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PAKISTAN WIN WORLD CUP 2009!!
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What a gem! Please keep them coming!
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Hhahahahahhahahhahhahahaha
The first one (Dapika and Saif) was very coooooooooool.
Any ways, I think Indian media and people too much blaming Dhoni.
He did mistakes but media shouldn't behave that much stupid.
I think Indian media is worse, even they showed unprofessional behaviour after Mumbai attack event
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very true. they are the most unprofessional
they just pick their target and start the rhetoric which then never ends.
dhoni did make a mistake but it wasnt just him. most of the other players didnt perform as well. now wat can dhoni do about that?? almost nothing
God save india from indian media
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Pakistan coming to peak at right time in World Twenty20 - Times Online
Pakistan coming to peak at right time in World Twenty20
As they approach the World Twenty20 semi-final today, Pakistan are beginning to write one of sports happy stories. Nobody wants to play cricket in their troubled country, and few gave them a chance at the start of the event when Younus Khan, the captain, was castigated for describing 20-over cricket as a bit of fun. Things have changed.
South Africa, the favourites, will feel a certain trepidation as they reach Trent Bridge for the 5.30pm start. They have carved a direct path through all opposition in winning five games out of five, but their opponents, who could barely time a stroke or bowl a ball straight during the warm-ups, are threatening to peak when it matters.
Everybody knows that we are slow starters, Younus said. Fortunes, indeed, are improving all around, with the ICC confirming that Pakistan will receive more than $10 million (about £6 million) in staging rights for the 2011 World Cup whether or not games take place on their soil. Meanwhile, Warwickshire yesterday became the latest county to show interest in hosting a Pakistan v Australia Test match next year.
Pakistan have confounded theories to get this far. None of their players was involved in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year, pricking the self-serving argument that appearing in the money-rich competition is a prerequisite for progress. And a changing look to the team the top seven for the most recent game was completely reshuffled from the first defies the notion that players can fill only roles they know inside out. They are playing on wit and instinct.
Sure to be the best supported of the four remaining teams, Pakistan carry the only hope for the ticket touts.
Fans will be milling noisily in force around Lords on Sunday if they reach the final to play Sri Lanka or West Indies, who meet at the Brit Oval tomorrow. Nottingham may feel like Lahore or Karachi this afternoon, especially if Umar Gul can reproduce the reverse swing that has made him the leading wicket-taker in the event.
Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, knows that his sides tag as chokers will be reinforced if they lose today. That may be unfair, because no side epitomises the truism that any one side can beat another on a given day than Pakistan. But it cannot help that the question is asked whenever South Africa reach a certain point of a tournament. They have, after all, found remarkable ways of losing in the past.
Preparation, as always, was first class. Their strong start followed a camp after the IPL specifically to discuss Twenty20 strategy. We are not panicking in the crucial situations, Arthur said. We are not scared of losing and mentally this team is very, very strong. We are ready to go to another level. We have a lot more clarity of the way we want to play the game.
They have also fielded better, arguably, than any other team at an ICC event, and altered the side only through injury Jacques Kallis will return after a minor back problem today. Graeme Smith has an enviable balance among his bowlers of spin and pace, seam and swing, left-arm and right-arm. The one concern may be a relative dearth of runs below A. B. de Villiers in the batting order.
Statistics can lie, but they can also reveal. South Africa boast both a better run-rate (7.78 per over against 7.53) and economy rate (6.28 against 6.73) than Pakistan through the tournament. With Johan Botha and Roelof van der Merwe against Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi, they will not be disadvantaged if the pitch turns as much as others at Trent Bridge.
Pakistan may well cause an upset, but an upset it would be.
Pakistan coming to peak at right time in World Twenty20
As they approach the World Twenty20 semi-final today, Pakistan are beginning to write one of sports happy stories. Nobody wants to play cricket in their troubled country, and few gave them a chance at the start of the event when Younus Khan, the captain, was castigated for describing 20-over cricket as a bit of fun. Things have changed.
