Congratulations to the Pakistani Team and Good Luck to Team India to pull their socks to perform better in the up coming Asia Cup. Pakistan batted brilliantly to score in excess of 300+ runs and backed up with some decent bowling and fielding. Toss seamed to be vital in the game, it was a reverse to the league game where India scored in excess of 300 runs and beat Pakistan comfortably and now it was Pakistan's turn to beat India in similar fashion but for some fight from Youraj and Dhoni to bring the game closer. The final score line may be closer but Indian batting was never in control chasing the big total.
It was poor bowling and bad fielding from the indian's that cost the finals, R.Sharma dropped a sitter and the way he reacted to that was not at all desirable. He was quick to defend himself giving some reason (lost in the crowd) for the lapse, any good cricketer will first feel bad or don't defend for putting down a catch. I am sure that our media is not doing any good to keep these new found hero's feat in ground.High time that these young cricketers realize that their place is not for granted. Ishant Sharma bowled well in patches but some how seems to have lost the trick to take wickets. Praveen Kumar bowled well but did not get any support from the other end to restrict the Pakistanis. I.Pathan suppose to be a bowling all rounder was feeding the batsmen with boundary's in each and every over and made things easy for the batsmen not to take any risks. Bhatt and Younis made sure that Chawla never settle down with controlled attack and he proved costly to finish gifting 85 runs in his 10 overs. Dhoni's in experience showed in rotating the bowlers, Yousuf Pathan was bowled only 2 overs when he bowled reasonably well. He also used too many bowlers (7) and never seemed to be in control. But for Youraj,Raina and Gambhir to an extent the fielding was not up to the mark with the classic example of praveen kumar who showed no intention of throwing himself to stop boundary's.
Indian batting order badly missed the services of experience batsmen who could come good in crunch situations. Sehwag disappointed once again when the team needs a good start. Gambhir showed glimpses of his class but not carrying it till the end, he has been doing well in the big stage in the recent past but failed today. R.Sharma,Raina,Y.Pathan all had the best opportunity to prove themselves and move to the higher league but failed to latch on to the chance that too after getting starts. Irfan the all rounder coming at the crunch stage of the match just could not raise to the occasion and also wasted some juicy full tosses and created lot of pressure on dhoni watching haplessly from the other end. Its time the selectors take some hard decisions on Irfan Pathan, he has been pretty ordinary with the ball and bat and has been hanging in the team with the T20 finals performance. Yuvraj and Dhoni considered as the future of Indian Cricket atleast in this format of the game, should lead from the front to win matches. Dhoni i feel should be more positive and play his normal game and not leave everything to the final overs, he took too much time to get his eye in, even when the asking run-rate was above 9 runs per over, he was satisfied with singles. Over All the team some how lacked the attitude to win big matches.
Full credit to Pakistan for coming back from a big defeat in the league phase to win the finals comfortably, most importantly they played as a team.
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