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Congratulations to England and Bangladesh. Rain and not so good bowling by Australia did the damage for them in this CT17. I hope their issue of contract is resolved quickly.

So Yahya Hussaini is copying me? :D Anyways this will give us 7 genuine bowlers, so we'll have an even better chance to restrict other teams.

Hafeez is more of a bowler, you can only replace him with a proper off-spinner which we don't have in this squad.

Only change should be Azhar Ali, we can not accommodate two useless ODI batsmen and Hafeez's bowling gives him edge over Azhar Ali. Hafeez should open with Fakhar, one down should always be Babar Azam. My line-up against SL/most of the other teams Mohammad Hafeez Fakhar Zaman Babar Azam Sarfraz...

India is still not confident about their pace bowlers. Any other team would have used pace bowlers when both of these batsmen were new to the crease to trigger a collapse but India is still looking at them as runs containing bowlers.

This is what lack of experience do to you, there was no need to take the risky double when you already have scored more than the required rate in the over.

I forget that he is playing too, he will be the trump card for SL.

India still has the upper hand in this game since SL can collapse any time due to lack of experience. But still credit should be given to these two young batsmen, they have constructed this partnership with calmness without playing any risky shots.

So here we go again, wasted 22 balls, didn't give the confidence to Fakhar and then got out by playing a stupid shot. So frustrating to watch as a Pakistani fan.

Yes I don't remember his name but there was one with Fakhar, both of them scored heavily for Pakistan A.

South Africa are offering easy singles to him which he should grab with both hands atleast. You need to give confidence to the young Fakhar otherwise he will feel the pressure of scoring and will play a wrong shot.

Its so painful to watch Azhar Ali in limited overs cricket, jumping like bugs bunny with no real intent to play a shot.

Azhar Ali is the worst ODI player ever. He doesn't want to run, he doesn't play any shot, all he do is defend and play dot balls. For God's sake we have to get rid of this player. Sarfraz should open and Pakistan should introduce Faheem Ashraf instead of Azhar as late order hitter.

Not having the luxury of Ajmal and Hafeez really effected Pakistan's bowling combination. To me the all important reason of Pakistan's abysmal performance in ODIs is no Saeed Ajmal.

Gave away 50 runs extra atleast due to some stupid captaincy by Sarfraz. I don't know what he is doing in this CT17, he opened the field for Morris. Didn't rotate the bowlers in the end. He is looking very timid as captain, this ploy of not going for wickets in the end can bite Pakistan badly...

Abbas will replace if Wahab will be declared unfit for the rest of tournament as he did training in England before the start of CT. But in such a quick tournament, its almost impossible to comeback from such a loss, also against SA it will be spinners and not the seamers who can win you matches.

Congratulations to India, they were good in all departments. I guess this match showed everybody why India is a top ODI team and why Pakistan is the new m-i-n-n-o-w, it was like India is playing an associate team. Best of luck to India against SA.

Pakistan did exactly opposite of what I was saying about the team selection and sadly they proved me right. Obviously we played badly in all departments but we lost the match due to worst team selection and management. We have all the bowling resources but we are trying our best not to use them...

WOW! what a stupid selection by Pakistan, when you know that rain is expected. India is not Australia or England, against whom you can start with a spinner. We have given the best opportunity to both batsmen to get set for a big score.

I very well know what is seam or swing, for both you need a perfect action and mostly bowlers get that perfect action by bowling at an optimum pace and hence allow the bowl to move. Even the great Wasim Akram used to cut his pace with new ball, if he try to swing it in these conditions. With...