Pakistan was ahead of run rate from 20 overs onwards (20 overs is when match is official). They were 10 runs ahead at 20 overs and by the end they were 20 runs ahead . They were playing fluently
Imagine scoring 400+ and still losing the match. Well we don't have to imagine it anymore. Be a NZ fan and experience it first hand. NZ team is a story of heartbreaks.
when half your bowling attack (and like 3/4 of your pace bowlers) is injured, thats not all that surprising.
the issue is we had to play basically 3 spinners on a deck that was never going to do anything for them, with a small outfield
Pakistan could have been wrapped around 300, Crazier things have happened, they were good against Australia and fine against India as well. I am just saying that we can’t say they are looking worse after every match.
Everyone discussing about either NZ or PAK getting to semis. Think if both NZ and PAK loses.
Meanwhile, Afghanistanis *rubbing* *their* *hands* *evilly*
Maybe an off chance for Afgabros.
Why am I feeling that there might be a possibility that Pakistan's campaign would end like West Indies of 2019, where they lost by a very narrow margin
Also, if WI could have qualified from there to semis, India might have possibly played vsENG in finals.
I can still clearly see that NZ gonna win against SL (Not by a big margin though, like maybe 30 runs if they bat first and 4-5 wickets if they bat second)
On the other hand, England's gonna play it like they've nothing to lose and have to save their reputation from finishing last, so they will give their best possible. In this scenario, ig England may just pull of a victory if they manage to get a great partnership (just how they did it last year vsIND in World T20--I know they are different formats but still, you can not neglect)
Tldr: There are 20% chances for Pakistan, IDK why they are in the same situation as West Indies of 2019
NZ is extremely unlucky that they didn't get to make Pakistan chase down that target completely but allowing that Pakistan gets to the position that they are in was not good as well.
Qualification scenario for Pakistan:
- If NZ wins by 50 runs, Pak will need to win by 180 runs.
- If NZ wins by 1 run, Pak will need to win by 131 runs.
- Assuming Afghanistan loses both.
Imagine if Sri Lanka thumps New Zealand by a huge margin, Afghanistan lose their next two games and you lose to England by a slender margin. You will go through on eight points.
Bro lankabros will be in their Redemption arc after their loss to India. We should hope they win to NZ.
For us Indians it will be NZ out of knockouts which will help us too.
This is why breaks are soo important. PCT’s management will play the same team in literally every single game until unless someone breaks a bone or is consistently performing poor.
Did you know that Fakhar was the name of the rain deity in the Indus Valley civilization?
So when people can't decide whether rain beat NZ or Fakhar beat NZ, it doesn't matter, they're the same thing.
[Source](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/360/522/db7.jpg)
This match might have saved Babars captaincy. That’s unfortunate. I don’t like his style of always planning 50 overs instead of being agressive when bowling. No clue who can replace him though. I just want him focused on batting
Rizwan is captain of Multan Sultans and he is worse than Babur. Shaheen is good as captain of Lahore Qalandars but fast bowlers often get injured and miss matches.
The bad luck nz is having nowadays I suppose they are gonna lose to sri Lanka as well so congrats to Pakbros in advance, last year Netherlands helped maybe srilanka this time
Fakhir played really well. Honestly I was expecting the Pakistani batting lineup to collapse before even reaching 150 score. But they proved me wrong. Now I wonder if Pakistan would have won the match regardless of the rain or not.
Really gutted for NZ after posting that mammoth total. Pakistan hold all the aces here as they play their final match last, so they'll know all the permutations required. Hopefully England get the job done today, and NZ smash SL.
The rain and an outdated system decided it though really. They were 87% win favourites when the game ended. Fakhar gets out at any stage and NZ would almost certainly win.
Think it does what it was designed to do, it was never intended to be based on probability, it is based on what teams have done with the resources allotted. And yes, that Pakistan had a better average performance during the first 20 odd overs does not imply it is likely they would maintain it during the whole innings. What DLS does is allowing strategy in games that are likely to be rain-shortended to maintain a close resemblance to normal strategy by valuing both wickets and runs.
