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Sri Lanka v Pakistan | 1st ODI | Dambulla | 30/7/09 [PAK inns]

The only thing which concerns me is that these guys should talk to each other saying that they can cross the finishing line...too often the tailenders bring the team to the brink of victory (from a hopeless position) only to finish just short. You can't blame them for that since they aren't used to such things. I hope that doesnt happen today for Pakistan's sake. These two guys deserve to be on the winning side..
 
Rana said:
how is ajmal with the bat?
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terrible !

Oh dear, all down to Gul now. He may as well go for it, as Ajmal cant really do much with the bat.
 
i can see some changes for 2nd ODI, lets hope for the best team not the senior team
 
Shakil_pkcricket said:
Match lost is lost my dear brother.....its Sirlanka 1 up in the ODI SERIES....
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That's understood, it was almost confirmed we were going to lose when were 5 down with 70-odd on the board
 
Pakistan seriously needs to think about these batting failures....in fact our main batsman don't know how to bat on tricky pitches.....
 
dani2k said:
The only thing which concerns me is that these guys should talk to each other saying that they can cross the finishing line...too often the tailenders bring the team to the brink of victory (from a hopeless position) only to finish just short. You can't blame them for that since they aren't used to such things. I hope that doesnt happen today for Pakistan's sake. These two guys deserve to be on the winning side..
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The closer you get the harder it gets. SL were always likely to be favourities even if we needed 10 runs because all it would take is 2 balls.
 
Shakil_pkcricket said:
Pakistan seriously needs to think about these batting failures....in fact our main batsman don't know how to bat on tricky pitches.....
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Yes but our bowlers once again gave about 30 runs too much at the death.
 
Younis has some serious questions to answer about team selection if only Saj was at the press conference.
 
pak4life said:
Younis has some serious questions to answer about team selection if only Saj was at the press conference.
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The answer for the serious question is simple, he cann't drop the vice-captain, x-captain n senir citizens :moyo , nothing serious than that, we should get used to it.
 
who_dares said:
The answer for the serious question is simple, he cann't drop the vice-captain, x-captain n senir citizens :moyo , nothing serious than that, we should get used to it.
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HAHAHA
 
Amoeba said:
Yes but our bowlers once again gave about 30 runs too much at the death.
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More than fifty runs in the death overs.

Sri Lanka was at 136 - 6, and then, tailenders have dominated Shahid Khan Afridi, Gul at the death overs. That is mainly reason why chasing more than 200 runs was impossible knowing the pitch condition. Nevertheless, fine partnership between Gul and Aamer. That doesn't change the fact Pakistan lost because of bowlers. Pakistan would have had to chase 150 if it weren't poor bowling especially in quality pitch we have seen today.
 
the stuff i am happy about, is we gave lankans the impression that, you may have blown out our main batting, but our tail proved that, u urselves had little to do with ur triumph, it was our tail treating u like kids, indeed our batting line-up gave u this game as a goodwill gift, lol
 
who_dares said:
usuall smile on YK face, good to see him under pressure
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That is one thing I like about this guy. Tremendous attitude. Very rare in real life :14:
 
who_dares said:
usuall smile on YK face, good to see him under pressure
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the first impression his captaincy in this game in the very beginning starting from the team selection, gave me, is, this man is not serious at all.

he said T20 WC is fun, now he is treating ODIs as a fun.
 
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Murali is man of the match for his batting, again shame on our senior batsmen
 
what do you expect? have a long face and act serious all the time? Give him a break pal..

VV This is a prelude to the next post...
 
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HaMmy FinE LeG StriKeR said:
the first impression his captaincy in this game in the very beginning starting from the team selection, gave me, is, this man is not serious at all.

he said T20 WC is fun, now he is treating ODIs as a fun.
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That was very harsh...YK is a great guy to lead the team IMO..
 
Amoeba said:
Yes but our bowlers once again gave about 30 runs too much at the death.
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This is really a problem with Pakistan team once they get the match in their control by taking 6 or 7 wickets then be tend to loose concentration and give away easy runs at the end... teams like Australlia does not let the opposition dominate at the death overs after gaining control in the middle of the match..
 
who_dares said:
Murali is man of the match for his batting, again shame on our senior batsmen
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Agreed bcz even if our Youngsters fail we will be investing in our youngster by investing in them (giving them ample opportunities at the international level)
 
Saj said:
This is amazing stuff from our bowlers. I hope the so called batsmen are sat in the pavilion feeliing throughly ashamed of themselves.
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yeah, what do you think they were doing, one month ago when this series started???

feeling ashmed rite now???????, lol, i dont think so, they must be getting used to it, i saw yusuf smiling, when razzak went out. yunus is smiling having 'FUN' lol
 
Poor display, again i have to mention Younus the captain and the wisdom of sending out Malik to open, when it was so obvious that he had struggled against the new ball.....His field placings made no sense.

Again people are looking at the openers and that they are makeshift, but what have our specilists ever done, i suppose "specialists" would have batted out the swing, wrong, the likes of Butt and Manzooror, Nazir...all of them are useless on swinging pitches.

For the 2nd odi>>>>>>

Pakistan have no option but to ask Afridi to open>>>>

Misbah had the right idea in THIS odi, but then again he always does, but he gets out trying to push the pace, age is stacked against him.

Malik-what to say of this guy....he isn't an opener and i was shocked to see him opening, so was the likes of Ramiz. As much he needs to be rested, I think it was unfair to open with him given his 139 came against an old ball. I wouldn't drop him....return him to six, he also provides a handy option with the ball especially when the likes of Afridi have an off day (like 2day).

Yousuf-Everyone knows my views on Yousuf or "Mr Soft dismissal". Age again is not on his side.

Younus--How long will the captaincy burden his batting, when will his batting come to the fore, he should learn of Graeme Smith and Andre Strauss how to handle both.

For Me Mr Umar Akmal .should get a game, in place of Yousuf, Malik or Misbah. Im against Specilist openers like Butt, Manzoor, Nazir

My team

Akmal
Afridi
Younus
Yousuf/U Akmal
Misbah/U Akmal
Malik/U Akmal
Alam
Razzaq
Gul
Amer
Ajmal.
 
who_dares said:
Murali is man of the match for his batting, again shame on our senior batsmen
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Surely shame on our bowlers for letting him get those runs?
 
the Great Khan said:
i reckon we should send gul as opener...
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Well he can't open the bowling so he might as well open the batting
 
I dozed off when I was saw the score was 160 ODD with Kulasekara and Mathews on the crease and considering we shoulde get them all out under 200 :)) , Although I had already predicted that we were gonna lose after I saw the pitch and the Lankan bowling line-up but this is a great effort from the team to get even close to the 200 mark , I clap for their Almost Hard-work :14:

I know many other like myself would have been thinking of a great score of below hundred by our batting line-up......so getting even close to that 200 mark is quite a great achievement for us.
 
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Does anyone else like Aamers new wicket technique? :)

I've noticed that the best wickets that Aamer takes seem to be bowled and caught by him. I mean take today for example. What an amazing recovery and catch! If it was anyone else, they might have actually dropped the ball out of their butterfingers :mad:

Well done to you :aamir superb work with the ball and bat. Mashallah it was a very good debut match! :14: keep it up :D
 
What!!!!!!!!!! Afridi hit a SIX . Man I wanna see the highlights , anyone know when are they showing the highlights on Ten Sports?.
 
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