Jayasuriya and Dilshan walk out. Pakistan team huddle
together. Dilshan will take first strike. Sohail Tanvir will bowl from the
Nursery End. Two slips in, here we go.
1.26pm National anthems on. The Sri Lanka and
Pakistan players stand alternatively next to each other. Meaning it’s [...]
Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
TM Dilshan
b Shahid Afridi
46
48
39
8
0
117.94
10.5 Afridi has brought Pakistan right back, bowls a vicious quicker googly, Dilshan looks to cut, but there is neither time nor space to do so as he plays it on 89/2
ST Jayasuriya
c Younis Khan b Shahid Afridi
26
41
24
2
1
108.33
8.6 finally success for Pakistan, Afridi tosses this one the [...]
Hi there. Welcome to Netherlands v Pakistan game.
Toss: Pakistan have chosen to bat. They need to
win by 25 runs to go through.
Younis: "It looks a hard pitch. If we can score 180-190,
it will be hard for them."
Smits: "We will take the confidence out of [...]
Pakistan innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Kamran Akmal†
c Schiferli b Seelaar
41
42
30
3
2
136.66
9.6 holes out to deep midwicket. Akmal fetches the flighted delivery from outside off and goes for the shorter square boundary but slog sweeps it straight to the man. It almost popped out of his hand but he holds the rebound 81/2
Salman Butt
c Borren b ten Doeschate
18
20
13
2
1
138.46
4.3 [...]
Pakistan beat the Netherlands by 82 runs at Lord’s on Tuesday to ensure its passage through to the Super 8 phase at the Twenty20 World Cup.
Shahid Afridi took four wickets for just 11 runs and Kamran Akmal had four stumpings and hit 41 as Pakistan bowled out the Dutch for just 93.
After losing its opening [...]
Arafat to open - and the noise is something to behold!
Bopara jogs out with Wright. Here we go. "I really liked
the comment made by "Miaow". He has a very good point indeed," says Arzoo.
Woof.
Anthem-watch 2 Collingwood’s singing - there’s
[...]
England innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
RS Bopara
c Shoaib Malik b Mohammad Aamer
5
4
6
1
0
83.33
1.2 superb catch by Shoaib Malik at backward point! Bopara drove on the up, it took a thick outside edge and Malik dived to his left to cling onto a very fine chance 9/1
LJ Wright
b Umar Gul
34
31
16
6
1
212.50
5.3 bowled him! The roof’s coming off at The [...]
Pakistan have always had something of a lawless air about them (think beatings with cricket bats, drug scandals and the board’s suing of the ICC), but Younus Khan has instilled an authority that was missing under his predecessor Shoaib Malik. As a senior player with the ability to lead from the front, he enjoys the [...]
Pakistan’s bowling attack for the ICC World Twenty20 could provide some anxious moments to opposition batsmen with the addition of the country’s newest fast bowling sensation Mohammad Aamer to its pace battery. The attack already includes Umar Gul, the leading wicket-taker at the last World Twenty20.
Gul said he wanted to do better than last [...]
All of a sudden it feels as though there might just, perhaps, be a big cricket tournament heading our way. Emerging from the mist of assorted footballing excitements and a funereal West Indies tour, the first traces of the World Twenty20 – which kicks off at Lord’s on Friday – are coming into view. South [...]
