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Pakistan cricket is the poster boy of mediocrity and lives and breathes defeats.

However, surely, this has to top everything?

You cannot sink lower than failing to chase 119 against Zimbabwe in a T20I with your first-choice top 3 on show.

Not only did Zimbabwe choke our run rate, they actually dismissed us for 99.

Absolute shambles. How do we recover from this? I don’t think we can.

The players, selectors, fans, tv analysts – all of them deserve this unprecedented humiliation.
 
India recovered from 36 all out.
Hopefully these boys can take inspiration from that and come back stronger to beat the day lights of Zimbabwe next match.
Well, one can hope.
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistan cricket is the poster boy of mediocrity and lives and breathes defeats.

However, surely, this has to top everything?

You cannot sink lower than failing to chase 119 against Zimbabwe in a T20I with your first-choice top 3 on show.

Not only did Zimbabwe choke our run rate, they actually dismissed us for 99.

Absolute shambles. How do we recover from this? I don’t think we can.

The players, selectors, fans, tv analysts – all of them deserve this unprecedented humiliation.
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Ireland 2007. No way that will be topped.
 
Bangladesh during the 99 WC and Ireland in the 2007 WC were worse!
 
Embarrassing to say the least, even by Zimbabwe’s standards this is about as poor a team and bowling attack that they’ve ever had - to fail to score 100 against them is pretty poor cricket.

Once again other than Rizwan/Babar/Fakhar , it looks like the rest of the Pak batting line up in T20 and ODIs might as well just be specialist bowlers as they all bat like tailenders anyway.
 
I was absolutely sure that with this middle order Pakistan will lose a game to Zimbabwe, and actually it was a Zimbabwe without Ervine, Williams and Raza, three of their better players.

Even in South Africa, that last game Hasan Ali bailed them out, else it could have been a drawn series.
 
First of all

I would like to thank our clueless management and chicken hearted captain who won the toss and elected to bowl first. Like who are you playing against?

Secondly, I would like to thank Zimbabwe for delivering an apt humiliation to deluded Misbah ul Haq who takes everything for granted and is so out of touch in his approach! Asif Ali selected again! Danish Aziz who isn’t even considered for PSL has played 2 T20i games for Pakistan!!
 
Well t20 is nowhere near ODI in stature and World Cup match against Ireland springs to mind. But I think in the Ireland match a banana skin was expected due to the extreme seaming conditions but in this match Like one test match a few years ago Zimbabwe actually outplayed and certainly outbowled us. I loved their use of conditions to bowl cutters after getting a wicket or two. Seems that they had a plan that they executed with discipline

Well done to Zimbabwe is all we can say.
 
Titan24 said:
Agreed. I still remember that, nothing can oust such an upset in a world tournament. :dw
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For me, the most humiliating defeat was the loss to India in 2011.

The only time I have truly been hurt and heartbroken at a defeat
 
Lol didnt take you long to open a thread.

I must say though it doesn't hurt. Dont know if its because i am fasting or if the commentators have been so soothing or because i always had a soft spot for the minnow.
 
This embarrassing defeat doesn't even come close to Ireland 2007, Bangladesh 1999 or even their last ODI defeat to Zimbabwe
 
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Pathetic batsmen. No one asking to score a biundary a over. Just nudge 1s and twos. Instead we see them scoring at 4 an over for half of the game and realizing too late that the pitchs slugness wont allow 9 an over in the death
 
Pakistan has been dropping games to team like Zim, SL-B, SA-B, WI-B etc. with quite regularity.

It is quite clear they can't compete with the big boys. They are even struggling to beat the second string of the middle and lower level teams.

I don't know whey everybody is surprised here.
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistan cricket is the poster boy of mediocrity and lives and breathes defeats.

However, surely, this has to top everything?

You cannot sink lower than failing to chase 119 against Zimbabwe in a T20I with your first-choice top 3 on show.

Not only did Zimbabwe choke our run rate, they actually dismissed us for 99.

Absolute shambles. How do we recover from this? I don’t think we can.

The players, selectors, fans, tv analysts – all of them deserve this unprecedented humiliation.
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How do we recover from this? By beating England in England lol
 
Let the excuses come out of the bag.

