September 18, 2007

Super Eight (super-8, T20) Semi-Final & Final Twenty20 World Cup: what are the key points of Pakistan Team?

Super Eight (super-8, T20) Semi-Final & Final Twenty20 World Cup: what are the key points of Pakistan Team?

The teams who will play on the semi-final of Twenty 20
Teams of Semi-Final and schedule

After beating along with India by bowl out Pakistan team members are thinking to bring Shahid Afridi up order. I think their measurement is ok and they could reach the semi-final or final too. If Afridi comes up Pakistan team will do well, the members of selector board are thinking hardly about it. But on the match with Sri Lanka in Super-8, we did not see any changes.

News on The Hindu reported, Chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to his colleague Shafqat Rana, who is with the team, and expressed his concern over the team management's decision to send Afridi down the order.

Salahuddin has advised the management to play Mohammed Hafeez in place of Imran Nazir and send in Afridi with at least 10 overs remaining in the match to give him a proper opportunity to free his arms, a board official said.

Sources in the board said the chief selector was not happy with the strategy adopted by Coach Geoff Lawson and Captain Shoaib Malik for the last game against India which Pakistan lost on a "bowl out".

Afridi is well known as a hard hitting batsman. If he brings up basically for power play the Pakistan will do better.