West Indies (184/5) secure a thrilling 5-wicket victory over Pakistan (171/7) via the DLS method, leveling the series 1-1 with one match remaining

[Ahmed216]

Hope departs but the damage has already been done

 

[topspin]

It feels like MCG when Babar is batting

Any ground feels like MCG for Babar. He probably thinks eating excessively will give him Azam Khan's power.

 

[gazza619]

One more wicket needed and game will be in the balance

 

[Rana]

Abrar needs to remove Rutherford

He’s going to murder Nawaz next over I recon

 

[Rana]

Big over coming up here

Rutherford is going to go for Nawaz!

Ya Allah Khair

 

[Rana]

Pakistan should win this now

 

[Usman Chadda]

Rutherford has no brain cells, what a horrible shot at this time.

 

[Nasty Naz]

Nawaz gets the massive wicket of Rutherford. Brain fade there and now it gives Pakistan a legitimate chance in the game again.

 

[batandballbattle]

big wicket of rutherford
have to question the thinking when abrar's next over is his last, a worse bowler was not far away

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

Brainless shot by Rutherford. That was not required, really foolish

 

[Nasty Naz]

Another great over for Nawaz there. Unlucky not to get a wicket.

RRR is over 6 again for WI. Hopefully Saim can continue to give some good tight overs.

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

big wicket of rutherford
have to question the thinking when abrar's next over is his last, a worse bowler was not far away

He should have been out long time dropped by rizwan and abrar

 

[batandballbattle]

He should have been out long time dropped by rizwan and abrar

yeah but still the guy was on a roll, his wicket has changed things majorly now

 

[Rana]

Wow West Indies are so poor against spin

 

[Rana]

Greaves much better technique against Spin than Carty has

 

[Rana]

Top spell by Nawaz

 

[Rana]

$hite bowling Ayub

 

[Usman Chadda]

We had a below par score because of the usual suspects

It’s time to move on

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

Ayub's expensive over has decisively pulled this in WI favor..what was need to continue with ayub though?

 

[Rana]

This greaves guy looks a good batter

 

[batandballbattle]

windies come back into the game once again, might have a photo finish here

 

[shaz619]

If scores end up going level, will Shaheen bowl the super-over

 

[shaz619]

Roston Chase got that eye of the tiger today

 

[Rana]

Pakistan need to identify a proper bowler who can bat…


Open the batting with him and give him a free licence

It’s the only way I think they can solve their 5th bowler issues.

 

[shaz619]

Does Hassan Ali’s wig generate a few extra mph

Shaheen should get one to

 

[Nasty Naz]

66 runs given up by Saim & Salman in their 7 overs combined. This is why you need to play 5 legitimate bowlers and not 4 + part timers. It is a strategy we have already seen fail in the tri-series and CT. Yet, they keep persisting with it.

 

[shaz619]

Pakistan need to identify a proper bowler who can bat…


Open the batting with him and give him a free licence

It’s the only way I think they can solve their 5th bowler issues.

Jamal seems to be the only half decent option and one that we don’t really fine tune

 

[Rana]

Greaves can bat boy

 

[shaz619]

Here comes the legend lol bowl some cutters bhaijaan

 

[Rana]

Jamal seems to be the only half decent option and one that we don’t really fine tune

A captain like Wasim Akram would have made him into a proper all rounder

 

[shaz619]

Shaheen is already coming around the wicket

 

[IMMY69]

Who's he kid in the glasses standing at shirt fine leg? Awful fielding

 

[Rana]

Pace too easy here for Windies

 

[Rana]

Who's he kid in the glasses standing at shirt fine leg? Awful fielding

Abrar

He’s a liability in the field

Sufyan is no different

Maybe worse

 

[Nasty Naz]

Trundler Shaheen can't even manage to get a dot ball.

 

[Rana]

Greaves is gonna take Windies home I recon

He’s a good batter. Impressive

 

[shaz619]

A captain like Wasim Akram would have made him into a proper all rounder

Wasim gave us two potential Pakistani great A/R’s, he bloody played them in the same line up I think in the 1999 WC, they barely had much experience and just look at how they were utilsed. Azhar should have done much better post Wasim, but Razzaq had a decent career.

Captaincy & leadership is so big, I’ve already seen some of our past jobbers do much better working with the Agha/Hesson combo, or ignoring them, Davey Warner showed what he could do, but we got the screaming chuwah behind the stumps to deal with.

 

[IMMY69]

Abrar

He’s a liability in the field

Sufyan is no different

Maybe worse

Really poor, inexcusable...

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Tuned out after Hassan got a few wickets upfront.

Just checked in recently..match phass gya

 

[shaz619]

Rana Naveed Ul Hassan Ali is back, go on son

 

[Rana]

Rizwan knows that’s not out

They are going to try and use sniko for whatever sound the bat made hitting the ground or pad

 

[shaz619]

Is Rizwan wearing fresh make-up? Think he does a touch-up between innings at least.

 

[shaz619]

The default Misbah field setting will be selected for the remaining overs.

 

[Rana]

Abrar needs a hattrick here or game over

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Wasim gave us two potential Pakistani great A/R’s, he bloody played them in the same line up I think in the 1999 WC, they barely had much experience and just look at how they were utilsed. Azhar should have done much better post Wasim, but Razzaq had a decent career.

Captaincy & leadership is so big, I’ve already seen some of our past jobbers do much better working with the Agha/Hesson combo, or ignoring them, Davey Warner showed what he could do, but we got the screaming chuwah behind the stumps to deal with.

Modern captain doesn't get enough time with the players. Back in those days Wasim would have the players on long tours with multiple bounce games and warm up games away from the public eye to mould them. Back then if you played for Pakistan you probably played 80+percent of your cricket under the national captain, domestic was an afterthought and there was no leagues.

