*Official* Pakistan in the West Indies

[aussie]

This is Sami we're talking about...

yes i know

 

[Beleg]

This might turn into an interesting match, though I have to say, the wicket disappointed me. I wanted something more suitble for bowlers; the pitch in the last match was ideal!

 

[Beleg]

Inzy hit on the box. That must have hurt quite a bit. Though he seemed game enough to joke about it with the WI players.

Have to say, that looked pretty out to me. The umpiring in the series so far has been pretty bad.

 

[NikhilN]

Pakistan end up with 258 on the board. I didn't expect them to get this high. A good total to defend don't you guys agree?

 

[Duncan]

A decent total but Windies can chase it if they don't collapse like the last game. Gayle needs to get going.

 

[tooextracool]

No, they're not - in Gayle, Sarwan, Lara, Chanderpaul and Bradshaw they have five very fine ODI cricketers, and a reasonable one in Wavell Hinds. Not as many as Pakistan with Salman, Malik, Inzamam, Youhana, Razzaq and Shabbir, plus Afridi in the Hinds category, no, but enough to be far from shite.

hinds of course who averages 28 is now 'reasonable' when he is and always has been rubbish.

 

[Duncan]

Gayle was on fire... but he's bowled on 45 off 43

 

[Neil Pickup]

Top delivery from Shabbir, but Gayle wouldn't have perished had he not played across the line.

 

[Duncan]

West Indies- 99/3 off 23 in reply to Pakistan's 259/8

Where is everybody?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Sheesh @ 11 no-balls in 30 overs from Pakistan with WI's best two batsmen run out.

 

[Duncan]

West Indies let it slip... 164/6 in 39 overs...

Check this out... Pak's bowling figures
Bowling O M R W
Naved-ul-Hasan 6 0 20 1 (2nb, 1w)
Shabbir Ahmed 7 0 38 1 (1nb, 1w)
Iftikhar Anjum 8 0 34 0 (1nb, 1w)
Abdul Razzaq 6 0 32 0 (5nb, 1w)
Shahid Afridi 6 1 21 2 (2nb, 1w)
Shoaib Malik 5.3 1 15 0 (2nb, 1w)

Everybody is bowling extras and yet West Indies still couldn't take advantage of that!

 

[Duncan]

Afridi bowls Hinds!

172/7... yet another series loss for West Indies!

 

[aussie]

Top delivery from Shabbir, but Gayle wouldn't have perished had he not played across the line.

well neil the ball pithced on leg stump and shaped away to hit the off bail so i wouldn't say gayle played across the line since he was initially playing on the line the ball pitched

 

[Neil Pickup]

well neil the ball pithced on leg stump and shaped away to hit the off bail so i wouldn't say gayle played across the line since he was initially playing on the line the ball pitched

He played a leg glance. Whatever line the ball's on, that's across the line.

 

[roseboy64]

Dang!!! 43 needed off 17. I say just go guns blazing. Who cares about making the score look prettier try to win it ya dummies!!!

 

[roseboy64]

Oh boy. anotther wicket down. I can see why Liam has taken time off. I guess I will too. I would have had to anyway regardless so....yep.

 

[aussie]

He played a leg glance. Whatever line the ball's on, that's across the line.

well yeah, anyway its a waste of time arguing over that, the end result was that he got out

 

[Duncan]

Pakistan wins the series... this was their sixth win in a row and second series win in a row... on the other hand this was West Indies eight loss in a row and it's tied as their worst losing streak ever.

 

[Duncan]

Rana's figures so far this series...

15.2 overs... 43 runs... 4 wickets... average of 10.75

Afridi's figures

20 overs... 68 runs... 6 wickets... average of 11.33

West Indies didn't stand a chance

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Rana keeps going from strength to strength in ODIs. He's now 7 clear of Brett Lee as the leading ODI wicket taker for 2005, his career average is down to 25 and his eco is falling rather sharply too, although it remains over 5.