[Fazal]

We talk all the time that,

- playing too many dot balls are one of the problem in our team
- not able to roate the strike is another problem
- too defensive in our approach is another problem. When we have uppder hand we need to fininh it with slam dunk.
- Play like TEST in ODI and ODI in TEST.
- once set, failed to finish the game,

Guess who was guilty of all of those?

He could be a hero if he could stay at the end and give us the win. But he didn't. He wasted balls after balls and when he is supposed to sprint for the final round he stopped short. That is the risk you take when you drag unnecessarily too long to a very winable game (after what Momin and Shamsu had done). Yes he could be again a hero, but he failed to finish. There was no need to dragg that game upto 43 over.

In cricket there is not that much difference btween a hero and goat. Sometimes you are a hero (purely based on luck may be) sometimes you become a goat. Unfortunately in that game Rahim was a goat.

Sometimes you need to be brave to be a hero. Just look at Perara, he could have been out in his 1st missed catch. But guess what? He beleievd in the motto "OFENCE IS THE BEST DEFENCE". He keep hitting hard and make a misable total to a more defendable total. He could have been another SL batsman who went cheap, but he took risk and he was rewarded abd became a Hero.

Low RRR is a trap. You are stuck with the low target and start wasting dot balls after dot balls and end up creating unnecessary pressure at the end. And that;'s what happened in that game. The pitch didn;t suddenly changed drastically (besides dew which should hel the batsman further). How come Momin and Shamus played so fluently and the rest failed? Its because we started playimng too defensively, which was not need at that point. We should have played our natural game, forgetting about RRR, and we should have acheive the target during the last PP.