Pakistan V West Indies | CT 2009 | Centurion | 23/09/2009 | West Ind Innings

[Ummer Khan]

Let's hope Pakistan starts with the bang and thrashes the Windies severely to send shivers down the spines of other opponents

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Pakistan vs West Indies, ICC Champions Trophy, 2009: September 23, 2009

Venue: Centurion

Stats say: (last five completed matches, most recent first)

West Indies - LLLLW
Pakistan - WWLLL


Pitch :

Team Updates:

1. Younis Khan out with hairline fracture - Afridi may deputize
2. Mohammad Asif with team but not confirmed if he will play or not.

Pakistan squad

Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal†, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi*, Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal

West Indies squad

DM Richards, ADS Fletcher, DS Smith, TM Dowlin, FL Reifer*, DE Bernard, DJG Sammy, CAK Walton†, NO Miller, TL Best, GC Tonge

Match scheduled: 14:30 local time (12:30 GMT)

Toss : West Indies have won and opted to bat

Weather report (BBC/weathercity.com)

Sunny with cloudy periods. Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Windy at times.

 

[MIG]

Ok chaps - 1 hr to go and the gates are to open soon ... have your tickets ready for admission - gates open in approx 30 mins

 

[MIG]

Gates are now open... pls take your seats and remember take your litter home

Good Luck Pakistan.

Any news on team selection yet?

 

[cricketpassion]

Still 45 minutes to go cant wait

 

[ace_allrounder]

Let's hope Pakistan starts with the bang and thrashes the Windies severely to send shivers down the spines of other opponents

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They've got bunch of funny sounding names,those Windies.
DJ Sammy,Best,McCLEAN.. ) ...Roach(cockroack)..Tonge..

They're pretty lucky that the Pakistan team doesnt know much about them.
And they all know pretty much a lot about the Pakistani team.

http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2009/content/current/story/426062.html

 

[Poison]

No matter what the pitch is, we should win.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

I'm abit worried after having a look at the pitch.

 

[PapaBear]

Pitch report form Shaun Pollock, will be a typical SA pitch with seam and bounce, some grass on it, wont get a high score like yesterday.

 

[Couch Cricketer]

We are good enough to win I would love for us to get this wicket against India with Asif in the side but want to bet that wont happen

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Waqar is not writing off the Windies.

 

[Mian Hassan]

Neither would i write off the windies because they have a better team than the Irish.

 

[Salman]

For those watching on Willow, switch to source 3,

they have a view of the stadium slowly filling up.

 

[PapaBear]

I can hear someone in the background, calling Mianwali Mianwali and talking in Punjabi, what is this?

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Windies win the toss and will bat 1st.

 

[Usman Chadda]

West Indies win the toss and elect to bat first

 

[Mian Hassan]

is that good or bad????

 

[*sallu*]

Oh,
the bowl tends to do more under lights in RSA

Can anyone put up our team. Wanna know if Asifs in or not

 

[Mian Hassan]

any TEAM news????????????

 

[Poison]

This is okay, the pitch is a green top apparently?

 

[Afridi_Fan]

looking kool

he is very happy to bowl 1st. Trusts his bowlers and want to play aggressive cricket because "We are the Champions"

 

[Poison]

Did Shahid engulf the coin with his size 27 boot upon losing the toss?

And destroy it? Crushed into dust?

 

[Salman]

it's a green pitch, we should bowl them out cheaply.

 

[Mian Hassan]

Toss - West Indies have won and opted to bat. Floyd Reifer leads an inexperienced outfit but he has his chin up ahead of a tough few games. The toss result doesn't matter to Afridi, he says he doesn't mind bowling first. " We all want to play like Champions," he says. There's no Kemar Roach for West Indies, that's the news on the team front.

 

[Usman Chadda]

No Mohammad Asif for today. Tbh, I am a little bit worried because Nazir and Akmal opening under lights chasing a tricky total doesn't fill me with confidence

 

[Afridi_Fan]

No asif in the side, no Alam too. The usual side we expected.

All oldies playing and umer Akmal in too.

