Pakistan (135/8) defeat Bangladesh (124/9) by 11 runs in a nail-biting encounter of the virtual semi-final of the Asia Cup 2025

[adi_62941]

After this asia cup. They will make shaheen new captain who will bring new artifical zeal and they will win against weak teams and then again fails against big teams. This cycle will keep on rotating

 

[ads101]

You have to understand your limitations. Pakistan doesn't have phil salt, Nicholas pooran, Travis head. Just play within your limitations. Just because your mind says 'intent" you suddenly won't become dre Russ. Abhishek spent a.lot of time with Yuvraj to enhance his skills set. Did these guys do that?

Abhishek has a really good average. He would be our most consistent batsman even if we ignored his sr lol.

An equivalent would be if India were playing a guy who averaged 20 at a low sr. Which he isn’t that. But even then India would get away with that given the rest of the batting order is so strong.

When we get a consistent settled line up with good batsmen from 1-6 we can look to perhaps try to find our own extremely aggressive opener. But we aren’t anywhere near that yet

 

[Asif321]

Mo Harris will play a blinder today.

Watch him get out within 10 deliveries

 

[Local.Dada]

Me and sweep shot today

Romesh Shoresh

 

[Champ_Pal]

Shane Rishad is unplayable today

 

[mominsaigol]

Pakistan have a terrible history in Asia Cups.

All their flaws seem to get brutally exposed in this tournament for some reason

Okay so my Talat prediction also failed.

Dont worry I predict a solid 75 from Agha rapid fire now

 

[hassan918]

Mo Harris will play a blinder today.

He must or Rizwan will surely be coming back to take his place in the team.

 

[cricfan432]

Haris looks better player than saim, he only struggled on rank turner sharjah pitches

 

[Asif321]

Haris looks better player than saim

Both shouldn’t be in line up

 

[mominsaigol]

Okay so my Talat prediction also failed.

Dont worry I predict a solid 75 from Agha rapid fire now

No wait @Nikhil_cric Man of the tournament haris is here?

He will fix this mess just watch

 

[SherWaqar]

What a pathetic bunch

 

[cricfan432]

Both shouldn’t be in line up

Slow pitches dont suit them.

 

[Hikaru]

Bhartiya posters here are chirping more than Pakistani fans. I guess we are all enjoying this equally.

 

[daytrader]

He must or Rizwan will surely be coming back to take his place in the team.

They don't bat at same positions. Haris can be a good back up keeper and our #6

 

[Devadwal]

220 hopefully if not 180 minimum win by 50 runs +

38/4 in 9.2 overs

They need 182 more runs in remaining 64 balls.

 

[SherWaqar]

Mo Harris will play a blinder today.

Blind slogs?

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

Look at the motivations of our players.

Instead of Saim doubling down on his batting talent and training himself to become a world class top order batter, he spent the last 12 months practising his spin bowling so he can have a better chance of more t20 club cricket.

This is where their heads are at. There is a fundamental problem in ability and motivation. Deep structural problems that will take years to fix and thats if anyone is willing to stick around and follow through.

 

[Fazzy321]

On the positive side we don’t have to face India again

 

[light]

After this asia cup. They will make shaheen new captain who will bring new artifical zeal and they will win against weak teams and then again fails against big teams. This cycle will keep on rotating

and then sack him after 1 series lol.

 

[Asif321]

Slow pitches dont suit them.

Just excuses .

 

[mango_bite77]

No wait @Nikhil_cric Man of the tournament haris is here?

He will fix this mess just watch

Now that he will be dropped after Asia cup, who do u think should be our next keeper ? Are there any ? Or Rizwan will make comeback?

 

[AAli98]

Wasim Akram- every run is important

 

[Asif321]

and then sack him after 1 series lol.

That was massive blunder done by Naqvi . Shaheen should have continued

 

[saabir]

Is this the intent they were taking about before this tournament??? This team carry too many dead woods. No point of playing Saim when he is out of form..it will dent his confidence more. He is probably the luckiest batter who have got so many opportunities despite being so poor with the bat.