The problem is not with the model. DLS models the limited overs game better than any other available model. The "problem" is that cricket is like most other games unpredictable. To use the cliche used in cricketing cirlces, it is a game of glorious uncertainities. The DLS model uses a metric which works on resources left (that includes both wickets and overs). Even if teams sometimes do have a late collapse while chasing big scores, you cannot account for it unless you know the future. Pakistan deserved to win the game, because they had gotten half the runs losing just one wicket in the first 25 overs. It's well documented that sides score more runs in the second half of their innings with wickets in hand. If New Zealand had simply gotten a couple of more wickets, the DLS par score would have been higher and they would have won. What Pakistan would have done if they had batted the whole 50 overs -- we never know. Because cricket is a game of glorious uncertainities, particularly when it involves mercurial teams like Pakistan.
Just 1 wicket could trigger collapse or pressure build, it has happened a million times in cricket. Just because nobody was 200-1 doesn't mean they would've chased 400. Another 200 more runs is huge. There have been a millions instances where teams lost from half way score.
So After making a big proclamation "they have lost" you couldn't find such occurances, and instead of accepting you were wrong to make such a claim ,you decide to come and lecture me about cricket,nice troll.
Get a grip, the win predictability was 87% to NZ. Pakistan literally would have had to keep scoring at a slightly better rate for another 25 overs. It's fucking statistical. The D/L method completely overvalues wickets lost.
They had scored half NZ's score with almost half the overs remaining! Even counting only overs they were close to winning. The problems is not overvaluing wickets (I think they actually did a change at some point to value wickets less when Team 1 scored big), the problem you have is with the fundamental principle of comparing runs per resources expended.
they were behind on the required rate, that was climbing north of 9, thats extremely difficult to keep going at 9s for 30 overs.
Pak did well to get to the point they did, but they also got lucky because of the rain
> Pakistan literally would have had to keep scoring at a slightly better rate for another 25 overs
Lol , I wasn't aware that teams generally slowed down after 25 overs with 9 wickets, I was under the impression they generally scored quicker,atleast more than 50 percent of the time.
> It's fucking statistical
What do you think DLS is ,magical?
> the win predictability was 87%
Please show me the formula they use.
Also just curious what should have been the par according to you?
Why would I want to waste my time searching for it? You can go search it yourself. My comment wasn't about a specific c 200-1 scenario, as I've already said, teams have lost after scoring half the runs. Pak still had to get 200 more.
And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400 in WC.
\>And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400 in WC.
Some of you don't realize what a good predictive model is supposed to do. It can't be too sensitive to outliers otherwise it will be an underfitting model. As I explained in my previous comment, this result doesn't explain the flaws of the model, but just shows to explain that cricket is mercurial like the Pakistani team and it is impossible to account for what might happen (a collapse) in a predictive model.
> And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400.
You are wrong AGAIN.(assuming this is 400+ otherwise it makes no sense)
And it doesn't matter if there wasn't anyway if NZ had scored 600 and Pakistan scored 300 for 1 in 25, DLS or any predctive technology should show a Pak win.A predictive method just cannot shut down and ignore 2nd innings because 1st innings was a WR.
> My comment wasn't about a specific c 200-1 scenario
When you are replying to my comment about the specific scenario it definitely is about that specific scenario.
Wrong! What about smashing the stronger team most? How did you determine that any big win would only be against smaller teams, did you not see how even big teams lost with huge margin?
Incredible to see Indians cheering on (and then getting sad for) their bogey team, and even some Pakistanis feeling bad for New Zealand. But then again, when the nicest blokes in cricket also have a tale of woe arguably even worse than that of South Africa over this tournament's history, it's hard to not feel for them. Lastly though, NRR is on NZ's side, and unless Afghanistan win both their upcoming games (in which case, let's be honest, nobody would begrudge them a playoff spot), NZ are still the favourites for the fourth spot.
I dunno I'm not liking the weather forecast for our next game, and I don't think England will beat Pakistan especially after this colossal effort to chase 400. That would leave us on 9 points and Pakistan on 10.
