When Younis came onto bat the run rate was 4.57 (70 runs 15.3 overs). When Misbah came on to bat the run rate was 4.38.
When Younis left run rate was 4.17 after which the run rate went up and Misbah left we had a run rate of 4.6.
There's a lot of things happening here. Firstly, failure to capitalize properly on the power play overs. Secondly, failure of those playing extremely slow to speed up their innings later and score a decent score at a good strike rate and thirdly, the failure of our 3 pinch hitters down the order.
We needed a run rate of 5.2 to win the match when it began. Which means the average strike rate of the team needed to be 86.6. Misbah played at a strike rate of 73.68, Shafiq 76.92, Hafeez 72.88 and Younis at 40.62. All of these batsmen are at fault for playing slow. Those who played at a decent strike rate failed to make any decent scores Karman scored 19 at a strike rate of 90, Afridi scored 19 at a strike rate of 111 and Akmal 29 at a strike rate of 120.
The thing that would've turned the game around is if all of the people that played below the par strike rate had brought their strike rate back up to par or those who played at a strike rate way above the par strike would've scored a decent knock. Neither of those happened and in the end that is the reason we lost. It's not down to one person, we lost because the entire team batted horribly.