 

[zahid01]

Performance like this we don't deserve a final management is clueless saim has failed every match he needed replacing but no they continue to bury the lad

 

[Mamoon]

It as once again proven that I am PP’s final boss


I will always have the last laugh.

 

[m.shah]

Watch him get out within 10 deliveries

I'm betting on it

 

[sweep_shot]

PAK - 47/4 (10 overs).

Drinks break.

Should try to restrict Pakistan to 130.

Should bowl out spinners before 17th over.

 

[pillionrider]

B'desh need to calm down. These are the kind of tantrums that give the opposition that is down an opening.

 

[Aang_The_last_airbender]

People are just getting scared, This is SOP of Pakistan cricket, but I dont see them losing to Bangladesh.
140 will be more than enough.

 

[GoogleToggle]

Athar ali Khan with 50 words per second

 

[Asif321]

Wasim Akram- every run is important

Why they pick him . For what ? No insight . He doesn’t even know who these players are . Ramiz should have been commentator

 

[Human786]

halfway 47/4 - can they get 135-140 ?

 

[zahid01]

That was massive blunder done by Naqvi . Shaheen should have continued

Naqvi himself is a biggest blunder

 

[Aang_The_last_airbender]

short run??

 

[Nasty Naz]

47/4 after 10 LOL.

So typical of this garbage batting lineup. Another humiliating loss on the cards.

 

[Robbie]

Is this the first over where more than 6 runs have been scored..?

 

[Devadwal]

Pakistan need to score 140+ to win This match .

In last 10 overs they needs to score 100 more runs

 

[ads101]

We’ve been in this situation before. Still think we’ll end up making 140/150 we just bat too deep.

But very disappointing

 

[mominsaigol]

Now that he will be dropped after Asia cup, who do u think should be our next keeper ? Are there any ? Or Rizwan will make comeback?

Rizzu will make a comeback after asia cup so will Babar.

That's 100% a guarantee now

 

[GlobalCric]

Look at the motivations of our players.

Instead of Saim doubling down on his batting talent and training himself to become a world class top order batter, he spent the last 12 months practising his spin bowling so he can have a better chance of more t20 club cricket.

This is where their heads are at. There is a fundamental problem in ability and motivation. Deep structural problems that will take years to fix and thats if anyone is willing to stick around and follow through.

I would also add that education also plays huge role in someone's thinking. I think there should be requirement to have at least 12th grade to be selected in the national team, this 5th grade failures are not cutting...

 

[sweep_shot]

PAK - 47/4 (10 overs).

Drinks break.

Should try to restrict Pakistan to 130.

Should bowl out spinners before 17th over.

Haris ran short. LOL. 1 run has been deducted.

46/4 (10 overs).

 

[Devadwal]

School level running

 

[Champ_Pal]

Did not ground the bat.

 

[Justcrazy]

47 . 4

10 overs

 

[Asif321]

Rizzu will make a comeback after asia cup so will Babar.

That's 100% a guarantee now

Tbh Rizwan was axed from captaincy bit early

 

[mominsaigol]

It as once again proven that I am PP’s final boss


I will always have the last laugh.

Match isn't over yet though. It's possible Pakistan reaches the final

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

when you keep on with unjust Behavior , even Qudrat Ka nizam turns hostile. Hassan nawaz the only capable t20 batter is sitting out for Talat and Agha.

 

[Hikaru]

Pakistan cricket needs to distinguish between skillful hitting and lucky tulleybaazi. The hitters you bring are all lucky tulleybaaz, they may give hopes one day, but will disappoint most other days.

