No shame in this defeat for Pakistan
WIN Or LOSS are the sides of 2 coins but does that mean Pakistan really loss the match.
Well i think it will be unfair to say for the match India Vs. Pakistan at ICC world twenty-20 final, at Johannesburg - Sep 24, 2007 where India won by 5 runs.
THE bowler was Sharma. It was the last over of a final. A six would have done it. The echoes of history thundered through the souls of every spectator aware of the annals of Pakistan-India matches.
After a year that brought Pakistan cricket face to face with every controversy possible, Shoaib Malik’s young team came eyeball to eyeball with rivals India in a World Cup final.
That it was only Twenty20, the Zinger Burger of international cricket, mattered for nothing. What mattered was that Pakistan and India, the best-followed nations in the world, had recovered from their Caribbean limbo dance. Cricket in the two countries had never stooped lower but in Johannesburg it reached a height that nobody could have imagined. When this form of cricket was conceived it seemed ideal for Pakistan’s mentality, particularly the batsmen who often play as if 20 overs are too long. But it is Pakistan’s bowlers who have been the stars of this tournament.
Alas, for Misbah-ul-Haq it was not to be. No Miandad moment for him. Pakistan’s premier batsman in the tournament almost saved his team from a self-inflicted disaster, yet he will regret forever his decision to chip a slowish delivery over fine leg. On such moments are heroes made, fortunes lost, and hearts broken.
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Raghu
March 25th, 2008
i want to change the team captan and make the the captan shoib or shahid afridi in point of view those two are the best and can make the team stroge
afridi
August 12th, 2008
so bye bye spammers.
it was fantastic moment for me and also for indians