Pakistan vs New Zealand @ UAE 2009

[Aoun13]

Lets not call the 2020 World Cup the World Cup. Its misleading. Say "2020" World Cup so we know its not the real one.

Your team hasn't play well so you turned it into a third class tournament.Wow what a way to turn cricket for yourself.
A world cup is world cup whether it is T20 or ODIs or whatever.
Afridi is Boom Boom for us and for all who loves his game.
He is incomparable in his nature a poor with bat but when it matters he is a tiger.
He is and will remain a dream for every team....
Thats it

 

[Howsie]

Your team hasn't play well so you turned it into a third class tournament.Wow what a way to turn cricket for yourself.
A world cup is world cup whether it is T20 or ODIs or whatever.
Afridi is Boom Boom for us and for all who loves his game.
He is incomparable in his nature a poor with bat but when it matters he is a tiger.He is and will remain a dream for every team....
Thats it

Hardly, he just shows up from time to time with the bat. Having a decent run in a 20/20 world cup is hardly showing up. As for being a dream player, meh. He's a good bowler and I wouldn't mind having him come in at eight for New Zealand, but I can think of a lot more player's I'd rather have.

 

[nz0003]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmZTR56v-E

Boom boom boom boom.

 

[Howsie]

YouTube - Vengaboys - Boom boom boom boom.[Original].

Boom boom boom boom.

He really should use that song as his 20/20 entrance song, suits him

 

[CG123]

IMO, Vettori is a better batsmen and a better bowler than Afridi.

 

[khalek]

1 Boom Boom > 22 Black Craps and 33 Pommies.

 

[CG123]

Around 8 Pakistani cheerleaders and around 4 sensible New Zealand fans.

 

[khalek]

Come on now don't tell me you don't get glued to your TV sets when Afridi comes out to bat...

 

[Pak_cricketer]

Afridi is pure entertainment. You'll swear at him, call him an idiot, complain, question his existence, and then within a second you'll see why he's so important.

Saying that, Vettori is faaaar better thats because he's easily the best player in the NZ squad by far. He's consistent, and sensible (not surprising, he's captain). If he were playing for Pakistan, he would be opening the batting

 

[Howsie]

Come on now don't tell me you don't get glued to your TV sets when Afridi comes out to bat...

I'm glued to the TV set when Chris Martin is batting to........

 

[khalek]

I'm glued to the TV set when Chris Martin is batting to........

:laugh

They both are crowd pullers, aren't they.

 

[Chewie]

From Cricinfo:

New Zealand (probable): Aaron Redmond, Brendon McCullum (wk), Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori (capt), Jacob Oram/James Franklin, Neil McCullum, Shane Bond, Kyle Mills, Tim Southee

Pakistan (probable): Salman Butt, Khalid Latif, Younis Khan (capt), Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamer, Saeed Ajmal

Not sure about Nathan McCullum for the match...seems to me like we've got a very long tail. Rather see BJ Watling get a shot...

 

[Howsie]

I'd much rather see Broom play tbh. I'm a big fan of Watling but I don't want him to play if he's batting at 5-6.

 

[Chewie]

well if they move mccullum down to 6 and put BJ in at 2...as if that's gonna ever happen though

 

[D0N]

Waiting for second odi & brilliant innings from Afridi again