Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
someone’s getting cocky. .
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
Honestly this is a Crucial game for TWO Friendly nations who hardly have anything against each other.
So the team that will land on the ground with more hunger and utterly selfish killer instinct will take it most likely…
hence…PAKISTANI SHERON!!! go get them lankans!! 
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^ True that. They in fact are side made up of almost slimier skills as Pakistan. Lot of all rounders. It should be a good game.
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
peo gai bhai?
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I know you meant similar but this was too funny
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no thanx. .i drank enuff khoon ke aansoo yesterday. .i’m done for a year atleast. .
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I shall never use chrome auto fix 
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awwww :mirch:
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
We’re still almost 24 hours away from the match and this thread is already 3 pages long.
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
We need to have a plan against Ajantha Mendis and esp. Malinga (arguably the best T20 death bowler). All teams have struggled to score runs off his bowling
I honestly think Malinga's only weapon is the "butta" yorker....which sometimes is even misdirected to middle / leg instead of off/middle - specially when he bowls to right handers.
All Pakistani batsmens who are in form with the exception of Nasir are right handed. They simply need to play the yorker for single double and when on leg, then do what they want.
As for Nasir, he needs to watch Malinga since Malinga will be like a fast outswinger for him. He already showed his weakness for outswingers (like most lefties) when gave aussies a chance off Starc but was dropped by Maxwell.
As for mendis, just remember he has 24 balls max. Don't take a chance on him, don't charge him, get 24 runs off his 4 overs and be satisfied.
Same thing that SL will think about Ajmal or Raza.
Inshallah Raza could be X factor for Pakistan for all remaining games.
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
Can afridi please catch a cold or flu - or maybe even diarrhea 
so its a win - win situation and nobody takes the blame AND he does NOT play 
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Good read! :k:
Unpredictable Pakistan become regular semi-finalists](http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-world-twenty20-2012/content/current/story/585347.html)
Abhishek Purohit in Colombo
October 3, 2012
The Premadasa Stadium, in its refurbished avatar, shimmers in the Colombo afternoon heat, its near-vertical stands staring coldly at the tattered outfield, large patches of brown spread like a rash on the green. Last evening Pakistan’s fielders, faced with a win-or-depart situation, threw themselves around on it, without a care for their bodies. Their spinners squeezed all the power and fight out of Australia’s batsmen. The reward was a sixth successive semi-final in an ICC tournament since the double blows of tragedy and disappointment in the 2007 World Cup.
For a side that is called unpredictable, inconsistent, mercurial and the like almost by rote, that is an achievement beyond belief. Even more so, given that they have been reduced to a life lived perpetually out of suitcases for a majority of that period. You wonder whether someone like young Umar Akmal, who started his international career after Pakistan’s international exile began, even knows what it is like to have home advantage.
It has to be one of international sports’ more fascinating stories, if only for the demands the situation places on a group of men to remain largely away from loved ones and the comfort of familiarity, and perform at their peak, every series, every game, every innings. Perhaps, one day, an expressive and thoughtful man like Mohammad Hafeez will be able to reveal just what it takes, mentally and physically, out of him and his players.
For the moment, Hafeez is just proud of what Pakistan have done. “For the past three years we have been away from our home grounds and home crowd,” he said. “We are very much used to it now. It has been a very difficult time for our team. It is amazing and special what we have been able to achieve despite all that, and credit should go to all players and the management.”
Do the six consecutive knockout appearances signal a break from the past - a new set of beliefs, a new method of operation, an end to the chaos, the intrigue, the flux? Far from it. Just sample the number of captains Pakistan have had since the 2007 World Cup: Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Hafeez. Seven. This is without counting the permutations within the seven. The controversies, bans and investigations continued to happen, among them being the attack on the Sri Lanka team, the Sydney Test fallout and the spot-fixing fiasco.
It is tempting to see the latest semi-final appearance from the point of view of what happened after the previous one at the 2010 World Twenty20. Pakistan appear to have regrouped completely and convincingly from the incidents in England that it is easy to view the possibility of another title simply as a break from the recent past, as a final stamp of vindication.
That could be an important undercurrent but the larger picture is that Pakistan have achieved consistency in global tournaments without abandoning the traits that make them so moving to watch as a team, and so infuriating as a system. While the controversies continued, Pakistan also found inspiration from the unlikeliest of quarters at world events.
The standout instance is probably that of Afridi, as volatile with the bat as he is dependable with the ball, producing two bursts of all-round dominance in the semi-final and final of the 2009 World Twenty20. While nowhere close in magnitude, but equally crucial to Pakistan’s chances, was the unexpected burst from Umar Gul the batsman, who stunned the South Africa pace battery a few days ago at the Premadasa. Gul’s cameo was vintage Pakistan, in that it came out of nowhere. Premier fast bowler, under pressure and out of form, comes in at 76 for 7 and starts blasting sixes like nobody’s business.
As the tournament progressed, it seemed as though a team performance similar to Afridi and Gul’s individual freakish brilliance was not far away. And it arrived against Australia, in a match where uncertainty was at its peak. With India slated to play after them, Pakistan had no determinable safe goal to aim for. Except for the requirement that they had to win, and win big.
Pakistan sides somehow find direction in vagueness. While they may have a lot in common with fellow subcontinent teams, such as the ability to play spin, wristy batsmen, susceptibility against genuine pace and swing, the ability to explode from one spark of instinct is decidedly Pakistani. On the day they rediscover it, they are a compelling sight They may find it again in the semi-final, they may not. But watch we must.
Abhishek Purohit is an editorial assistant at ESPNcricinfo
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
its easier said than done. .not jst the toe crushing yorkers, bt he has every delivery a good fast bowler should have. .especially the slower ones. .as a batsman u never noe what to expect from a bowler with a pace and action like him. .its jst dat he’s really wayward some days.. .
Re: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup 2012 1st Semi-Final
" Aisi Ki Taisi " By Siege The Band ( World Cup 2011 Madness ) Full HD 480p - YouTube](http://youtu.be/QH6F4D_Jidk)
Go Pakistan Go !!!
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Come one its not you and I, its batsmen who face the worlds best all the time.
And Malinga is good but its more its unorthodox style that cracks the batsman.
And yes we are looking forward to his bad day 
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all i’m saying is he has other weapons in addition to the yorker. .batsmen should be aware of that. .it’d b a good contest to watch. . .hope it doesn’t turn out a damp squib like some other games in super 8’s. .
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We know the pain well, we are used to it but life goes on, have a sip of
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thanx for offering, buddy. . cheers. .! although it ws heartbreaking to lose the spot after winning the match. .it’ll rankle for some time to come. .it’s like a love story. .I won the world baby, but i lost everything to you. .
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Yaar Afridi, bohat ho gaye hai Bohat ho gaya. Kal kuch toofani kerde bas.
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OK. I might have missed something but tell me again why the heck Pakistan’s kit have different shades of green in trousers & tops? Is it meant to be like this or someone messed up somewhere?
whatever the case, this got to be among worst of their kits
just saying…