Take a look at what happened after the Champions Trophy. We thought we became the best team in the world overnight, and this attitude was reflected in both our players and our fans.
Our heads were in the clouds before we hit by brutal reality-checks, but then it was too late, and we entered the World Cup wearing clown shoes - our W/L ratio against the major sides in the last two years will put a minnow team to shame.
Hopping to the semifinals on one leg and because A beat B and X beat Y doesn’t signify progress. We are still an incompetent team that cannot string together 2-3 good performances.
A month ago, we lost to West Indies in extraordinarily humiliating fashion and today we played like complete idiots who got lucky.
People can glorify unpredictability and all that nonsense, but unpredictability is nothing but inconsistency, and you are inconsistent because you are mediocre and incompetent.
We were an incompetent team two years ago and we are an incompetent team today because of our rotten mentality, and as long as we don’t get to the root of the problem, nothing will change.
Our great match-winner of yesterday, Imad Wasim, said that the win gave the team belief that they can win from any situation. Now let’s analyze this utterly idiotic statement for a moment.
This rubbish team has been playing together for a good two years now, and it took a pathetic performance against Afghanistan in the last two weeks of the World Cup for them to have the belief that they can win from any situation.
Where was this belief in the last two years and why did we utterly fail to create a winning culture in spite of fluking the Champions Trophy?
Pakistan cricket is a circus and our fans have become a part of the act, which is why they have completely lost the ability to see and think.
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Word for word I agree and I have the same view point.
We have achieved absolutely nothing this world cup. This is not a team that deserves a semi spot or win the trophy.
So much is wrong with this team. I am seeing so many celebratory videos online ppl hitting the streets driving by blocking roads dancing over this win.
We have hit rock bottom if beating Afghanistan is a major achievement!
May have got the 2 points today but where most teams would have cruised this total with losing less wickets and 10-12 overs to spare, we took it to the final 2 balls and 3 wickets!
As a superior international asian team that is abysmal.
Commentators keep saying our players play spin great well Malik didnt when he got out for a duck!
Hafeez has been geting out to part time spin bowling.
Fakhar is just a walking wicket.
Safraz good at rotating but gets out at crucial times and has yet to play a match winning captains knock like other captains are standing up taking their team to the end of the line.
Our team consists of 5 players
Babar
Haris
Amir
Shaheen
Wahab
Rest are just there for the numbers.
What have we achieved this world cup??
105 all out batting first against a team we are prone to beating with 1 hand tied behind our backs?
Bouncy wicket - Big deal, you are an international player you had 1 month practice on these pitches before any other team plus you should be adaptable to play on any pitch.
We then had a washout in what could have been a good contest btwn 2 SC teams.
Then we just and I say just beat England by 14 runs on a belting pitch we just edged the score by far of our expectations and on cloud 9 coz we beat the tournament favourites...
Next we got schooled by India yet again.
Lost a winning match and handed it to Australia risks were not needed but we literally gave them the win.
Beat a depleted Australia when again we were now in must win scenario like we always are then rely on other results to help us progress (the cowardly way).
Beat New Zealand on a low total slow pitch again JUST got to that total again took it to the end. Didn't help improve the NRR though.
And today when this is a team that has played 7 lost 7 this was our chance to really take advantage and go out guns blazing and chase 228 by just attacking, we played the most intense pressure nervy negative cricket ever and people are celebrating like we've won the damn world cup!
We aint in the semi's yet nor do we deserve to be.
We havnt even played to our potential and we dream of beating India in the semi and Australia in the final.
This team is shambolic, they drop catch after catch, they misfield and leak runs, they bat like amateurs, they chase like children.
Batting pitch - they are under pressure
Spinning pitch - they are under pressure
bowling pitch - they are under pressure
seamins pitch - they are under pressure
slow pitch - under pressure
dry pitch - under pressure
green pitch - under pressure.
These other teams seem to cope fine on these same pitches and fight to win. Play positive fearless cricket. Everyone plays on these pitches so why Pakistan always under pressure?
We are 4th but our NRR is still -0.7 - that says it all even after 8 games we are nowhere near the top 3 or even England for that matter.
So yes a world cup win will do the same damage that it did to when we won ct2017.
Fakhar needs to reflect and practice at holding a bat.
Imam has to stop being so damn over confident
We need to utilise Hasnain and Asif Ali into this team and see what Hasnain is capable of no point being selected if your going to sit out the whole tournament.
This senior garbage are backbone blah blha guide youngsters blah blah has never worked, Malik is out Hafeez needs to be out too now enough of this seniority rubbish.
You want results you play a winning team. A team based around players who are not scared to take the attack and who attack the batsman with raw pace and accurate bowling.
Only then does a team deserve to be in the top 4 and the final!
This team is far from it!!!