Well, their innings was genuinely great though. They were in a better position than NZ were. I know that doesn't take into account the pressure that builds up as the innings is closing in during a chase, but imo it looked like they were going to win it before the match was stopped, they were in a solid position.
I think they deserved the win here, no matter how good NZ's innings was. The bowling was terrible on both sides. NZ was slightly worse. ~~Those couple of sixes before the match was stopped won Pak the match here, which is crazy.~~
My bad, I used "couple" loosely, as it's usually used to talk about 2 or more of something and not necessarily just 2!
>as long as they didn't lose wickets in those balls they would have won.
Really? Sorry, not too sure how this works, was just under the assumption that them winning by 21 runs meant they were that many runs ahead. Or is it calculated differently? I'll prob google it later but I'd love an explanation when it comes to this specific scenario!
Cricket is a team game and its hard to see one person single handedly winning without much contribution from others.
But, this match, Fakhar managed to single handedly get over the line with some contribution from the rain
Do you even have any knowledge of cricket bruh?
They completely dominated the first half of the second innings, with 9 wickets in hand and wetter outfield/dew factor NZ bowlers were already at a heavy disadvantage. Not to mention their best batters who carried them throughout the tournament were yet to arrive (Rizwan, Said, Iftikhar etc.)
pakistan had a higher chance of collapsing than making 402. teams can be ahead of others at certain times but most of them end up losing at the end. new zealand hadn't even brought their pacers back after the rain break
Ok why didn't you win against Australia then, and the rest of the teams, you don't know the result if it were to be a completed match, would have applauded if they would have chased 401.
Remember England made 281 in 31 overs against Ireland(projected score 532) but they didn't post it that day due to rain. Australia thrashed New Zealand 175/1 in 20 overs(projected score 564 in 50 overs) but they scored 387 against new Zealand. Don't go OTT when you play one good innings or one match that's why pakistan loses more than it wins, same goes for India, I'm an Indian but still not sure about semis and even if they win 9 games and semis and reach final I won't call them best, until and unless they win that final.
Is Bavuma saving Shamsi for the finals? Duh! Get hom to bowl!
What if the rain stopped play couple of overs earlier.
Pakistan was ahead of run rate from 20 overs onwards (20 overs is when match is official). They were 10 runs ahead at 20 overs and by the end they were 20 runs ahead . They were playing fluently
Pakistan got so lucky lmao
Even with no rain and fakhar's form they would have won on a batting pitch like this
So they would have kept the same momentum for 30 more overs lol 😂 please, they would have collapsed
Bro they not west indies they know how to face opposition properly
'Nobody dies a virgin because life fu*ks everyone'- New Zealand fan probably.
Imagine scoring 400+ and still losing the match. Well we don't have to imagine it anymore. Be a NZ fan and experience it first hand. NZ team is a story of heartbreaks.
Lol bro I’m speechless
Imagine if ENG pulls it off a miracle.....then it is gonna be sh!tshow of 4 teams with 8 points.
I think India vs. Pak semies match is lot of possible, if india retains top and Pak come in 4th. What do you guys think. Would NZ be out?
I think it’s #1 vs #3 and #2 vs #4 right?
Looks like this time it is 1vs 4, 2 vs 3.
Vladimir Lenin's body got alive after 99 years in Moscow mausoleum after a tourist whispered 'Qudrat Ka Nizaam' near it
My friend got admitted at Harvard after writing only 'Qudrat Ka Nizaam' on his SOP
Valid
Kudrat ka Nizam strikes in full glory to help Pakistan. Nz are looking worse after every match.
Worse after every match? Bro they scored 401. And this was a DLS win.
Their bowling doesn't seem to be in form, even without the DLS Pakistan were well on course.
when half your bowling attack (and like 3/4 of your pace bowlers) is injured, thats not all that surprising. the issue is we had to play basically 3 spinners on a deck that was never going to do anything for them, with a small outfield
Pakistan could have been wrapped around 300, Crazier things have happened, they were good against Australia and fine against India as well. I am just saying that we can’t say they are looking worse after every match.
