Great lost game for Pakistan

You all already know what happened. If you don’t, let me tell you in brief. Pakistan failed to bat as a professional team. All the rotten eggs of Pakistani betting line-up like Sohaib Maqsood and Umar Akmal dragged Pakistan as deep in trouble as they could. I will not even talk about Afridi. The only good thing is that Pakistanis cricket fans will not have to suffer at his hands any more at least in One day format. The whole team accumulated only 213 runs and left the job to the bowlers.

Australians bowled well, but seriously they stand no chance against Indian type of batting. Australian bowlers just did half the job. It was Pakistanis who did not know how to play.

Pakistani bowlers started very well. First wicket fell at 15 and by the time they got to 60 Australia had lost 3 wickets. But that was not enough.

Wahab Riaz reminded us of the beauty of fast bowling after a long time. He treated Watson, Maxwell, Warner and the Australian captain like children. Watson was all clueless for 6 overs. Riaz bowled bullets that flew high near Watson’s head.

But then Pakistani professionalism jumped in. Watson was dropped at a score of 4 runs and had he been taken, it would had been a totally different ballgame. It was an easy catch, but dropped. Watson finished with a score of more than 50.

Then Maxwell came in after Smith’s dismissal and Wahab made his knees rattle. And in the very first over Maxwell was also dropped. And with these dropped catches Pakistan dropped all its chances of going to Sydney.

One of the two teams always loses and today as usual it was Pakistan, but watching the fire in Wahab’s eyes pleased me. We always produced high class fast bowlers and we still do. Mitchell Stark is a good bowler, but Stark did not have the courage to attack top line batsmen. He tried his pace against Wahab Riaz, who bats at №8. But Pakistani pacers troubled the top order, especially Wahab. So even Pakistan is out of the tournament after losing. But Wahab Riaz won today against all top line Australian batsmen.

Although Pakistani cricket fans are used to disappointment, but I hope all these rotten eggs will be removed from the team and good professionally talented players will get a chance to play for Pakistan.

Congratulations to Australia! Now we will watch the Semis and I think the match in Sydney will be a lot more interesting. This match will be on the 26^th and this will be a thriller.

Say your good byes to Misbah, Afridi and Younus Khan. Despite all the ups and downs these players did render a lot of cricketing services for Pakistan and they deserve to retire with a round of applause.