Pakistan [194/3] cruise to a 7-wicket win over Bangladesh [193] to kick off Asia Cup Super 4 stage

[MenInG]

So easy chase for Pakistan or is their a shocker sitting in the shadows for Babar and Co?

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[Firebat]

Should be a comfortable chase on this highway.

 

[mominsaigol]

Pak will win

 

[Rana]

Would like to see a 60 ball ton by Fakhar here

 

[PakPremi]

Taskin is one Bangladesh bowler I like.

 

[mominsaigol]

Fakhar is the key to success for Pakistan.

 

[Champ_Pal]

The new ball is swinging and seaming. Pak needs to play out the first 5 overs and then begin the smashing.

 

[Asad T]

Bangladeshi's getting the ball to move. It's not going to be easy

 

[Markhor]

Taskin is one Bangladesh bowler I like.

Yep. Shoriful has potential too with his height and gets movement with the new ball.

They've little margin for error though with such a low total.

 

[Ahmed216]

Hope fakhar scores some runs

 

[NeVerMind]

Hope fakhar scores some runs

Dropped on the slips

 

[Champ_Pal]

Fakar dropped.

 

[ads101]

Fakhar looks awful again.

 

[Rana]

Imam 2 off 10

No wonder Fakhar feels he has to do all the scoring

 

[mominsaigol]

Fakhar can't play on his onside , every single time that same ball gets him out lol.

 

[Omer2002]

8 off first over... and then this pretty bad. Especially when there is a great chance for NRR to be boosted

 

[ads101]

That looked better even if it was to the fielder.

 

[Ahmed216]

8 off first over... and then this pretty bad. Especially when there is a great chance for NRR to be boosted

Imam is very easy to keep quiet

 

[mominsaigol]

Imam 2 off 10

No wonder Fakhar feels he has to do all the scoring

Their chasing 194, not 350, Imam can handle himself.

 

[NeVerMind]

And one of the floodlights gone... embarrassing..
And here we are criticising India for not coming to Pakistan but can't even get the basics right

 

[hamzie]

Why do our lights always have issues

 

[NeVerMind]

This is so embarrassing

 

[Asad T]

Gaddafi Stadium technical support team right now:

 

[Adnan_Ilyas]

Hope this doesn't take long

 

[The_KING]

Embarrassing stuff but not surprising

 

[Spitfire]

Their chasing 194, not 350, Imam can handle himself.

Definitely a liability for chasing big totals. Purely being picked on his padded stats.

 

[batandballbattle]

forever trying to convince nations to come back to pakistan to play series here and this happens
not a good look

 

[Yati]

This stuff happens relax people. Always want to make it look like the end of the world.

 

[Yati]

forever trying to convince nations to come back to pakistan to play series here and this happens
not a good look

Oh should pakistan get banned from hosting. "Oh the lights turned off for 5 minutes".

 

[ChTab]

If Bangladesh had managed to score 275 plus this would have been a great match. Shoriful looks very good

 

[mominsaigol]

Definitely a liability for chasing big totals. Purely being picked on his padded stats.

He contributed in chasing 349.

Respect bangaldesh bowling, they've been bowling tight. Not every ball is a hit me ball, even fakhar is struggling besides the first over where he hit 2 boundaries.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Only in Pakistan

Floodlights

 

[Rajdeep]

Rain, powercuts...we have seen everything this Asia cup.

The only thing left to see is KL Rahul smashing Haris Rauf all over in Colombo on 10th Sept. Brace for Impact guys.

 

[AAli98]

Only Pak would take this chase to 49th over

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Fakhar is all over the place

Feet don't move

 

[mominsaigol]

Fakhar is all over the place

Feet don't move

He's a good player, management shpuld focus on telling him to avoid anything away from his body, bowlers don't bowl that line after powerplay anyway as it stops swinging.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Only Pak would take this chase to 49th over

They want the audience to get their worth

 

[shariqnoor]

194 is an in-between total that almost always terrorizes Pakistan. Pakistan is comfortable with chasing 280+ or <150. The ball is swinging and seaming. These two need to bat till that 15th over to neutralize the new ball and make it easy for the rest of the batsmen.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

He's a good player, management shpuld focus on telling him to avoid anything away from his body, bowlers don't bowl that line after powerplay anyway as it stops swinging.

Why do the management need to tell him to do that, he's been playing for 6 years and domestic before that to know what he needs to do.

Self development doesn't exist in Pakistan, everything needs to be spoon-fed.

