New Zealand defeat Pakistan by 61 runs (D/L method) to win 1st ODI

[Deewana Mastana]

Waqar is in love with this pitch

 

[Syed1]

Next few series against tough opposition like Kiwis will decide if it was a fluke win.

After winning the WC India won 3-2 against WI and lost 3-0 against Eng... did anyone say the WC win was fluke?

 

[Shafi]

Babar fans kept telling me, he is our Ace batsman and was stellar against NZ. A first ball duck for our would be greater than Kohli legend.

Typical choke from Babar while chasing...

You hate Babar for the sake of hatred. He performed well before and today umpire wrong decision

 

[waleed88]

It was an awful call and please stop trying to shove your agendas down everybody's throat, be it your hate for Amir, or your hate for Babar

Yes just like in every test match, Babar chokes when a teeny bit of pressure is put on him. Maybe the Akmal genes kick in as soon as he feels under the cosh

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Lol at fakhar - those feet don't move an inch.

 

[Suleiman]

NZ commentators are one of the worst ever. People keep bashing on South Asian commentators for "poor English skills", these guys are 10x more biased and add nothing with all their English.

 

[world cup captain]

Why do posters like these keep embarassing themselves? It was NOT OUT. Please watch the match before you comment. You only make yourself look foolish.

These are the people that follow the score updates on their phone and have now match awareness. Don’t waste your time on them.

 

[Badsha]

Hoping for a good Fakhar innings at least.

 

[Kroll]

Seems like we don't want to make the Indians feel too bad about their batting performance earlier. We have big hearts by throwing away 3 early wickets.

 

[shah_1]

Time for malik to play another useless 50 and boost his average since 2015 World Cup.

 

[waleed88]

You hate Babar for the sake of hatred. He performed well before and today umpire wrong decision

Amazing performance, I think he performed so well, his walk to the crease was worth 50 runs alone. Brought so many cheers

 

[Syed1]

Lol at fakhar - those feet don't move an inch.

Whatever he is doing it is keeping him out there... much better than the other three batsmen

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Sarfraz instead of Hafeez would have been better?

 

[Suleiman]

Southee strikes in first over of 316 chase

I'm talking about during the NZ innings.

 

[Aman]

NZ commentators are one of the worst ever. People keep bashing on South Asian commentators for "poor English skills", these guys are 10x more biased and add nothing with all their English.

It's mostly Ian Smith.

The rest are alright.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Lol at fakhar - those feet don't move an inch.

Wasn't known for moving them around much was he

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Whatever he is doing it is keeping him out there... much better than the other three batsmen

Relax. It's just funny watching him bat.

 

[Badsha]

Azhar is useful sometimes. Not ideal but occasionally useful. Hafeez is a total waste of space. I would take Afridi back instead of Hafeez

 

[imshally81]

Where's rain?

 

[The cricket enthusiast]

Time for malik to play another useless 50 and boost his average since 2015 World Cup.

if babar and azhar wouldve added useless 50s pak had chance

 

[Kashmirilion]

Why do our fans like to bash our decent players when they have a bad game but forget the hafeez and Malik's who hog the team.

 

[Syed1]

That was a single

 

[IcedCoffee]

This is going to be one tough chase. Pakistan needs to bolster its middle order; once we're 5 down, it's nigh impossible to comeback for a win unless we're gifted chances like SL did against us in the CT.

 

[Titan24]

If only these two and Sarfaraz can get somewhere near 260 in around 45 overs

 

[Badsha]

Why do our fans like to bash our decent players when they have a bad game but forget the hafeez and Malik's who hog the team.

Everyone is bashing Hafeez the useless player.

 

[Syed1]

Fakhar struggling

 

[IcedCoffee]

Need a few helmet runs by Fakhar.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

They're most probably not even aware of the DL score in case it rains.

 

[7sins]

NZ commentators are one of the worst ever. People keep bashing on South Asian commentators for "poor English skills", these guys are 10x more biased and add nothing with all their English.

Actually when they play against india they keep on praising indian players specially the likes of useless pandya kohli and the greatest death bowling pair ever bhuvi and bumrah just watch the last series matches

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Fakhar is sleepy lol

 

[Kashmirilion]

Other than aussie commentators who doesn't suck up to the Indians

 

[Titan24]

The should watch off the remaining opening spell of southee and boult and target the rest of the bowlers

 

[shah_1]

Azhar is useful sometimes. Not ideal but occasionally useful. Hafeez is a total waste of space. I would take Afridi back instead of Hafeez

Both are useless

It's a shame that Imam ul Haq and Harris are on the bench.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Can't hit anything

 

[CricFan2012]

After winning the WC India won 3-2 against WI and lost 3-0 against Eng... did anyone say the WC win was fluke?

World Cup is not the same thing as champions trophy...

 

[Deewana Mastana]

That's more like it

 

[Syed1]

World Cup is not the same thing as champions trophy...

Yeah ok... keep changing goal posts like you keep changing your flags.

 

[QalandarFan]

Fakhar with a

 

[shah_1]

Fakhar looks hopeless against good quality pace bowling

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Just stay in there Fakhar.

