Well put it on umpiring or what ever but the fact that too many player tried to guide the ball down to thirdman area and missed around 80% of those shots (the few who coneccted guided it to keeper/slip) ..... when u've seen so much bounce then the approach should've been different and that too for bowling at the death ..... no yorkers but short of good lenght if u've the pace and Gul surely has it .... *Afridi + Rana getting out straight away after hitting a boundary *
There r few things to learn from the defeat and i'm sure they'll learn and hopefully com back stronger against NZ and Aussies later this year
But hey they did well i'm proud of them ..... Keep it up boys :)
Agreed. The above strategy worked against India (when Yousuf hit many boundaries in that region) but failed yesterday. It was a different pitch with more bounce & seam movement and they should have been looking to play straight and milk singles and twos on the leg side
We also need to have depth in our batting in order to make use of the second batting power play. Hence dropping Razzaq was the strangest and most stupid decision by PCB (and I said it BEFORE the start of the tournament..). We wasted PP against both India and NZ. Against India it did not matter because the score was already quite good but it cost us yesterday. They should have taken batting PP when Yousuf and Akmal were at the crease