South Africa, the favourites, will feel a certain trepidation as they reach Trent Bridge for the 5.30pm start. They have carved a direct path through all opposition in winning five games out of five, but their opponents, who could barely time a stroke or bowl a ball straight during the warm-ups, are threatening to peak when it matters.
Everybody knows that we are slow starters, Younus said. Fortunes, indeed, are improving all around, with the ICC confirming that Pakistan will receive more than $10 million (about £6 million) in staging rights for the 2011 World Cup whether or not games take place on their soil. Meanwhile, Warwickshire yesterday became the latest county to show interest in hosting a Pakistan v Australia Test match next year.
Pakistan have confounded theories to get this far. None of their players was involved in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year, pricking the self-serving argument that appearing in the money-rich competition is a prerequisite for progress. And a changing look to the team the top seven for the most recent game was completely reshuffled from the first defies the notion that players can fill only roles they know inside out. They are playing on wit and instinct.
Sure to be the best supported of the four remaining teams, Pakistan carry the only hope for the ticket touts.
Fans will be milling noisily in force around Lords on Sunday if they reach the final to play Sri Lanka or West Indies, who meet at the Brit Oval tomorrow. Nottingham may feel like Lahore or Karachi this afternoon, especially if Umar Gul can reproduce the reverse swing that has made him the leading wicket-taker in the event.
Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, knows that his sides tag as chokers will be reinforced if they lose today. That may be unfair, because no side epitomises the truism that any one side can beat another on a given day than Pakistan. But it cannot help that the question is asked whenever South Africa reach a certain point of a tournament. They have, after all, found remarkable ways of losing in the past.
Preparation, as always, was first class. Their strong start followed a camp after the IPL specifically to discuss Twenty20 strategy. We are not panicking in the crucial situations, Arthur said. We are not scared of losing and mentally this team is very, very strong. We are ready to go to another level. We have a lot more clarity of the way we want to play the game.
They have also fielded better, arguably, than any other team at an ICC event, and altered the side only through injury Jacques Kallis will return after a minor back problem today. Graeme Smith has an enviable balance among his bowlers of spin and pace, seam and swing, left-arm and right-arm. The one concern may be a relative dearth of runs below A. B. de Villiers in the batting order.
Statistics can lie, but they can also reveal. South Africa boast both a better run-rate (7.78 per over against 7.53) and economy rate (6.28 against 6.73) than Pakistan through the tournament. With Johan Botha and Roelof van der Merwe against Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi, they will not be disadvantaged if the pitch turns as much as others at Trent Bridge.
Pakistan may well cause an upset, but an upset it would be.
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always remember it is only a "game" - it would be a great morale booster if we win - God knows this nation needs some good news!
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Pakistan v South Africa, ICC World Twenty20, 1st semi-final, Trent Bridge
Science v art in clash of cultures
The Preview by Osman Samiuddin
June 17, 2009
Match facts
Thursday June 18
Start time 1730 local (1630 GMT)
The batting needs the likes of Shoaib Malik to really get his show going
Analysis: Battle of the best bowling teams
Big Picture
It's first a clash of ethos, of philosophies and even of time, more than a semi-final. Here is truly man against machine, the art of cricket against the science of it, cricket's future and cricket's past. South Africa's progress to this point has been smooth, well-planned, calculated and inevitable, as if their players were born to do this. Pakistan have got here in shambles - losing games, winning some, treating it all as a bit of fun - and the players not so much born to do this are struggling to discover why they are doing it at all.
South Africa lack nowhere and nothing. If Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith are the efficient drones at the top, there is heart in the middle, with the ever-frail skills of Herschelle Gibbs and the creativity of AB de Villiers. Even Albie Morkel, in whom there are glimpses of Zulu, thankfully smiles more. They've always had pace, but now they even have spinners, who are not batsmen forced to bowl. Sure, they are a little one-dimensional (watching videos of Umar Gul's yorkers?), but they are spinners - South African and successful; how often have we said that in the past?
The whole machinery is intimidating, determined to iron out all kinks, the mission pre-programmed; with seven consecutive wins in this format, they have apparently also taken the inherent unpredictability of this format out of the equation. They are well-trained, well-oiled, and their psychologist talks about 120 contests and of processes over outcomes and how choking is not really an issue anymore. They win even warm-up matches and the dead games because every game counts. They are cricket's future.
