Pakistan vs Zimbabwe | 1st T20I | Lahore | 22nd May | Pakistan innings

[The_KING]

Akmal out. Thank God our openers did well today otherwise we would have been in trouble.

 

[Ahson8]

Only a thick person would believe that playing at home doesn't have commercial advantages and is not good for the well-being of the people because they get to see the players play live, that's a given. It is also financially better for the board and the morale of the players.

However, as far as on-field results are concerned, moving to the UAE has made no difference at all. We have carried our Test and ODI form from Pakistan into UAE, and blaming UAE for our mediocrity is ignoring the elephant in the room.

We might be better at home going forward from now, but the results of the last few years have not been hampered by playing in the UAE, they have been poor because our team has not been good enough. As simple as that.

We don't have individual brilliance because we don't have brilliant players, nothing to do with not playing in Pakistan.

It's funny how not playing in Pakistan hasn't negatively impacted us in Tests but has in Limited Overs? Why? Because it hasn't affected us the on-field results at all.

It is pure delusion and ignorance to believe that our results would have been better had we played in Pakistan instead of UAE. That's the whole point.

Disagree.
Pitches in UAE are slow and low, and that suits us for Tests, but not in ODIs.

 

[Mamoon]

What was an emphatic victory is a normal one now, thanks to some cheap dismissals.

 

[Arsal_AK]

Akmal gone.

 

[TheNightWatchman]

Won't even get to see reaction for afridi because of **** ads

 

[Slog]

Akmals gonna be Akmal

 

[Watsupdoc]

U Akmal

 

[jog_1]

Afridi is too selfless today

 

[The_KING]

Still no Afridi

 

[ahanank]

And Akmal gets out...makes that famous cry-baby face after the dismissal.

 

[PCP_1]

I still expect a Sialkot stallion-esque collapse from here

 

[Zeshan547]

Pakistan and easy victory, are you dreaming, we never do it easy way.

 

[Slog]

Hopefully Afridi comes in and him and Malik lead us to victory

we can reminisce the 2009 wt20 then

 

[Bullet Drive]

This is awful. Hafeez should be dropped from PAKISTAN teams.

 

[The_KING]

Akmal fails once again for Pakistan. Not a surprise.

 

[Mamoon]

Disagree.

So you think we would have done better in ODIs in Pakistan than we did in the UAE? If that is the case, why didn't UAE impact our Test results negatively?

Take a look at our ODI record in Pakistan in the last few years against good teams. It's terrible.

We were dismissed for 70-odd while chasing 320 in the very last ODI we played in Pakistan.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Here is the formula: Take a winning situation, send in your TTFs, make the situation challenging, scrap home at the end, keep TTFs for the next 20 matches.

 

[ExplicitAI]

What a selfless captain Afridi is

 

[Arsal_AK]

11 of 12.

WTH is going on??

 

[Red Devil]

Lol 11 needed off 12, one good over and we might choke here

 

[Watsupdoc]

Haider mobile inspiring innovation! :Afridi

 

[ahanank]

What was an emphatic victory is a normal one now, thanks to some cheap dismissals.

You expect a Pakistani victory without a twist, eh?
You can do better

 

[PCP_1]

He's a painter.

Does he paint in India or Pakistan? Is he a painter slash dancer like many of the multi talented wunderkinds these days? Whats the deal?

 

[Saqs]

Even Indian ads are better than these

Most Indian ads are quite clever.

 

[Jabo]

Why are they showing afridi advert 4 times in. Row in less than 19 second

 

[TheNightWatchman]

Surely not

 

[Mamoon]

Malik is tailor-made for this situation, he will see us home inshAllah.

 

[arehaan]

This team is clueless and has no idea how to finish

 

[Arsal_AK]

Hafeez is beyond crap.

Feast on absolute highways and then is absolutely useless for the rest of the matches. Case in point Sharjah 2104 and Bangladesh 2015.

 

[Cricket_Fan93]

This is awful. Hafeez should be dropped from PAKISTAN teams.

Why are you so biased? Akmal did worse than Hafeez. Why not drop him?

 

[Bullet Drive]

This should have been chased within 17 overs.

 

[Hamza_]

Enough of Akmal talent. Throw him and Shehzad out for good

 

[Slog]

please don't take it to last over

 

[JibranAnsari]

should drop akmal.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Why are you so biased? Akmal did worse than Hafeez. Why not drop him?

Biased?

I've spoken to Hafeez many times on a personal level and never spoken to Akmal.

Far from biased.