"It's the fault of Misbah" "We should have selected X over X" "Mohammed Wasim did not selected the right players" "This is a blessing in disguise" "Zimbabwe is a quality team"

All these excuses yet the answer is so obvious- we are a talentless, substandard, parody of a cricket team
 
Had this been in a world cup, must win game it would have been remembered for ages to come but no one cares about a meaningless bilateral. It sure is disappointing but soon will be forgotten like the odi loss
 
This result was embarrassing, but tbh pretty meaningless. Another match losing flop from Aif Ali could actually prove educational for the selectors since they keep giving this loser an endless supply of chances.

OT, the world cup loss to Ireland will always be the benchmark humiliating loss for Pakistan considering the importance of the event and the strength of the Pakistan line up back then.
 
deep82 said:
Pakistan has been dropping games to team like Zim, SL-B, SA-B, WI-B etc. with quite regularity.

It is quite clear they can't compete with the big boys. They are even struggling to beat the second string of the middle and lower level teams.

I don't know whey everybody is surprised here.
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Pak is a mid tier team in my opinion along with SA and results prove that. Surely not amongst the top teams.
 
U have to blame the captain who set the tone for the inns... snail pace start which just got slower n slower. Worst bating lineup in cricket..
 
gazza619 said:
Lol didnt take you long to open a thread.

I must say though it doesn't hurt. Dont know if its because i am fasting or if the commentators have been so soothing or because i always had a soft spot for the minnow.
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You know what, I was just thinking that. I really am not bothered about this loss. Don't know why.
 
Pakistan has always been a joke of a cricket team with no talent. As a result, it is indeed a tough pick to choose the most shameful defeat for Pakistan in LOI cricket.

For me, the top 2 contenders apart from this capitulation are the Ireland defeat in 2007 and the Bangladesh won in 1999.

I would rank this worse than Ireland because the conditions were nightmarish for batting. The pitch was green and the overhead conditions were overcast.

I would rank this worse than the Bangladesh defeat because Pakistan were chasing a respectable total.

But imagine getting all out for 99, while chasing 119 in a T20I, in 2021, against Zimbabwe, under a sunny sky and a pitch that was just a regular slow pitch with no demons.

Nothing tops this in my view. I am looking at it purely from the perspective of the performance rather than the magnitude of the stage.
 
It would have been embarrassing enough losing to a top tier team such as India or England chasing such a low total. Not only did we lose to Zimbabwe but to a Zimbabwe team missing some it's best players. A Zimbabwe team that barely plays an international cricket. A Zimbabwe team that lost 3-0 to Afghanistan and even lost a match to Singapore.

Nuff said
 
embarrassing defeat against Zimbabwe C team but not the most humiliating in Pakistan cricket history... bit of over exaggeration
 
I wouldn't say most humiliating. Pakistan lost an ODI to Zimbabwe in Pakistan of all places not too long ago. However, when you consider the fact that Pakistan could plan the chase by virtue of batting second, was up against a Zimbabwe side without Jarvis, Raza, Williams, Ervine and the fact that they lost comfortably by 20 runs in a low scoring match with the last over being a triple wicket maiden, it does sound bad. Worst T20 loss for Pakistan for sure.
 
This defeat goes to show the series wins against South Africa were a fluke. God please let this be the end of Misbah
 
If you go by calibre of opposition then yes this is the most humiliating LOI defeat in Pakistan's cricketing history.

If we go by occasion then it is the loss against Ireland in the 2007 WC.

Either way, lets all hail and appreciate Misbah the saviour :14:
 
YousafTheBeast said:
This defeat goes to show the series wins against South Africa were a fluke. God please let this be the end of Misbah
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no it was't.

for gods sake do bother to understand cricket.

There is a difference between wickets, and Pakistan is not able to adjust to this wicket.
 
Considering the fact that teams all top 8 team and weaker sides such as Afghanistan and Ireland would have won this game with ease, this is easily our worst defeat ever.
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistan has always been a joke of a cricket team with no talent. As a result, it is indeed a tough pick to choose the most shameful defeat for Pakistan in LOI cricket.

For me, the top 2 contenders apart from this capitulation are the Ireland defeat in 2007 and the Bangladesh won in 1999.

I would rank this worse than Ireland because the conditions were nightmarish for batting. The pitch was green and the overhead conditions were overcast.

I would rank this worse than the Bangladesh defeat because Pakistan were chasing a respectable total.

