The worst period for Pakistan (2013-2017) is now over

[deep82]

First of all, Congratulations to Pakistan fans. Enjoy and celebrate these happy moments. Your team really played exceptional cricket and deserved to reach the final.

2013(CT) to 2017(CT) period was one of the worst period ever in the history of Pakistan white ball cricket. They lost to almost every team, didn't reach semifinal of even one ICC trophy and keep on degrading series after series.

But, A new journey now beckons. The team now realizes the power of youth. The talent is there and there is no need to go back to TTF anymore. These young players will gain more experience leading to World Cup 2019 and would be a force. There are some obvious chinks but there is time to sort that out too.

Congrats again and see you in Final ( if we get past Bengali tigers)!

 

[Pete Rose]

we'll see.
if we are still playing hafeez and malik by the time we land in south africa next year, our nightmare has not yet ended.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Wait till you realize how much Misbah meant to this team.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

we'll see.
if we are still playing hafeez and malik by the time we land in south africa next year, our nightmare has not yet ended.

Took the words from my mouth


In isolation this is great, but for 2019 it will be awful if some obvious problems are allowed to fester

 

[Hamza_]

No. Hafeez is a liability. He is likely to get exposed in Final.

 

[Rayyman]

No. Hafeez is a liability. He is likely to get exposed in Final.

The great part is that we don't really need Hafeez in LOIs moving forward.

Just teach Babar some off-spin and until then, Malik will have to do.

I think after CT, we only need one change in squad and that is Hafeez or Malik out for a middle-order batsman. I would prefer Hafeez to be dropped.

People will say that Azhar and Shehzad need to be dropped, but we don't have a lot of options as openers.

The bowling is great.

This isn't a fluke and it will be shown in the coming matches after CT.