 

[ads101]

Nice good pull

 

[shariqnoor]

Deep Dasgupta is a good addition to the commentary. Have listened to him on Star Sports previously and is a good thinker of the game. Just wondering how did an Indian commentator get to come to Pakistan?

 

[mominsaigol]

Why do the management need to tell him to do that, he's been playing for 6 years and domestic before that to know what he needs to do.

Self development doesn't exist in Pakistan, everything needs to be spoon-fed.

It's literally a management's job to iron these things out .

 

[topspin]

Imam shouldn't be in this team. Very mediocre player. It's not difficult to average 50 when you play low risk cricket, as evident by his low strike. Simply unacceptable in a batting friendly era. Then he wonders why he gets called a parchi.

 

[Ahmed216]

194 is an in-between total that almost always terrorizes Pakistan. Pakistan is comfortable with chasing 280+ or <150. The ball is swinging and seaming. These two need to bat till that 15th over to neutralize the new ball and make it easy for the rest of the batsmen.

U r over analysing. Easy chase

 

[mominsaigol]

Why is everyone so impatient here, Imam caught up, he's at 15 of 18 now.

Relax bhai, and watch the game, everyone wants a shahid afridi.

Easy, both falhar and Imam are solid openers. Or do you want Ahmed shezad to take their place lol.

 

[topspin]

Deep Dasgupta is a good addition to the commentary. Have listened to him on Star Sports previously and is a good thinker of the game. Just wondering how did an Indian commentator get to come to Pakistan?

It's called a visa.

 

[mominsaigol]

Imam shouldn't be in this team. Very mediocre player. It's not difficult to average 50 when you play low risk cricket, as evident by his low strike. Simply unacceptable in a batting friendly era. Then he wonders why he gets called a parchi.

Imam and Babar have chased down more 300 totals then Pakistan in its history combined.

What are you event talking about? Their chasing 194, not 300 .

 

[topspin]

U r over analysing. Easy chase

You can't blame him. Misbah has made his loyalists believe any run chase over 150 is difficult. Hence why he's always demanded a tuk tuk approach.

 

[mominsaigol]

You can't blame him. Misbah has made his loyalists believe any run chase over 150 is difficult. Hence why he's always demanded a tuk tuk approach.

Imam isn't even doing a tuk tuk approach. He's batting faster then fakhar atm .

Idkw you think he's bad. He's genuinely a good Opener, idk who you even want in his place? Azam Khan?

 

[topspin]

Imam and Babar have chased down more 300 totals then Pakistan in its history combined.

What are you event talking about? Their chasing 194, not 300 .

It's sad to see Pakistan fans like this, who have become accustomed to low standards for a long time, now end up cheerleading medicority. A strike rate of 80 won't get you a place in the New Zealand and South Africa sides let alone Australia, England and India.

 

[shariqnoor]

It's called a visa.

Thanks. Amazing isn't it. A commentator gets permission to apply for a Pakistani visa but the players do not.

 

[Markhor]

BD have a good set of seamers. Their batsmen however haven't given them much to work with.

 

[ads101]

Imam and Babar have chased down more 300 totals then Pakistan in its history combined.

What are you event talking about? Their chasing 194, not 300 .

Imam you know what you get. Consistent performer who looks in control early even if he doesn’t get runs. Fakhar the issue is you don’t know whether he’s in form or not until he gets to around 30 runs. As he usually looks awful early on anyway. But tbh while both are very good players I don’t think they synergise well with each other. In fact I think they often play better when babar is at the other end.

 

[Ahmed216]

Fakhar is done and dusted. Horrible off late.
Big headache right before WC

 

[Champ_Pal]

I felt it was missing leg.

 

[NeVerMind]

Fakhar gone and wastes a review too

 

[Omer2002]

very poor fakhar and i am not impressed with Imam too although he has done well.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Zaman out of form. He was lucky to score 20 runs.

 

[topspin]

Imam isn't even doing a tuk tuk approach. He's batting faster then fakhar atm .

Idkw you think he's bad. He's genuinely a good Opener, idk who you even want in his place? Azam Khan?

Azam Khan cares more about his biryani allowance than playing for Pakistan.

On a serious note, I just can't take any batsman with a strike rate of 80 in the modern era. You could argue that's the kind of return you expect from one of the better players of a minnow team.

 

[batandballbattle]

fakhar fails again
been coasting on that 190 for a while now

 

[SamNJ]

Crowd started chanting Babar Babar even before review result was out.

