How on earth did Pakistan lose the 4th ODI to Australia?

[Nov15]

People really want Abid Ali in the WC squad based on a single, albeit stellar, performance?

This series, Pakistan should have persisted with tried & tested players who have a realistic chance of making it to the WC. 7 games before WC is no time to experiment. From an Indian POV, our middle order is uncertain but it made sense for the selectors to limit probables to Raydu, Jadhav, Shankar, Pant and not experiment with Shubman Gill, Shaw, etc.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

This was a choke Bangladesh would be proud of.

As a BD fan, I'm rather jealous. Haha.

 

[Manager101]

Check the strike-rate of Haris Sohail and you will know the reason of losing

 

[sam_ahm]

To be honest no surprises here, Pakistan has been losing this way since a long time now.

 

[saeedhk]

The same old problem.The problem has been around for more than a decade. Pakistanis players lack the skills to rotate the strike and totally lack situational awareness.

 

[IAJ]

When you are used to lose so many games you just forget how to finish a game from a winning position. Batsmen don’t know when to accelrate and to how to pace to innings. And then you have a very long tail, players who simply can’t hold the bat.

 

[Mainul]

Haris sohail majorily and Rizwan also cost pakistan match

No. Those batsmen who came to bat after Abid and Rizwan are the culprit.

 

[Mainul]

Once upon a time Pakistan was labelled as an unpredictable team simply because they used to snatch win from a loosing position and also used to loose from winning position . But I cant remember now ,probably it has been more than a decade, when Pakistan won from a loosing situation. It is all about loosing from a certainly winning position. Is Pakistan the new choker of world cricket ? I think so. The title of 'most amazing choker' should be held by 3 teams jointly 'SA,Pakistan and BD'

 

[Junaid_ahmed]

I don't agree with blaming Rizwan. From 80-90, he took 11 balls. From 90-100, he took 7 balls.

He was trying to play percentage shots to get the runs which was the right approach. If the others played their part, we would've won. He doesn't have the game to hit big shots, hitting big shots means he would've thrown his wicket away, and Yasir was at #8 today.

I also don't think he celebrated his hundred that exuberantly. Just waved his bat to acknowledge the applause, no taking off the helmet, jumping around or sajda. He knew there was a match to be won.

What was the required run rate at that time? Though akmal played the wrong but it was Rizwan who should have changed the gear at that point.

 

[MenInG]

What was the required run rate at that time? Though akmal played the wrong but it was Rizwan who should have changed the gear at that point.

Akmal had one job to do which was to take Pakistan close to the winning total. He failed miserably.

 

[Junaid_ahmed]

Akmal had one job to do which was to take Pakistan close to the winning total. He failed miserably.

Indeed akmal failed but rizwan was equally responsible. Have a look at his sr at 50 runs & at 100 runs. My point is he didn't pace his inning according to the requirements & despite the fact that he knew there is a long tail so he should have started playing big when he was at 65 70.

 

[Hasan123]

Because our batting line up couldn't finish the game.

 

[Saj]

It was like a slow death.

In the last 9 overs with each ball you could see that Pakistan were not going to win.

 

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Pakistan were 218/2 after 41 overs
Pakistan finished on 271/8 after 50 overs
Pakistan scored 53/6 from the last 9 overs

How on earth did they lose the game?

This bolded part is the reason why you guys lost the game. Most teams would score 80-100 runs with 8 wicket remaining in the last 10 overs in modern cricket. Centurians did a ok job with an avg SR, rest crumbled without doing much.

 

[GreenKhan]

I am baffled how Rizwan is being blamed for losing the match *.

It seems like we like blaming the person who took the match deep and showed fight .
Rizwans innings throughout was scored at 95-100 SR. When your chasing 270 that basically means he was scoring above the required run rate .

Imad Wasim
Haris Sohail
Umar Akmal

They basically lost us the game as they scored around 35 runs between them selves in 60 balls.

I’m not Gna mention Saad Ali as it was his first match .

But what do we blame rizwan . People Blaming rizwan are most likely Gna be advocating that Umar Akmal to open as all of a sudden his cross bat slogs will turn him into the next bradman as he will time each one to perfection and he will never edge one in the air or play on to the stumps .

 

[GreenKhan]

His SR was pretty much 100 throughout the innings . At one point they needed 60 of 54 balls. He never slowed down the run rate. How is he equally as responsible as Akmal who has a brainless moment again after facing only 9 balls and run rate being around 7!! Gosh the bias of people on here .

 

[GreenKhan]

Akmal had one job to do which was to take Pakistan close to the winning total. He failed miserably.

There was no gear to change . The run rate was 7 just needed to play sensible cricket like Abid and rizwan had done .

 

[TalhaSyed]

I never understand this obsession with automatically blaming the highest scoring batsmen for the defeat.

It reminds me of the quote from the Dark Knight - You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain.

Whenever Pakistan loses - the batsmen either play an incompetent hack and get out early - yet for some reason walk away without any blame. Or the batsmen stick around to give the team a chance and end up being the ones that everyone blames for the defeat.

Let's look at this with pure logic and numbers.

Pakistan needed 278 to win in 50 overs - that's a SR of 93

Abid & Rizwan scored 216 in 221 balls - that's a SR of 98. Therefore, even if they may have slowed down on their approach to 100, they still batted better than what was required. The 2 of them scored 80% of the runs required at a scoring rate which was faster than the required scoring rate. These two can therefore not be blamed for the loss.

The question is why were the other players not able to score 62 runs in 79 balls (a SR of only 78)??? Surely it is only logical for the blame of the loss to fall with these batsmen!

I mean it's a bit of a joke.

Our opener got out for a duck in the first over and his name has been mentioned 1 time in the entire first page of this thread.

Harris Sohail batted at a SR of 58 for 43 deliveries and ate up deliveries, yet his name has been mentioned 9 times on the first page of this thread.

Imad, Saad and Umar lost a game which was handed to them on a platter.

However for some absurd reason, on a thread asking why/how Pakistan lost the game - the two centurions who set the should-have-been-victory up for Pakistan have had their names come up a staggering 55 times!!

That's an absolute joke.