Pakistan are the past. They are wholly dysfunctional, but just about getting along, though unsure where they are going. They don't control their extras, they don't run the singles hard and they field as if it were still the 60s. They are least bothered about erasing the flaws because any win will be in spite of them. They did hire a psychologist though, and you can only imagine what those sessions were like and how much they actually talked about sport and cricket. There are permanent mutterings of serious rifts. They may not bat, bowl or field well all the time, but sometimes, they do what can only be described as a 'Pakistan': that is, they bowl, bat or field spectacularly, briefly, to change the outcome of matches. You cannot plan or account for this as an opponent because Pakistan themselves don't plan or account for it.
It can come from any person, any discipline, but on evidence, it is likelier to come from the bowling. The batting needs Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul-Haq to really get their show going. A piece of fielding brilliance cannot be discounted, but generally both Pakistan and West Indies have happily disproved the dictum that in T20 cricket you have to be Jonty Rhodes to get anywhere. Heroes will likely be found among the Umar Guls, the spinners and maybe even Mohammad Aamer, who is a throwback to the late 80s and early 90s, when Pakistani fast bowlers were born ready to play international cricket.
The pressure on South Africa however, will be greater. They are expected to win this and anyway they will always have the whole 'chokers' tag to deal with until the day they actually lift a big trophy. It doesn't help that they look as good as they did during the 1999 World Cup, though they are easier on the eye. Pakistan, as Younis Khan said before leaving for England, won't much mind a semi-final spot; Kamran Abbasi rightly noted that they may have had an easier ride to the semis than most but no country has had a rougher two years. Clearly they'd love to win it, but they have already achieved more than many thought and a loss wouldn't be the end of the world. But importantly, as the only side to make it to the last four in 2007 and 2009, they have underscored their significance in this brave new, T20 world, a world in which they absolutely cannot be ignored.
Form guide
(last five matches, most recent first)
Pakistan WWLWL
South Africa WWWWW
Watch out for...
The whole South African machinery is intimidating - determined to iron out all kinks, the mission pre-programmed
Albie Morkel has been a quiet, steady ever-present through South Africa's tournament. But he is capable of bigger, more explosive things especially with the bat and this match - and potentially the next - are the best platforms for it.
Shahid Afridi's moment turned the tournament for Pakistan, an outstanding catch hastening New Zealand's collapse, and possibly himself - at least with the bat. Since then he has batted with rare sense, as everyone has wished him to, and at little expense to his strike rate. He will be a factor with the ball anyway, but if he gets going with the bat, then South Africa will panic.
Team news
Pakistan have finally settled upon what they feel is their best line-up, more by chance than design. Barring injury, there are unlikely to be any changes.
Pakistan: (probable) 1 Shahzaib Hassan, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Shoaib Malik, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal
Jacques Kallis will come back in for Morne Morkel after being rested for the dead game against India.
South Africa: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 JP Duminy, 6 A Morkel, 7 M Boucher, 8 Johan Botha, 9 Roelof van der Merwe, 10 Wayne Parnell, 11 Dale Steyn
Pitch and conditions
The surface for this match is two along from the one that turned square for the South Africa-India match and is expected to be harder and offer less help for the spinners. However, the slow bowlers have had an impact throughout so are still likely to be key. Steady rain arrived in Nottingham on the practice day, but is due to clear overnight and the forecast for Thursday is fine.
Stats and Trivia
Pakistan and South Africa have six bowlers in the top 10 wicket-takers of the tournament, though Pakistanis occupy the top two spots.
Three of the top 10 run-scorers of the tournament are from South Africa and Pakistan, with AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis at numbers two and three.
Quotes
"Our bowling has been great and all of them are now bowling in rhythm. The batsmen have to support the bowlers if we are to win this cup."
Younis Khan points out the areas of improvement.
""I think we've come past that. This team has come a long way and I think we've proven that. Hopefully we can show that on Thursday, that's what is exciting about it. "
Graeme Smith dismisses talk of being 'chokers'.