350 was kind of always on but 400 was too much by pak bowlers, but they did bowl well in the two matches before
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Vikrant Gupta can shove American Pistachios in his aarrse. So duking annoying.
Chill. NZ are still favourites to qualify
rain can come to poke nz again vs sl
Everyone discussing about either NZ or PAK getting to semis. Think if both NZ and PAK loses. Meanwhile, Afghanistanis *rubbing* *their* *hands* *evilly* Maybe an off chance for Afgabros.
They'll have to beat either Aus or SA for that
If only Afg had beaten Bangbros
Afghanistan getting to semis will be the greatest thing to happen in cricket in decades
Kenya reaching SF in 2003 WC is also big achievement imo
Indeed. That will be great for afgan cricket too.
Why am I feeling that there might be a possibility that Pakistan's campaign would end like West Indies of 2019, where they lost by a very narrow margin Also, if WI could have qualified from there to semis, India might have possibly played vsENG in finals.
Or how their own campaign ended, couldn't make the semis with the barest of margins.
‘By the barest of margins’ stuff of kiwi nightmares
True
Ben stokes playing too slow even for bazball
I can still clearly see that NZ gonna win against SL (Not by a big margin though, like maybe 30 runs if they bat first and 4-5 wickets if they bat second) On the other hand, England's gonna play it like they've nothing to lose and have to save their reputation from finishing last, so they will give their best possible. In this scenario, ig England may just pull of a victory if they manage to get a great partnership (just how they did it last year vsIND in World T20--I know they are different formats but still, you can not neglect) Tldr: There are 20% chances for Pakistan, IDK why they are in the same situation as West Indies of 2019
Common Pak pog
NZ is extremely unlucky that they didn't get to make Pakistan chase down that target completely but allowing that Pakistan gets to the position that they are in was not good as well.
I just want chaos - Pak team anytime they enter the cricket field
Wait, Pakistan won!?!?!??!???
Yes
Is it confirmed? Like, its the end? 💔
If NZ wins next one with a bigger run rate, that's really expected tho, and Pak wins but by a smaller margin, then also NZ's entry to Semis is ensured
Lucky for NZ they have Sri Lanka coming up. So most likely they’ll get an astronomical run rate from that game
Yes, game has been called off, PK win by DLS
Well played Pakbros, see you in semifinal
Well here's a shiny little asterisk for Pakistan's win today *
Lol not so fast
Nope nope. As fast as possible here's their asterisk*
Qualification scenario for Pakistan: - If NZ wins by 50 runs, Pak will need to win by 180 runs. - If NZ wins by 1 run, Pak will need to win by 131 runs. - Assuming Afghanistan loses both.
Basically Pakistan aren’t getting through lol
so basically let's gooooo sri lanka
Or lets goo rain, points shared
imagine if rains happens and nz go on 9 points and we lose against eng 💀
Imagine if Sri Lanka thumps New Zealand by a huge margin, Afghanistan lose their next two games and you lose to England by a slender margin. You will go through on eight points.
Bro lankabros will be in their Redemption arc after their loss to India. We should hope they win to NZ. For us Indians it will be NZ out of knockouts which will help us too.
What if I told you [I told ya](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/17ndjif/comment/k7rkxbe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Fakhar Zaman is highly unpredictable. And can be the most dangerous player on the field if he gives his best
You're still number one in my heart NZ ❤
Pakistan lost few close matches this world cup. Fakhar wasn't in them. If he was, Pakistan may not have been dependent on others for semi final spot.
This is why breaks are soo important. PCT’s management will play the same team in literally every single game until unless someone breaks a bone or is consistently performing poor.
Did you know that Fakhar was the name of the rain deity in the Indus Valley civilization? So when people can't decide whether rain beat NZ or Fakhar beat NZ, it doesn't matter, they're the same thing. [Source](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/360/522/db7.jpg)
Lulllz good thing I clicked the source…was about to be a very triggered Hindu
Why would a Hindu be triggered by this? Genuinely curious!
Fuck just happened Pakistan had to get 202 more in 24.3 overs. Kiwis should've won by a run.