 

[NeVerMind]

Zaman out of form. He was lucky to score 20 runs.

Andy Flower kept commentating on his lack of footwork and being off balance when playing the ball...need to look elsewhere

 

[Inswing]

What happened to fakhar man, this is a serious concern.

 

[mominsaigol]

It's sad to see Pakistan fans like this, who have become accustomed to low standards for a long time, now end up cheerleading medicority. A strike rate of 80 won't get you a place in the New Zealand and South Africa sides let alone Australia, England and India

What mediocrity? I just told you how imam and Babar have literally chased down 300+ totals more then any of Pakistan history combined? How is that medicore?

Rahul had a 78 strike rate while opening lol.

 

[Champ_Pal]

What happened to fakhar man, this is a serious concern.

Short of confidence. Similar to Gill.
He needs one good innings to get back his touch.

 

[AAli98]

Bazid is on babas payroll big time

 

[Shafi]

What a poor batting by Parchi Imam and useless Fakhar. In flattest pitch 36/1 in 10 overs. One of Imam/Fakhar needs to go

 

[Omer2002]

What happened to fakhar man, this is a serious concern.

it is not a concern he was always a hack. Needed atleast 3 drop catches before an decent innings. The irony is in the whole year Pak Mgt havent tried any other opener and world cup is around the corner. They have no choice but to stick with him.

 

[Inswing]

Short of confidence. Similar to Gill.
He needs one good innings to get back his touch.

Hope so, our hopes lies on top 3 and fakhar is the only explosive batsman in this lineup.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

What a poor batting by Parchi Imam and useless Fakhar. In flattest pitch 36/1 in 10 overs. One of Imam/Fakhar needs to go

Fakhar is out of form and Imam is just Imam. Openers not looking up to standard.

 

[Shafi]

Short of confidence. Similar to Gill.
He needs one good innings to get back his touch.

This guy always bound to fail unless 2-3 lives. Imam is worse because he struggle to score even i flat pitch

 

[ads101]

Short of confidence. Similar to Gill.
He needs one good innings to get back his touch.

Was the perfect time to get it. We won’t get another chance with a low total decent pitch like this likely. Will be a lot more pressure in other matches.

 

[mominsaigol]

Azam Khan cares more about his biryani allowance than playing for Pakistan.

On a serious note, I just can't take any batsman with a strike rate of 80 in the modern era. You could argue that's the kind of return you expect from one of the better players of a minnow team.

A strike rate of 80 is solid, you're forgetting that alot of strike rates are inflated. Shubman gill's so called 102 strike rate when he made like 10 of 31 against Pakistan and was horrible during the West indies series often starting slow.

Same with virat and rohit, they all start at 80 strike rates.

Imam only has one issue, he lacks a 4th gear to finish the innings and take that 80 to 100 like others do, but he's far more consistent then them.

He genuinely plays faster then falhar till the 25th and then falhar or babar accelerate faster.

You have no clue what you're talking about lol.

 

[shariqnoor]

Since 01 Jan 2022

Fakhar average 44 SR 88
Imam average 55 SR 86.

But Imam apparently has no place in the team.

Some posters here have no clue what they are talking about.

 

[Shafi]

Shafiq should be playing next games. We cannot afford both parch Imam and Fakhar in big matches

 

[topspin]

What a poor batting by Parchi Imam and useless Fakhar. In flattest pitch 36/1 in 10 overs. One of Imam/Fakhar needs to go

I think you're harsh on Fakhar but I commend you for calling out Imam for what he is.

 

[AAli98]

Masood & imam must have some lethal contacts imam was playing for a PSL team if I’m not mistaken

 

[ads101]

Since 01 Jan 2022

Fakhar average 44 SR 88
Imam average 55 SR 86.

But Imam apparently has no place in the team.

Some posters here have no clue what they are talking about.

Since 2019 Imam has been a better opener than fakhar. Fakhars was immense first two years or so. Even though he still scores has been in and out of form constantly. Even used to perform in t20s then too.

 

[topspin]

Since 01 Jan 2022

Fakhar average 44 SR 88
Imam average 55 SR 86.

But Imam apparently has no place in the team.

Some posters here have no clue what they are talking about.

Fakhar hasn't been in the best touch in the last 18 months but still has a higher strike rate than Imam in his purple patch tells all you need to know about who has a clue and who is merely a disciple of the mighty Misbah.

 

[Omer2002]

gone looked good that did