Pakistan blow away below-par Zimbabwe in massive 201-run victory in first ODI

[babajee]

dropped by Sarfaraz






He really needs to improve in all aspects of the game ASAP

dropped by Babar

 

[Syed1]

dropped by Babar

Shadab Khan to Ryan Murray, 1 run, dropped, tough chance for the keeper. Flighted delivery outside off stump, Murray tried to drive, got a thick edge, the ball took Sarfraz's right glove and deflected towards first slip, who only managed to get his left hand on it, parried away for a run



Dropped by both

 

[Rayyman]

dropped by Babar

You watching in Lahore? Must be fun. Although I doubt anybody cares since it's Zimbabwe.

 

[Stewie]

It came off saifis gloves to babar who spiked it away like a volley ball. Lol

Sarfaraz does need to lose like 15 lbs ASAP

 

[babajee]

You watching in Lahore? Must be fun. Although I doubt anybody cares since it's Zimbabwe.

TV isn’t working in my house for some reason

 

[Stewie]

And now babar lets a ball through the slips for four

 

[Syed1]

Shaby finally on the board.... now only Amir remaining

 

[babajee]

Shaby finally on the board.... now only Amir remaining

Minnow basher strikes

 

[Syed1]

TV isn’t working in my house for some reason

Are in Pak for holidays?

 

[Stewie]

Is it just me or does shadab bowl too wide of the crease? I feel if he bowled closer to the stumps he might bring lbw and more edges into play

 

[Syed1]

Very hard to get a fifer in this Pak side because all bowlers are wicket taking. I'd even wager its hard to get a four-fer

 

[Syed1]

Glad we got a lucky fluke today and not shameful humiliation... although I was looking forward to the latter

 

[babajee]

Are in Pak for holidays?

Yes

 

[Rayyman]

RRR 8.86 in 25th over
Such bezati

 

[Rayyman]

Sometimes I wonder why the Zimbabwe players even play. If it was me I would get sad from losing and retire.

 

[Stewie]

Where is sIkander Raza? I thought he was one of Zimbabwe’s top batsmen

 

[Sirris]

He can't swing the ball.He has limited skills and pace is not good either. Shaheen would have been perfect instead of him.

Usman is coming back from an injury so I would give him a couple more games before thinking of replacing him. Especially since before the injury on his debut he had freakish match where he took like 5 wickets in a quick spell. Now too he is picking up wickets so not much to complain about.

 

[run-out]

Sony ESPN

Thanks !

 

[Usman Chadda]

Arranging five of these mis-matches is the worst organization I can think of. Complete joke

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Why isn't Hasan Ali coming on to ball, want him to take the last wicket

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Arranging five of these mis-matches is the worst organization I can think of. Complete joke

I think if Zim played a full-strength team, would have been a better fight.

 

[InziRules]

Pakistan earn 201 run fluke over Zimbabwe

Sikandar Raza: I would have got 200 from 30 balls

Masakadza: Fluke, we were on course for 400

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Shadab Khan finishes it off, 4th wicket for him in the innings.

Lowest total on this ground.

 

[Plumb]

Feel sorry for Zim, why we playing 5 ODIs that's just too many 3 or 2 odis would be fine. We need to play better opponents. Painful to even win with such teams...

 

[Titan24]

It should have been a tri series

 

[Usman Chadda]

I think if Zim played a full-strength team, would have been a better fight.

Maybe. Zimbabwe would still have lost 5-0. Just sad what Zimbabwe has been reduced, having been a big fan of these blokes in the 90s

 

[mmkextreme_1]

I don't understand why the PCB sent a full strength team to play here.

Should have included, Hussain Talat, Muhammad Musa, Shaheen Afridi, Agha Salman, Saad Ali...upcoming players. No thinking by the PCB. This is where the BCCI does it better, they sent an India B team and they beat Zimbabwe.

 

[ManFan]

Boring. Did anyone not expect a heavy defeat for Zimbabwe?

Wish we would stop playing ZIM, SL and other low-level teams.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zimbabwe reach 101/8 - scoreboard operator decides to have a laugh and change the score to 401/8 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZIMvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZIMvPAK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/72QteHdk62">pic.twitter.com/72QteHdk62</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1017767173039804416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Nice try

 

[CadPakFan]

Where is sIkander Raza? I thought he was one of Zimbabwe’s top batsmen

He's in Canada playing in the GT20 league.

 

[Sirris]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zimbabwe reach 101/8 - scoreboard operator decides to have a laugh and change the score to 401/8 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZIMvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZIMvPAK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/72QteHdk62">pic.twitter.com/72QteHdk62</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1017767173039804416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Nice try

301/8 would have been much more believable.

 

[Sirris]

Boring. Did anyone not expect a heavy defeat for Zimbabwe?

Wish we would stop playing ZIM, SL and other low-level teams.

5 match series is a overkill.

 

[Markhor]

About the result you expected against a low ranked team missing 7 frontline players.

Anything less than 5-0 would be a disappointment.

 

[Madplayer]

About the result you expected against a low ranked team missing 7 frontline players.

Anything less than 5-0 would be a disappointment.

I would say anything less than 5-0 and win margins of 100 runs / 7 wickets in every match would be a disappointment.