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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Pakistan beat England after 9 Years

A victory dedicated to the flood victims of Pakistan.

Pakistan beat England in England after 9 years in a Test Match is another huge achievement by a rookie team within a month. Previously they beat Australia after 15 years in a Test Match.

A good team work by Pakistani bowlers as well as batsmen has done the work for Pakistan. Taking a first inning lead and excellent comeback by Paki bowlers in the 2nd innings has provided them a victory. There are lots of moments and achievements in a match that really boost the team moral. Some of them includes 1) Wahab Riaz's superb debut 5 wicket hall, 2) M. Yousuf solid comeback in a International side, 3) M. Amir becomes the youngest bowler to take 5 wicket hall in England in a Test Match and become a Man of the Match, 4) Saeed Ajmal's Spin magic, 5) Azhar Ali's unbeaten rock knock of 92* in the first innings and 6) Kamran Akmal's shocking 8 catches to reach his 200 dismissals in a Test Match.

Also a big relief for a new captain Salman Butt to still remain in the series. We all are hoping to win the Lord's Test to level the series.

Yousuf is a class act.

rizzz86

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Flood Relief Update Link

Following link contains the activities performed by a group of people ( from IT/Software Industry of Karachi) for flood victims:

http://floodreliefupdates.blogspot.com/

rizzz86

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Cricket - Rookie Paki Beat Aussies in Tests "Unbelievable"

At last Pakistan has proved that they are now better than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe after beating Australia once in last 15 years. The hard fought three wicket win over Aussies boost the team's confidence and allow the rookie captain "Salman Butt" to retain his captaincy role.

When you look at the Pakistani team, currently they are the most weakest team in the history of Pakistan cricket. There are no bowling option for Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain, Mushtaq etc - even than they can able to bowl Aus out on 88. Also the worst ever batting line-up missing Saeed, Inzamam, Yousuf, Younus etc - even than they can able to chase the target (credit goes to the bowlers).

Early Captaincy Role:
Salman Butt is very early for Test match captaincy but he has to take this responsibility. The practice for assigning captaincy role to some one who is early in his career stages is not bad for some teams - for example we have Smith for SouthAfrica, Strauss for England and Dhoni for India. But these three players have proved themselves as a right captain with their performances. We are also expecting same from Butt.

I have gathered some numbers/stats of the match that are as follows:

The Age Factor:

Australia:
Shane Watson (29), Simon Katich (34), Ricky Ponting (35), Michael Clark (29), Michael Hussey (35), Marcus North (31), Tim Paine (25), Steven Smith (21), Mitchell Johnson (28), Ben Hilfenhaus (27), Dough Bollinger (29)
Total Sum = 323
Average Age = 29.3

Pakistan:
Imran Farhat (28), Slaman Butt (25), Azhar Ali (25), Umar Amin (20), Umar Akmal (20), Shoaib Malik (28), Kamran Akmal (28), Mohammad Amir (18), Umar Gul (26), Danish Kaneria (29), Mohammad Asif (28)
Total Sum = 275 (Not even a single player exceeds Australia's average age)
Average Age = 25

Test Matches Played:

Australia:

Shane Watson (20), Simon Katich (52), Ricky Ponting (146), Michael Clark (62), Michael Hussey (52), Marcus North (17), Tim Paine (2), Steven Smith (2), Mitchell Johnson (36), Ben Hilfenhaus (11), Dough Bollinger (10)
Total Sum = 410
Average Matches = 37

Pakistan:
Imran Farhat (35), Slaman Butt (29), Azhar Ali (2), Umar Amin (2), Umar Akmal (8), Shoaib Malik (30), Kamran Akmal (50), Mohammad Amir (10), Umar Gul (28), Danish Kaneria (60), Mohammad Asif (19)
Total Sum = 273
Average Matches =24.8

This is what talent and spirit is all about. Pakistan has beaten Australia that are much better as the stats suggests.

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