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India (244/4) comprehensively defeat Pakistan (241) by 6 wickets in their group-stage encounter of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025

Lmao. Rizwan is playing the whole over dot and then takes a single off the last ball. He's putting pressure on Saud also.
 
Rizwan's innings is beyond understanding. I know he is not world class, but this should be the worst ever innings played by any full time
batter in this decade
First delivery he faced, it went for 4. Looked like he came in with some intent.
 
The pitch to me looks more like 290-310
First few overs were a bit challenging but there's no awkward bounce, no real turn.
Maybe bowl is stopping a bit, but think the batsmen are making it look harder than it is.
290? Bro we are not watching the same match. It is slow and there's purchase for both seamers and spinners. You need peak Saeed Anwar, Sachin and Viv Richards to get 290 here. 220 would make Pak 60-40 favorites and 250 would make us 80-20 favorites. India need to keep us below 220 to have a decent chance themselves. With how Rizwan is in control here Pak should get 250 easily, maybe even 275 if Agha and Khushdil can launch at the end.
 
80/120 dot balls, even if only 20 of those were singles, 100/2 after 20 would look much better. That's right here adds up and is difference between win and lose.
 
Pakistan run rate 3.95

Don’t be under any illusion this is a tricky pitch
 
It is interesting that Pakistan has only lost 2 wickets but they are batting like they have lost 5. I said this before, but just to emphasise this game is still there to be won, but Pakistan went 5 overs before hitting a boundary, so it seems they are purposely batting their way to a losing total. Very weird but not that surprising given Pakistan's previous history of fixing.

You dont need to fix against these imbeciles.

They make watching paint dry an interesting hobby.
 
For some reason, this just doesn't feel like ICC match between India and Pakistan. Getting the feel of a random bilateral game in Nagpur against West Indies or something.
 
Honestly man, Fakhar and Saim would have smashed the utter dross being served by indians. But lucky for them they have king babar, queen imam, princess saud, and shaberati rizwan to bowl to.

What does shaberati mean?
 
I am not sure how to interpret this innings. PItch is hard? I don't think bowling is exceptional or pitch is overly helping.
 
Players like Sharma take outfield out of the equation when they go aerial. We dont have single one such player.
Sharma was a gun ODI player. His swansong was the 2023 WC. Now he has no reflexes and he's not lasting more than a cheap 20-30 on his best day on a pitch like this against an attack like ours.
 
For some reason, this just doesn't feel like ICC match between India and Pakistan. Getting the feel of a random bilateral game in Nagpur against West Indies or something.
That is disrespect to West Indies, comparing them with this poor pakistani team.
 
I was going to to turn on the TV to watch the match, but maybe I should just continue my work and follow it on Cricinfo/PP lol
 
290? Bro we are not watching the same match. It is slow and there's purchase for both seamers and spinners. You need peak Saeed Anwar, Sachin and Viv Richards to get 290 here. 220 would make Pak 60-40 favorites and 250 would make us 80-20 favorites. India need to keep us below 220 to have a decent chance themselves. With how Rizwan is in control here Pak should get 250 easily, maybe even 275 if Agha and Khushdil can launch at the end.
I am not sure if you are supporting Rizwan here or trolling him. In which world is Rizwan iin control?
 
Youngsters have no idea the demons in this pitch are literally talking to him. They’re telling Rizwan Jihne mera dil luteyya and he’s refusing to say Oho.
 
Buzdill rizwan

Pakistan cricket is truly dead with parasites like this.

We need at least another two saim Ayubs to change the mindset.
 
You are wrong, better than Bradman
You can be sarcastic all you want but you in all your history haven't produced a batsman who will outdo Saud's eventual output so quit hating on him....your team is lucky and unworthy of a spot in CT.
 
In one way it's good not having Fakhar and Saim here in that it completely exposes how impactless our other batsmen are. They'd rather hide behind them than take any initiative themselves.

Have seen quicker batting in Test cricket.
 
It's just so funny that England play at a faster pace in test matches than Pakistan do in ODI's haha
 
if you need a win to stay in the tourament, you might as well try and go gunsblazing. i don't get this strategy
 
I am not sure if you are supporting Rizwan here or trolling him. In which world is Rizwan iin control?
It's a very difficult pitch and he's being watchful. It's the need of the hour here. We need Rizwan out there till the 35th over at least and then Khushdil and Salman can get us push at the end.
 
what’s the purpose of the coaching staff if they can’t tell these players to bat faster?

If the players refuse to listen, then why are they in the team?
 
I am not an einstein but i dnt understand one thing why bat first when you know you cant bat at all. They all know they cant so atleast bowl first and if they end up chasing more than 300 atleast u wont get this tuk tuk then again against kiwis that was exactly what happend
 
Kuldeep challenging Rizwan to hit him. Rizwan told him to waazugaluwaa instead.
 
But stop wth this rhona dhona everyone. Pakistan have this under control.

Actually.

No one is realizing Pakistan is cruising to a good total while Bharat is wasting all this tile Going wicketless
 
Supposedly the best batter against spin (SAUD) is not looking like even 1% of his hype....
 
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