ICC World Cup 2023: Pakistan (200/1) keep their hopes of a Semi-Final berth alive with a 21 runs DLS win over New Zealand (401/6)

[Rana]

New Zealand have no business qualifying ahead of Pakistan or Afghanistan with this pathetic bowling

 

[Nado_]

Babar and imam have used fakhar many times when fakhar was peaking and these two just going at run a ball. Fakhar is truly a impactful player but very inconsistent same like razzak

Sometimes it’s not about stats, sometimes it’s about heroic innings like Razzaq and like Fakhar play. People remember heroic innings more than stats

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

Not realistically mate given Pak have to bank on Sri Lanka pulling off a minor miracle because the NRR equation is way off.

the way nz has bowled here and i feel after last match should have put pepper up them Sl noses i woud put it past Sl to beat NZ.....they have a reasonable chance....NZ is defo weakened with injuries....but dont see ish sodhi playing after this phainty by fz

 

[Kianig89]

Ya Allah help Pakistan team please

 

[Kianig89]

Around half an hour left Pakistan are 21 runs ahead

 

[Civil]

the way nz has bowled here and i feel after last match should have put pepper up them Sl noses i woud put it past Sl to beat NZ.....they have a reasonable chance....NZ is defo weakened with injuries....but dont see ish sodhi playing after this phainty by fz

SL also copping some heat back home after India's whalloping. Best scenario for Pak is that SL takes it to heart and takes it out on NZ.

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Where we are heading? Anyone

 

[heddie19]

Very very hard being a Pakistan fan

2 consecutive ODI WCs 2019 and 2023
Eliminated on NRR

Last 2 t20 WCs
Lost one semi-final and one final

Not done before the last game

 

[hur rizvi]

The covers are still on. I think they have an inspection just now

 

[Savak]

I hope Sri Lankas humiliation in the last match and the pressure from their govt forces them to come hard at New Zealand in their final game.

 

[heddie19]

New Zealand have no business qualifying ahead of Pakistan or Afghanistan with this pathetic bowling

Bowling to Pakistan ki bhi kam pathetic nai hai

 

[SalimBhai]

Not realistically mate given Pak have to bank on Sri Lanka pulling off a minor miracle because the NRR equation is way off.

If Pakistan wins here and beats England and nz lose to SL. Is Pakistan in?

 

[Kianig89]

Drizlling in banglaroe

 

[Marooned]

Where we are heading? Anyone

To heartbreak

 

[heddie19]

If Pakistan wins here and beats England and nz lose to SL. Is Pakistan in?

Obviously. That will be done on points, not even RR. Assuming Afghanistan doesn't beat both Aussies and Afrikaans

 

[Rana]

Bowling to Pakistan ki bhi kam pathetic nai hai

At least they are fit and turning up for a beating

Not like the NZ bowlers who are fragile and run home on the first opportunity

 

[Ali Active]

If Pakistan wins here and beats England and nz lose to SL. Is Pakistan in?

yesss

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

To heatbreak

Been there many times lol

 

[Sher Khan]

Guys this match is done. It takes atleast 20 mins to prepare the ground after the drizzle stops. The drizzle is still going.

 

[heddie19]

At least they are fit and turning up for a beating

Not like the NZ bowlers who are fragile and run home on the first opportunity

I agree, after Henry being out, they should have brought in Jameison. Playing only 2 pacers on a benguluru pitch makes no sense at all.

 

[7sins]

Man surely this England team is beatable specially when we will be playing at eden where bowlers will get help and reverse swing can we bring in Abrar somehow

 

[SalimBhai]

Still raining?

 

[Nado_]

If Pakistan wins here and beats England and nz lose to SL. Is Pakistan in?

Yes

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

people criticised babar for fielding first including me. So in Hindsight it has proven to be tactical master stroke

 

[7sins]

So will we be improving net rr based on 20 run win or what?

 

[SalimBhai]

Is SL vs kiwis same ground? Weather?

 

[hur rizvi]

Live scenes. It's still pouring down

 

[SalimBhai]

If we win here. Where is our net run rate

 

[hur rizvi]

So will we be improving net rr based on 20 run win or what?

