ICC World Cup 2019
Match 6 - England Vs Pakistan
The "Root" cause
After a big lose against Windies, Pakistan team received lot of negative comments from their own fans and their senior players. In their second match they faced the ODI rank 1 team England at their home. The pitch Nottingham is pure bliss for bat where England post the highest ODI score against Australia. More over England have sweeped pakistan 4-0 in an ODI series just before the world cup. In that kind of situation Pakistan need a win to regain their streak. As we mentioned in last post, Sarafaraz Ahmed made a big change in the team, that is the inclusion of experienced Shoaib Malik in XI. Meanwhile England came with the same team.
Pakistan were too cautious about short balls from the previous match experience. So they handled fast bowlers too cautious. Both Pak openers Imam Ul Haq and Fakhar Zaman played some good opening pair and scored 82 runs. Zaman gone as first wicket for 36 runs. Within few over Imam went to pavilion with 44 runs. Its time for top notcher Babar Azam, better to rename his name as Babar "Awesome". That guy scored one more half century. Babar went out for 63 runs. Surprisingly Sarfaraz Ahmes bat well and gave a good company to Hafeez. Both scored half centuries. Sarfaraz gone for 55 runs and Hafeez scored a superb 84 runs from 62 balls with 8 boundaries and 2 sixes. England pacer Chris Woakes took 4 catches in this innings including a caught and bowl. He took 2 wickets too. Moen Ali took 3 wickets and Wood took 2 wickets. But Pakistan scored 348 runs. England conceded 20 runs as Extra. Those 20 runs made a big difference in 2nd innings.
Home side England started the chase with Jason Roy and Johnny Bairstow. Roy was taken by Shadab Khan by his weakness spin for 8 runs. Bairstow scored a bit and went out for 32 runs. Captain Eoin Morgan and Ben Stokes were caught by their weakness. Then ex captain Joe Root and Jos Buttler put hands together when the team score was 118/4. Both didnt waste any balls they keep on rotating singles. Pakistan tried many bowlers including Malik but cant able to broke their partnership. They are rotating singles and whenever getting loose balls they never fails to send it to boundary. After a partnership of 130 runs, Joe Root lost his wicket after scoring his century. Joe root scored 107 from 104 balls. Shadab Khan made a trap to get him. Out of first four balls Root tries to cut the ball on off side three times. In fifth ball Khan increasing the pace to 120kmph with leg spin. Root tried the same and was taken. After that Buttler takes the chasing task, he also scored century in this match and gone for 103 runs from 76 balls with 9 boundaries and 2 sixes. Buttler gone out as like Root by Amir in an important situation. Thats it England chase ends with them. Eventhough Woakes tries. England managed to score only 334 runs at the end of 50 overs. Those 20 runs extras from England played in this match and results them by 14 runs loss.
Man of the Match: Mohammed Hafeez
Riaz took 3wickets, Amir and Shadab took 2 wickets each. But Pakistan missed lot of catches. While other teams and even small teams were improving them in fielding. Still these guy failed to collect the ball coming to their hands. They failed to place fielders in right point. Wahab decided to to put off cutter, but failed to place fielder at slips, not even one. Sarfaraz failed to take a catch of Moen Ali and missed stumping chance also in the same ball. May be Root and Buttler gave headache for Pakistan. But their fielding is the main "root" cause for their win and loss.
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