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Archive for March, 2015

When I wrote on fb that after today’s match only 3 matches will be left for Pakistan’s final match of the World Cup, many of the friends laughed..?

“The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Shame on Pakistan team management which proclaimed Sarfraz was NOT the 3rd opener..!

This what ESPNcricinfo wrote:

This was the game this World Cup needed. This is the team this World Cup needed. It was getting pretty bland out here without the Pakistan bowlers. Defending only 231 in 47 overs at the small Eden Park, their left-arm quicks turned it on like only those from that part of the world can. Under pressure of the chase South Africa crumbled yet again – except for one man, captain AB de Villiers, who scored 77 off 58 and threatened to singlehandedly steal the game, but once he became the ninth man to get out with 32 to get, Pakistan were assured of a win. The win gave Pakistan clearer passage to the quarter-final. They now have two bites at the cherry: they can go through directly with a win over Ireland or, if they lose, they are a good shot to sneak through on net run rate.

In true Pakistan fashion, they tested our patience and tested our patience and then tested it some more until almost everyone had given up.
Everybody knew Sarfraz Ahmed needed to play ahead of somebody. Anybody. Umar Akmal, part-time wicketkeeper, had been dropping at least a catch every match.
Pakistan’s team management was the only one that didn’t see it. Until this game.
Sarfraz came in, knocked off a run-a-ball 49 to give them the previously missing purpose and impetus at the start of an innings and followed it up with six catches, including the diving one-handed beauty to send back Hashim Amla after the batsman had successfully taken on every bowler until then.

A big slap on the faces of the tour management committee.

The pivotal role of Sarfraz Ahmad, specially in taking the most vital and almost impossible catch, in today’s Pakistan’s victory over South Africa, is a big slap on the faces of the entire tour management committee, which failed to select Sarfraz in any previous matches of our team; although, entire Pakistan, including the Chairman PCB, cried hoarse, for the inclusion of Sarfraz Ahmad, in Pakistan team’s playing eleven, of all the previous World Cup group B matches.

The nation wants immediate sacking of Waqar Younis.

Has ICC imposed a ban on Pakistani pacers to bowl bouncers on SA batsmen?

ICC rules of minimum boundary distance of 65 meters for old and 75 meters for new grounds have been thrown into dust bin during #CWC15.

Today at Auckland match between Pak vs SA one side of the boundary at third man is just 49 meters.

How can a record made at a ground having just 49 meters boundary be compared and considered equal with a record created at a ground of boundaries as long as 91 meters?

All cricket world records made, in undersized boundaries, are fake and a sheer mockery .

Pakistan is only 3 matches away from playing the finals of the #CWC 2015.

Contours of a future #nuclear #Pakistan…http://t.co/NxvTh67LdE

“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

— Johnny Carson