Yes and similar forecast to this game

 

[Nado_]

Man surely this England team is beatable specially when we will be playing at eden where bowlers will get help and reverse swing can we bring in Abrar somehow

I’ve said before, Pakistan cannot do any worse by bringing Abrar in. All we need is a tidy spinner keep it wicket to wicket. Not bowlers who give half trackers and full tosses.

But I think there’s political reason to not include Abrar at this late stage. If Abrar performs captain and management are going to look like complete incompetent morons

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

That 20 run over from Ish sodhi might have been crucial....
William ka beta might have made an error in not bringing quicks like southee on after first rain break

 

[Swashbuckler]

Congrats Pakistan. 99% of the credit goes to one man, Fakhar who was simply a tiger today. NZ doesn't deserve to qualify ahead of Pak and Afg.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

20 more minutes and match will be called off hopefully.

 

[kingusama92]

Congrats Pakistan. 99% of the credit goes to one man, Fakhar who was simply a tiger today. NZ doesn't deserve to qualify ahead of Pak and Afg.

Proper gamebreaker. Basically singlehandedly stole the game from NZ.

 

[SalimBhai]

Matched called off?

 

[Afro]

Ya Allah help Pakistan team please

Gods won't help brother! God set the stage for humans so we can decide for ourselves in this world and he will judge us in the other world. However, Fakhar and Babar did help Pakistan.

 

[heddie19]

How are my replies illogical exactly?

You're replies are full of bias, their so full of bias that you literally have a babar pfp showcasing that bias?

Also jokes aside, I really doubt the ages of some people here.

People like you just vanish like a 10 year old when things or claims you made go wrong but you come back when they go right on an outlier instance?

Also when they go right and you guys spam the ping button like childish children to justify your egos? And you have the audacity to quote or undermine my age?

Tell me what's worse? A 22 year old talking professionally and only making certain sarcastic remarks or a 30+ year old spam pinging me as if they played 50 hours of candy crush?

I did not vanish anywhere, I am right here. I was in the previous threads too. Since you mentioned "professionally", why don't you talk professionally yourself?

 

[run-out]

19:18 Local Time, 13:48 GMT: Rain is picking up again and it's hard to see this game resuming now. What a result this would be.

 

[Ab Fan]

Undeniably

 

[mominsaigol]

Congrats to fakhar

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

They are shaking hands

 

[hitthestump]

That 20 run over from Ish sodhi might have been crucial....
William ka beta might have made an error in not bringing quicks like southee on after first rain break

I think it made sense.

But Pakistan seemed to have anticipated it and even Babar ensured he cashed it.

For once the think tank actually did some thinking.

 

[kingusama92]

Game over. Two points in the bag.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

SL also copping some heat back home after India's whalloping. Best scenario for Pak is that SL takes it to heart and takes it out on NZ.

Karunaratne was their best leader and captain. But he got sacked due to poor form. They should play Dimuth as captain in their next game and let Mendis play as a batter only.

 

[The_KING]

Thank you Allah

 

[Ahmed216]

Pak win. Match called off

 

[7sins]

Can we have a wash out of that nz soil game

 

[aukhan]

Thank you Fakhar Zaman
Real match winner
Big match player

 

[amvbfm]

If Pakistan wins here and beats England and nz lose to SL. Is Pakistan in?

Theoretically but unlikely imo. NZ will likely thrash SL. but it was heartening to see today‘s display. I hope we take the same approach against England regardless of results. The one positive is that our game is after NZ SL game so we will know what to do.

 

[hur rizvi]

Shaking hands, I think umpires have called it off

 

[heddie19]

We have won. Congratulations.

 

[7sins]

Well done to fakhar Zaman single handedly won us the match

 

[sachin-10dulkar]

Qudrat ka Nizam just kicked in yo!

 

[emranabbas]

Pakistan won

 

[Sunzi]

We win on DLS. Game over.

 

[7sins]

We win by 21 runs when we were batting

 

[heddie19]

7:25pm: Match called off! Unfortunately, the conditions remained soggy, and the two captains have shaken hands, so that's that. Pakistan win by 21 runs and bag two points

 

[mominsaigol]

I did not vanish anywhere, I am right here. I was in the previous threads too. Since you mentioned "professionally", why don't you talk professionally yourself?