"It's great to be in a position where you can rock up to a ground, look at the wicket and know you have all the bases covered. We aren't really worried what the wicket will be."
Mark Boucher believes South Africa can cope with any conditions that are thrown at them.
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of Cricinfo
Science v art in clash of cultures
The Preview by Osman Samiuddin
June 17, 2009
Match facts
Thursday June 18
Start time 1730 local (1630 GMT)
The batting needs the likes of Shoaib Malik to really get his show going
Analysis: Battle of the best bowling teams
Big Picture
It's first a clash of ethos, of philosophies and even of time, more than a semi-final. Here is truly man against machine, the art of cricket against the science of it, cricket's future and cricket's past. South Africa's progress to this point has been smooth, well-planned, calculated and inevitable, as if their players were born to do this. Pakistan have got here in shambles - losing games, winning some, treating it all as a bit of fun - and the players not so much born to do this are struggling to discover why they are doing it at all.
South Africa lack nowhere and nothing. If Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith are the efficient drones at the top, there is heart in the middle, with the ever-frail skills of Herschelle Gibbs and the creativity of AB de Villiers. Even Albie Morkel, in whom there are glimpses of Zulu, thankfully smiles more. They've always had pace, but now they even have spinners, who are not batsmen forced to bowl. Sure, they are a little one-dimensional (watching videos of Umar Gul's yorkers?), but they are spinners - South African and successful; how often have we said that in the past?
The whole machinery is intimidating, determined to iron out all kinks, the mission pre-programmed; with seven consecutive wins in this format, they have apparently also taken the inherent unpredictability of this format out of the equation. They are well-trained, well-oiled, and their psychologist talks about 120 contests and of processes over outcomes and how choking is not really an issue anymore. They win even warm-up matches and the dead games because every game counts. They are cricket's future.
Pakistan are the past. They are wholly dysfunctional, but just about getting along, though unsure where they are going. They don't control their extras, they don't run the singles hard and they field as if it were still the 60s. They are least bothered about erasing the flaws because any win will be in spite of them. They did hire a psychologist though, and you can only imagine what those sessions were like and how much they actually talked about sport and cricket. There are permanent mutterings of serious rifts. They may not bat, bowl or field well all the time, but sometimes, they do what can only be described as a 'Pakistan': that is, they bowl, bat or field spectacularly, briefly, to change the outcome of matches. You cannot plan or account for this as an opponent because Pakistan themselves don't plan or account for it.
It can come from any person, any discipline, but on evidence, it is likelier to come from the bowling. The batting needs Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul-Haq to really get their show going. A piece of fielding brilliance cannot be discounted, but generally both Pakistan and West Indies have happily disproved the dictum that in T20 cricket you have to be Jonty Rhodes to get anywhere. Heroes will likely be found among the Umar Guls, the spinners and maybe even Mohammad Aamer, who is a throwback to the late 80s and early 90s, when Pakistani fast bowlers were born ready to play international cricket.
The pressure on South Africa however, will be greater. They are expected to win this and anyway they will always have the whole 'chokers' tag to deal with until the day they actually lift a big trophy. It doesn't help that they look as good as they did during the 1999 World Cup, though they are easier on the eye. Pakistan, as Younis Khan said before leaving for England, won't much mind a semi-final spot; Kamran Abbasi rightly noted that they may have had an easier ride to the semis than most but no country has had a rougher two years. Clearly they'd love to win it, but they have already achieved more than many thought and a loss wouldn't be the end of the world. But importantly, as the only side to make it to the last four in 2007 and 2009, they have underscored their significance in this brave new, T20 world, a world in which they absolutely cannot be ignored.
Form guide
(last five matches, most recent first)
Pakistan WWLWL
South Africa WWWWW
Watch out for...
The whole South African machinery is intimidating - determined to iron out all kinks, the mission pre-programmed
Albie Morkel has been a quiet, steady ever-present through South Africa's tournament. But he is capable of bigger, more explosive things especially with the bat and this match - and potentially the next - are the best platforms for it.