But imagine getting all out for 99, while chasing 119 in a T20I, in 2021, against Zimbabwe, under a sunny sky and a pitch that was just a regular slow pitch with no demons.

Nothing tops this in my view. I am looking at it purely from the perspective of the performance rather than the magnitude of the stage.
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This is the most humiliating defeat while the ireland 2007 was the most disappointing.
 
Major said:
no it was't.

for gods sake do bother to understand cricket.

There is a difference between wickets, and Pakistan is not able to adjust to this wicket.
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I’m sorry but even if our players were playing with one arm you’d still expect them to beat Zimbabwe.
 
This would have been less humiliating had Zimbabwe posted a big total.

However, we were chasing 119 and lost all 10 wickets for 99 and the last 6-7 for around 15 runs.

Jesus. :))) :)))
 
It could be worse, you could have lost a match to Honk Kong in a WT20 in your home soil :shakib
 
Titan24 said:
Pak is a mid tier team in my opinion along with SA and results prove that. Surely not amongst the top teams.
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Recent Results vs SA were quite misleading.

I don't think Pakistan can match a full strength SA in white ball formats. They would be too hot to handle.

SA second string gave tough times to Pakistan Main Team and most of the times Pakistan was huffing and puffing to victories due to some amateurish bowling by SA nobodies.

In my personal opinion, Pakistan is not in league of the top 4 teams + South Africa in white ball cricket.

Infact in T20, WI can also regularly beat them due to their powerhitters.

In test cricket, Pakistan is rightly No.5 ( due to decline of SA)

But the most worrying thing for Pakistan is that they have to be on their top game and play their top team to be able to compete against these middle and lower level teams also.
 
This has to be the worst, even worse than Ireland for me. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] is quite right
 
Since PSL has the best bowling standard in the world, these Zimbabwe bowlers must be getting massive contracts next year.

Our batsmen were clueless against them in spite of practicing and playing against the best T20 bowling attacks in the world in PSL.
 
Mamoon said:
This would have been less humiliating had Zimbabwe posted a big total.

However, we were chasing 119 and lost all 10 wickets for 99 and the last 6-7 for around 15 runs.

Jesus. :))) :)))
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Mamoon, India was all out for 36 in a test match.

This is a meaningless T20. Pakistna will end up winning the series no matter what
 
Losing a t20 game, even in the fashion that we did, against Zimbos is neither here nor there.

Didn't watch even a ball but if top three batsmen who were scoring big against a superior opposition coolant get to even 100 then that tells me there must have been something badly off with the wicket.

One also have to keep perspective in all this.
Simple put, Asif and Danish should be no where near this side.

So all in all whoever selected the team and probably the wicket must take some blame too.
 
shah_1 said:
This has to be the worst, even worse than Ireland for me. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] is quite right
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Then you clearly don't remember Ireland. Because that was something else.
I remember my Irish Principal coming in our class the next day and just laughing at us for 30 minutes straight
 
These things happen, Also give some credit to Zimbos, they are trying so hard every series and are not an associate nation. Only thing is that Zim won without 3 of their key players. Which was not expected

Pakistan's middle order is extremely fragile which is why I thought playing Sarfi asa batsmen will help, but they don't understand. Also Sherjeel can be given at least a couple of more chances, if Asif Ali can be given a million.

Malik in the middle order for T20 WC may become a reality.
 
Major said:
Home conditions gave Zimbabwe the advantage. Pitch was slow and takes time to adjust.
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The previous pitch was slow too. Pakistan anyway used to play the bulk of their cricket on slow, low wickets like Sheikh Zayed for many years. You should be able to adjust to such turgid surfaces better than other teams .
 
Major said:
Mamoon, India was all out for 36 in a test match.

This is a meaningless T20. Pakistna will end up winning the series no matter what
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Won’t mind getting out for 6, let alone 36, if that is what it takes for Pakistan to win a Test series in Australia.

What is the best that can happen here? Pakistan rolls Zimbabwe over in the next match and wins 2-1 which is embarrassing in its own self.

The only way Pakistan compensates for this is by whitewashing England in the T20Is and winning the WT20.

However, we all know there is a 0% chance of that happening.
 
Rana said:
Misbah-ul-haq needs to go!!!
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We've become so numb to humiliation under Misbah that i don't think it makes any difference at this point. If he was a competent coach heads would have rolled at this defeat. For our coach it's just expected that we get humiliated once every so often.
 
