Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]
We expected good performance from Pakistan but Pakistan batsmen batted badly. Today I thought Pakistan might win but today Pakistan's batting line is very bad. So far Pakistan have collected 98 runs in 26 overs losing 7 wickets. Everyone had faith in Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam, but they too failed today. Pakistan's top order batsmen Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq, Abdullah Shafique, these 4 together scored only 10 runs which was not expected. Pakistan are going to be all out soon, needing 195 runs to win which Pakistan will not be able to chase down. New Zealand will easily win the series.
Last time in the first ODI game, the Pakistan players tried well and they opened well as Babar Azam, who scored more than 70, but today he got out with just a single run. How poorly can Pakistan play? At the score of 32, Pakistan were batting with 5 wickets lost.
Pakistan went back to their old time where Pakistan had a loss of 3 to 4 wickets at the score of 6 to 7. It was a time between 2011 to 2014 then in one day Pakistan got an amazing captain Sarfraz Ahmed who took the team in the first ranking of T20I from 8th and also in ODI. In 2017, Pakistan won the big title and that struggle got finished but now another time the struggle has been started that may never finish or maybe after a very long period.