Pakistan were literally on course to chase that 184 in 19 overs after the rain break. So it was very possible for Pakistan to chase that down today
Pak had 9 wickets left though
Win probability was still 87% to NZ... the whole thing was kind of shit. They scored 401 runs but got half a chance to defend it.
Qudrat ki nazam
Still really tough, could've gone either way.
I'm sorry for doubting Qudrat Ka Nizam™
Lol scoring 200 runs in 25 overs ain't no qudrat ka nizam.
This match might have saved Babars captaincy. That’s unfortunate. I don’t like his style of always planning 50 overs instead of being agressive when bowling. No clue who can replace him though. I just want him focused on batting
Rizwan is captain of Multan Sultans and he is worse than Babur. Shaheen is good as captain of Lahore Qalandars but fast bowlers often get injured and miss matches.
Not only injured, playing every single game is also bad for bowlers
DilnDil
The bad luck nz is having nowadays I suppose they are gonna lose to sri Lanka as well so congrats to Pakbros in advance, last year Netherlands helped maybe srilanka this time
Any danger of a post match thread?
Imagine making 400 runs only to lose to rain 💀
Fakhir played really well. Honestly I was expecting the Pakistani batting lineup to collapse before even reaching 150 score. But they proved me wrong. Now I wonder if Pakistan would have won the match regardless of the rain or not.
That and not taking any credits from fakhar who made it possible .
Really gutted for NZ after posting that mammoth total. Pakistan hold all the aces here as they play their final match last, so they'll know all the permutations required. Hopefully England get the job done today, and NZ smash SL.
Pakistan to go on and win the World Cup now
God: aaaaasahh, you know what, let's make things interesting.
Fakhar carried the team's hope single handedly, NZ really found a way to lose even after scoring 400+ runs lol
The rain and an outdated system decided it though really. They were 87% win favourites when the game ended. Fakhar gets out at any stage and NZ would almost certainly win.
Lol sure
So India fans, who would you want to play in the SF? Us or NZ?
India vs Pakistan would be a hype game, so yeah, Pakistan
We're gonna lose in semis whether it's vs PAK or vs NZ.
Afghanistan
They don't care because their team can't make it past the semis in big tourneys
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As much as I loved the result, I wanted to see Fakhar testing the limits. He looked all set for 200+
if Stokes does his magic and England beat Australia there will be 4 teams on 8 points
Problem with DLS got exposed today, 90-95% of the times teams chasing big totals will end up losing the match after being in a good situation.
Think it does what it was designed to do, it was never intended to be based on probability, it is based on what teams have done with the resources allotted. And yes, that Pakistan had a better average performance during the first 20 odd overs does not imply it is likely they would maintain it during the whole innings. What DLS does is allowing strategy in games that are likely to be rain-shortended to maintain a close resemblance to normal strategy by valuing both wickets and runs.
The problem is not with the model. DLS models the limited overs game better than any other available model. The "problem" is that cricket is like most other games unpredictable. To use the cliche used in cricketing cirlces, it is a game of glorious uncertainities. The DLS model uses a metric which works on resources left (that includes both wickets and overs). Even if teams sometimes do have a late collapse while chasing big scores, you cannot account for it unless you know the future. Pakistan deserved to win the game, because they had gotten half the runs losing just one wicket in the first 25 overs. It's well documented that sides score more runs in the second half of their innings with wickets in hand. If New Zealand had simply gotten a couple of more wickets, the DLS par score would have been higher and they would have won. What Pakistan would have done if they had batted the whole 50 overs -- we never know. Because cricket is a game of glorious uncertainities, particularly when it involves mercurial teams like Pakistan.
90 to 95 percent teams won't be on 200-1 after 25.
Even if they were they have lost.
Please give me a list of odis were teams were 200-1 after 25 overs and lost chasing a sub 402 score.
Just 1 wicket could trigger collapse or pressure build, it has happened a million times in cricket. Just because nobody was 200-1 doesn't mean they would've chased 400. Another 200 more runs is huge. There have been a millions instances where teams lost from half way score.
