Story Pakistan's International season [BLIC]

[m_vaughan]

Good score by England. Well played Solanki and Pieterson.

Muhammad Amir dint have a nice time bowling.

 

[nightprowler10]

Sorry for the delay guys, but between work, school, and Pak-India series, I haven't had time to play any games whatsoever. I will hopefully have time either later today or tomorrow to play Pakistan's innings. Hope people haven't lost interest in this thread yet.

 

[The Champ]

Good to see u back buddy, please update it friend, very good coverage friend

 

[m_vaughan]

Hope people haven't lost interest in this thread yet.

Are you kiddin?

 

[nightprowler10]

Pakistan off to an awesome start, but...

Pakistan started off in the worst manner possible, losing both of their openers to Gough's bowling and Trescothick's diving catches within the first 3 overs.

First to go was Younis Khan, who tried to play a square cut on his very first delivery and ended up edging it straight to Trescothick. A couple of overs later Imran Nazir tried to penetrate a shot through the hevily gaurded covers but was caught thanks to a great diving catch by Trescothick.

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But losing both of the openers didn't slow Pakistan down at all. The next batsmen in, Shoaib Malik and Muhammad Amir, put up a very fast 30+ runs on the board, hitting almost 10 runs an over, before Harmison was finally able to get through Malik, taking him out at 27 runs.

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Inzi, the next man in, did his best to keep up with the runrate but was having a hard time finding the gaps. But in the tenth over, he finally got his head straight and hit Gough for three consecutive boundaries before he unluckily edged one while attempting a leg glance, sending the ball in between the middle and off-stump. Pakistan were now 81/4.

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Within the next few overs, Amir and Youhana were able to put up another 29 runs before drinks break, taking the score at 110/4 in 14 overs.

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Pakistan are off to a speedy start but need to slow things down a bit or else they'll end up losing more wickets. Amir is batting sensibly right now, and looks determined to put up a big score.

 

[m_vaughan]

Good start by Pakistan, but have they lost one wicket too many?

 

[nightprowler10]

Gough keeps Pakistan in check

On the very first ball after drinks break, an over-confident Amir played an advanced shot off of Gough that edged off his bat allowing Pieterson to take an easy catch. Just a few ball later, Yousuf Youhana was fooled by an amazing off-cutter by Gough and was easily caught behind by the keeper. Gough gets his first 5-fer of the series.

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A destructive over by Gough had put Pakistan under some serious pressure. With an inexperienced Kamran Akmal and a wild Shahid Afridi batting, Engalnd were on top, but they hadn't won yet. Although things seemed to get even better for England as they got Afridi out for 24 as he tried to hit out as usual. Kamran Akmal followed a few overs later leaving Pakistan at 170/8.

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All hope seemed to have been lost after Akmal's dismissal, but Pakistanis saw a new ray of hope when Sami started showing off great form, playing beautiful strokes, and more importantly, keeping the ball on the ground. Unfortunately for Pakistan, the other tail-enders didn't last long enough for Sami to even contemplate winning the match for his team. After only 32.1 overs, Pakistan were all out for 219 runs. England ties the series 1-1 by winning this match by 75 runs.

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[nightprowler10]

England even the series 1-1

A great performance by the English team. Darren Gough was awarded Man-of-the-Match despite his expensive runrate, but it was him who got rid of the Pakistani top-order. Here are the stats from the inning:

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[The Champ]

Eventhough it is 89 runs in 10 overs but 5 wickets is crucial mate, Great job Gough

 

[m_vaughan]

Yeahhh!!

Good win for England!

But why did u hurry so much with the runchase?

 

[nightprowler10]

I just played the regular shots that I normally play with any other patch, but with this one its a whole different story. Some of my leg glances that'd normally fetch me a couple would go for a boundry whereas some of my straight drives would pop up in the air creating easy catches. I have to get used to this patch. I love both batting and bowling with it.

 

[faraz haider]

well i think you are using new exe of sam

 

[m_vaughan]

oh how is this new patch of sam's?

 

[nightprowler10]

Not using Sam's patch, I'm using Ravi's patch, the one you posted the configs for in your story threads. And i'm loving it right now.

 

[The Champ]

Use the new exe by sam mate it is really hot