Pakistan finish eighth after Bangladesh loss

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KARACHI: Pakistan lost to Bangladesh by five wickets to finish eighth in the ICC Under 19 World Cup on Friday.

Pakistan batted first and made 235 runs for the loss of eight wickets with Mohammad Nawaz (82), Shahid Ilyas (44) and Faraz Ali (43) starring with the bat while for Bangladesh, Taskin Ahmed took 3-80, Al-Amin took 2-28 and Dewan Sabbir 2-38.

Captain Amanul Haque scored 128 runs to help Bangladesh reach the target successfully in the 46th over with five wickets to spare. Bangladesh recorded their second best finish with the win while this was Pakistan's worst ever finish.

In the other matches, Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan by seven wickets to win the Plate Championship while England finished fifth after beating West Indies by 13 runs and Scotland beat Ireland by five wickets to finish 11th.

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Imran

Aug 25, 2012 07:48pm

Cricket is higly professional game with lot of prize money. Selection should be on pure merit. I can tell for sure that Pakistani have lot of talents and we can beat any team with no problem but if selection is done properly. Also we should have better policy by organizing tournamaent on schools levels regional levels, distric level and city levels, state level and than picking the best from each tournament.

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IcedSpore

Aug 26, 2012 04:13pm

We must protest this great injustice. Now is the time to sign a petition to bring back Afridi and Shoaib Akhtar to the U-19 team. Every one knows that they are both 16 years old, and they will stay 16 till the next world cup.

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Paras Dilliwaala

Aug 24, 2012 07:38pm

I don't know what went wrong to them after the India-Pakistan match. I was expecting the Asia Cup joint-winners to put up a better show than this!

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ahmed zeeshan

Aug 25, 2012 10:31am

i am unable to digest it..the fact that we entered the tournament as hot favorite after thrashing Aussies and were unbeaten before Quarter finals....Anyways Better luck next time

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Shahid Khan

Aug 25, 2012 12:45pm

This is an eye opener. What a performance.

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KHAN

Aug 25, 2012 12:06pm

Good job Bangladesh,you are doing great.And Pakistani team should not be disappointed,they lost to better team.Work hard.

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PakFan

Aug 26, 2012 03:14am

Clearly a case of selection bias - in a country with such tremendous talent this is unacceptable. All of the players who did not perform should be dumped and should never be selected in any team again. Also all individuals who selected this team should be discarded too.

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Shafi

Aug 25, 2012 04:17am

Well done boys. You made us proud. Thanks Sabih and haroon for wonderful job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ali Vaqar Awan

Aug 24, 2012 08:37pm

Worst show put up by U19. Its all due to losing to India.

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ravi

Aug 24, 2012 02:29pm

pakistani youngsters atleast tried their best to compete at this level.hope they do better in future games.

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ahmed

Aug 24, 2012 05:46pm

Sabih Azhar should be made coach of men 's team if that job is not available he can be appointed Hocky coach...it seems we love losers and now all he needs a medal for his great contribution achieving the worst result of any U19 team in the history.

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Anand

Aug 24, 2012 04:54pm

Surely, one cant blame Pakistan for losing this game.There was no incentive to win a contest for 7th place.

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Khan USA

Aug 24, 2012 02:07pm

I do not know why I was so hopeful of young cricketers and so disappointed with their performance.

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jaipal dahiya

Aug 24, 2012 02:06pm

unbelievable.bowling attack has been torn to pieces by minows bd..very disgusting

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Drone

Aug 24, 2012 01:38pm

such a shame!!!!

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