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Shoaib Malik special takes Pakistan to narrow three-wicket win over Afghanistan in the Asia Cup

Hasan Ali's six is what changed it, reduced the load of Malik in the final over.
 
Never a good sight to see players cry. Afghanistan players should be proud of themselves they are doing amazingly well in this tournament
 
Well played boys. Specially Imam, Babar and Malik. Can't forget that Hasan Ali six to Rashid Khan though turning point of the match. Put him in his place.
 
Chill out bhai :))

honestly havent been this tense in a match for a long time, not since the hussey attack on Ajmal in t20 Wc 2010


what a ride, but it was a shameless performance by us over all.
 
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Never like arrogant players and I got special joy when Rashid Khan got smashed by Hasan.
 
However good a bowler rashid is, I dont like his attitude one bit. His send-off to asif ali, and also the rage he showed after completing his quota. Man, ive never wanted pak to win so badly. Just wonder what these afghan players wouldve done if they had heaten us tonight.

Nagin dance maybe?
 
However good a bowler rashid is, I dont like his attitude one bit. His send-off to asif ali, and also the rage he showed after completing his quota. Man, ive never wanted pak to win so badly. Just wonder what these afghan players wouldve done if they had heaten us tonight.

Didnt Asif Ali tell him to f off, im sure he made the hand gestures too? :))
 
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Never like arrogant players and I got special joy when Rashid Khan got smashed by Hasan.

Rashid's attitude was pathetic. His sendoff to asif ali was downright disrespectful. That six off him by hasan ali was actually moment of the day for me.
 
However good a bowler rashid is, I dont like his attitude one bit. His send-off to asif ali, and also the rage he showed after completing his quota. Man, ive never wanted pak to win so badly. Just wonder what these afghan players wouldve done if they had heaten us tonight.

Plus the dude ain't 20. :ashwin
 
Never like arrogant players and I got special joy when Rashid Khan got smashed by Hasan.

Rashid's attitude was pathetic. His sendoff to asif ali was downright disrespectful. That six off him by hasan ali was actually moment of the day for me.

Not only that, he laughed at his teammate for crying. Poor guy bowled his heart out. I do like this Afg team. They will be great. Lots of heart.
 
but why man. They played so well. We should give them that... We were lucky to cross the line.

Mainly due to hostility that's been coming from the other end, they got what they fully deserved, don't think Afghans could ever say anything here now after seeing one of their own players cry after a loss.
 
Afghanistan should not cry i know relations are good, but they should remmeber what we did for their cricket, they might not feel it at this moment, but they lose to their brothers, and they put a good fight.
 
Glad we played long batting line up today... those sixes by Nawaz and Hasan were the difference makers.
 
If Pakistan wouldn't have made so many mistakes, match would never have gone that close
 
Afghanistan should be proud of themselves.

PS this is international cricket; not tanasha league. Imo bad end bowling

One good pacer here and they would have beaten us. They will surely get one by the pace they are improving. I dont know what happened to our fielders today though.... Maybe just one of those days.
 
Sarfraz was the only one to blame with the bat and he needs to improve.

Agreed. I know what Asif Ali can do, these two games don't do justice to his talent just like Fakhar. Hoping some exceptional innings from both in coming matches
 
One good pacer here and they would have beaten us. They will surely get one by the pace they are improving. I dont know what happened to our fielders today though.... Maybe just one of those days.

Yes might have beaten but due to our own mistakes
 
Do you think hafeez would have evr played such innings???/even it was against afghnaistan.

His purpose was a bit different - a chucking MoHa won't have allowed AFG to reach 220 here, specially considering that their innings was built on a 97* by a lefti.

But, Malik is cool when he is in his comfort zone - he is a king chaser in UAE, because he can steal single and play explosive SIX against spinners on these slow wicket with large boundary.
 
One good pacer here and they would have beaten us. They will surely get one by the pace they are improving. I dont know what happened to our fielders today though.... Maybe just one of those days.
Don't forget we dropped as if SRT was batting :yk

Cricket shouldn't be played at UAE.

It's a crime against pacers
 
I told you so

It is the old FOX Malik

He is the key

On sunday ..for india to beat Pakistan
We need to Get Malik out early

Congrats

See you on Sunday

Amion171
 
I only gave us a 30% chance of winning once Afghanistan passes 250, that went down to 15% once Fakhar was out in the first over.

So all in all a very good chase against top class spinners on a slow, difficult wicket.
I’d give our overall performance 5 out of 10 taking into account the opposition...
 
Pakistan won and Afghanistan and Bangladesh lost, so it makes it an AWESOME day, but India won too so we can we downgrade it to a GOOD day.
 
The Pakistan of old came back from its grave today:

- The best fielding side of last two years, dropped 4/5 clear cut catches today. Misfields, horrendous body language.

- One of the opener goes down early, the middle order tries to consolidate and in later stage after one wicket is down sudden collapse.

- Match being dragged to the last over and winning the match ro ro karrr.

This is the Pakistan i disliked, i hated and never wanted to come back. Well, its better than losing i guess. I hope we bury it again and get back to our consistency.
 
