We've won. Misbah gone now Andre the Giant will fall over right away.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
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6-0 
Misbah's clearly a good player but he's also irresponsible. You cannot get bogged down as he often does. All it does it put pressure on everyone else. Dhoni is another one that does it quite often.
On a side note, looks like we've decided to go short during the death overs. Seems to be a clear tactic.
On a side note, looks like we've decided to go short during the death overs. Seems to be a clear tactic.
6-0!
Excellent win and a good start now. Record stays intact
Yes!!
Not fully clinical but that's a massive win for the confidence of both players and fans
Not fully clinical but that's a massive win for the confidence of both players and fans
6-0. You'll never beat us in the World Cup Pakistan. Love this video:
Kohli: my role in this world cup will be to bat through, keep one end secure and let the big hitters do the rest
Read this on FB:
'If you're Pak, we should all want the cricket team to lower us into our graves so they can let us down one last time.'
'If you're Pak, we should all want the cricket team to lower us into our graves so they can let us down one last time.'
So it's 72-51 now
Only 21 more to go lads
Only 21 more to go lads
Ravi Shastri saying on TV that only team which can beat Australia and stop them from winning world cup is this Indian team. No you deluded fool, South Africa and NewZealand are better and can beat Australia. Better concentrate on improving on weaknesses and do well when it matters in knockouts than making random statements after just one game.
When he was going on about that, I was like
Mark Nicholas brought him right back on earth mentioning South AfricaYa, Ravi Shastri talks a lot of crap..
Anyway 6-0!! Don't see us winning the world cup,so glad that atleast we have maintained the streak going on..
Edit: I thought the mauka ad was going to blow up in our faces.. But now that the match is over, I love that ad!!
Anyway 6-0!!
Don't see us winning the world cup,so glad that atleast we have maintained the streak going on..Edit: I thought the mauka ad was going to blow up in our faces.. But now that the match is over, I love that ad!!
Indian pundits are the equivalent of Liverpool pundits.
Nope. Ganguly, Dravid, Manjrekar and Gavaskar are all good. Most Indian pundits are far better than the Channel 9 commentators. They manage to get the Channel 9 guys to actually talk about cricket.
Nope. Ganguly, Dravid, Manjrekar and Gavaskar are all good. Most Indian pundits are far better than the Channel 9 commentators. They manage to get the Channel 9 guys to actually talk about cricket.
Yup.
Anyway I feel Raina's effort has been overlooked today. Excellent innings and nice catches.
I told someone here that recently we always manage to up our performances in World Cup matches. Hope it's the case here. Dhawan, Raina and Virat were all out of form before this match. Glad to see them performing well. It was obvious to see that Kohli wasn't at his best but the fact is that he dug in and still managed to score a century. Such a class act.
Dravid is great. The rest aren't much cop.
Yep. But it says it all that their best batsman doesn't even have an ODI hundred to his name.
Incase someone has missed this..
Man of the player!!
Man of the player!!
Bharat Ratna for the guy who conceptualized the 'Mauka' promotion. Genius!
Not to rain in on anyone's parade, but was this the worst Pakistan team we have faced in the world cup, or actually otherwise. The bowling was pants, even in the worst of times they have had a good bowling attack.
Not to rain in on anyone's parade, but was this the worst Pakistan team we have faced in the world cup, or actually otherwise. The bowling was pants, even in the worst of times they have had a good bowling attack.
pakiyo ki pungi bajadi
I said it earlier-but this is the first time Pakistan's batting line up has been stronger than our bowling line up.
I wouldn't say our bowlers are bad necessarily, but there's not one stand out/strike bowler. Often we'd have Ajmal to slow down the RR or nick a few wickets (or Gul), but these guys seem to be a notch down from them.
One thing I will say about us this year is that we have a lot more cohesion (as opposed to a bunch of individuals in a team) and a lot of that comes down to Misbah.
What happened to Gul and Junaid? Both Hafeez and Ajmal are injured? When is Mohd. Amir coming back?
I think this bowling attack is terrible man. That tall guy is decent and Wahab can bowl well when he wants, but others are mediocre. Afridi is nothing special when pressure is not applied from the other end. You'll have a tough time in the tournament. Amongst the so called top teams, this Pakistan team along with England would compete for the worst in the tournament. I don't expect India do much better against the likes of SA, Aus or NZ, but this win ensures that we'll finish at the minimum second in the group, which would mean easier game in the quarters. Pakistan however will have to face Aus or NZ. Ouch!
Wedding in Bangalore:
Gul, Hafeez, J Khan all injuries...although Hafeez has claimed he's fit to play. But with all things involving Pak players and the PCB, there's definitely some politics involved. Mo'hd Amir I think has just finished his ban recently so I'm not sure if he's fully fit or has been rehabilitated properly. The biggest loss for us is Ajmal though, world's best spinner and he's been taken out for his action (which is farcical and hypocritical of the ICC).
Yea, we will be up against it. But I do have a lot of confidence in our batting line up. Though I don't think we should open with Y Khan. The Pak teams tends to perform better with the underdog tag!
I hope we get NZ! Although this is the strongest NZ team I've seen for years.
England would beat India. England's batting as a unit isn't that good but they have a knack of rattling the Indians over. The Indians have a long tail so the key is to get Kohli out early. He has that winning instinct and the ability to take grip of the game and when he does well the others play around him. When he's out early they crumble.
On another note-what does everyone think of the wicket so far? I haven't been too impressed.
Wickets have been good. People should stop putting too much weight on 300+ scores. 300 is the new 275 and game has evolved quite a lot in the last 20 years.
Traditionally, when you think of wickets down under you think of bowlers having the upper hand with what they can do with the ball and livelier wickets.
Also bold prediction for the tournament: Kane Williamson will be player of the tournament (you heard it here first).
Also bold prediction for the tournament: Kane Williamson will be player of the tournament (you heard it here first).
Hope that's sarcasm because Williamson has been terrific nick for the last past four months. Him being Player of the World Cup wouldn't be a major surprise. My money's on Corey Anderson btw.
Not much, four games...four 300± scores. I've not seen much help for the bowlers which is a pretty sad state of affairs in a sport already heavily weighted in favour of batsmen. But heh, the public gets what the public wants...
Indeed. Bigger bats, power plays, flat decks, generally smaller boundaries, two new white balls negating reverse swing. Basically there's not much for the bowlers.
It wasn't sarcasm-just wanted to be bold and predict it early on. Corey Anderson would have been my second pick. I really like the look of this NZ team.
Going to throw out Aaron Finch's name in this bold prediction too.
Exactly my point...
The pitches are fine. Pace, bounce and a bit of swing early on.
The rules on the other hand are more questionable.
Also the way batting is coached now is very much away from the textbook. T20 brought the need for even the guys in the lower order to be able to contribute and also for everyone to learn to be unorthodox, hence the game is very much more 360. The best batsmen can hit the same delivery in different parts of the field. The old way of playing a straight batted shot in the batsmen arc or the "V" as it is known as is creeping out of the game.
Apart from the two recent ODI's I am not sure when they have rattled us in ODI's. We beat them in the ODI series in England and in the CT final in England
There's truth in that but if you look at the worlds best batsmen (Amla, Sanga, Y Khan) although they can play these ornate, innovative shots, they excel in the traditional orthodox ways. You'll never get David Warner or Kohli etc being discussed as the world best batsmen because they don't do the orthodox stuff well.
I don't know if that makes sense.
That's a strange view. Who says you have to do things the "right way" to be considered great? All that matters is runs on the board however you do it.