Shahid Afridi's moment turned the tournament for Pakistan, an outstanding catch hastening New Zealand's collapse, and possibly himself - at least with the bat. Since then he has batted with rare sense, as everyone has wished him to, and at little expense to his strike rate. He will be a factor with the ball anyway, but if he gets going with the bat, then South Africa will panic.
Team news
Pakistan have finally settled upon what they feel is their best line-up, more by chance than design. Barring injury, there are unlikely to be any changes.
Pakistan: (probable) 1 Shahzaib Hassan, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Shoaib Malik, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal
Jacques Kallis will come back in for Morne Morkel after being rested for the dead game against India.
South Africa: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 JP Duminy, 6 A Morkel, 7 M Boucher, 8 Johan Botha, 9 Roelof van der Merwe, 10 Wayne Parnell, 11 Dale Steyn
Pitch and conditions
The surface for this match is two along from the one that turned square for the South Africa-India match and is expected to be harder and offer less help for the spinners. However, the slow bowlers have had an impact throughout so are still likely to be key. Steady rain arrived in Nottingham on the practice day, but is due to clear overnight and the forecast for Thursday is fine.
Stats and Trivia
Pakistan and South Africa have six bowlers in the top 10 wicket-takers of the tournament, though Pakistanis occupy the top two spots.
Three of the top 10 run-scorers of the tournament are from South Africa and Pakistan, with AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis at numbers two and three.
Quotes
"Our bowling has been great and all of them are now bowling in rhythm. The batsmen have to support the bowlers if we are to win this cup."
Younis Khan points out the areas of improvement.
""I think we've come past that. This team has come a long way and I think we've proven that. Hopefully we can show that on Thursday, that's what is exciting about it. "
Graeme Smith dismisses talk of being 'chokers'.
"It's great to be in a position where you can rock up to a ground, look at the wicket and know you have all the bases covered. We aren't really worried what the wicket will be."
Mark Boucher believes South Africa can cope with any conditions that are thrown at them.
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of Cricinfo
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June 17, 2009
Posted by Saad Shafqat
Younis Khan's masterstroke
There may have been more to Younis Khan's candid admission that Twenty20 was 'fun'
At some point in the build up to this World Twenty20, Younis Khan would have assembled the rest of the Pakistan team think-tank to pore over the tournament's list of fixtures. Shoaib Malik would have been there along with Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal.The coach would probably have not been around, this being the kind of meeting where you only invite those you can call upon when it hits the fan out in the middle.
There would have been an intense seriousness to this meeting, a sober atmosphere that Pakistan's cricketers, with their trademark devil-may-care attitude, are loath to display in public. There would have been an implicit recognition of what was at stake. After the visiting Sri Lankans were attacked by terrorists in Lahore in March, John Stern, Editor of the Wisden Cricketer, questioned in an interview on CNN whether Pakistan would even be able to play in the World Twenty20. Stern's was only one prominent voice among many fussing about Pakistan's threat of cricketing isolation. The nucleus of Pakistan's team saw clearly, as indeed did the rest of the country, that the World Twenty20 would be their last chance to push back.
After digesting the schedule of fixtures for a few minutes, one of them would have pointed out, as is obvious to everyone now, that five victories could get you the title. A mere five victories, of which four need to be against authentic Test nations. In the event, Pakistan have had the easiest ride of the tournament so far, with wins against two associate nations, plus New Zealand, which has traditionally been the weakest of the authentic Test sides. By the looks of it the cricket gods are finally smiling, perhaps offering a long overdue break to the country that has seen more turbulence in the last two years than in the rest of its six-decade history.
Back at the pre-tournament meeting, Younis would have contemplated this campaign knowing he was up against much more than just cricketing opposition. He had to lift spirits, sharpen everyone's focus, and blot out the hype that inevitably accompanies the likes of India and Australia and was bound to undercut his own team's morale. He knew he had to prepare everyone by modulating expectations, which he delicately calibrated by announcing that reaching the semi-finals would be good enough. He would also have been mindful of the potential for the Daniel Vettoris of the cricketing world to behave as sore losers, and he would have been conscious of the deafening criticism that would erupt from Pakistan's unforgiving press and public at the first defeat. Younis knew he would need a terrific Plan B, something as powerful and galvanising as Imran Khan's 'cornered tigers' appeal from 1992.
