In my today's first blog, i said that Pakistan is not playing with his main 2 strike bowlers i.e., Shoaib Akhtar and Saeed Ajmal. I was expecting that with out these players Pakistan team does not have capability to bowl out Australia under 250. I also said that Pakistan should play an aggressive plan against Australia. My thoughts were proved wrong as Pakistan bowlers did an excellent job and bundled up the Australian inning on 176. Amazing performance by the green shirts. No one expecting this kind of Australian play. They were totally outclassed by the Pakistan team which were playing with very much positive approach. Omar Gull was too good for the Australian batsmen. He wrapped 3 wicket and Abdul Razzaq in his only spell got 2 wicket. Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Hafeez and Abdul Rehman shared 1 wicket each. I watched Australians not playing their game, they were afraid of Pakistan bowlers and were never in the batting game. Pakistan fielding was also satisfactory in this match.
In batting, Australian tried their best to put Pakistan under pressure but they could not do so. Brett Lee was the only bowler who disturbed Pakistan batting line up. With attacking field Australian have the only option to beat Pakistan was bowl out but there was no help with the Lee and after making some stupid mistakes by some batsmen Pakistan finally reached home.
Pakistan will face the Pool B #4 team (England or West-Indies) in the quarter final.
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Pretty much nervous with semi
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