Pakistan (132/6) defeat Bangladesh (127/7) by 4 wickets to win the 1st T20I

This is Bangladesh's home conditions. They beat the Australian team here who won the world cup. The same world cup where Bangladesh couldn't win a game in Super 12.

Conditions and pitches play a big role.

Perhaps, but they deserve credit for exploiting these conditions and I don’t think the UAE was too alien for BD, it comes down to mentality as well. Away from home, BD have a bit of a psychological barrier due to the big defeats in the past, but we saw in the 2019 WC they can compete. They need to consistently adapt their mentality away from home and have more self belief, part of it may also be lack of vision in T20’s and finding that winning formula, their players are more compatible in ODI’s, that needs to change.
 
Khushdil Will hole one when he reaches 20-25 runs

That’s his maximum
 
Rizwan and Babar have destroyed Fakhar as well.

The mantra is, if you survive 30 balls for 31, you can reach 50 off 40 by speeding up, and 60 off 45 now that you are fully set. We will never get out of this timid batting approach as a nation!

Fakhar has always looked like crap on slow, low, wickets due to how static he can be. Takes him time to find his footing and get his eye in
 
Khushdil Will hole one when he reaches 20-25 runs

That’s his maximum

Kushdil Jobber Shah, what is the hype with these bums, Haider was meant to be a saint as well
 
Imagine having the reputation of the fastest centurion in Pakistan T20 cricket, but you are regularly producing scores of 15 off 19 balls with one boundary

Absolute waste!
 
Bang pitches should b condemned… ok ind create these kinda pitches for tests but even they allow some kind of batting for white ball game…
 
Pakistan will win unless Bangla manage to pick up a wicket in this or next over
 
Imagine having the reputation of the fastest centurion in Pakistan T20 cricket, but you are regularly producing scores of 15 off 19 balls with one boundary

Absolute waste!

This is not a batting pitch...
 
Imagine having the reputation of the fastest centurion in Pakistan T20 cricket, but you are regularly producing scores of 15 off 19 balls with one boundary

Absolute waste!

Not gonna happen on these pitches....120 is par here
 
Perhaps, but they deserve credit for exploiting these conditions and I don’t think the UAE was too alien for BD, it comes down to mentality as well. Away from home, BD have a bit of a psychological barrier due to the big defeats in the past, but we saw in the 2019 WC they can compete. They need to consistently adapt their mentality away from home and have more self belief, part of it may also be lack of vision in T20’s and finding that winning formula, their players are more compatible in ODI’s, that needs to change.


Bangladesh have not figured out how to play T20s. They are a very different side in ODIs and have an excellent record in ODIs in the last 5-6 years.
 
There’s still Nawaz and Hasan to come who can hit a few boundaries game is still in Pakistan’s hands.
 
Khushdil shah should be nowhere near our team , no footwork , cant detect a slow one. Zero game sense.
 
Khushdil shah at least should incarporate trigger movement into his batting. He is never ready for the ball.
 
Wild swings...awful batting brains by all batters. Its a diff pitch but not the usual snake spinning ones..even though we lost wickets u look for singles but these guys tukk tukkk tukkk..you cant expect lower order to slog all the time
 
Its not an easy pitch to time ur shots
but game is still pak's , i guess Shah has to do most of the scoring
 
Even if the pitch is slow, the batsman should be able to time his shots. they need to adapt to the pace
 
poor batting from khushdil shah, he connected a few but looked very shaky
 
Left it too late when easily could have milked the bowlera b4 we bat deep so why block block...
 
Pakistan will win this

But it’s a poor game by us regardless
 
All batters looked awful ..point is why not use ur heads n rotate strike b4 ..10 an over on a difficult pitch is brainless when it cud have been 8 an over
 
Kushdil is not international material. He's got no timing and gets into awful positions while batting.
 
Watch the ball n focus on timing. Their basics are all over the place on a slow pitch
 
Bangladesh know they can’t out bat teams in high scoring matches that’s why these pitches are prepared only chance of them winning matches but no development for players under differ t conditions.
 
gee whiz, shah got out to an absolute bonzo delivery....
its more the pitch that is harder to overcome...
 
Pakistan’s long term project to replace Malik and Hafeez should be Nawaz and Iftikhar.

You can’t expect Babar and Rizwan to accept responsibility of stabilising the middle order I’m afraid
 
I don't know why our padosis worry so much. No.1 - 10 are all competent batsmen. Gr8 T20 outfit this Pakistan side. Give credit where due.
 
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