Match Thread: Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi, Asia Cup 12th Match, Super Four - Jul 4, 2008

[Spitfire_x86]

Match Time: 16:00 Local, 10:00 GMT

Pakistan team
Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik (c), Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Abdur Rauf, Sohail Tanvir, Iftikhar Anjum, Saeed Ajmal

Bangladesh team
Tamim Iqbal, Nazimuddin, Mohammad Ashraful (c), Raqibul Hasan, Alok Kapali, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Farhad Reza

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[Morpheous]

Hopefully by Law of Avg BD will play good(1 Good(UAE), 1 Bad(SRI), 1 Good(Ind).. ?)

[Morpheous]

If wins the Toss..Def Bat first......280+ could def shake up those Pakis. Coz they will loose to India Tommrow and they are already in pressure (Lawson with Press, Shoib Malik not coming to Press Conference etc).......those boneheads pakis won 10/12 games against BD and Zim and were Jumping.....Now they are seeing the Reality

[Rubu]

spitty, why pakistan vs bangladesh and not bangladesh vs pakistan?

[Eshen]

I really hope the players will try to win this match, instead of our batsmen only trying to boost their stats. Pakistan is currently going through a low - if we are to beat them, we have to beat them now.

[bujhee kom]

bismillah!
inshallah bd will win this match against pakistan!!!
i hope bd alone will score 600+ with top 5 batsmen scoring centuries!
pak will be all out 200! thus bd will win by 400+ margin!

if not this match, maybe someday, some other match!
in order to do it, i have to start with believing again!


p.s. thank you spitfire for starting the thread!

[Ajfar]

hoping for a better show frm the bowlers..specially masrafee...

[Spitfire_x86]

Originally Posted by Rubu
spitty, why pakistan vs bangladesh and not bangladesh vs pakistan?

I copied the line from Cricinfo, home team names are usually written first everywhere.

[al Furqaan]

this is pakistan at their weakest...especially bowling. no gul, no akhtar, no asif.

i wanna see them murder wahab riaz and afridi for a change.

very winnable game given how our batting has improved...we could even score 300 for the first (real) time.

sadly our bowlers minus rasel and sakib couldn't defend any total we'd set up.

[BD-Shardul]

Like SN Ahmed, I missed the opportunity to open any Asia Cup thread. Was hoping to open this one, but Spitty bhai dekhi agei dokhol kore falaisen.......

[BD-Shardul]

BTW, can we finish on third position?

[Antora]

Good luck BD, Hopefully for this match SN will come back, if not..... then ARGH! I'm sick of Nazimudeeeem

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by antora93
Good luck BD, Hopefully for this match SN will come back, if not..... then ARGH! I'm sick of Nazimudeeeem

Dropping Nazim after his fine performance yesterday?! I don't think Siddons is that unreasonable.

[Antora]

Originally Posted by Eshen
Dropping Nazim after his fine performance yesterday?! I don't think Siddons is that unreasonable.

I would call that performance a fluke. Just like i'm sort of starting to think Alok's 115 was a fluke. I really do not like this Nazim, i think i dislike him more than Bash & Dhoni put together!!!

[Eshen]

Fluke or not, Nazim made score much higher than what Shahriar makes against elite teams (that too with a much lower strike rate). I would be holding onto him in hope for another such fluke instead of going back to a proven ODI failure like Shahriar.

[tonoy]

Don't worry Antora, Shariar will be back in style. Apparently, he needs to figure out a way to handle that offstump line ball.

[Sohel]

Bismillah.

Love the no-friller ...

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
this is pakistan at their weakest...especially bowling. no gul, no akhtar, no asif.

i wanna see them murder wahab riaz and afridi for a change.

very winnable game given how our batting has improved...we could even score 300 for the first (real) time.

sadly our bowlers minus rasel and sakib couldn't defend any total we'd set up.

Sohail Tanvir ain't no chopped liver bro, and trying to "murder" Afridi will send us back to the paWillon 9 out of 10 times. Fawad Alam, if he plays, is quite a clever little SLA and Shoaib Malik bowls pretty well also.

If any Paki bowler is to be targeted, it must be Rao Iftekhar. He gets rattled easily and Nazimuddin knows that only too well ...

[Nocturnal]

Bismillah.
Go Tigers!!

[Shobha]

one thing i've noticed is that these paki pitches have worked well for spinners .............hai re moyna!
and everyone knows they are very goood for batting...again, hai re moyna!

[israr]

No better time than now to add salt to the wound for the pakis. That 'jamai' raja thinks he knows a lot about our cricket. Its time that he should know a bit more in detail about us.

[Rifat]

opening partnership will be the key to victory IF Bangladesh even smells victory.

Both Tamim and Nazim should fire, Nazim's runout in the last match shows that this guy has a lot to make up for his international failures...

[Tigers_eye]

Afridi may not be selected.

I feel something. May be this is the one. Let us win the toss first. Half of the battle would be won there.

Good luck BD boys!!

[Dhrubo]

Originally Posted by antora93
I would call that performance a fluke. Just like i'm sort of starting to think Alok's 115 was a fluke. I really do not like this Nazim, i think i dislike him more than Bash & Dhoni put together!!!

Yup couldn't agree more,nazim's a dirt player,his 47 was definitely a fluke i bet this guy'll score under 10 with the pakistanani bowling,no hope for SN to play unfortunately,'cause siddons now thinks of nazim as an "hopeful" player for bangladesh who will become consistent in the future but to be honest this guy's getting worse every day.

[KnightBD]

Pakistan-ar shangbadi ar choach ar modhe maramari, khelowar-ra final-a na jete parar dukhe kator... ai sujug-a banglar baagh japiye poro... tule nao pakider bepokhe ditiyou joy...