England (160/4) defeat Pakistan (158/7) by 6 wickets to win the 1st T20I

[MenInG]

Pakistan made a mess of things after a good start but can their bowler hit back?

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[imshally81]

Easy for England.. We are clearly 25 runs short

 

[Titan24]

How many times players can pull of 7-8 balls 20s? It not something you plan your game on completely

160 is still something on board but, bowlers need to deliver something special

 

[Marooned]

I still can't believe on such a great batting surface we ended up mustering some 150 runs.

Like how is it even possible to be this bad??

 

[Marooned]

How many times players can pull of 7-8 balls 20s? It not something you plan your game on completely

160 is still something on board but, bowlers need to deliver something special

Won't swing I feel, so no chance.

 

[Fazzy321]

Only positive from today is we tried two different middle players today Shan and Haider

 

[imshally81]

We need to change our batting order for the next game...

3 - Shan
4 - Haider
5 - Iftikhar
6 - Asif instead of Khushdil

 

[Asif321]

Apart from Naseem and Dahani this is one of most boring T20 team after the misbah led one

 

[Sherazkhalid]

We are going for WC with this team, who we try next? Sharjeel? Malik? We don't have anyone in the middle order, can't blame openers for today's game, feel Haider was too complacent and slow.

 

[Justcrazy]

We need to change our batting order for the next game...

3 - Shan
4 - Haider
5 - Iftikhar
6 - Asif instead of Khushdil

That will not change anything , Pakistan was making progress in white ball under Mickey , but they sacked him. It was a big mistake.

 

[Marooned]

Let Haider play all 7 games. Bring jamaal for Khushdil.

Enough of this fraud.

 

[Rana]

Hales international sr of 3 years ago is 136

Sharjeel or 5 years ago is 133

 

[alone1213]

Naseem has to bring the intensity of Asia Cup.

 

[t_kaay]

I still can't believe on such a great batting surface we ended up mustering some 150 runs.

Like how is it even possible to be this bad??

It's not a great batting surface once the ball gets older

 

[shariqnoor]

Pakistan's problem in T20s is batting first because Babar and Rizwan just do not know when they can go all out attack knowing there's literally no batsmen down the order that can continue with the run-rate. This is one of the reason why they are delaying upping the run-rate. Today the middle order got half the innings and couldn't score at more than 8.

Chasing is much more easy because those two know exactly what is required and when they need to attack. Asia Cup was an exception because Babar got out early every time.

 

[Sherazkhalid]

Slapped first ball. 4s

 

[imshally81]

No slip.. Very bad captaincy

 

[t_kaay]

Gives him a slip......chucks it down leg

 

[Rana]

Pakistan's problem in T20s is batting first because Babar and Rizwan just do not know when they can go all out attack knowing there's literally no batsmen down the order that can continue with the run-rate. This is one of the reason why they are delaying upping the run-rate. Today the middle order got half the innings and couldn't score at more than 8.

Chasing is much more easy because those two know exactly what is required and when they need to attack. Asia Cup was an exception because Babar got out early every time.

Oh bhai khudda ke liye stop defending them!!!

Rizwan bats exactly like this for MS too! They have Russouw and Tim David at 4 and 5!!

 

[Sherazkhalid]

2 balls 10 runs. Nice.

 

[mrtaim3]

Hit for a four first ball and taking off slip. What a poor poor captaincy

 

[Cric1234]

It’s easier to open on this pitch ball comes in nicely then it becomes tougher once the ball gets older and the spinners come on.

 

[TeymurBlake]

Haider Ali was way too laboured in his approach. He should started aggressively knowing Babar & Rizwan had laid a solid platform.

 

[Snowflake]

Babar following the ball.

 

[Madplayer]

This will be over in 12 overs if they bowl like this.

 

[Rana]

This is called intent!

He hasn’t played international T20 cricket for 3 years!

 

[alone1213]

Bad first over by naseem

 

[Sherazkhalid]

Thinking of it, Rizwan was suppose to take rest, we be like 130 without him.

 

[Fazzy321]

Better ball from Naseem

 

[Rana]

Thinking of it, Rizwan was suppose to take rest, we be like 130 without him.

We will see once it happens

 

[Omer2002]

Par score here is 190 so i think we were rather awful

 

[Kroll]

Eng are such a gun batting side. Spinners need to dry them up.

 

[Snowflake]

We're not winning this. So, I hope Eng can show us how to play T20s. I really want them to go hard at us to show our management what we're doing wrong.

 

[daytrader]

Spin will be key. Should try to maximize Iftikhar and Khushdil's overs

 

[Markhor]

Sloppy first over from Pakistan.

It’s easier to open on this pitch ball comes in nicely then it becomes tougher once the ball gets older and the spinners come on.

Yep - although you'd think England's batters would play spin better than our guys.

Usman Qadir is liable to bowl one bad ball an over too.

 

[Kroll]

Spinner now blocking them off.

