Just reiterating what Ian said.
Look, at this point we need to focus only on the games that we are currently playing and try to win, not worry and get distracted by hypothetical scenarios. I think Saquib and Mushfique played precisely the way they needed to get us the win (rotating strikes interspersed with a few boundaries here and there). The added stress and distraction of trying to accelerate in the middle overs, simply to ensure that we had a good enough run rate, instead of playing each bowl on its merit, would simply have led us to lose most of our wickets too cheaply. As it is, and I know Rafique and Mash can let loose with the bat sometimes, we were down to our last pair of real batsmen -- Ash and Mushfique.
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