Extreme Cricket

EXtreme Cricket

I guess the figure of 29 went very horrible during this world cup campaign of the Pakistan cricket team. Last time it was New Zealand where tailor tore us in the last 29 balls. This time it was the good old rival India who qualified for the World cup final to face Sri Lanka in Mumbai by beating us by 29 runs.

I just want to appreciate the team’s overall performance in the world cup because road to that world cup was not very much relaxed, it was highly barbed with allegations the terrorist activities to throw our team out of the cricketing world which all started way back in England during that lords test match and after the infamous deliveries, the news flashed which heavily dented our bowling line to miss the Aamirs and the Aasifs of Pakistan cricket. Soon after it was the one day series where Afridi was named captain and he lead our team to salvage a 3-2 series, after that series, people believed that he had the capability to lead a team but the ball chewing incidents and his own inconsistency made the board think of weather to name him as a captain or not. In the end the world cup captain was named and he turned out to be a true leader for our country that can fight till the end.

As a captain he has played 29 matches out which Pakistan won 15 of those and the opposition was England, South Africa and New Zealand. Fair enough for his captaincy. His batting miserably failed and out of the 22 innings he played, he scored just 2 centuries and only a fifty. As far as the bowling goes in 28 innings he took 41 wickets with a wicket every 28 balls. 21 of the wickets came in last 7 matches in the world cup. He took his team to the next level facing every opposition bravely fearlessly fulfilling the promise of reaching a world cup semifinal.

It was the night of March 24th when it was confirmed that the arch rivals India will play Pakistan in an epic encounter at Mohali. The media on both sides went bizarre and made such a hype to make...