 

[Mian Hassan]

Asif Not Playing

 

[Deewana Mastana]

So no Asif then!

 

[*sallu*]

No asif, hmm

Now it'll be even more risky bringing him in againt India or Australia first up in what could be a knock out match.
We should keep him on the sidelines for the whole tourney now

 

[Mian Hassan]

why pick him if not playing stupid pcb policy's

 

[Poison]

No Mohammad Asif for today. Tbh, I am a little bit worried because Nazir and Akmal opening under lights chasing a tricky total doesn't fill me with confidence

If the pitch is as green as people here are hyping it up, they won't be chasing under lights.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Man I loved the tone of on toss. I'm so excited for this, finally watching him as the captain of Pakistan ODI team.

 

[jatt799]

good news pak gonna bowl first.inshallah they gonna win

 

[PapaBear]

Bob Willis talking to himself, some sound problems

 

[Afridi_Fan]

wasim, manjrekar, doul, bishop are among the commentry team.

 

[Juggernaut]

Afridi isn't worried about bowling first.

Also, Bob Willis thinks that with the Windies batting first Pakistan should wrap this game up quickly.

Don't wanna sound over confident but I hope he's right.

 

[Mian Hassan]

Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal†, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi*, Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal

 

[Mian Hassan]

Usual TEAM...

 

[Mian Hassan]

Rana And Aamer should open Bowling

 

[Poison]

No it will be Gul and Aamer opening the bowling.

 

[Mian Hassan]

We should bowl them out under 200 or max 220

 

[Poison]

We should bowl them out under 200 or max 220

You'd hope so, but we don't know how the pitch will play yet. It could ease out very fast and become the batting paradise Centurion normally is.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Good to see support for Pakistan.

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

i want west indies to be beaten silly

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

too bad pak did not bat first

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Hardly any crowd in yet!

 

[waqar_ahmad]

it's a green pitch, we should bowl them out cheaply.

We must. Under lights, the pitch will do a lot. Our batters will have a few problems.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Yep now they show some support for Pak in the ground!

 

[Mohsin]

Pak Sar Zameen Shaad Baad

And Sanjay shut the **** up!

 

[Afridi_Fan]

The Koodoo is singing the National Anthems.

 

[Salman]

Pak anthem is going to be sung by a midget...

Quality!

 

[Poison]

Shahid looks disgruntled out there. There will be danger at the Wanderers today.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Man this is the English version of "Paak Sar Zameen"

 

[Deewana Mastana]

That too by a Saffer I believe!

 

[MIG]

Prime Sports on ART

 

[PapaBear]

Wonderful vocal, urdu pak anthem being sung by South Africans bit funny

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Shoaib Malik waving to someone for a ciggy by the signal he gave there for a sec!

 

[Mohsin]

Have some respect for the guy please.

 

[thurkeebaba]

WOW, It was interesting listening to our Anthem in English accent...

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Oh man the commontators are already sending chills down my spine

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

akram says 220 will be difficult

 

[Salman]

Akram commentating on Direct TV feed.

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

I f pak lose this match they should go home

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

fletcher is a failure

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Man the opener averages 10.50

 

[sehsan]

Let the match start, pakistan should win and win comfortably inshallah.

 

[PapaBear]

Why do they classify Rana as a bowler and Malik as all rounder, Rana will take offense to that

 

[Khabri420]

I f pak lose this match they should go home

If Windies win today, this squad needs to be made permanent, force the actual Windies XI to retire

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Right on target aamer

 

[Sheikh]

i want west indies to be beaten silly

No mate, you should want them to fight and wear the shirt with pride.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

First ball BANG on target!!!

 

[Sheikh]

Aamer getting some bounce. Good signs.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Wasim seems pretty excited.

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

good single by fletcher

 

[Sheikh]

No speedgun?

 

[Deewana Mastana]

That was a good bounce and went across with the extra bounce!

 

[NavSheikh786]

hows the pace and bounce of the pitch? Is it a greentop???

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Gone

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

goneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee haahaha

 

[Sheikh]

Haha.

Great catch.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

GONE!!!

1st wicket caught and bowled!