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Welcome to Dawn.com's live coverage. The World Twenty20 steps up a gear today with the standout second round clash between India and Pakistan in Mirpur. This is the same venue where Shahid Afridi smashed two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the final over to hand Pakistan a thrilling one -wicket win over India in the Asia Cup just weeks ago. In the Super-10 stage, Asian giants Pakistan and India will be joined in Group Two by the West Indies, Australia and Bangladesh. The Netherlands will join South Africa, Sri Lanka, England and New Zealand in Group One with two sides from each group advancing to the semi-finals.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:01pm
All eyes will be on Boom Boom #shahidafridi
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Mar 21, 2014 06:25pm
Pakistan must score more than 200 runs for success in this match otherwise very little chance.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:27pm
If its Pakistan's turn to lose today, I want to see it as honorable as India had at Asia Cup.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:29pm
At least two Akmals plus one Shoeb Malick - a perfect and tested recipe for a humiliating defeat.
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Mar 21, 2014 08:00pm
130 ?
130 !!!
130 >(
130 :/
130 :(
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Mar 21, 2014 08:15pm
Congrates India on chasing the score in 15 overs, well played
From a Heart broken paki fan, wanted to see a good match atleast
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Mar 21, 2014 08:26pm
@Ata Ur Rehman:
Yes.
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Mar 21, 2014 08:26pm
@Riaz:
Truly said.
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Mar 21, 2014 08:27pm
Pakistan lost this match before the match started.
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Mar 21, 2014 08:31pm
Cricket in Pakistan is in shambles.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:35pm
Team Pakistan did not put up a challenging total on the board. On a pitch like today
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Mar 21, 2014 09:41pm
For ICC World events, Pakistan vs. India, head to head is 0-9 in favor of India. Now some will say it was a conspiracy to have Paksitan vs. India as the first match :/
I say you have to work hard very time and just try your best : today we didn't bat well: 33 dot balls against the spinners ! We did not had a target in mind to set and the seam bowlers were not good, missing Muhammad Irfan.
Still plenty of matches left for Pakistan, an option would be to add another spinner in place of bhatti/gul or ask shoaib malik to bowl otherwise his place should be given to a hard hitting batsman.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:44pm
Venue: Bangladesh
Event : Asia Cup, 2014
Pak beat India
Venue: Bangladesh
Event : T-20 World Cup, 2014
India beat Pak
Right, score settled, game over, move on.
Lesson: Pak needs to learn a lot in every field.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:50pm
What a crap performance. Bowlers, batsmen and fielders all of them were in the mode of no performance. Hafeez started with playing dot balls and put a lot of pressure on the coming batsmen and then ever present Shoaib Malik did the rest to destroy the rest. Umar Gul is the worst bowling option we have, but even Bhatti is needed to kicked out for bowling extra short. This team doesn't deserve to win a single match. They had already shown their true colours in the perivious warm-up match. Just wait and listen Hafeez saying, we were 20 runs short. But the truth is even 20 more runs would not have saved them.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:50pm
We were just thoroughly dominated in batting, bowling and fielding. Congrats to India, well played!
How do you lose 7 wickets to a supposedly weaker Indian bowling side? Either their bowling is underrated or our batting is overrated. With a batting lineup of Kamran Akmal, Malik, Hafeez, and even Afridi no wonder we failed. Even Hong Kong would like their chances against that lineup.
Lets hope that was the last we've seen of KAkmal and Malik. Afridi will continue to be in the side as he pulls out one match winning performance in every ten matches. In Pakistan that's apparently called over achieving.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:56pm
Hey Guys... cheer up. Pakistan is a way better side than they have played today. What is Shoib Malik doing in the team, you guys definitely need to kick him out. Indian was a much better team today. Somehow I also feel that Afridi hype also didn't help Pakistan. Umar Akmal was playing nicely until Afridi joined him and since then Umar changed his game. He started focussing on giving singles to Afridi and he then lost his rhythm totally. Well they're just my thoughts. Good luck for the next game against Aussie.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:59pm
As expected Pakistan Team cant win when the Indian Team is complete with Dhoni,Yuvraj & others unlike the previous game when Pak won when Indian Team was devoid of any experienced player's like Dhoni,Yuvraj,Zaheer,Gambhir,Sehwag, & was lead by kohli with a bunch of young unexperienced players!!
Even Shahid Afridi claimed some days ago It would be very difficult to beat India with Dhoni back into the team!!
& last but not the least pak team needs to disperately improve its pathetic batting at any cost!!We need to keep our temperament right in future matches..Anyways good game of cricket today..Insha allah we shall win in coming matches!
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Mar 21, 2014 10:00pm
Pakistan proved inconsistent as always..........India proved to be the better team today.
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Mar 21, 2014 10:05pm
@Mufaddal:
Take it very easy! Nothing to be heart broken about? It was just a cricket match?
Practice,rehearse,think out,plan and take a crack at it once again Pakistan?
Better luck next time?
I think the bad news in Pakistan makes Pakistanis crave a cricket match win against India?:):)
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Mar 21, 2014 10:24pm
India Pakistan matches are not about skills but mental toughness. very simple Pakistan batting crumbled under pressure.
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Mar 21, 2014 11:39pm
Great Coverage. I like your selection of tweets and pics.
Keep it up. Will be following you in the next match as well
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Mar 22, 2014 12:55am
@Shahid pervez: "At least two Akmals plus one Shoeb Malick - a perfect and tested recipe for a humiliating defeat."
Add in the hit-and-miss, most often miss, Afridi and the minnow-killer Hafeez and you have a perfect batting lineup ready to crumble at the first sign of pressure.
This is a tried and tested lineup proven to fail... yet we continue to put them forward expecting different results.
I didn't see anything today that makes me hopeful for the next game against Australia. In fact, the batting from the warm up match against South Africa seems to be a more accurate indication of our batting form where we were 71 all-out.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:03am
Question mark on Hafeez's captancy. He should have brought Afridi between 10~15th over in T20 match.
Pakistan must get rid of Malik. Bring Abdul Razzak "IN", If Hafeez doesn't agree for Razzak, then get rid of Hafeez also.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:14am
Malik in not playing well, why he is kept in the squad? Why Hafeez doesn't let Razzak to join the team? Hafeez's captaincy is also under question as why Afridi is not called in earlier as per situation.Fawad Aalam should also have been kept in the warm up match agains south africa.
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