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ICC Cricket World Cup - England 2019

Watched the England vs SA game today. SA got hammered. SA is a decent side, but England are too much at the moment. SA got a worse drubbing today than Pakistan did during the entire ODI series. Pak played some pretty close games. England look solid contenders this year on their home soil. The England unit looks like a very solid ODI unit. They have a lot of batting depth. They also have a decent bowling line up. Their fielding is extremely good. They don’t leak many runs and backup their bowlers.

This Pak side has a lot of work cut out. Some of its players are still young and obviously inexperienced, but complemented with a few experienced players. I agree with the sentiment that the only real class batsman we currently have is Babar Azam. I also rate Imam pretty high, but he needs to be consistent. These two are technically the best we have.

I honestly hope that our top order clicks. I believe that Fakhar Zaman is an awesome player on his day, but he needs to develop consistency. He is aggressive which is good, but he needs to learn not to throw his wicket away with rash shots. Sometimes you have to play according to the situation. If Fakhar and Imam get going at the top the rest of the batting unit could fire. It will all depend on top order for Pak batting. How they deliver and build a partnership.

Our bowling which is traditionally our strongest suit leaves to be desired. I hope this is just a temporary glitch. We have some decent bowlers, but Shaheen Afridi is leaking way too many runs. He is being cleaned for sixes and boundaries. He needs to seriously get his act together.

Fielding has been terrible. I expected a reasonably good fielding unit since we have athletic young players who also fielded brilliantly during PSL season. Let’s hope that what we saw during England series was just a bad series. I hope youngsters like Shadab and the rest of the pack can find their groove.

I hope this Pak lineup remembers that we are playing ODI and not T20. Need to conserve wickets and build partnerships. Taking risky boundaries is not necessary, but taking singles and doubles is very important. Let’s see what these boys do. The lesson today was keeping wickets in hand. SA lost the plot when they lost too many wickets. Run to ball ratio was never a problem for SA.

I believe that Aussies and England will play final. Smith and Warner are back. The Aussies look like a completely different side now.
 
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Pak batting against WI bowling. Bury me in a glass of water please.
 
Live
2nd match, ICC Cricket World Cup at Nottingham, May 31 2019



West Indies require another 68 runs with 9 wickets and 45.0 overs remaining


Current Run Rate
7.6

Required Run Rate
1.51
 
I also watched the match, it was a heart-wrenching experience. Money spent on Mickey Arthur, Inzamam, Azhar Mahmood along with the higher contract salaries is a total waste of money.


On this showing, Sarfraz and all the batsman would not even find a place in a decent club team and they are supposed to the best! IMHO, Pakistan cricket needs to start from scratch and get some players with spine and fighting spirit.
 
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  • 108/3 (13.4/50 ov, target 106)
West Indies won by 7 wickets (with 218 balls remaining)

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Those in Pakistan who would've just expected to get home to catch the second half after work will be massively disappointed, much like the 15 men who are in Nottingham. But they'll want to get it out of the way as soon as possible. The bright spark from today's shellacking is Mohammad Amir. He was sharp, found some swing early on and most-importantly, picked up three wickets.
 
Heads or Tails ? Two legends of cricket, Imran Khan and Sir Viv Richards.

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Pak Fans colourful and loud in Icc Cricket Worldcup :

One great thing to support Pakistan is its overseas fans base is very high. British Pakistanis come out in numbers, Full heart, crazy and loud.

:pakistan:
 
Watch Afghanistan vs Australia worldcup match on PTV National :

Afg 5/2 - Lost 2 wickets.
 

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