ICC World Cup 2023: Pakistan v Sri Lanka | Match 8 | Hyderabad | 10 October | Sri Lanka Innings

[Asif321]

Don’t think Pakistan can chase 330 . They will put themselves under pressure and bottle it

 

[FearlessRoar]

Dhananjaya de Silva c Shaheen Shah Afridi b Mohammad Nawaz 25 (34b 3x4 0x6) SR: 73.52

 

[m.shah]

Any bowler will bowl better than shadab

 

[King_Babar]

Don't worry babar friends place are already secured no tension

Going by performance, even Babar's place is not secured, let alone his friends.

 

[IAJ]

Keep them under 330 please.

 

[mrtaim3]

I'm all for it now and ain't no way shadab is the choice he should also be sacked as vice captain and kicked out of odi team

I think the fair choice is Rizwan, Shaheen being the vice captain

 

[7sins]

Any bowler will bowl better than shadab

Lol 6-10 times Mir will bat better than fielding specialist

 

[SpiritOf1903]

This is a slow death

 

[Devadwal]

Ramiz is hopeful of Pakistan fightback

 

[7sins]

I think the fair choice is Rizwan, Shaheen being the vice captain

Same here we Cleary need a change

 

[Shafi]

Massive win for SL today. Hopefully last World Cup for Babar

 

[VForVendetta]

Guess Pakistani bowlers have turned into vegetarians like J.Srinath, V.Prasad, etc.

Srinath was anything but a trundler, I am surprised to see Indians thinking about him (one of their best & fastest ever) like that.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

These bowlers are so mediocre.

 

[Rana]

I think the fair choice is Rizwan, Shaheen being the vice captain

how is it the fair choice?

 

[IAJ]

The big question is who will play the Mendis-innings for Pakistan?

 

[7sins]

Now they will bring in Usama in a tough match against India and then drop him all together

 

[m.shah]

Pace not working here

 

[mominsaigol]

Who should be captain if not Babar? Everyone else is a passenger.

That's not true. Look how many players India groomed from garbage to world class. Rohit sharma was garbage, Rahul was garbage, Gill when he came onto the scene in IPL was garbage, Siraj was garbage etc etc and now their all world class.

Look how many players NZ has groomed., the whole ravindra playing blinders, he isn't ravindra improved due to practise against Pakistan and him being allowed to come at no 3 and make it his own.

We had an entire team that won us the emerging acc Asia cup whereas our main clown team came last in Asia cup super 4.

Other teams play 2nd string to groom their 2nd string players into World class players and Incoprate them into the main team.

We played our 2nd string against afghanistan and in the 3rd t20 saim ayub came strong and dismantled the afg side, but unlike NZ that didn't care about losing to pak 4-1, our nepotsitic management used those losses as an excuse to justify why rizzu and Babar are important.

In Sri Lanka test, We won because of Abdullah and saud batting, Imam and Babar did nothing, they were garbo on that tour.

That's why I said saud would come good, a few test matches and he went from being a wall to having a significantly higher Sr then imam and Babar had ever had in their test career.

We have talent, we use the no talent excuse to justify nepotisim. Make saud captain or make haris captain, a guy who's literally proven to win you a tournament and give haris the emerging acc cup team for 4 years and see how they all become world class.

We won't ever do that, it'll be the same old story, we bring in new players under pressure situations last minute and hope for miracles after pur loser nepotisitic team eventually gets exposed against 1st string. We did that with sarfi replacing nasir jamshed in 2015, we did that with fakhar replacing shehzad in 2017 and now we are doing that with saud and Abdullah replacing agha and fakhar last minute with zero practise games before.

Why wasn't saud and Abdullah your 2 best test players and guys who single handidelt won you the Sri lanka test series given a full go, during the NZ odi series, the afg odi series and against Nepal in Asia cup? Why bring them in now and expect world cup miracles.

You have a captain, he's the guy who won you a tournament whereas our loser captain finished dead last. They ain't passengers, they haven't been groomed and we will continue using the lack of talent excuse. Reality is, no one is naturally talented, it doesn't exist, Sachin took 70 God damn innings to become a world beater batsmen, talent is cultivated, India, NZ, Aus, Eng all know how to cultivate it, Pakistan doesn't and deliberately does not know how to.

 

[Syed1]

The big question is who will play the Mendis-innings for Pakistan?

Wait till Imam gets his stat padding 50(70) then does a sajda and victory lap to celebrate it

 

[m.shah]

Now they will bring in Usama in a tough match against India and then drop him all together

Don't think babar has the guts to drop shadab

 

[Syed1]

2 quiet overs on the trot. SL will try to hit out in this over,

 

[Adnan_Ilyas]

Going to have to smash some centuries and half centuries if we are to win this

 

[Rana]

30-40 runs more will be too much

 

[Rana]

Shanaka always bottling it v Pakistan

 

[Shafi]

I'm all for it now and ain't no way shadab is the choice he should also be sacked as vice captain and kicked out of odi team

Babar needs to be kicked out from the team. This guy is a serial failure in big matches and create division in the team

 

[VForVendetta]

Imam owes his team a hundred

Careful what you wish for, you don't want the goat opener to plod along a 105(130) on a potential 350+ chase

 

[Devadwal]

Rizwan dropped?
Nope

 

[Rana]

Babar needs to be kicked out from the team. This guy is a serial failure in big matches and create division in the team

No division in team but a huge division in country

 

[castortroy]

Pak are not chasing 370

 

[Asif321]

Pakistan can’t play with high RR and no fakhar too

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Pakistan score is predictable.

280 if they play ok

100 to 150 if play to expectations

 

[Ali Active]

need to keep them below 350

 

[Iamcoolwhiz]

Koi dew shew mutawaqqeh hai?