I'm genuinely concerned for the test series. We could draw again like last time... or even lose the series.
 
deep82 said:
Recent Results vs SA were quite misleading.

I don't think Pakistan can match a full strength SA in white ball formats. They would be too hot to handle.

SA second string gave tough times to Pakistan Main Team and most of the times Pakistan was huffing and puffing to victories due to some amateurish bowling by SA nobodies.

In my personal opinion, Pakistan is not in league of the top 4 teams + South Africa in white ball cricket.

Infact in T20, WI can also regularly beat them due to their powerhitters.

In test cricket, Pakistan is rightly No.5 ( due to decline of SA)

But the most worrying thing for Pakistan is that they have to be on their top game and play their top team to be able to compete against these middle and lower level teams also.
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No doubt Pak’s overall approach towards cricket leaves a lot to he desired.

Regarding SA’s whiteball cricket I dont think SA can be said as better in my opinion. On last tour Pak lost ODI series 2-3 and T20 series 2-1. Pak convincingly beat SA in WC 19 as well. In recent series Pak was able to beat full strength team in 1st ODI and 2nd ODI was also pretty close, not to forget it was a non existent middle order of Pak with Danish and Asif Ali (So Pak wasnt really that experienced post top 3). SA 2nd string was beaten 6 out of 8 matches and they had few of their white ball regulars as well in those, yes some of their main players were missing.

Pak’s middle order is as bad as it can get, SA definitely is better in that regard like most other teams.
 
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Mamoon said:
Won’t mind getting out for 6, let alone 36, if that is what it takes for Pakistan to win a Test series in Australia.

What is the best that can happen here? Pakistan rolls Zimbabwe over in the next match and wins 2-1 which is embarrassing in its own self.

The only way Pakistan compensates for this is by whitewashing England in the T20Is and winning the WT20.

However, we all know there is a 0% chance of that happening.
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Its about pitch adjustment and nothing else.
Pakistan expectedly will give a better performance agaisnt England as the pitch is similar to SA.

Zimbabwe pitches are slow and thats why we lost.

We have defeated SA back to back in home and away, we arn't such a terrible team as you are making them to be.

Its a meaningless T20, and we will win this series no mattter what.

Pakistan doesn't have to compensate anything here.
 
deep82 said:
Pakistan has been dropping games to team like Zim, SL-B, SA-B, WI-B etc. with quite regularity.

It is quite clear they can't compete with the big boys. They are even struggling to beat the second string of the middle and lower level teams.

I don't know whey everybody is surprised here.
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It's more of a hickup than a regular occurance tbf
 
shah_1 said:
This has to be the worst, even worse than Ireland for me. [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] is quite right
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Losing a crucial world cup group game against an associate side was less worse then losing some meaningless T20 game irrespective of the opposition and the manner of defeat??

You have to get your priorities right
 
Major said:
Its about pitch adjustment and nothing else.
Pakistan expectedly will give a better performance agaisnt England as the pitch is similar to SA.

Zimbabwe pitches are slow and thats why we lost.

We have defeated SA back to back in home and away, we arn't such a terrible team as you are making them to be.

Its a meaningless T20, and we will win this series no mattter what.

Pakistan doesn't have to compensate anything here.
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You cannot blame the pitch when you are chasing 119. Pakistan was not fighting the required run rate at any point.

There is no excuse for this defeat. It was complete shambles.

When you collapse to 99 all out while chasing against Zimbabwe with your first-choice top-order, you don’t even deserve to be called a terrible team. You are worse than terrible.

I don’t blame Misbah for this because we have no talent and skill, but a lot of players have been exposed today including Babar.
 
Whats wrong with us?

its just a frigging t20 match on a dull surface. We just beat south africa a few days ago and also drew series with england before than.
 
I think it's a random defeat, this being a very low /rather no stakes game.

Gone are the days when every cricket match carried a lot of weight and prestige. I don't know about Pakistan.

I myself bother about very few matches involving India. I do check out scorecards as the obsession would never end but I deep down I really don't care until it's a test match or a high stakes ICC match.
 
I know the reality of Pakistan cricket like the back of my hand, which is why nothing surprises me anymore.

However, even I am disgusted by this. 119 target, Zimbabwean bowlers, sunny sky, 99 all out.

