Brother, Pakistan will definitely beat South Africa, they always do in crunch tournament matches. First they lose to minnow and then when they are on verge of getting knocked out, they find an invincible South Africa in the way who loses the track, get smashed and suddenly Pakistan qualifies while Saffers get knocked out.
It's a script that everyone close to SA cricket has heard before and been repeated several times.
This is not fiction
. You need to understand context.
In 2015 we were genuinely the weakest team except 2015 England and minnows and yes 2015 West Indies was superior to us since we didn't play sarfi in those games.
The sa game was won due to sarfraz being thr X factor and Wahab riaz who was our only world class bowler. Wahab was a horrible bilateral series bowler but in world cups he's superior to every single bowler in our current unit, including naseem lol.
Secondly in both ct 2017, And in 2015 world cup we had rain affected games and sa has a history of collapsing during rain infected games since their just not a good Drs side. That game also had very questionable drs rules, like Pakistan got bowled out for 222 but drs said the target was 240? And also gave sa 43 overs to chase? Makes no sense.
2015, 2017, and 2019 had bowling. Also haris sohail in 2019 was 100x the batter that anyone else is in the side and yes that includes fraud no 1 lol.
2023 team is ironically even weaker then the 2015 team. Bowling Is dead whereas even sohail khan in 2015 took a 5 wicket haul against India and afridi was still a class spinner.
And yes ironically our 2015 batting is superior to 2023 batting. 2015 sarfraz as an opener is better then the clowns who are opening atm. Misbah for all his nonsense is superior as a no 4 them rizwan, and that's coming from someone who does not like misbah, Umar akmal, sohaib maqsood and afridi even when out of form are 100x the allrounders and lower order batters then nawaz, Shadab amd Usama.
Only chacha is superior, and Babar superior to YK at no 3 and imam superior to shehzad.
Also 2023 sa destroys 2015 and 2019 South Africa. Minus de villers everyone like duminy, Amla are mental tournament midgets.
And 2023 quinton is 500x the player he was back in 2019 and 1000x the player he was in 2019.
Don't go into fantasy my dude. Theirs no such thing as a script in real life. It's a delusion and a coping mechanism everyone uses to justify hope.
The reality is 2019 team and 2017 team was still filled with psl super stars and was a class team. 2015 was a weak team but the bowling could pull upsets with one or 2 blinders.
2023 has toothless bowling and with the exception of Babar and chacha, chacha who's failing against quality attacks and Babar who's badly regressed everyone else is a spineless shell. Only hope now, is to bring fakhar back and hope against hope he finds his iconic 194 form again.
King Babar will make 200 that's pretty sure but problem is that scoring 200 needs 400 balls for king
Babar Missing Magala
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