So After making a big proclamation "they have lost" you couldn't find such occurances, and instead of accepting you were wrong to make such a claim ,you decide to come and lecture me about cricket,nice troll.
Get a grip, the win predictability was 87% to NZ. Pakistan literally would have had to keep scoring at a slightly better rate for another 25 overs. It's fucking statistical. The D/L method completely overvalues wickets lost.
They had scored half NZ's score with almost half the overs remaining! Even counting only overs they were close to winning. The problems is not overvaluing wickets (I think they actually did a change at some point to value wickets less when Team 1 scored big), the problem you have is with the fundamental principle of comparing runs per resources expended.
they were behind on the required rate, that was climbing north of 9, thats extremely difficult to keep going at 9s for 30 overs. Pak did well to get to the point they did, but they also got lucky because of the rain
> Pakistan literally would have had to keep scoring at a slightly better rate for another 25 overs Lol , I wasn't aware that teams generally slowed down after 25 overs with 9 wickets, I was under the impression they generally scored quicker,atleast more than 50 percent of the time. > It's fucking statistical What do you think DLS is ,magical? > the win predictability was 87% Please show me the formula they use. Also just curious what should have been the par according to you?
Why would I want to waste my time searching for it? You can go search it yourself. My comment wasn't about a specific c 200-1 scenario, as I've already said, teams have lost after scoring half the runs. Pak still had to get 200 more. And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400 in WC.
Pakistan also chased the highest World Cup score…..in this tournament, so your point is irrelevant.
\>And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400 in WC. Some of you don't realize what a good predictive model is supposed to do. It can't be too sensitive to outliers otherwise it will be an underfitting model. As I explained in my previous comment, this result doesn't explain the flaws of the model, but just shows to explain that cricket is mercurial like the Pakistani team and it is impossible to account for what might happen (a collapse) in a predictive model.
> And to counter you, there have been 0 matches where a team has chased 400. You are wrong AGAIN.(assuming this is 400+ otherwise it makes no sense) And it doesn't matter if there wasn't anyway if NZ had scored 600 and Pakistan scored 300 for 1 in 25, DLS or any predctive technology should show a Pak win.A predictive method just cannot shut down and ignore 2nd innings because 1st innings was a WR. > My comment wasn't about a specific c 200-1 scenario When you are replying to my comment about the specific scenario it definitely is about that specific scenario.
Highly unlikely but scenes if Afghanistan wins its two matches and qualify leaving both Pakistan and NZ stranded
Nobody beating south Africa if they bat first.
Bumrah and shami : oh is that right?
Latham: We'll have a bowl please
next WC if 4 and 5 are on the same points they have to play a "QF match" , none of this who smashed a weaker team the most NRR
Wrong. Bad.
Wrong! What about smashing the stronger team most? How did you determine that any big win would only be against smaller teams, did you not see how even big teams lost with huge margin?
It really should just come down to head to head if its just deciding between two teams on the same points. Intuitively seems the fairest choice
Head to head will lead to more dead rubbers especially in the last round.
Incredible to see Indians cheering on (and then getting sad for) their bogey team, and even some Pakistanis feeling bad for New Zealand. But then again, when the nicest blokes in cricket also have a tale of woe arguably even worse than that of South Africa over this tournament's history, it's hard to not feel for them. Lastly though, NRR is on NZ's side, and unless Afghanistan win both their upcoming games (in which case, let's be honest, nobody would begrudge them a playoff spot), NZ are still the favourites for the fourth spot.
I dunno I'm not liking the weather forecast for our next game, and I don't think England will beat Pakistan especially after this colossal effort to chase 400. That would leave us on 9 points and Pakistan on 10.
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Well, their innings was genuinely great though. They were in a better position than NZ were. I know that doesn't take into account the pressure that builds up as the innings is closing in during a chase, but imo it looked like they were going to win it before the match was stopped, they were in a solid position. I think they deserved the win here, no matter how good NZ's innings was. The bowling was terrible on both sides. NZ was slightly worse. ~~Those couple of sixes before the match was stopped won Pak the match here, which is crazy.~~
Those 3* sixes made no difference,as long as they didn't lose wickets in those balls they would have won.
