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This year's T20 Champs
How well did your side go?
Pakistan: to be honest were lucky to make it to the semi finals. Had New Zealand beaten England, Pakistan would not even be in the finals. However, Pakistan did not disappoint (even though they lost) given the opportunity and played an absolute thriller of a twenty20 game against the side that has beaten every side it has faced convincingly, Australia. Pakistan had Australia beaten until the last over, where M. Hussey’s heroics took place (We’ll talk about that when we analyze Australia). In that semi final, the Akmal brothers fired, both scoring half-centuries and Aamer, Rehman and Ajmal (until that final over) bowled well. In fact these players have had decent tournaments. Their most impressive batsman in his world cup was Butt (to everyone’s surprise) averaging 44.60 at an even more astounding strike rate of 131.17! And you wonder why he doesn’t play like this in ODIs… Afridi did not have the best of times with the bat but was instrumental in the bowling department. All in all, it was a good effort from Pakistan team amidst all the controversy surrounding their side, despite all the livid and heartbroken Pakistan fans with that semi final exit. Grade: B+
India: are no ...
