Monday, December 8, 2014

Getting back the old unpredictable Pakistan team


Talk about restoring old Pakistani style of turning around, what could have been a better instance than tonight’s encounter...!!! What a partnership it was ..!! Subhyan Allah...!!  To give a single word expression about it, I ‘d say magnifi-splen-awesome-ndous would not just be enough. This is to me the much better, if not the best, ODI partnership in a long long time....from Pakistan team  Alhamdulillah, it changes a lot of things for the better. Chasing 247 getting to a  hopeless situation stage with 123 for7 and then winning the match is undoubtedly something extraordinary from Pakistan. This century partnership between Afridi and Sohail brings back that old confidence of “The Unpredictable Pakistan”, what I guess we haven’t seen much after the 90’s. This talented young boy Harris Sohail will remember this partnership with a very uncharacteristic and sensible Afridi. If somebody goes through his innings he didn’t provide any chance to the oppositions going less than or just around run a ball strike rate till 30 and then ending up with a run out after getting 61 of 51. The most classic part was that  Shahid Afridi was fruitfully chicky with the bat in response to the chicky slower deliveries from this new  Queue  quicker sensation “AF Milne”. This impressive young lad was consistently mixing up some 111 km or 115 km tricky back-of-the-hand slower deliveries with his 145 to 156 km/h cases. But ironically,  ended up without any wicket on his tally tonight. At one point when Pakistan was tottering with a score of 124 for 7 in the 31st over of this chasing innings, in came the forgotten smashing and dashing sensation Boom Boom Afridi amid a “hardly any hope” situation for the team. With his sensible innings he also let his team setting  a winning response to Ross Taylor’s brilliant century in the queue innings with a similar initially struggle.