I don’t know what to say.
 
Lol, I remember there was a T20I match with Australia in UAE in which Maxwell had to defend 2 runs in last over and Pakistan lost that match. Pakistan's list of humiliating defeats is very long and a lot of them can be termed as most humiliating defeats. Anyways, our team is such a laughing stock. No one should take them seriously.
 
Law of averages..you're bound to lose some. It's alright, pick yourselves up and win the final T20 on Sunday.
 
Mamoon said:
Pakistan has always been a joke of a cricket team with no talent. As a result, it is indeed a tough pick to choose the most shameful defeat for Pakistan in LOI cricket.

For me, the top 2 contenders apart from this capitulation are the Ireland defeat in 2007 and the Bangladesh won in 1999.

I would rank this worse than Ireland because the conditions were nightmarish for batting. The pitch was green and the overhead conditions were overcast.

I would rank this worse than the Bangladesh defeat because Pakistan were chasing a respectable total.

But imagine getting all out for 99, while chasing 119 in a T20I, in 2021, against Zimbabwe, under a sunny sky and a pitch that was just a regular slow pitch with no demons.

Nothing tops this in my view. I am looking at it purely from the perspective of the performance rather than the magnitude of the stage.
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If Pakistan has been a joke of a team as per you then why is it humiliating? Isnt that what you should expect? Why the surprise?

And why no celebration from your side when this joke team somehow defeated SA recently at home and away?
 
IMMY69 said:
Losing a t20 game, even in the fashion that we did, against Zimbos is neither here nor there.

Didn't watch even a ball but if top three batsmen who were scoring big against a superior opposition coolant get to even 100 then that tells me there must have been something badly off with the wicket.

One also have to keep perspective in all this.
Simple put, Asif and Danish should be no where near this side.

So all in all whoever selected the team and probably the wicket must take some blame too.
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Nothing was wrong with the wicket. Zimbabwe just bowled really cleverly took the pace right off and we just kept on playing areal cross batted shots like we wanted to finish it all in one or two overs.
 
The most humiliating defeat hasn’t happened yet, there is always more to come :yk
 
Markhor said:
Ireland 2007 is the worst. That was a World Cup, this was a meaningless T20I.
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This has to be right up there, purely because a Rubbish team like Ireland would end up getting Test Status, add BD to the list to. [MENTION=136108]Donal Cozzie[/MENTION] [MENTION=130260]Executioner[/MENTION]
 
gazza619 said:
If Pakistan has been a joke of a team as per you then why is it humiliating? Isnt that what you should expect? Why the surprise?

And why no celebration from your side when this joke team somehow defeated SA recently at home and away?
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Because this is a new low even for a talentless, low IQ team like Pakistan.

Beating South Africa today is not a big deal.
 
Lol.

If Pakistan wins the decider , which they most likely will, this would be forgotten pretty quickly. At the end of the day, this just a random bilateral.

But if pak somehow loses the decider, I think that'll be tough to argue against...
 
Also its quite pertinent when certain posters suddenly pop up when Pakistan loses a game. Tells you a lot about them and the joy they get from seeing Pakistan lose a game of cricket.
 
its humiliating, but i think most posters on here have realized this team is rubbish, we are 5th or 6th at the moment so games like these are expected, you cant judge our performances based on unrealistic expectations, our players are very imited in their skill set right now.

In my opinion ireland 07 or bangladesh 99 was alot worse, the team had more of a stature then
 
IMMY69 said:
Also its quite pertinent when certain posters suddenly pop up when Pakistan loses a game. Tells you a lot about them and the joy they get from seeing Pakistan lose a game of cricket.
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I know right :)))
 
Mamoon said:
Because this is a new low even for a talentless, low IQ team like Pakistan.

Beating South Africa today is not a big deal.
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But then beating South Africa, Sri Lanka, England and then India on the way to winning the CT17 was a fluke?

What would you say if Pakistan were to win this years WT20?
 
Against minnows pakistan should always bat first. Our batsmen throw their wickets away without thought wheb face with a high required run rate be it them facing bumrah or magala
 
Can we put aside all trolls on Pakistan & appreciate what ZIM has done.
They put in lot of effort Defending 118 against Pakistan and Pak had Babar & Rizwan who were in red hot form.

Well done @ZimCricketv, great bowling effort that.
 
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