Pakistan v Australia | 2nd ODI | Dubai | 24/4/09 | Aus Inngs

[Oxy]

Pakistan scored: 207 off 46.2 overs.

Is it enough?

Australia need 207 to win.

 

[Ghoshtbuster]

Akhtar will be fired up, the oil will be rushing through the Express. Expect him to run through the top order and Afridi to finish off.

 

[SohailQureshi]

Akhtar and GUl need to get a few quick wickets with the new ball and Afridi and Ajmal need to rip them apart like the 1st ODI.. should be a good game

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pakistan seamers need to stick to plan of the 1st game and bowl line and length.

The ball is gripping on surface and the less pace there is the hard it is to score. If Aussies get off to a flyer they can then look to just see off Ajmal, Afridi.

 

[Oxy]

Haddin & Hopes open the Aus inngs

Shoaib given the new ball

 

[Oxy]

Great crowd in to be fair!

 

[Sparhawk]

Shoaib about to run in... he needs to go for the kill

 

[Oxy]

Gentle loosner: 135.7 kph

 

[Oxy]

Beauty 2nd delivery - bit of movement.

Plays & misses

 

[Sparhawk]

Good second delivery 139 kph with some outswing

 

[Afridi_Fan]

3 dot balls to start with

 

[godzilla]

actually as disappointing as butt's scoring (not score) might have been, its really difficult to tell from the arm chair a) how the pitch is truly playing b) how good the bowling was and c) what instructions he went out with. it was horribly painful watching misbah two days ago, but he won us he game, and however painful this was to watch, butt did score that 50.

the legitimate worry at this stage thouh, is our running between the wickets. i know we havent played in ages, and so there must be a bit of nerves out there batting first against australia and feeling the pressure to both score and survive for the later overs with a massive tail, but even still, in all the months we havent been playing, shouldnt they have had ample time to practice their running betwen the wickets to have perfected it by now?

 

[Inswinger]

Need to keep the ball right around off stump.

 

[Sparhawk]

Shoaib slowly building up the pace... i think hes gonna hit 150 today but it has to be in the first 3 overs.

That one was sharp! 142.7 and jumped off the pitch

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Maiden over


Pressure building

 

[Ghoshtbuster]

Great start from Shoaib

 

[Inswinger]

Excellent bounce from Akhtar.

 

[Sparhawk]

Beautiful delivery! 143.6 Haddin beaten all ends up

 

[Oxy]

143.6 kph - what a ball

 

[Showman]

Good over from Shoaib to start things off.

 

[Oxy]

Great over!

0-0

 

[Shayan]

fantastic first over!

 

[Sparhawk]

Apart from the first ball shoaib was right on the mark.

 

[godzilla]

fingers crossed that our bowlers bowl at least as well as theirs and that conditions do indeed aid the seamers under lights!

maiden first over!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Great 1st over by Akhtar!

A maiden!

 

[Oxy]

Apart from the first ball shoaib was right on the mark.

Loosner

 

[Inswinger]

I would have given Rao the new ball.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Good fire and pace from Akthar!

come on Gul!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Was going to go into the wicket there of Hopes!

 

[Amjid Javed]

Hopes and Haddin are both dashers so should be exciting!

 

[Inswinger]

Damn
Almost edged it onto the stumps.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Good bouncer by Gul - Appreciated by the skipper aswell!

 

[taqi]

good to hear that akhtar bowled a over with rythem

 

[Amjid Javed]

Run rate needed climbing already

 

[Afridi_Fan]

3 dots by Gul now

 

[Deewana Mastana]

3 runs for Hopes

 

[Deewana Mastana]

If Clarke was there he would've stopped that!

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Aus gets off the mark with 3 by Hopes

 

[Deewana Mastana]

3 off the over

3 for 0 after 2 overs

 

[Sparhawk]

Great start by both bowlers.. time for a wicket now

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Flies off the edge.....

 

[HuZi]

akhtar show them u got th e power still

 

[Deewana Mastana]

144 KPH goes for 3 runs

 

[Sparhawk]

144 kph but on the pads and worked away for 3

 

[Afridi_Fan]

1 run off shoaib to Hopes

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Down the legside WIDE BALL by Akhtar

 

[Afridi_Fan]

3 to Haddin

 

[Deewana Mastana]

144.7 KPH now

 

[Afridi_Fan]

And the 1st wide of the match

 

[HuZi]

akhtar bowling 140+

 

[Sparhawk]

145.5 hes really cranking it up now

 

[Deewana Mastana]

145.5 KPH the fastest ball of the match! Hits him on the pads

 

[Oxy]

145.5 kph from Shoaib

 

[Inswinger]

Absolutely surprised the batsman.

 

[HuZi]

145to fast for hopes ?

 

[Deewana Mastana]

146.3 KPH now

 

[Oxy]

146.3 kph

Cranking it up

 

[Sparhawk]

146.3 almost there

But seriously wickets more important....

 

[HuZi]

146.3 even faster just get ip up to 150 or something really fast from akhtar

 

[Deewana Mastana]

We need wickets!!!

Last ball at 143.3

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Need to stop all those extras

 

[Sparhawk]

10-0 after 3 overs

Its haddin and Hopes surely we can break this partnership

 

[Fallen King]

Sohail Tanveer could have gotten finest swing in this pitch ;(.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Australia require another 198 runs with 10 wickets and 47.0 overs remaining


Required RR 4.21

 

[Inswinger]

Akhtar is really out of breath after that last over.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

We need to stop the extras and sloppy fielding!

 

[Inswinger]

Hopes is average at best. We need to get him out ASAP.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Well played by Haddin hooked it for 4

 

[Sparhawk]

Is guldozer holding back? i know hes not a low 130's bowler

 

[Fallen King]

Umar Gul is gonna have hard time. He has no idea how to use with new ball in right areas.

NICE SHOT 444

 

[HuZi]

4444444444444444 haddin from gul

 

[Afridi_Fan]

its not looking good

 

[Inswinger]

Gul is not a new ball bowler.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Flashes hard Hopes and it goes for 1 run!!! Just needed a fielder there and in the hands it was!

 

[Inswinger]

its not looking good

Yaar, Keep calm.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Gone Haddin!!!


Cleaned Up By Gul

 

[Showman]

Bowled him!

 

[Oxy]

Out!

16-1

 

[Sparhawk]

Gonneeeeee!! Big wicket of haddin, that was a terrible shot

 

[adeem_as]

Aussies will win this by 7 wickets