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ICC CT 2017 | India v Pakistan | 4th June, 2017 | Birmingham | India innings

Again what has become typical Pakistani captaincy during the last 10 years: worry about the last 10 when you are being destroyed presently. Put all the fielders out and be content conceding 6-7 easy runs every over and then get tonked in the last 10. Barring an Indian collapse, this match is as good as over.
 
Poor batting by Rohit.

So much batting to come and yet no risks taken.

1 run is inexcusable.
 
Very very good from Amir.

Bring Malik on from the other end I guess. Need to get the 5th bowler's quota out of the way ASAP.
 
pretty sure sarfaraz will bowl him for two overs and then bring him back at the end.
 
Indians being hurt by the presence of Rohit.Sooner he gets out,the better.
 
This "plan" by Sarfraz and co was terrible, don't really get why we qualified for the CT anyway.
 
He can make up for it. That is why not many get mad after him. If Rahane had done the same people would have been ****** off.

Exactly, people need to chill, Sharma has already gotten 2 double hundreds and he started slow there too. Rahane has only one gear
 
Surprised Hafeez hasn't been given an over yet

He is better than Malik, so very surprising
 
Rohit is struggling to rotate strike and putting pressure on Kohli, now.

Good bowling by Hasan and Amir, so far.
 
[MENTION=139678]Zak_Fan[/MENTION] [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] hope you folks are watching
 
Amir's bowling figure stands out.Only 15 from 5,extracted respect from the Indians.
 
Wow with proper line and length seam bowling is not that easy for the batsmen! Indians made a great move by sitting out Ashwin and going with 4 pacers! ..and we have Wahab the sprayer..two spinners! what a waste!
 
Could've just had Junaid in this match and subbed in Wahab in the field as 12th man.
 
I wouldn't be confident if India called it over at this stage and we had to chase 164. Can you seriously imagine Shahzad, Hafeez, Malik, Azhar to face Bhuvi, Yadav, Jadeja et al. and pull off a successful chase. All of them are mental midgets and bottlers of highest order.

Our best chance was if bowlers had skittled them out for a paltry score, which they have clearly failed.
 
Rohit is playing too defensively. 300 is par on this wicket. Not so sure about the tactic of the Indian team here.
 
Bring on Hasan Ali or Amir. There is no use in saving them.

This is how Wahab will literally loose you matches. Can neither take wickets nor contain. What is Sarfarz supposed to do? I If he bowls out Amir and Hasan this early the Indians will go to town in the closing PP overs. At least now he can contain runs. People are deluding themselves about the importance of Kohli's wicket. There is no, get a wicket and we are into the tail situation here. There is hardly any tail. So he doesn't have to score to make an impact. If you expend your only two good bowlers I trying to get him out the rest of the Indian batting order will do his job. They have enough firepower and some to score heavily in the PP overs.
 
Need 4 overs from Malik and/or Hafeez at some stage to avoid having Wahab bowl again
 
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