The role that JO plays is critical. In the Australia match, he scored only 19 in 50 odd balls but had he got out early , our shaky middle order would have been exposed to the new ball. It was the same here.
It is all very fine to talk as if we could have won chasing 391 but for Omar. If he hadn't hung around for so long, we wouldn't have touched 40 overs.
We can talk about batting like Sehwag and Afridi after we have a consistent middle order.
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