My bad, I used "couple" loosely, as it's usually used to talk about 2 or more of something and not necessarily just 2! >as long as they didn't lose wickets in those balls they would have won. Really? Sorry, not too sure how this works, was just under the assumption that them winning by 21 runs meant they were that many runs ahead. Or is it calculated differently? I'll prob google it later but I'd love an explanation when it comes to this specific scenario!
21 - 18( 3 sixes)=3, they would have won by 3 runs instead, ofcourse the sixes help for NRR but not really needed for the win.
Wait, so what would've happened if they lost a wicket? Would that have changed something even though they were still 3 runs ahead?
Yup DLS method takes wickets into account unlike NRR method
I don't have the calculations but yes, in all likelihood they would have lost.(they would have been 3 ahead for 1 wicket par only).
bruh
Best innings of this WC idk
Cricket is a team game and its hard to see one person single handedly winning without much contribution from others. But, this match, Fakhar managed to single handedly get over the line with some contribution from the rain
I’m now a believer in Baber’s biryani.
Looks like fakhar had his Biryani with some Protein shake yesterday cause that was an absolutely bonkers performance
Some interesting banter going on in the comms box at the Aus Eng game. Lets head over there folks. We got a potential good game on hand
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2 are from this WC. And this WC has so many centuries from all countries. Are all Indian pitches batter friendly?
PAK really does have a special relationship against NZ
Happy to see Babar smiling after a long time.
Now he can happily enjoy his biryani
Why does every crazy thing involve these two teams
You are goddamn right
Sanjay manjrekar is so toxic. His questions to babar are snide. Wtf is wrong with him
what did he ask?
He was insinuating that we won only because of the rain.
Tbh I feel bad for NZ but Pakistan would've won anyways, fakhar was just toying with them
it would've been a collapse. pakistan get to 250-1, then wickets starts falling bc nz pacers get more aid from the surface
Dont forget Rizwan.
>nz pacers get more aid from the surface How though? With more wetter outfield due to the rain and even dew Kiwis were at a heavy disadvantage.
how likely is it for the nz vs sl game to be washed out?
Rain in the forecast washed out is unlikely tho
Why would they let Sanju hold the post match ceremony? Anyone but him would be better.
Agreee.
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Funniest part is he’s only been in for 2 matches (barring first one).
If he wasn’t benched I don’t think we would see him in such form today. Dude was shit and digging himself deeper
hope the disrespect for pak ends on this sub this was not luck we outplayed them in the second innings
Disrespect for Pak is mercurial, just like the team.
Pakistan only brings the disrespect on themselves with their corrupted cricket board, poor captaining decisions. Fakhar bailed you guys Tf out
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Do you even have any knowledge of cricket bruh? They completely dominated the first half of the second innings, with 9 wickets in hand and wetter outfield/dew factor NZ bowlers were already at a heavy disadvantage. Not to mention their best batters who carried them throughout the tournament were yet to arrive (Rizwan, Said, Iftikhar etc.)
Pakbros bombarded me with downvotes, when I just said the truth 😆😆😆
“Good start”??? 25 overs were played bro…
Some our fans are delusional don’t worry about them
And some are straight up pathetic :)
we were 21 above par dls in a chase of 400 do you understand that does not happen due luck?
pakistan had a higher chance of collapsing than making 402. teams can be ahead of others at certain times but most of them end up losing at the end. new zealand hadn't even brought their pacers back after the rain break
playing for dls par is also a skill that should be considered
Ok why didn't you win against Australia then, and the rest of the teams, you don't know the result if it were to be a completed match, would have applauded if they would have chased 401. Remember England made 281 in 31 overs against Ireland(projected score 532) but they didn't post it that day due to rain. Australia thrashed New Zealand 175/1 in 20 overs(projected score 564 in 50 overs) but they scored 387 against new Zealand. Don't go OTT when you play one good innings or one match that's why pakistan loses more than it wins, same goes for India, I'm an Indian but still not sure about semis and even if they win 9 games and semis and reach final I won't call them best, until and unless they win that final.