Although we were extremely poor in the field and with tactics, but Malik was the difference. Love him or hate him, he is the big dog and UAE is his yard B-)
 
His purpose was a bit different - a chucking MoHa won't have allowed AFG to reach 220 here, specially considering that their innings was built on a 97* by a lefti.

But, Malik is cool when he is in his comfort zone - he is a king chaser in UAE, because he can steal single and play explosive SIX against spinners on these slow wicket with large boundary.

Thats the cool Malik i am talking about...thats why i have always prefrred malik the bat over the chucker,but when it is legal bowling both will be the same,
 
Pakistan won and Afghanistan and Bangladesh lost, so it makes it an AWESOME day, but India won too so we can we downgrade it to a GOOD day.

And we are not obsessed with India??? Can not even enjoy our success without involving India.
 
Afghans need to learn to behave though,
Rashid is a really good bowler though although he is still not a guy who can't be hit. If Warne could be taken to cleaners, Rashid is nothing. It was probably the first time Malik has played Rashid, I may be wrong as both have played CPL and BPL, I think he will decode and read him better the next time he faces him.
For once I wanted Misbah and Younis in the team again only for the sole reason that they would have smashed him out of the park.
 
Malik is a Pakistani ATG in ODI cricket, what an immense performance tonight you absolute legend.
 
Maybe this will spur Pakistan the way the game against Sri Lanka did in the CT
 
Pakistan won and Afghanistan and Bangladesh lost, so it makes it an AWESOME day, but India won too so we can we downgrade it to a GOOD day.

If anything, I respect India as a cricket team as they are truly a top class team and their attitude(even though they haven't been abusive and stuff in last many meetings and Kohli actually has been very classy towards Pakistani team) has merit if they decide to show it in the field.
But tbh seeing Afghanistan and Bangladesh hype themselves up as some top cricketing side and their attitude being so over the top relative to their performance, they are certainly very detestable teams.

Even though Bangladesh has some classy guys in their team as well like Mashrafe who don't go hoopla after taking wickets or after winning a match.
 
Sarfaraz needs to buy Malik lassi for a week.

Got him out of jail today.

That was unnecessarily and uncomfortably close for comfort. Malik kept his cool and saw them through.
 
Why so much whining about Rashids behavior when Hassan Ali and Shaheen Shah were the ones who started it ?

Hassan Ali was an idiot towards Hashmatullah who was very quit and Shaheen disrespectful towards Asghar when he took his wicket.
 
Why so much whining about Rashids behavior when Hassan Ali and Shaheen Shah were the ones who started it ?

Hassan Ali was an idiot towards Hashmatullah who was very quit and Shaheen disrespectful towards Asghar when he took his wicket.

OK Shinwari g,,khair da da **** razi.fans lag gusa di.
 
Well done Malik. Was doubting him before this game but came through. Man's still got it against spin, our best player against it.
 
Why so much whining about Rashids behavior when Hassan Ali and Shaheen Shah were the ones who started it ?

Hassan Ali was an idiot towards Hashmatullah who was very quit and Shaheen disrespectful towards Asghar when he took his wicket.

Hassan Ali showed Hashmatullah his place. You dont try to engage one of the top bowlers in the world like that.
 
Yara dai tool blind di, start tool da Hassan Ali wo. Hara wicket sara ye khpala kona shelawalla

Shaheen ya a deer ghusa ragha “Jola, ta pakhtoon ye, Asghar de meshar dai”

Aw aw theek way...Chi hago kai ghalat chi mong kao theek da,,,sa ab way.
 
Always liked most Afghan players but this Rash-head dude needs to know the difference between arrogance & disrespect.. first impression not good
 
Our batting still needs to improve if we are to win this tournament. Haris and Imam threw their wickets away. Fakhar has to learn how to build an innings. At least figure out the conditions and bowlers before going for the big ones. As always dropped catches galore cost us needless runs that a better team will punish us for. Had we lost the neighbours would be dancing for a month, now you'll'' be able to hear a pin drop in Kabul:)):)):)) At the end of the day a win is a win be it by 200 runs or 1 wicket no one remembers the margin:najam
 
Our batting still needs to improve if we are to win this tournament. Haris and Imam threw their wickets away. Fakhar has to learn how to build an innings. At least figure out the conditions and bowlers before going for the big ones. As always dropped catches galore cost us needless runs that a better team will punish us for. Had we lost the neighbours would be dancing for a month, now you'll'' be able to hear a pin drop in Kabul:)):)):)) At the end of the day a win is a win be it by 200 runs or 1 wicket no one remembers the margin:najam

Everyone remembers the margin, 180 runs 😛😛😛
 
Wickets in hand meant that Asif, nawaz, Hasan could hit a six each and despite their dismissal we won. None of this validates malik’s value, imams slow batting.
 
Plus the dude ain't 20. :ashwin

I know one Afghan guy who played cricket with Rashid Khan back in the day, he's got a photo of him in the XI and he says that Rashid is at least 26-27 whereas Mujeeb's age is correct.
 
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