 

[Syed1]

Fakhar looks hopeless against good quality pace bowling

Not as bad as Hafeez or Azhar though

 

[Kashmirilion]

So munro the HACK was smashing fours and sixes and we struggle to get bat on ball. right about now I would love to have some hacks in our team of that is definition of hack.

 

[ExplicitAI]

Just came home from the library and it's the same old Pakistan we've been known to love.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Both are useless

It's a shame that Imam ul Haq and Harris are on the bench.

Imam is better than Azhar? Stats wise the SR isn't far off or a bit less than Azhar's actually.

In this day and age it's criminal if your SR isn't in the 85-90 range.

 

[Sirris]

Azhar is useful sometimes. Not ideal but occasionally useful. Hafeez is a total waste of space. I would take Afridi back instead of Hafeez

How about we try out some proper ODI batsmen instead who with enough opportunity can perform decently most of the time.

 

[Badsha]

100 run partnership and we're in it.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Malik played that too nicely

 

[Sirris]

Imam is better than Azhar? Stats wise the SR isn't far off or a bit less than Azhar's actually.

In this day and age it's criminal if your SR isn't in the 80-85 range.

Imam is a new guy settling in. Azhar is an experienced veteran.

 

[Titan24]

How about we try out some proper ODI batsmen instead who with enough opportunity can perform decently most of the time.

Which opener do you recommend?

 

[Badsha]

How about we try out some proper ODI batsmen instead who with enough opportunity can perform decently most of the time.

I'm not a fan of Azhar and I think he should be out of the LOI team but I can see the logic behind him being selected. He has decent technique.

Hafeez on the other hand has been a hack of a batsman for years. I see no logic as to why he is being played. I just don't get it.

 

[Syed1]

At this point I'd even take someone like a Farhat over the likes of acha bacha Azhar and professor Hafeez

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Shobby kya kar raha hai. Shot boy!

 

[Badsha]

Which opener do you recommend?

Even Shehzad is better than Azhar.

 

[shah_1]

Imam is better than Azhar? Stats wise the SR isn't far off or a bit less than Azhar's actually.

In this day and age it's criminal if your SR isn't in the 85-90 range.

Imam is young at least, I am not saying he is a world beater but can improve unlike Azhar.

 

[babajee]

Imam is a new guy settling in. Azhar is an experienced veteran.

An experienced veteran of being trash.

 

[QalandarFan]

100 run partnership and we're in it.

Yep if we can get to 150 with these two still at the crease by 30 odd overs we still have chance.

 

[Syed1]

but but but Shoby can't play pace

 

[Badsha]

Shoaib needs to take singles and rotate the strike.

 

[Syed1]

A boundary an over with five dots wont do much good

 

[babajee]

It’s not over. It is not!!

 

[TheInaudibleParadox]

but but but Shoby can't play pace

Out of all the 'veterans' Shoaib is the only one I've wanted to keep in the side.

 

[QalandarFan]

0-4-0-0-4-0 need those 0’s to turn into 1’s and 2’s.

 

[babajee]

[MENTION=137148]Rayyman[/MENTION] come back, it’s about to get interesting

 

[Rana]

Stupid management decides to win the toss and bowl first on a road.

 

[Titan24]

Even Shehzad is better than Azhar.

Azhar was one of the highest run scorers in CT if I am not wrong. I am not saying I am a huge fan lf him as an opener in ODIs, just saying you cant drop someone who has performed in the last series he played.

 

[Badsha]

A boundary an over with five dots wont do much good

It's better than shutting off. We need to build a partnership right now. If these two get settled even 8 an over is doable.

 

[Saeed]

All most all runs are coming from boundaries(not a bad thing) but they do know how to rotate the strike?

 

[Shafi]

Amazing performance, I think he performed so well, his walk to the crease was worth 50 runs alone. Brought so many cheers

He got out in wrong decision unless you think umpire's call was right.

 

[Badsha]

Azhar was one of the highest run scorers in CT if I am not wrong. I am not saying I am a huge fan lf him as an opener in ODIs, just saying you cant drop someone who has performed in the last series he played.

That is why I said I see the logic with him being played. Hafeez is the real problem

 

[Kashmirilion]

We need to cut Azhar some slack. We have deeper problems than him. I am not big fan of him but give him a full series and take it from there. Hafeez malik need to go even if we lose constantly we really need to build a team which has avrgae age under 30

 

[QalandarFan]

Shoiab just looking to smash it or block, need to rotate the strike and keep the scoreboard moving.

 

[MMHS]

Amazing performance, I think he performed so well, his walk to the crease was worth 50 runs alone. Brought so many cheers

Whats your point here?

 

[Aman]

Beauty from Southee.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

0-4-0-0-4-0 need those 0’s to turn into 1’s and 2’s.

The balls are new and there's overcast now so not yet. They need to hang in there and put away balls in their zone, leave the rest.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Imam is young at least, I am not saying he is a world beater but can improve unlike Azhar.

If I had to choose between young then I'd take Sami Aslam over Imam instead as he has the stats in domestic in List A both in SR and average wise.

 

[RobinJay]

Ye kia beghairti horhi hai. Smh.

 

[imshally81]

Malik gone

 

[QalandarFan]

Now malik is gone.

 

[ExplicitAI]

wowwww

 

[castortroy]

These batsmen are just not good enough in these conditions to combat the likes of Southee and Bolt