Team batting first usually wins here.... so i am guessing no.

 

[Asif321]

This is must win game for Pakistan if they loose this they will only go downhill from here

 

[Ali Active]

these are too much for pakistan

 

[Syed1]

This target is already too much for our lame batting. SL could declare now and still win comfortably

 

[castortroy]

need to keep them below 350

Lol game is long gone

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Rameez using every adjective in his vocabulary to describe the state of affairs.

 

[Iamcoolwhiz]

Rauf usually has1 to 2 bad balls in each over, batsman should just be patient with him.

 

[castortroy]

Watch Lanka spinners in comparison

 

[Syed1]

Beginning to think Rauf and Shaheen are severely overhyped

 

[mrtaim3]

Russel Arnold is the Athar ali Khan of Srilanka.

 

[castortroy]

I think India will go unbeaten in this tournament

 

[owenhcricket]

Horrible comms by rameez...angry at losing his job? Lol pakistan have a chance because this is a FLAT track and pak have already scored 300+ here

 

[Ali Active]

Lol game is long gone

u never know under lights anything can be chased but then again its pakistan so no real hopes

 

[shortbread]

Shadab needs to be deported. Please India.

He'll walk into any team!

 

[Devadwal]

Poor batting by Sri Lankan from past 5 over.

 

[mrtaim3]

how is it the fair choice?

Because he is your best player and showed demonstration of a good leader by winning trophies domestically?

 

[Mohraheem]

Today players need to remove Misbah’s defensive tuktuk Tactics out of their head! No slow innings no dot balls. Keep making singles and doubles! I hope who ever is batting with ifthikar! I advice them to yell at Chacha if starts tuktuk

 

[emranabbas]

Need to keep the run rate down and ifti needs to come in here

 

[Rana]

Shanaka always useless against Pakistan

 

[Ali Active]

i think we need to be optimistic pak can chase 350 under super flat track but above that no chance.

 

[Mankaded]

What is that NZ lady talking about? we got 1 more over from Hassan, 1 from Rauf and 3 from Afridi. no need to bowl anyone else.

 

[mrtaim3]

Really poor from Srilanka so far. They were 294 in 41 overs

 

[Rajdeep]

SL need a good finish...min 360.

This is a flat pancake and Pakistan would fancy their chance under lights

 

[Raja Ishtiaq]

Rizwan would be absolute key in this run chase.

 

[7sins]

Lol hassan aali outbowled Shaheen 2nd match in a row

 

[jnaveen1980]

Awful batting by Srilanka.

 

[zaidihusain]

Why our spinners failed to develop or learn anything under Saqlain? Even Moeen & Adil Rashid became better bowlers after working under Saqlain

 

[jnaveen1980]

Pakistan will win this one. SL has to put abov epar. This i s below par.

 

[7sins]

This is must win game for Pakistan if they loose this they will only go downhill from here

Yeah because another phainty coming from India on sunday

 

[jnaveen1980]

SL need a good finish...min 360.

This is a flat pancake and Pakistan would fancy their chance under lights

Pakistan has batting depth. Two or three camoes will see them home.

 

[happydavy]

Must say that Pakistan's fielding in this game is very ordinary. Lankans taking doubles where it should be ones.

 

[Mankaded]

Saud, how could you allow them to come back for 2 there.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

What is that NZ lady talking about? we got 1 more over from Hassan, 1 from Rauf and 3 from Afridi. no need to bowl anyone else.

Female comment

Awful batting by Srilanka.

Not really they know 320 is a big win already.

 

[RamLakhan]

Pakistanis complaining about high scoring pitches (300+) Well unless we don't get back to old rule of using 1 ball throughout the game, we can never bring down the average score below 300 or 250 in ODI games! If we try to make the pitch deliberately to support bowlers, then it will go to the other extreme (very low scoring affairs). Only combination of softer ball & pitch can give advantage to bowlers (reverse swing for seamers & grip for spinners) in the middle overs.

But having said that, if bowlers, fielders & captain get their act right they can restrict the scoring considerably. Also if batsman apply themselves they can score briskly even on wearing pitch (like how Kohli & Rahul batted the other day). Its all about skills & application! Pakistan are behind in this...

 

[King_Babar]

Pakistan will win this one. SL has to put abov epar. This i s below par.

This is not a bilateral dead rubber match, it is a WC match, Pak will loose by >80 runs.

 

[NeVerMind]

To put things into context, Sri Lanka did score 322 against the Saffers when they had scoreboard pressure of chasing 400 odd is definitely no mugs with the bat...

 

[imshally81]

Under 350 is a big achievement for us

 

[Rajdeep]

Pakistan has batting depth. Two or three camoes will see them home.

Not sure why Shanaka is tuk tuking...hit man hit

 

[7sins]

They are easily making 345-350

 

[imshally81]

Gone

 

[RamLakhan]

Sri Lanka well on thier way to get their first win in World Cups against Pakistan! They missed in 1996 as they didn't get the opportunity to meet each other!

 

[jnaveen1980]

wow they were 7 an over. They are below 7. That is pathetic lower order hitting

 

[7sins]

Timely wicket but not of the batsmen we wanted

 

[Rana]

What a pointless innings by Shanaka

His performances are so suspicious against Pakistan

 

[Syed1]

wow they were 7 an over. They are below 7. That is pathetic lower order hitting

Sadeera did a Bobby and slowed down for century. Will start hitting again soon

 

[Rana]

wow they were 7 an over. They are below 7. That is pathetic lower order hitting

mate they already have enough I recon

 

[Shafi]

Can Babar ever play impact innings like Mendis in pressure match?

 

[Rana]

What is Shaheen appealing for?