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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Pakistan Lost 1st ODI


As all of you knew very well that Pakistan have lost their 1st ODI against Sounth Africa. The reason of this defeat was once again the flop batting. I will not give you again the figures and scorecard of that match. Pakistan batting line was pretty much uncertain in any situation. It can achieve a very good target and on the other side it can collapse in just 10 overs. As it was happened last day at Abu-Zahbi. At one time Pakistan was on 140/1 and it finished its inning after adding just 68 runs. 114 runs was the highest partnership in 2010 between Hafeez and Younas. In the selection i am not persoanlly satisfied with Fawad and Zulqernain. These players might be useful in Test Cricket but ODI and T20's are not of their types. Pakistan tour selection committee is also not using Asad Shafique very well and they are exploiting and gambling with the carrier of amazingly talented young cricketer by continuously changing his batting order. In 1st ODI of his carrier he was at 4th down. After 2 matches he was chosen as 1st down. Now yesterday he was sent to open an inning, which is quite disgusting. Although he is a good player and played some solid shots but i think he will be more useful at Misbah-ul Haq's number. Tour selection committee can take a risk by putting Misbah-ul Haq as an opener with a smash hitter Muhammad Hafeez. Omar Akmal must be in playing eleven and Zulqernain should be replaced by Sarfaraz Ahmad in ODI's.
Beside all of these changes Pakistan batsmen should take responsibilities and must have discipline and patience in their inning. According to me, Misbah and Hafiz open the innings, Ist down Younas Khan is excellent choice and on 2nd down Asad Shafique is really useful. These four players must play responsible cricket and take Pakistan into 35th overs. After that pakistan have great hitters Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razaq which can easily provide Pakistan 150 runs in 15 overs and a batting power-paly.
I dont know what is the planning for the next match. Until then Best of Luck Team Pakistan.

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