If you can't find good enough hitters, stick with Babar and Rizwan. Way better than this lot.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Hussain been out there 5 mins acting like he batted 2 days in a Brisbane Test at drinks

 

[saabir]

Fakhar zaman he always looks so ugly to me when he bat. I don't know why he is having so many fan following in pakistan. He bats like tailender most of the times . In this side probably only Sahibzada Farhan deserve another go. Lower order batter Mohd Nawaz, Faheem and Shaheen are their best batter in this series..they are one who are bailing them .. Babar Azam deserve to be in this side ..he is the best batsman available in pakistan. There is no doubt about that

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan need some special innings here

 

[Asif321]

Lol Harris

 

[Champ_Pal]

Pakistan needs at least 120 to have a chance.

 

[pillionrider]

Hahahaha that was hilarious especially in slo mo

 

[Local.Dada]

Athar ali Khan with 50 words per second

Is that including “My” “word” ?

 

[light]

That was massive blunder done by Naqvi . Shaheen should have continued

Anyone given captaincy should not be bothered with for min 2 years. That should give the captain time to settle down

 

[cricfan432]

Salman is back, good to see

 

[Mamoon]

 

[charlie007]

Okay so my Talat prediction also failed.

Dont worry I predict a solid 75 from Agha rapid fire now

Third time is the charm? Now I don’t know if a solid 75 will become true or the rapid fire

 

[ads101]

Rizzu will make a comeback after asia cup so will Babar.

That's 100% a guarantee now

If Babar is in any decent form he should come back at 3. We don’t have anyone good there.

Rizwan less of a need. I still think we can continue this new aggressive opening strategy we just need our openers to take slightly less risk (settled down a bit before blasting it).

But adding Babar back at a non opening position doesn’t really go against our overall new strategy.

We can see these guys like Talat, Agha etc just basically trying to play a Babar lite version of batting anyway. There’s no difference in strategy there.

 

[saabir]

Pakistan need to score atleast 130 to have any chance of fight. This BD side is very talented..they will chase anything below 150

 

[sweep_shot]

Hussain been out there 5 mins acting like he batted 2 days in a Brisbane Test at drinks

It is very hot in Dubai currently.

 

[Asif321]

Harris has last chance today to save his career

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

I feel like I wasted my 1 rupee Sub of tamasha ad Free stream. This team does nt even deserve that

 

[Mamoon]

It is now officially proven that people who argued that Babar and Rizwan don’t make the T20I team have 0 cricket knowledge.

 

[Asif321]

Agha gone

 

[saabir]

Hasan Nawaz need to be back as an opener with Babar at no.3 in their next series ..

 

[hassan918]

The strike rates of our batters are not good enough at this level.

 

[mominsaigol]

Third time is the charm? Now I don’t know if a solid 75 will become true or the rapid fire

For brother @Nikhil_cric i am now on 400th time the charm

 

[OldWarHorse]

Oh no. Salman was looking threatening

 

[Imran Hasan]

Agha gone!

 

[Asif321]

Less than 100 ?

 

[m.shah]

Captain Chingum gone and Ather Ali is on

 

[saabir]

It is now officially proven that people who argued that Babar and Rizwan don’t make the T20I team have 0 cricket knowledge.

True currently they don't have their replacements

 

[Devadwal]

Salman gone

 

[charlie007]

Babar and Rizwan must be laughing their asses off

 

[GlobalCric]

Fakhar zaman he always looks so ugly to me when he bat. I don't know why he is having so many fan following in pakistan. He bats like tailender most of the times . In this side probably only Sahibzada Farhan deserve another go. Lower order batter Mohd Nawaz, Faheem and Shaheen are their best batter in this series..they are one who are bailing them .. Babar Azam deserve to be in this side ..he is the best batsman available in pakistan. There is no doubt about that

Pakistan fans have a habit of hyping some mediocre players as their heroes.. till date they are worshipping Shahid Afridi like a some demi god...

 

[sweep_shot]

Agha is out.

PAK - 49/5.

 

[Asif321]

Hasan Nawaz need to be back as an opener with Babar at no.3 in their next series ..

Another tulla ?