ICC Champions Trophy 2017

[Rehan_24]

Just add one more match (v England) after that it's the Lahore airport.
Let England qualify they have more chance of defeating Ban or Ind than Pakistan.

Scared so early? Let's get complete the match first and we will see at the end. England is way ahead at this stage still.

 

[Umair7]

300 is on the cards

Pakistan need wickets! stopping the runs won't hurt England in the last 10 overs.

 

[Rehan_24]

Bring on Hasan and Juniad. Now is the time to take a chance to take a couple of wickets

 

[Perfect Square]

Hasan Ali you beauty! He takes wicket when Pakistan need...

 

[Salman.]

Good bowling from Hafeez and Hasan so far.

 

[Aoun13]

Excellent captaincy by Sarfraz so far in this match except few mistakes towards 8-12th overs. Now he should also keep in mind that England will come hard in last 10 overs so he should keep all his options open.

 

[Perfect Square]

Pakistani bowling is on fire after India's match. Buttler's wicket could be very important for Pakistan as if he gets going he is unstoppable at the end...
TBH not missing Mohammad Amir

 

[Velocity]

If Stokes and Buttler find some time in the middle, they might get to at least 280-290. But the way Pakistan are bowling I think they will only make less than that. I know Hafeez sucks as a batsman, but he is still a useful bowler in the middle overs that can keep it tight from one end and building pressure from one end. That is one of keys to create pressure and it worked today.

 

[Rehan_24]

Wrap England Quickly, Junaid Khan you beauty!

 

[thetruespiderman493]

Pakistan are bowling well... If they restrict England to around 250 it will be a great effort. Just if batting fires today I think we can win this.

 

[SaiSrini]

Excellent bowling from Pakistan so far! The bowlers have applied the choke brilliantly. If they defeat England here, it would be a massive win for them against the tournament favorites. However England should be expected to take advantage of Pakistan's weak link (their batting) way better than Sri Lanka did.

Let's see.

 

[Velocity]

England will need a great bowling effort if they are to win this match.

 

[Ahmad94]

Important to remember this is a used wicket. Pakistan needs to get England out quickly.

 

[Umair7]

England do not seem to have taken the used wicket into account and reassessed 300 plus to actually 240-260 actually being a winning score - may be less

-CRICINFO.

 

[Perfect Square]

Pakistan should try to get wickets now, specially of Stokes and hopefully they can restrict them below 250. Which will be good for our batsmen.

EDIT : Perhaps, they could restrict them on 230 with Stokes wicket.