Pakistan's Tour To India - Cricket Series

[senthil]

Get ready for pak innings :)

http://imsports.rediff.com/score/in_match1039.html

[Jerichohol]

Ouch, what a horrible match, At least we should be competitive, Its not like we are a "B" Team, but after this performance you never know :(

Latest: Pakistan 93-0 (10 overs) Target: 250. How can one person score 6 sixes in the first 10 overs

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Shahid Afridi hit a stunning 102 off 46 balls as Pakistan looked well poised to beat India in the fifth one-day international in Kanpur.

I can't watch this :angry: :cry:

Edited April 15, 2005 by Jerichohol

[senthil]

Always happens like this, anyway i'll get back to my work :crazy:

[a1kashur]

Amazing inngins by Afridi. 102 off only 45 balls hitting 9 sixes. wow.

At the moment Pakistan is 193/2 in 31 overs. require 57 runs to win.

[smashguy]

A Great show of Fireworks by SHAHID AFRIDI & Another record by SHAHID AFRIDI "THE SECOND FASTEST CENTURY BY A BATSMAN" (Y)

Amazing inngins by Afridi. 102 off only 45 balls hitting 9 sixes. wow.

require 57 runs to win.

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:yes: Inshallah!

[Qasim]

I don't think Pakistan will be able to score this much, remember we have to win the last ODI at Delhi ;)

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Hahahahahaha, i think your thoughts went a bit wrong :laugh: :rofl: :happy: :p :yes: ;) :woot:

[senthil]

Still one more match is left, definitly the situation will reverse :angry:

[smashguy]

What a marvellous effort that was!!!!... Pakistan Zindabad!!! :D :D

Man of the match: Shahid Afridi :cool:

The 6th ODI will be played on 17th april 2005 at New Delhi... :yes:

[drgrudge]

Why india lost?

Bad team selection, IMO. Why we need to have two spinners playing? We have

1. Sachin

2. Yuvraj

3. Sehwag

4. Dinesh mongia

as part time spinners. Why needed a 2nd spinner? Also dravid made three of the above 4 bowl, except yuvraj.

Also commentators were saying that the pitch dint have much for faster bowlers, but rana naveed and Iftikhar Anjum bowled very well. Even zaheer bowled well, even though he dint take any wickets.

We should have played VVS laxman and nehra in this match instead of mongia and harbajan singh.

Why was hemang badani not selected? He is playing so well in the domestic crickets , in ranji cup ODI. (Tamil nadu- UP tie in the final)

Pakistan was able to bat so well, but we couldn't do much. :(

Hope we win in New delhi...

[Pallab]

Mongia played quite well,so I don't think that he is the reason India lost the match,

The main reason is stupid bowling.Everyone knows that Afridi likes well pitched up deliveries.Yet Balaji kept feeding him there.So Rahul was forced to bring on the spinners and Afridi took those spinners to the cleaners.

Once Afridi gets going it can be really difficult to stop him.

Afridi's weakness is of the short of the length deliveries.Srinath used to bowl really well to him.

Anyway,allthough i am an Indian I really enjoyed his innings(after the initial few overs when i realised that India isnt gonna win this).It was a treat.

[Oblivion]

Afridi sure proved everyone's thoughts wrong....he's again put himself in the main news by scoring the 2nd fastest century in ODIs. He's simply too good when the day is his, took the game away from India inside the first 10 overs.

We're taking this series 4-2 now hehe :yes:

[Liaqat_ali]

What did Afridi just do?, we do expect him to score fast but for about 30-40 runs, thats where he ends, but what the hell was that. Indian's already suffered at their batting, and Afridi was there to add insult to injury.

Well I'd say this was not a competitive match, but really enjoyed the Afridi's innings. By the tenth over, Indian bowlers were too beaten to continue with a proper line and length. To my surprise, Salman Butt looks stable, his century I guess was good enough to give him some confidence, really the guy is pretty un-noticed among all others, but he's adding 50 runs to the total, which is not a bad score at all.

Lets see what happens at Dehli....

[smashguy]

Well... It will be a great news for every Pakistani... If Pakistan win the series... and that will be very good in confidence of the team and in order to build the team in a proper way...

Best of wish for the 6th ODI match against india... Prayers from every Pakistani...

