'Official' Semi Final 2 - Pakistan v India

[Cevno]

India v Pakistan, 2nd semi-final - Dropped catches cost Pakistan | Cricket Features | ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo

There are some truisms in cricket that Pakistan quite brazenly and joyously ignore; leading among them are those to do with catching. They win matches? Yes, but not as much as scoring runs and taking wickets, thank you. They once dropped Graeme Smith five times as he ground out 65 in an ODI in Lahore, and still won the match comfortably. They dropped seven catches in an innings in New Zealand in 2009-10 and won the Test comfortably. These are to recall just two examples from a sizeable sample.

But there are some rules in life you cannot defy, some batsmen you really cannot give a chance to. And if you give Sachin Tendulkar four chances - not one but four! Tendulkar! - you cannot expect to win a game, no matter what else you do. It was one of Tendulkar's least fluent recent innings as well, but in the drops of Misbah, Younis Khan - their two best catchers -Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal, went the game. It is as simple as that.


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Completely agree with this.

Don't know why people are blaming the batting more ,when in fact it was the fielding both catching and ground fielding that cost Pakistan the game.

 

[Spark]

Yeah this. They could have been chasing a really quite miserable total, 150-170, had it not been for that (not least because Gul may have then been surplus to requirements)

 

[centurymaker]

Yeah this. They could have been chasing a really quite miserable total, 150-170, had it not been for that (not least because Gul may have then been surplus to requirements)

Probably like 230+ tbf

Yuvraj may have made up sachin's quota.

 

[Xuhaib]

thoughts on Sachin UDRS?

 

[Shri]

thoughts on Sachin UDRS?

The LBW one? Pitched outside off an was missing leg on hawkeye. Looked plumb in realtime though.

 

[Xuhaib]

was really not turning much still can't believe it missed the leg stump if this does not make Sachin a fan of UDRS then can't see how he ever will be.

 

[cnerd123]

The BCCI is gonna love the UDRS now.

 

[centurymaker]

was really not turning much still can't believe it missed the leg stump if this does not make Sachin a fan of UDRS then can't see how he ever will be.

Goes to show that Hawkeye isn't full-proof. His front leg was hardly outside teh crease tooo..

 

[ankitj]

It was good, I wont call it Epic, nothing that is bowled by Munaf should be called Epic.

It was Indo-Pak match. It all but sealed the victory. EPIC. Don't be so stoic

 

[Prince EWS]

Goes to show that Hawkeye isn't full-proof. His front leg was hardly outside teh crease tooo..

HawkEye > centurymaker watching on TV.

 

[Teja.]

It's weird that there are people questioning the accuracy of the technology. To have questions on it's internal consistency and application is one thing, I don't agree but I guess it's a reasonable concern. However, There's no question that Technology >Human Eye

 

[Shri]

It really did look like Sehwag was not out and Sachin was out in real time in their lbw shouts.

 

[Xuhaib]

two different cases with Sehwag it was always the issue whether it pitched in line the path of the ball never looked like an issue while for Sachin's is was always about whether the ball slipped down leg or not.

 

[vcs]

It really did look like Sehwag was not out and Sachin was out in real time in their lbw shouts.

Sehwag was out, called it in real time. However I believe the benefit of doubt should go in favour of the batsman if half the ball is pitching outside leg. There was one where Murali got a decision against Ross Taylor with half the ball pitching in line with the stumps and the original decision was upheld. Think the batsman should have got the benefit in that case.

 

[Xuhaib]

"I am hurt and sad that we lost the match. I was so excited that we will beat India," Aqsa said before breaking down into tears on camera on Geo News channel.

Afridi's youngest daughter blamed Misbah-ul-Haq for the defeat.

"Misbah realised very soon that he needed to score runs," she said sarcastically.


haha...WAG

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Misbah played well, his only problem was that he wasn't rotating the strike enough when he had proper batsmen at the other end. The plan must have been for Younis, Shafiq and Misbah to consolidate but Younis and Shafiq fell early so Misbah thought he could leave everything till the end (big mistake, he should have trusted little Akmal a bit more).

Afridi didn't help either when he slogged the ball off Harbhajan and got out.

 

[ankitj]

"I am hurt and sad that we lost the match. I was so excited that we will beat India," Aqsa said before breaking down into tears on camera on Geo News channel.

Afridi's youngest daughter blamed Misbah-ul-Haq for the defeat.

"Misbah realised very soon that he needed to score runs," she said sarcastically.


haha...WAG

YouTube - Afridi's daughter's match analysis

Suddenly reminds you Cricket is such an insignificant thing!

 

[vcs]

TBF to Harbhajan, he was building the pressure in that over to Afridi with a succession of dot-balls. Reckon that full-toss might have travelled the distance if it had been preceded by loose deliveries.

 

[Xuhaib]

seems to be more tactically aware then the entire team management power play use was shocking.

 

[Cevno]

HawkEye > centurymaker watching on TV.

That does not apply to every decision though.

And Hawkeye has been held up as being weird in trajectories on many many occasions now.

It may be more accurate on the whole than human eye but am not sure by too much.
It is too getting showed up time and again.