Re: Pakistan vs West Indies - March 13 Sabina Park, Jamaica
Positives: 1. Gul went through injury-free and bowled well.
Malik played a great innings.
Rao bowled tightly in middle overs.
4.PCB must kick Hafeez out sometime soon. Thank the heavens. Thought we saw the last of him but the idiot insaan is back.
5.Afridi will be back next game. Should replace Hafeez. Kaneria, though he did well in patches, needs to make way so we can bolster batting.
Negatives: 1. Rana failed to regain form.
Death bowling was atrocious.
Akmal's keeping was horrendous. 2 run out opportunities, simple ones, missed. Lara dropped.
Openers failed. I still would rather have Nazir in team than Hafeez. He at least has that flair. Hafeez is just a grinder who thinks he can hit.
Inzi and Yousuf plodded around too long to waste their starts. 7 runs in 5 powerplay overs!
6.We now can only afford to lose one more game if we wish to get into semis. Looks like we'll be vs Aus next. Lose that and then we have to win five straight.
That's not strictly true. Even if (that's a big if though) we win 4 of our 6 super-eight games, we would be in contention for a semis place. If we win three it still might come down to the net run-rate. So you can see why winning against not a strong team like WI was so important. It would have made our job than much easier in the next round.