 

[Marooned]

Eng are such a gun batting side. Spinners need to dry them up.

Problem is there's nothing to work with. Too little on board to put them under pressure.

 

[daytrader]

We're not winning this. So, I hope Eng can show us how to play T20s. I really want them to go hard at us to show our management what we're doing wrong.

We got a solid start today. Where did we go wrong?

 

[Kroll]

4 dots

 

[Nasty Naz]

Salt with a 150 SR in T20 career. I wish we had domestic batsmen like this.

 

[Kroll]

Railed it in a bit

 

[Marooned]

Great over Nawaz.

Khushdil should bowl today.

 

[Madplayer]

Lets see what Dahani does

 

[Kroll]

Salt with a 150 SR in T20 career. I wish we had domestic batsmen like this.

Jeez, didn't know that, its like they have a conveyor belt of producing these brutes.

 

[Cric1234]

We got a solid start today. Where did we go wrong?

Miscalculated what was par score 170 looked close to par but the batsmen thought they needed more.

 

[Sherazkhalid]

We got a solid start today. Where did we go wrong?

The middle order is not up to task, plus Haider Ali took his sweet time and then got out

 

[Markhor]

Poor first over from Babar but a good move to introduce Nawaz with the two RHBs and he's started well.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Dahani on. Now this lad excites me a bit, even if it's not the right pitch for pacers.

 

[Marooned]

Lofted drive. We didn't even try one!

 

[Cric1234]

Haider is better suited to open the innings and make quick runs than playing the spinners during the middle overs.

 

[Snowflake]

We got a solid start today. Where did we go wrong?

Babar could've been a lot more attacking. On this pitch, it's very easy to hit through the line when the ball is new...we didn't do that.

We also did not capitalize on the solid start and started to, for some bizzare reason, just rely on single and doubles in the middle overs. Eng can go at it throughout and finish this off with overs to spare.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

And a wicket, although that was hit at some knots.

 

[Rana]

Tuk tuk Salt gone

 

[Madplayer]

Thats Haider's wicket lol what a catch

 

[Marooned]

Haider!!!

What a catch

 

[Ashmal]

Great catch Haider...

 

[mrtaim3]

KFCs 50k per wicket is shamefull. These are even less than peanuts for KFC.

 

[Snowflake]

Lofted drive. We didn't even try one!

So easy

 

[Nasty Naz]

Wow Haider with a blinder. Big catch.

 

[Marooned]

Malan tuk tuk.

He's a keeper lol.

 

[Markhor]

That was a cracking catch.

 

[alone1213]

145ks from dahani.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

what a catch !!!!!!! Catches win matches..

 

[Madplayer]

Dangerman Hales looking like a man on a mission

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Catches like this will lift the team UP

 

[Nasty Naz]

English fielders stopped 3 boundaries. Look at the difference it makes.

0 runs vs 7 runs right there in 2 deliveries.

 

[Rana]

Malan tuk tuk.

He's a keeper lol.

Malan the T20 player >>> Babar and Rizwan

 

[Minnowbasher]

England ain't no pushover
159 is a walk in the park for them

Should've gotten 180 minimum considering the start we had.

 

[daytrader]

Babar could've been a lot more attacking. On this pitch, it's very easy to hit through the line when the ball is new...we didn't do that.

We also did not capitalize on the solid start and started to, for some bizzare reason, just rely on single and doubles in the middle overs. Eng can go at it throughout and finish this off with overs to spare.

Bro we were going at a RR of 9.22 when he got out. Unfair criticism of him. If they continued at same pace, we would've ended up with 180+

 

[Minnowbasher]

Hales has played as much cricket here as most of the Pakistani players. He's the biggest threat here.

 

[MenInG]

What a catch it was!

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[Marooned]

Malan the T20 player >>> Babar and Rizwan

He is a proper tuk tuk imo.

 

[Rana]

Malan proper no.3 for his side

Babar too scared to play this position?

 

[Rana]

He is a proper tuk tuk imo.

He’s a true no.3 in T20i

He plays his role perfectly

 

[Nikhil_cric]

English team donating today's pay for flood victims ? Nice gesture.

 

[Nasty Naz]

England playing aerial shots in the powerplay because it's hard to consistently get boundaries along the ground.

 

[Snowflake]

Bro we were going at a RR of 9.22 when he got out. Unfair criticism of him. If they continued at same pace, we would've ended up with 180+

We were going at 9.22 despite of him, not because of him. Also, you do know that PP is meant to be taken advantage of because of fielding restrictions? We didn't see any sixes during PP my friend!!! How crazy is that?

 

[Marooned]

Can't believe what a mess we made of it. From 85-0 to 158 total.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Ball is keeping low. Bowlers need to relentlessly target the stumps lines now.

 

[Markhor]

Ball is keeping low. Bowlers need to relentlessly target the stumps lines now.

This is a relaid pitch. All that drama from Ramiz and bringing in an Aussie curator, ball already keeping low first match after 25 overs.