Team Overview:
After the England match, Dhoni said he had problems of plenty at his hand. Less than 35 overs of cricket later, he has plenty of problems. Does he stand by his decision of keeping Virender Sehwag out and playing five bowlers? Does he look at the place of Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma in that middle order? Will Manoj Tiwary ever get to play a live game? What does he do with an under-performing Zaheer Khan? What does he do with his own form? Only one thing might be certain at this time: Piyush Chawla's yet other, inexplicable, comeback might have ended.
India (probable): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Virat
Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Rohit Sharma/Manoj Tiwary, 7 MS
Dhoni (capt. & wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Harbhajan Singh,
11 Zaheer Khan
Pakistan will be questioning Shahid Afridi's utility as a bowler who
bats at No. 7. He has done his bit with the ball so far. He is the only
Pakistan bowler other than Saeed Ajmal to have bowled all his overs in
every match so far, and has conceded runs at only 6.33 an over. That
should be enough to keep his place in the XI, but his six-or-nothing
batting at No. 7 will remain a cause for worry.
Pakistan (probable) 1 Mohammad Hafeez (capt.), 2 Imran Nazir, 3
Nasir Jamshed, 4 Kamran Akmal (wk), 5 Shoaib Malik, 6 Umar Akmal, 7
Shahid Afridi, 8 Umar Gul, 9 Yasir Arafat, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Raza
Hasan.
2 comments:
If Pakistan gets into the semis then India's win against Pakistan is not really going to be that great... But whatever be the case Pakistan gets into pressure... Last year world cup semis also they played pathetic where as they could have given a tough fight to India... This match started good but after Afridi got out it started becoming boring... There were no Pakistani players who could hit boundaries; Sohaib Malik tried but he also got out soon after couple of boundaries... Pakistani batsmen are not that pathetic as they played yesterday... Their performance always makes me doubt whether the match was fixed or not...
It was the special occasion as its the mother of all matches. I booked before 3 days at restaurant Fusion 9 in Chennai with friends to watch it on the big screen. Thanks for reminding that experience. It was the great time.
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