before QF stage.
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
^^ So long as they can fix the underlying systemic issues of keeping, ground fielding and poor opening stands....
As I said to some when the tourney warmups were starting..."if Pakistan make it to the semis...I will consider it a feat after all the calamities this team has gone through in the past 12 months or so..."
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
Ahhhh NZ won... :p
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
It is good to have one bad match out of the way. Better to lose badly than a close game. Pakistan should be fine as the tournament progresses.
The game against Australia (which I expect Aussies to win) will show if Pak learned anything from the NZ game
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
lo jee...jokers nay apniee zaat dekha dee...LOL...what else to say...not even a third class associate team would bowl that bad in death overs...keep blaming akmal (and for a right reason) but what about the utter marassi pun of last 4 overs? sariee qaum hee joker ban chukiee ha…..so why blame players....they are also one of them…osman samiudin sort of pointed out this stark reality in today’s article when he said “There are many ways in which the depth of denial in Pakistan - in all spheres of life - presents itself to the observer”
lets face…we are mentally extremely weak and that leads to unpredictability
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
bhai sachee baat hai mairee tu himmat hee nahi hoie Highlights k link ko lick kerney ke :D
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
From cricinfo:
The day’s ironic moment came when Kamran Akmal edged to slip and watched Taylor, whom he had dropped twice in single digits, take a low catch without even the faintest fumble. 
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
Hahahahahahahahahhahahaha 
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
A lose didn’t mean the team is damaged 
The boys in green need our support. 
STANDS UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS
Re: Pakistan VS New Zealand | 8th March
lolz.. 