Congratulations to all the Pakistanis on the first win after an interesting and close game. Pakistan played well that’s what victory is indicating but still there are many areas where we were lacking. First if we notice no one hit boundary other then openers. No doubt openers did great job, they scored the first opening partnership of 100 runs in the tournament. Selman Butt has proved that Afridi was right about him, the performance of Butt made him Man of the match and it has shut many mouths including mine.
In bowling are we need so many points to focus on, Sami as always a big question mark, he is such a nice bowler on nets that even the half of what he do on net he brings in a real game he can become one of the best one, in early overs he was not well but no doubt Sami was the man who brought us back into the game by two wickets in an over. Sami need a lot of hard work to bowl in early overs in not to bowl short.
Aamir proved that why he is my favorite chap in the team he took the wicket of danger man Ashraful who was leading Bangladesh towards a sure victory. Afridi’s bowling performance was a big issue for me as he was not in his colors the kind of shots Ashraful hit him, I believe only Kevin Peterson is capable to hit that way to Afridi.
Afridi is not a person who takes pressure that way he must focus on his individual performance as well but I must say his captaincy was amazing gambling with Sami at a time when both the men on crease were on fire and then giving Aamir an over to get the wicket was good decision. Akmal wicket keeping is still not satisfactory that’s what I can say giving him the leverage of his batting performance.
Well in the end the best team won and no wonder Pakistan is best any day, now the best one have to get ready to face another best one tomorrow so best of luck to team Pakistan for it.
here is what score card says (courtesy:
Cricinfo):
| Pakistan innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
 | Kamran Akmal† | c Abdur Razzak b Shakib Al Hasan | 73 | 55 | 8 | 1 | 132.72 | |
| Salman Butt | b Shafiul Islam | 73 | 46 | 8 | 2 | 158.69 | |
| Shahid Afridi* | c Mahmudullah b Shakib Al Hasan | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Abdul Razzaq | not out | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | not out | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 160.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1) | 3 | | | | | |
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| Total | (3 wickets; 20 overs) | 172 | (8.60 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-1 (Imrul Kayes, 0.6 ov), 2-31 (Tamim Iqbal, 5.3 ov), 3-122 (Shakib Al Hasan, 15.2 ov),4-123 (Mahmudullah, 15.6 ov), 5-140 (Mohammad Ashraful, 17.5 ov), 6-145 (Mushfiqur Rahim, 18.3 ov),7-150 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 19.3 ov) |
Ya, It was great match.
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