21st over: Pakistan 103-9 (Wahab 18, Amir 2) Six! Six runs! Holder bowls short to Wahab and he nails this one, hoisting it over midwicket! And then four over cover, followed by another massive six over square leg! Pakistan finally reach triple figures, and in quite some style!
What Pakistan need now is the sort of rain that saved them in Adelaide 1992 when CWC was same format. Bowled out for 74, England 24-1 after 8 overs, down comes the rain. Pakistan squeeze into SFs by one point (for that NR) and beat England in final.
— Glenn Moore (@GlennMoore7) May 31, 2019
20th over: Pakistan 86-9 (Wahab 2, Amir 1) Thomas bowls the noest of no balls, overstepping by a massive margin, but the free hit, a slower short ball, goes unhit. “This is a bit of a sorry shambles,” says Guy Hornsby. “I do have a real soft spot for Pakistan, but you have to wonder how damaging the series against us was for their confidence. Their bowlers are quality, but they’ll have nothing to defend if they give it away like this.”
WICKET! Hafeez c x b Thomas 16 (Pakistan 83-9)
Another short ball, another wicket! Hafeez gets his body out of the way but forgets about his bat, and accidentally lifts the ball to deep fine leg!
19th over: Pakistan 83-8 (Hafeez 16, Wahab 1) Time for a cornered tigers speech, I would have thought.
WICKET! Hasan Ali c Cottrell b Holder 1 (Pakistan 81-8)
And another one! Short of a length again, and it’s top-edged straight to mid off!
18th over: Pakistan 80-7 (Hafeez 14, Hasan 1) This is carnage. Thomas bowls into Hasan Ali’s body, and he desperately fends it into the air. Short leg would have had the easiest of catches, had he existed.
14th over: Pakistan 70-4 (Sarfaraz 7, Hafeez 8) Pakistan’s batting has been, as Mickey Arthur might say, extremely charismatic this morning, and they find themselves excavating a fairly deep hole. Mohammad Hafeez seems unbothered: he strolls in and after a single dot ball he dismisses a short, wide delivery for four, and clips the next off his ankles and through midwicket for four more.
12th over: Pakistan 58-3 (Babar 20, Sarfaraz 5) More pace but a new face for West Indies, Oshane Thomas doing some bowling. He pitches one short but Babar’s onto this one, pulling it through midwicket for four. Russell’s spell thus lasted three overs, cost four runs and brought two wickets.
11th over: Pakistan 50-3 (Babar 13, Sarfaraz 4) Dropped! Brathwaite bowls, Babar pushes it straight to Hetmyer at backward point, and the ball goes down! There’s an excellent slow-motion replay that shows Hetmyer setting himself as if the ball was coming straight to him, and then at the final moment having to fling his hands a foot to the left. Sarfaraz then gets off the mark, tickling the final ball fine for four.
10th over: Pakistan 45-3 (Babar 12, Sarfaraz 0) Pakistan are in a spot of bother here. After all those short balls Russell welcomes Sarfaraz with a yorker, which he just about deals with. Excellent, hostile bowling. 400 is looking a long way away at the moment.
Another short ball, another wicket for Andre Russell! It’s just too fast for Haris, who waves his bat at it and gets a faint top edge that sends the ball looping to the keeper!
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