Re: Pathetic performance
Small run chases can be tricky. It was disappointing that we could not win from that position (113/3) but these things happen in cricket. I thought India bowled and fielded very well
It is not just Pakistan but also other teams who have had problems with low run chases in the past. West Indies could not chase 183 against India in the 1983 World Cup Final (it was a 60 over game!). And in the mid-80s Pakistan lost to India at Sharjah despite restricting them to 125. Imran Khan's 6/14 (It was his come-back game) was in vain
Pakistan have had the same problem in test cricket recently (Galle test v SLA 2009 collapsed to 117 all out chasing 168 for victory, Sydney test 2010 collapsed to 139 chasing 176 for victory)
Once you have dismissed the opposition cheaply, you should be saying to yourself as a team 'let's go & get these runs at a reasonable rate, say in 40 overs'. You should n't be thinking about batting the full 50 overs or leaving it till the last overs.
Pak batsmen just don't rotate the strike well. We either have good hitters (UA, Jamshed) or tuk tuk players (Younis, Misbah and Malik). Too often they go into their shells and fail to keep the scoreboard moving, thus putting more pressure upon themselves. They make the target seem more difficult than it actually is with their overcautious approach. This is what exactly happened with Younis (attempted an expansive drive instead of playing the ball on merit because runs were hard to come by) and Umar Akmal (was unnecessarily stumped in the final PP over). One could see it coming. One could almost sense in that final PP over that UA would do something stupid soon. He should have realised that the RRR was still a very manageable under 4 RPO. Both crumbled under pressure.
Anyways we shouldn't be too critical, there are definitely areas in which we need to improve but overall the team exceeded our expectations.
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If pk wins the series 3 - 0 , they are not gonna get another series with india.
India is super power in cricket finanically and every one wants to play with them. So 1 match is new year gift
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It had nothing to do with Misbah being a bad/good leader. We had to lose this one, or our team wouldn't have made it out of India alive. Pakistani team mobbed. Pakistan launches an offensive on India. Nuclear war. Sounds great doesn't it. Stop whining. 2-1 is great.
Thats right, all the delhi crowd stayed till end to lynch pakistani team with stakes and firewood ready just in case we lost. Also the hotel management prepared acid drinks to welcome pakistani team.
Meanwhile, RSS had planned a bomb blast with the help of CIA-RAW-Mossad. While Shiv Saniks were waiting at a traffic light with machine guns to attack pakistani bus.
Thats how we are man, i am glad you lost on purpose.
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Thats right, all the delhi crowd stayed till end to lynch pakistani team with stakes and firewood ready just in case we lost. Also the hotel management prepared acid drinks to welcome pakistani team.
Meanwhile, RSS had planned a bomb blast with the help of CIA-RAW-Mossad. While Shiv Saniks were waiting at a traffic light with machine guns to attack pakistani bus.
Thats how we are man, i am glad you lost on purpose.
You forgot the F16 Fighter Planes we had flying around the Stadium just incase Pakistan won.. ;-)
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Agree with OP re Misbah. While I did not watch the match I can safelyassume his strike rate was low. Dhoni at times does the same thing. And tries to be hero at the end. Got to at least look for singles.
Re: Pathetic performance
Small run chases can be tricky. It was disappointing that we could not win from that position (113/3) but these things happen in cricket. I thought India bowled and fielded very well
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Once you have dismissed the opposition cheaply, you should be saying to yourself as a team 'let's go & get these runs at a reasonable rate, say in 40 overs'. You should n't be thinking about batting the full 50 overs or leaving it till the last overs.
Pak batsmen just don't rotate the strike well. We either have good hitters (UA, Jamshed) or tuk tuk players (Younis, Misbah and Malik). Too often they go into their shells and fail to keep the scoreboard moving, thus putting more pressure upon themselves. They make the target seem more difficult than it actually is with their overcautious approach. This is what exactly happened with Younis (attempted an expansive drive instead of playing the ball on merit because runs were hard to come by) and Umar Akmal (was unnecessarily stumped in the final PP over). One could see it coming. One could almost sense in that final PP over that UA would do something stupid soon. He should have realised that the RRR was still a very manageable under 4 RPO. Both crumbled under pressure.
Anyways we shouldn't be too critical, there are definitely areas in which we need to improve but overall the team exceeded our expectations.
That was the key, if you look at bowling map of India's bowlers you will see how disciplined they were, then you look at Umar Gul's map and you will see he was drawing world's map with his bowling. Umar Gul was the the real difference. Apart from that any lose balls was hit by Pakistani batsmen but it found a fielder hungry to stop it, Indian team was sharp in fielding and choked the run rate.