After the Group B defeat to England, he unveiled it, telling a bemused media contingent that Twenty20 is 'fun cricket'. Younis was addressing his own team of course. Take it easy, close your eyes, relax. You can easily picture him sticking to the same theme as the toughest test yet awaits. Sure, its the semi-final and South Africa is some seriously tenacious opposition, but don’t let that get to you. Imagine you're just playing a league match in Lahore. Enjoy yourself.
Younis Khan's masterstroke
Back at the pre-tournament meeting, Younis would have contemplated this campaign knowing he was up against much more than just cricketing opposition. He had to lift spirits, sharpen everyone's focus, and blot out the hype that inevitably accompanies the likes of India and Australia and was bound to undercut his own team's morale
Posted by Saad Shafqat
Younis Khan's masterstroke
There may have been more to Younis Khan's candid admission that Twenty20 was 'fun'
At some point in the build up to this World Twenty20, Younis Khan would have assembled the rest of the Pakistan team think-tank to pore over the tournament's list of fixtures. Shoaib Malik would have been there along with Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal.The coach would probably have not been around, this being the kind of meeting where you only invite those you can call upon when it hits the fan out in the middle.
There would have been an intense seriousness to this meeting, a sober atmosphere that Pakistan's cricketers, with their trademark devil-may-care attitude, are loath to display in public. There would have been an implicit recognition of what was at stake. After the visiting Sri Lankans were attacked by terrorists in Lahore in March, John Stern, Editor of the Wisden Cricketer, questioned in an interview on CNN whether Pakistan would even be able to play in the World Twenty20. Stern's was only one prominent voice among many fussing about Pakistan's threat of cricketing isolation. The nucleus of Pakistan's team saw clearly, as indeed did the rest of the country, that the World Twenty20 would be their last chance to push back.
After digesting the schedule of fixtures for a few minutes, one of them would have pointed out, as is obvious to everyone now, that five victories could get you the title. A mere five victories, of which four need to be against authentic Test nations. In the event, Pakistan have had the easiest ride of the tournament so far, with wins against two associate nations, plus New Zealand, which has traditionally been the weakest of the authentic Test sides. By the looks of it the cricket gods are finally smiling, perhaps offering a long overdue break to the country that has seen more turbulence in the last two years than in the rest of its six-decade history.
Back at the pre-tournament meeting, Younis would have contemplated this campaign knowing he was up against much more than just cricketing opposition. He had to lift spirits, sharpen everyone's focus, and blot out the hype that inevitably accompanies the likes of India and Australia and was bound to undercut his own team's morale. He knew he had to prepare everyone by modulating expectations, which he delicately calibrated by announcing that reaching the semi-finals would be good enough. He would also have been mindful of the potential for the Daniel Vettoris of the cricketing world to behave as sore losers, and he would have been conscious of the deafening criticism that would erupt from Pakistan's unforgiving press and public at the first defeat. Younis knew he would need a terrific Plan B, something as powerful and galvanising as Imran Khan's 'cornered tigers' appeal from 1992.
After the Group B defeat to England, he unveiled it, telling a bemused media contingent that Twenty20 is 'fun cricket'. Younis was addressing his own team of course. Take it easy, close your eyes, relax. You can easily picture him sticking to the same theme as the toughest test yet awaits. Sure, its the semi-final and South Africa is some seriously tenacious opposition, but don’t let that get to you. Imagine you're just playing a league match in Lahore. Enjoy yourself.
Younis Khan's masterstroke
Back at the pre-tournament meeting, Younis would have contemplated this campaign knowing he was up against much more than just cricketing opposition. He had to lift spirits, sharpen everyone's focus, and blot out the hype that inevitably accompanies the likes of India and Australia and was bound to undercut his own team's morale
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SA will only choke when we go hard at them. So just attack!
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune favors the brave.
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go proteas - just because i am from india, i have to support proteas. loooooollllll !!!!!!!
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leave the analysis aside ... Pakistan will win . hands down. best of luk to ya all
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