 

[Mamoon]

Sarfraz is a tail-ender against everything but spin.

 

[TheNightWatchman]

Enough of Akmal talent. Throw him and Shehzad out for good

The guy who just scored a 50??

 

[Arsal_AK]

Malik )

 

[Hawkeye]

Shoaib Malik ) )

What a TTF. Pathetic.

 

[jog_1]

What is going on. Finish it off...

 

[Arsal_AK]

Sarfraz is a tail-ender against everything but spin.

Brilliant in tests though. Should just play that format imo.

 

[Mamoon]

What are these two doing?

 

[TheNightWatchman]

going down to the last over. This is Ms Dhoni stuff right here

 

[Shafi]

Need 6 runs for draw!!!

 

[ahanank]

Sarfraz and Wahab are seriously over-rated.

 

[Hawkeye]

Sarfraz is a tail-ender against everything but spin.

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Burn.

Watch this pathetic TTF MALIK!!!! Tailender he is.

 

[Madplayer]

So you think we would have done better in ODIs in Pakistan than we did in the UAE? If that is the case, why didn't UAE impact our Test results negatively?

Take a look at our ODI record in Pakistan in the last few years against good teams. It's terrible.

We were dismissed for 70-odd while chasing 320 in the very last ODI we played in Pakistan.

You also have to look at other teams especially teams like australia and england and the decrease in their ability to survive against decent spin for 5 days. These are the teams pakistan has enjoyed success against in UAE.
THE same teams are better in ODIs where you dont need to survive but play shots.

 

[Cricket_Fan93]

Lol can Pakistan actually lose this? Amazing.

 

[Donal Cozzie]

Shoaib Malik 4(11) vs Zimbabwe

 

[Logical]

This should've never went into last over.

 

[Mamoon]

'Trying to hit to liberty market'

 

[Watsupdoc]

what are they doing?

 

[PCP_1]

In retrospect, God Bless Mukhtar Ahmed.

 

[axl100mph]

Biased?

I've spoken to Hafeez many times on a personal level and never spoken to Akmal.

Far from biased.

yeah, right!

 

[Hamza_]

Lol Malik

 

[jog_1]

6 from 6... Are you serious

 

[Ahson8]

6 off 6 lol.

 

[CricketAnalyst]

Lol @ this Pakistani effort.

But you don't want hacks scoring fast stilll? (Re Mukhtar Ahmed thread)

Seriously, I can't believe what Shoaib Malik is doing. Reflects terribly on him as well as the Pakistani cricketing culture where he would actually suffer if he got out trying to hit a couple of overs earlier.

 

[Bullet Drive]

6 off 6.

This could get interesting...

 

[ExplicitAI]

Imagine we screw the last over up

 

[Jabo]

7-7

Imagine if we lost

LooooL

 

[Strike!]

Too many hacks in this batting lineup.

 

[Mamoon]

) )

Burn.

Watch this pathetic TTF MALIK!!!! Tailender he is.

Has cost us 46 runs in this match and is on 4 now.

Net deficit: 42.

 

[yasir]

Why they are showing last name of the players? - It should be first name

 

[Madplayer]

These players are so unpredictable. Thank you mukhtar. What would thry have done without u

 

[Hawkeye]

Malik what an embarrassment to international cricket! )

 

[Cricket_Fan93]

Malik in control

 

[Bullet Drive]

Come on boys!

 

[JaDed]

Shoaib Malik 4(11) vs Zimbabwe

5(12) now but lol at u implying something

 

[Watsupdoc]

Malik

What are you doing?

 

[Red Devil]

Lol this is getting too close :/

 

[Slog]

oh boy...
oh boy I have a bad feeling

 

[jog_1]

Afridi why did you not come in earlier

 

[Hamza_]

The guy who just scored a 50??

Even Mukhtar made 83, Doesnt me he is destined to be very good

 

[Cricket lover 27]

) )

Burn.

Watch this pathetic TTF MALIK!!!! Tailender he is.

+1

 

[Mamoon]

You also have to look at other teams especially teams like australia and england and the decrease in their ability to survive against decent spin for 5 days. These are the teams pakistan has enjoyed success against in UAE.
THE same teams are better in ODIs where you dont need to survive but play shots.

My point is that the series that the ODI series that we lost in UAE would have been lost in Pakistan as well, and we will beat Australia and England in Pakistan as well in Tests.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Malik is a master in tight situations.

 

[asyed]

What will happen, if we lose from here

 

[JaDed]

lol :wicket

 

[Red Devil]

Malik )