England v Pakistan | 1st ODI | Chester-le-Street | 10/09/10 | Pak Innings

[billllal]

i dnt know one thing when pak play razzzaq everyone criticise him, when they drop him everyone criticise management,........... so what should they actually do also it was quite clear that razzaq has lost all the venom, cant run, cant bowl and cant even bat...... so what we gonna do with such a player

 

[dirk diggler]

hafeez and afridi costs us

 

[chui_kadoo]

Razzaq will definitly back after this chase. The tail is too long and they can hardly bat

 

[NJamal]

Gul's Bowling cost us the match

 

[UsmanhailsAfridi]

at least they gave it a fight guys. i mean we are on 244... who would ahve guessed that? run rate is pretty good. they tried. instead of the classic collapse button 140 all out

yea u know times are really bad when we are happy with a 'respectable loss' to england...one of the worst teams in ODI cricket by a mile...watch them ripped apart in the WC by other teams

 

[Sir john]

gul trying his best.

 

[chui_kadoo]

We need a decent batting allrounder in the middle

 

[chui_kadoo]

yea u know times are really bad when we are happy with a 'respectable loss' to england...one of the worst teams in ODI cricket by a mile...watch them ripped apart in the WC by other teams

I totally agree

 

[dirk diggler]

ajmal lookint to careess it!

 

[imshally81]

anywayz.... i am satisfy with today performance...
if we have one more good bowler ...i m sure that... we could won

 

[WNC]

A yorker will get rid of Irfan

 

[imshally81]

Irfan will face the ball

 

[anakwalajinn]

shot by irfan

 

[chui_kadoo]

28 off 6 balls

 

[imshally81]

single to irfan
can he hit 6 sixes in 6 ballz

 

[hamzie]

omfg man didnt relaize how much of a giant this guy was until now

 

[Batman]

Pakistan | 9/246 | 40 Overs | England need 1 wicket to win

2 off the over!

15 runs behind England were 6/261 at that stage

 

[dirk diggler]

irfan looks better than afridi

 

[chui_kadoo]

Ends up being a very comfortable victory for England. 5-0 on the cards

 

[hamzie]

akthar, asif, amir. Cmon if we had that bowling attack :/

 

[anakwalajinn]

yeah guys it was better before but thats how it is now. but insha Allah theres always a new game if ur not zimbabwe =P

irfan to smash 5 chakke ?

 

[imshally81]

hit and missed

 

[anakwalajinn]

guyz dont think what it could hav ebeen. no prob. the boys tried. cant always win. remember that there is also another side playing on the field with the same goal as us

 

[TigerJat]

pretty much all over

still a decent chase

wish it were a better eid for me.

At least it wasn't a blowout, there was life in it until about 3 overs left

 

[RumiNYC]

Well played Pak...i was hoping they'll win this one for the sake of Eid...Inshallah next time.

 

[chui_kadoo]

Well played England. Pak have definitly become ur bunnies in all formats

 

[UP]

Unfortunately, we have lost this game but good fight shown.

 

[anakwalajinn]

irfan is much better than I thought. should tro to play out full overs and get 250

 

[anakwalajinn]

2 runs short of 250

 

[imshally81]

Today is the first defeat of pakistan on Eid Day

 

[chui_kadoo]

this match was so winnable....we counted a lot on Afridi i guess

How many times have we said that in recent years but its always the same result

 

[chui_kadoo]

Congrats england

 

[anakwalajinn]

congrats 250 reached

 

[imshally81]

so we lost the match

 

[anakwalajinn]

FINALLY I can go to toilet

 

[chui_kadoo]

Pak need to go back to the drawing board

 

[osee_bhai]

it was just one knock away from victory. Afridi was the difference from bopara. Also all the batsmen who got going all got out trying to force the issue.

 

[Batman]

Pakistan | 9/250 | 41 Overs | England beat Pakistan by 24 runs and lead the series by 1-0

 

[NJamal]

Pakistan lost by 24 runs Well played England.

 

[chui_kadoo]

Gul giving 70 runs in 6 overs cost us dearly

 

[JellyBro]

doesn't even hurt anymore so bring it on! ( )

 

[chui_kadoo]

It ended up a damp Squib

 

[Dondulkar]

Not really an eid gift to the fans by afridi

 

[farazaidi]

Not a bad game for Pakistan. Atleast some positive signs in the batting after two miserable T20s

Afridi needs to be patient with his bowlers. Too many bowling changes, too many fielding changes, it leaves the bowlers high and dry. Also get your best fielders in teh right position, Fawad I think has simply been wasted in last 3 LOIs whereas Yousuf/Razzaq has been fielding at pivotal positions.

Lastly, Asad needs to bat higher than Afridi. He is a proper batsman and needs more time in the middle

 

[anakwalajinn]

should have brought in another opener for butt and let him play isntead of hafeez

 

[Bilsher007]

I knew we would lose the match cause throughout our innings we were well behind the req run rate. Right from start upto middle of overs we batted at 4.5 to just under 5 an over whereas the asking kept rising from 7.0 upwards.


Hafeez and kamran batted well but not well enough to stay level with req run rate of 7 which was the asking rate at the start of our innings.


At the end of first 10 overs our score was 45/0, exactly 25 runs behind the score we should have had. In the end the margin of defeat was 24 runs, we failed to meet req rate in all the overs we batted. Hafeez and yousaf are misfits in the one day team. It was shame watching our batsmen who failed miserably to send a third class bowler like yardy to the cleaners.


Ijaz ahmed as batting coach has so far failed to bring about an inch of improvement in our batsmen's tactics. Pakistan need to bring in yasir arafat, hammad azam and nasir jamshed in the side.