We're taking this series 4-2 now hehe :yes:

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:yes: Lets Pray for 4 - 2... Inshallah!! (Y)(Y)

[Oblivion]

Let's take this series 4-2 and make another record by being the only team to have win 4 matches in a trot after being 2 down in a 6 ODI series, previously South Africa did it against us and so did Bangladesh against Zimbabwe.

[drgrudge]

Mongia played quite well,so I don't think that he is the reason India lost the match,

The main reason is stupid bowling.Everyone knows that Afridi likes well pitched up deliveries.Yet Balaji kept feeding him there.So Rahul was forced to bring on the spinners and Afridi took those spinners to the cleaners.

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All i said was laxman would have been a better replacememnt ot ganguly or even hemang badani..., i dint say mongia dint play well...

And afridi played well, he is in a good form and always plays aggressive cricket. We cant say we dint bowl all the 45 bad/loose deliveries to afridi. He played well , the groud is a small one, the out field is fast, and afridi made that to his advantage...

[jerry]

Afridi sure proved everyone's thoughts wrong....he's again put himself in the main news by scoring the 2nd fastest century in ODIs.

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He proved everyone (me & Geoff Boycott included) right. Afridi is unstoppable when he is "in the zone".

He's simply too good when the day is his, took the game away from India inside the first 10 overs.

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The problem with Afridi is that his "day" comes every two years :rofl: Consistency is the only thing stopping him from being a permanent cap in the Pakistani team.

And I disagree with you, it was Rana who took the game away from India with the top 3 wickets. Once Tendulkar, Sehwag, Dhoni were gone .. the possibility of a 300 plus total was out of the window.

Let's take this series 4-2 and make another record by being the only team to have win 4 matches in a trot after being 2 down in a 6 ODI series, previously South Africa did it against us and so did Bangladesh against Zimbabwe.

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How does that make Pakistan the only team when it had already been done by two teams on two different occasions. :wacko:

[thetechroom]

I am sure he means Pakistan will be te first team to win 4 games on the trot after being down 2-0 in the series. I think the Bangladeshis and South Africa did it by winning 3 games after a 2-0 loss.

[Oblivion]

exactly....those were 5 match series....this is a 6 match series :). Despite those 3 early wickets the indians still had a fighting total on a pitch where the average score is 222. Before afridi came into bat even i thought that chasing 250 on that wicket would be really difficult specially in the middle overs. Afridi had something else in mind and it paid off.

[a1kashur]

Afridi is making runs on a consistent basis now. He almost destroyed McGrath and co. He is consistently making 30-50 runs quickly, (anything more than 50 is bonus) which takes some pressure off of middle order batsmen.

This do-or-die kind of batting can help.

[Qasim]

^^I agree, the last few matches Afridi has been quite consistent, he has been makin 20 odd runs quickly.

[jerry]

Afridi was consistent (20-30 runs) in the series down under but in this series before his hundred...

ODI #1 - 8

ODI #2 - 0

ODI #3 - 17

ODI #4 - 40

Average - 16.25 :whistle:

[o_87]

Afridi is far from consistent. But it's always entertaining when he is playing. I wouldn't be surprised if he got out first ball later today :p

I was watching the highlights for the 5th ODI yesterday because I didn't get to see the game live. Wow, I mean he literally destroyed the Indian bowlers. And he got out trying to play his first defensive stroke :p Now that's irony.

[smashguy]

What if Shahid Afridi beats his old record (102 in 37 balls) what if he hits a 200 in 90 balls, what if Pakistan scores over 350... What if india still wins. Who do you all think will be the MVP of the game tomorrow besides Shahid Afridi and Naveed-Ul-Hasan... :D

[jerry]

Who do you all think will be the MVP of the game tomorrow besides Shahid Afridi and Naveed-Ul-Hasan... :D

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Cricket is a game where a king today is a beggar tomorrow ;) Anybody out of the playing 22 could be the MVP.

My picks would be Sehwag, Tendulkar, Youhana & Malik.

[Rahul]

well i must say the pakastanis have humbeled us & the only way to set them right , wouldnt be to only defeat them in Delhi , it would be to Defeat them real sorry .

BTW im too going for the match , nice to catch it live !!!! ;)