Okay your highness,

Under the semantically pretense of fakhar being superior to babar is entirely based of the notion that the exalted and honorary performs in clutch games whereas the defendant prioritises b string no 1 minnow bashing to justify thy high horse to the honorary board of player of the year awards.

It is under this common bias fallacy within argumentations that create a pre concivmeced and misleading notion amoung the uneducated and unaware to praise high horses for the marvelous and glamorous visionary style ranks which end up backfiring during tournament endeavours with weak stats to showcase followed by media eruptions, however clutch heroes emerge to debunk any commonalities that ensure why achievements of b and c strings must not be valued over the cruch and delicate nature of circumstances for which we must base our bases on.

Happy? I'm professional

 

[emranabbas]

This win doesn't feel like a win

 

[iRfaN_LA]

So will we be improving net rr based on 20 run win or what?

has to be some improvement

 

[7sins]

Thank you ish sodhi for that over your were fire today

 

[hamzie]

This win doesn't feel like a win

To you

 

[nish_mate]

Well played Fakhar, single handedly got Pakistan to win the game....

 

[iRfaN_LA]

This win doesn't feel like a win

can you stop crying? it is a win. Scoring 200/1 in 25 overs is no joke

 

[7sins]

Oh it's 0.036 for pakistan and 0.398 for nz nothing improved

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Get innnnnn boys!!!

 

[heddie19]

Okay your highness,

Under the semantically pretense of fakhar being superior to babar is entirely based of the notion that the exalted and honorary performs in clutch games whereas the defendant prioritises b string no 1 minnow bashing to justify thy high horse to the honorary board of player of the year awards.

It is under this common bias fallacy within argumentations that create a pre concivmeced and misleading notion amoung the uneducated and unaware to praise high horses for the marvelous and glamorous visionary style ranks which end up backfiring during tournament endeavours with weak stats to showcase followed by media eruptions, however clutch heroes emerge to debunk any commonalities that ensure why achievements of b and c strings must not be valued over the cruch and delicate nature of circumstances for which we must base our bases on.

Happy? I'm professional

Yes Fakhar is MOTM today but you'd take Babar's today's innings as a failure? Of course not, he contributed in our highest run chase ever against non BC string bowling attacks

 

[pakrock]

This win doesn't feel like a win

Take the point and run

 

[Rana]

This win doesn't feel like a win

It’s a fair result.

Pakistan had to beat this incredibly poor bowling outfit the Kiwis served

 

[emranabbas]

can you stop crying? it is a win. Scoring 200/1 in 25 overs is no joke

What you talking about? And whose crying?

 

[mominsaigol]

Now for god sakes please don't feed falhar cake. He looks to be the only fit member of the squad

 

[globetrotter]

Cricinfo says match over

 

[IAJ]

This win doesn't feel like a win

I agree, not a win, but pure demolition!

 

[saqib.rai]

If this game had started in the AFTERNOON- we wouldn't have gotten a result

SL vs NZ is an AFTERNOON game in Banglore and there is rain expected at the same time as today. Hopefully it gets washed out InshAllah and we qualify for semis InshAllah

 

[emranabbas]

can you stop crying? it is a win. Scoring 200/1 in 25 overs is no joke

If your so sensitive you shouldn't be on a public forum

 

[FollowThru]

So will we be improving net rr based on 20 run win or what?

Doesn't matter if team is 100 runs ahead of Par score.

What matters is runs per over by the team and against.

Pakistan conceded 8.02 and scored at 7.84. Not by much but even with a win, NRR will fall slightly. OTOH, NZ NRR will improve even with defeat.

 

[7sins]

Lol cricinfo still calculating ?

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Oh it's 0.036 for pakistan and 0.398 for nz nothing improved

there NRR dropped from 0.762 to 0.398 correct?

 

[Asif321]

Finally dua kaam ayi . Credit to fakhar for winning this . Off to Kolkata for final punch

 

[Sunzi]

Don't see NZ losing to Lankans TBH.

So NRR killed us.