Now players are here there and everywhere and have to take some personal responsibility to enhance their own skills too, a lot of our players unfortunately don't take that responsibility. Not saying Amir Jamaal is in that camp as he sure as hell fought to even have a cricket career but overall our players just don't have it in them.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

At least WI hit the part time spinners today if not Abrar and Nawaz.

 

[BlackstoneRock]

Lanat lanat chase wining for wi

 

[shaz619]

Shaheen’s variation these days:

The Full Toss
The Leg & Off-Side Wide
The Short & Wide

May as well bring him on, he has shown he can take some wickets with one of these new deliveries he has developed lately at the Peshawar Pace factory

 

[IMMY69]

Pakistan are 4th in the rankings...
How?

 

[shaz619]

Modern captain doesn't get enough time with the players. Back in those days Wasim would have the players on long tours with multiple bounce games and warm up games away from the public eye to mould them. Back then if you played for Pakistan you probably played 80+percent of your cricket under the national captain, domestic was an afterthought and there was no leagues.

Now players are here there and everywhere and have to take some personal responsibility to enhance their own skills too, a lot of our players unfortunately don't take that responsibility. Not saying Amir Jamaal is in that camp as he sure as hell fought to even have a cricket career but overall our players just don't have it in them.

Lets assume that’s a good excuse for a second, do you think that during the sessions Wasim had with the players, that he had them bend over so he could kick a ball up their back-sides?

 

[BlackstoneRock]

Shaheen’s variation these days:

The Full Toss
The Leg & Off-Side Wide
The Short & Wide

May as well bring him on, he has shown he can take some wickets with one of these new deliveries he has developed lately at the Peshawar Pace factory

Not with dropping pace over the years … he needs to find his pace up and then only these deliveries can device batsman .. batters have figured him out and at 135 it is getting manageable

 

[Rana]

Mate this Greaves guy is class

 

[IMMY69]

Shaheen’s variation these days:

The Full Toss
The Leg & Off-Side Wide
The Short & Wide

May as well bring him on, he has shown he can take some wickets with one of these new deliveries he has developed lately at the Peshawar Pace factory

Yeah and I like his thinking.."if i dont know what I'm bowling, then how will the batsman know..."

 

[BlackstoneRock]

All over now …

 

[shaz619]

Pakistan are 4th in the rankings...
How?

Nobody gives a crap about these series as much as us, majority of the top teams use them to develop their bench strength or warm-ups before going into a tougher tournament or series. Pakistan got their ranking beating teams that were too cold; the reality is there to see in the ICC tournaments we’ve took part in.

 

[batandballbattle]

tuk tuk in the batting to blame as it so often is, needed to be up and around 200

 

[IMMY69]

My god is Shaheen useless

 

[Raja Ishtiaq]

All over now …

You can't win every game!

 

[neonoir]

Shaheen has become a shell of himself think he might be done as a bowler at international level

 

[BlackstoneRock]

You can't win every game!

Poor fast bowling at the end of.. spin did really well Jawas was good today

 

[AZulfi]

The bowlers gave Pak a brief hope

However, just not enough runs to play with. Another abject batting performance

Abdullah, Babar, Agha and Rizwan (limited techniques) cannot play in the same XI. Can afford to play only two of the four.

 

[BlackstoneRock]

They were waiting for fast bowlers to come back for their spell

 

[Raja Ishtiaq]

Who is that maal with Lara?

 

[BlackstoneRock]

Beauty from Hassan Ali

 

[IMMY69]

Poor selection. Poor batting and poor captaincy cost us this game

 

[shaz619]

Good to see The Prince

 

[BlackstoneRock]

lol chase wins it for wi

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Burying our biggest hitter at 7 cost us the game.

 

[shaz619]

Beautiful batting, the Chase was clinical

 

[batandballbattle]

chase completes the chase, all square going into the last one

 

[AZulfi]

A comfortable win for the Windies

 

[shaz619]

Burying our biggest hitter at 7 cost us the game.

Look at how many balls the captain wasted, any well meaning leader would retire after that sh!t show, completely sucked the life out of our innings as usual

 

[shaz619]

What are we trying to do picking Babar, Shaheen & Rizwan for these games?

 

[Rana]

Burying our biggest hitter at 7 cost us the game.

It’s just the beginning

Watch Nawaz lose his place in the side because of Rizwan’s insistence to be number 4

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Look at how many balls the captain wasted, any well meaning leader would retire after that sh!t show, completely sucked the life out of our innings as usual

It was a very poor knock, we need to stop with this mentality that fall of wickets means defence.

Other teams keep attacking.

 

[Nasty Naz]

Quite the game from Rizwan. That batting and then horrific captaincy that helped WI chase down the totals.

The strategy of not going with enough bowlers backfired yet again. The veterans had a rough game from Babar/Rizwan/Agha/Shaheen. Nawaz did his job as a bowler but oh boy, that batting display was awful. Nawaz has been batting since 2016 for Pakistan in ODI's and doesn't have a single great or useful knock. He's in Faheem territory as an ODI batter at this point.

Not much positives other than Saim looking decent, Hasan Nawaz doing well again and Abrar spell was pretty good.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Pakistan should have scored around 220. 178 was never enough even against a club level WI team.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

It’s just the beginning

Watch Nawaz lose his place in the side because of Rizwan’s insistence to be number 4

I think Rizwan's card will be marked soon.

 

[Rana]

I think Rizwan's card will be marked soon.

Well…

It’s inevitable. Pakistan are only continuing to destroy themselves trusting him.

 

[DRsohail]

Letting criminals runs the board and country. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing these things happen and losing against West Indies and Bangladesh on regular basis is the new norms.