An Indo-Pak game can't just take place without its share of drama and excitement and i never thought the game would down to wire like it did, the first ever bowl-off in the history of T20 internationals and all in all India held their nerves and at the end of the day it was a good win for India, so as expected this game surely did live up to its expectations.
Second in T20 internationals btw, NZ West Indies had one a few years back, Cairns's last match.
With this win India's 100% win record against Pakistan at a World cup tournament remains in tact.
Pakistani bowlers would have had a better chance with an Indian batsman at the crease. When you are bowling against India, most of the times you hit the stumps only after the batsman has inner-edged it.
They are the D1 team who will play England, South Africa and Australia.
Great! India would have better chance against likes of Lanka than against Eng/SA on such surfaces.I wished the match would have been declared as tied with both team sharing one point each and India ending up as D2.
Well professional footballers have been known to miss the goal area completely in penalty shoot outs and they practice it all the time
Absolutely.
Na, like the ODI WC the pools were predetermined, Pakistan were always going to that group, if India had been beaten by Scotland and Pakistan were 1st in this pool then Pakistan would still be in d2 while Scotland would be D1, they were just dire at the bowl out.Absolutely.
Maybe Pakistani's were smart to miss the stumps completely.. They have landed themselves in what looks like an easier pool
I apologise for suggesting the Pakistanis had not thought out/planned/practiced their bowl out strategy. This could explain why they didn't just miss the stumps but missed them by a fair distance
Weare only talking of the bowl out which is after the Scotland-India match.Na, like the ODI WC the pools were predetermined, Pakistan were always going to that group, if India had been beaten by Scotland and Pakistan were 1st in this pool then Pakistan would still be in d2 while Scotland would be D1, they were just dire at the bowl out.
yh....and india play NZ, SA and England.
Thats makes one wonder as to why the tamasha of bowl out was carried out at all?? I mean, both team had already qualified for next round and they weren't even carrying point with them to the next round!! Even in football, penalty shootouts are carried out at knockout stages and NOT in pool matches.
Totally agree - but the ICC are a bunch of idiots. The bowl out was a fair old waste of time, especially as the Super 8 groups were decided regardless of posistion (another difference betwen cricket and football) Good ides for a tied SF (I bet Klusner and Donald would have loved one in 1999
) but for a group match what was the point?
Oh. I didnt know that. What would have happened if
The entire point of the pre-configured rankings was the ability to sell tickets to likely matches. So regardless of who won the India v Pakistan match, matches involving D1 would be Pakistan games and matches involving D2 would be India games unless Scotland did something remarkable. It's far easier to sell tickets to matches that way. The same thing was done at the ODI World Cup, but no-one went to the games so tickets were easy to get anyway.
