2019 the unluckiest World Cup for Pakistan?

[pakistani pride]

Pakistan are not a good team, they lost matches they needed to win, they batted poorly which is reflected in their NRR, they come into the cup with about 13 losses in a row.

Wake up people, Pakistan made their own fate.

13 JAMODI dude. PAK won 5 out of 8 games at the WC. As said before PAK cricket doesnt stop at the WC 2019. How ever on pure cricketing skills shown at the WC PAK is easily top 4.

When rain plays such a huge role its normal people are frustrated when their team wins 4 in a row and teams like India and NZ play like cowards.

 

[Gilly]

13 JAMODI dude. PAK won 5 out of 8 games at the WC. As said before PAK cricket doesnt stop at the WC 2019. How ever on pure cricketing skills shown at the WC PAK is easily top 4.

When rain plays such a huge role its normal people are frustrated when their team wins 4 in a row and teams like India and NZ play like cowards.

You do know that pure cricketing skills involves:

Catching
Ground fielding
managing run rates
fitness
match awareness
Discipline
focus

 

[Aman]

13 JAMODI dude. PAK won 5 out of 8 games at the WC. As said before PAK cricket doesnt stop at the WC 2019. How ever on pure cricketing skills shown at the WC PAK is easily top 4.

When rain plays such a huge role its normal people are frustrated when their team wins 4 in a row and teams like India and NZ play like cowards.

Pakistan were only really in the mix because half our team lost form, otherwise we would have made the top without the fuss.

It's actually funny that they played this poorly, never playing a single game to their potential and still qualified.

We didn't even field well this tournament and relied on 2-3 players to carry us.

 

[Aman]

^Also, we got really unlucky with a form player getting injured before the WC.

Will Young was coming off 2 centuries and a fifty against Aus A (basically against their WC XI) in Aus in a 3 match series and would have walked into this team.

 

[Gilly]

^Also, we got really unlucky with a form player getting injured before the WC.

Will Young was coming off 2 centuries and a fifty against Aus A (basically against their WC XI) in Aus in a 3 match series and would have walked into this team.

How matches did Starc, Lyon, Cummins play in that Aus A team.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Cumulatively a lot of moments went against us. But the WI performance is the main cause and unforgivable.

 

[blackanhyellow]

Playing weak(er) teams early is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Pakistan got West Indies first up after warming up with 5 ODIs against England, and they made a complete hash of it.

I would put that into context though. However inexcusable that performance was, the pak players were expecting the same batting paradises they got during the England series. Then when there was the extra bounce they were too eager and didn't adjust.

You like to use the word fluke a lot. That was a fluke win for west indies.

Either way there is not denying NZ got the best schedule of all the teams in the tournament. Not to mention got a washout against the second best team in the tournament as well.

Still credit to them, they were able to gather up enough points in the easier matches so regardless of their losses to all top teams they still made it through.

 

[blackanhyellow]

Never ever compare the 1992 PAK team with the current NZ 2019 team

Not once did I compare the two teams.

Just comparing the luck both teams had.

My point was just because NZ were lucky doesn't mean they don't deserve to be there.

Tournaments are funny this way.

 

[Mamoon]

I would put that into context though. However inexcusable that performance was, the pak players were expecting the same batting paradises they got during the England series. Then when there was the extra bounce they were too eager and didn't adjust.

You like to use the word fluke a lot. That was a fluke win for west indies.

Either way there is not denying NZ got the best schedule of all the teams in the tournament. Not to mention got a washout against the second best team in the tournament as well.

Still credit to them, they were able to gather up enough points in the easier matches so regardless of their losses to all top teams they still made it through.

I don't consider wins against an average team as fluke. In my view, West Indies producing that performance against India or England would have been a fluke but not against Pakistan. Such performances are routine for a team that is ranked 6th. We were caught off-guard by the short balls and we didn't have the temperament and the skill to adjust. A professional side would have been able to trot to 200-220 after being reduced to 40/3, but we kept playing the same shots against the same balls.

 

[Aman]

How matches did Starc, Lyon, Cummins play in that Aus A team.

Not sure, most of their WC players were in the team. I think Starc played in all of the games.

 

[rollingstoned]

Even as an Indian, a part of me feels sad today seeing Pakistan having to exit the World Cup.

I feel robbed by this pathetic format.

I feel robbed by the cowardice of India and New Zealand cricket team who threw their matches away without putting up a fight.

Pakistan in terms of current form are right at the top in the World Cup.

It’s not about who deserves what but about how this format and this politics in the cricketing world ensured that a team in red hot form, peaking just at the right team was forced to exit the cup.

It’s a disgrace

pathetic format? lol. this format eliminates 'flukes' more than any other one previously and yet makes you work hard to qualify. It is no one else's but Pakistan's fault that they screwed up their NRR in their very first game and didn't plan adequately hence to recover that blow. Even the games that they did win didn't really put a dent in that deficit which they had to make up from that first game and that really isn't the fault of the format or the other teams who were in this tournament. They're a victim of their own incompetence.

 

[ManFan]

Yes.

But fortune favors the team with the better NRR.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Simon Taufel on the radio unhappy with some of the umpiring and rules. Also said that Pakistan will count themselves unlucky to be knocked out due to Net Run-Rate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CWC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CWC19</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1151101155109429249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Salma_T]

From The Guardian article:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jul/16/cricket-world-cup-special-highs-lows-and-an-otherworldly-final

Pakistan’s rollercoaster ride
When talking about cricket we waste a lot of time talking about nonsense such as batting, bowling and fielding, when really we should just be talking about Pakistan. They were as wondrous as ever during this World Cup, whether in abject collapse to West Indies or in dropping five catches while beating South Africa, and only they could defeat both finalists yet fail to reach the knockouts. Whether in victory or defeat, no other team channels the shining, flowing, spitting force of humanity with such alacrity; represents their people so completely; ravages hearts with base impunity. Within them resides everything that is brilliant about everything.