Pakistani cricket fans, are you still alive?
Are you breathing? Can you check your pulse?
Do you guys have blood pressure issues?
There are medic there is medication for the condition
that you have, but there is no medication for the love of
Pakistan cricket and no medication for the love of large
urology. Now probably one of the most
important Pakistanis to ever live in the history of the
country, one of the most important people suddenly to me.
I have never met him, but now if I do, I will have to kiss his
hand and hug him and thank him for all the wonderful positive
mental health issues that he and the team has given me.
Have you seen the live? If you're coming straight from
the live, you know exactly what happened, what our immediate
reactions was. If you were on the Instagram
Live right after you saw our raw emotions, if you were on
Twitter, if you are on any part of social media and you follow
us, you know what our reactions were.
We're going to go in depth. It's been about 18 hours since
the mayhem, since the chaos and with me as always, my brother,
my Co host, my fellow commentator on the live Bashar
Saeed. Bashar, welcome to the World
Cup. When Pakistan boycotted the game
against India, the conversation was what does Pakistan even
bring to the World Cup? Pakistan is not even relevant to
world cricket. This is what Pakistan brings.
A simple match, a World Cup opener, Pakistan against
Netherlands and Pakistan makes a meal out of it.
It gives people something to watch for.
I mean, if you watched the last three overs of this match, you
would know why we watch Pakistan cricket.
I mean, it's because Pakistan cricket is unpredictable.
We're mercurial. We don't know which Pakistan
went on about the day this game could have gone S Pakistan could
have lost and this could have been.
The the quickest. World Cup exit in the history of
World Cups a. 180 minutes in and out.
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I just went back and I read the group chat you did and I started
reading it after bobber got out and you could feel the shift in
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over yo kick Salman out. Mike has since the coaching
career is done. Simon was an ex captain.
Do you want to take names or no? Bobber this dad like we're
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I was looking forward to this and then when Fahima she comes
into bat, the change in the energy.
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It's going to be a fun time, Bashar.
We're going to be covering 2 games today.
The middle game also happened and we will acknowledge that W
Indies beat Scotland. Shout out to Crabbean Cricket
Podcast, you know Mash having a good day.
I saw his tweet. We're so back.
West Indies are back. Mash was on the live.
I don't know if it was a support thing.
Crabbean Cricket Podcast was on our live.
Again, I don't know if it was a support thing or if it was just
there to enjoy the moment. At one more point we had over
300 to 400 people watching us meltdown and then that.
Was the point where Pakistan was losing.
Yes, and then boxing won. They all went away.
Wish you the best guys. I do wish you guys had stayed
till the end and watched us react to what Pakistan can be.
Anyways, we'll get into the game.
We have had some sleep in our bodies.
The caffeine is drained out. No more Red Bulls.
I think we'll have a more balanced take.
I have a lot of bones to pick with this Pakistan side.
I have a lot of questions and I have answers to some of those
questions and we'll we'll go into AD but I am not at all, not
even 1% satisfied with what I saw.
I I'm not happy with the win. You know, boxing cricket finally
broke for Ganpati. Man cried tears on the live.
I was this close to doing it on the other side.
If Pakistan had lost, I think it would have been, we would have
you and I would have been having a very different difficult
conversation together on how to continue this if if we even want
to. And I, I really want to get into
it and get into all the places where Pakistan faltered and how
we got to where we got Bashar. But please Matt summary on your
table. Let's start with a toss.
So Allah wins a toss and we've talked about this last podcast
where Allah is actually quite a lucky captain because now he's
won 31 of 44 tosses. So he has nearly 71% win rate as
a captain for at the tosses. And so he decides to bowl 1st
and he says that there's a lot of grass on the pitch now those.
Quotes were I've never seen this much grass since Sri Lanka.
Yeah, Sri Lanka grasp doesn't really go hand in hand.
Again, a lot of people were saying that the expectation that
the boxing management and the boxing captain had was that we
will see a lot of spin, a lot of turn, a lot of low sticky
wickets. And I mean, a lot of the Contra
argument that I was reading online was like, hey, the ICC is
actually managing this tournament and I don't think
you're going to see 140 par. Why?
Don't you name Sukland Mustock because Sukland Mustock said
BCCI equals ICC and that's why they weren't giving Pakistan.
Spinning conditions, so I am not Privy to this conversation so I
will not be assuming that. I know that Saki said that but
if Saki said that Saki has some great Pakistanis love conspiracy
theorists. The last ODI World Cup, they
were like Shami had a chip in the ball.
Yeah, there's no, Hassan said that.
The youngest Test player in history.
And and, and no, no wonder he didn't have a long career after
that. So Pakistan Bowl first I think
is a good call because firstly Allah said that there was some
moisture on the pitch, there was some grass, there was some
overcast conditions. They wanted to use the
conditions upfront. And secondly, when there's rain
on the forecast, it's always good to chase because you know
what score to be chased with the DLS par score is going to be
pause. Now, do you think the
management, SN and Co and Hanibai and everybody?
Saw a little bit of grass on the pitch, panicked and played three
Pacers a little bit. I think Pakistan whenever they
see grass, they do panic a little bit, even though I think
like the the pitch underneath the grass is still the same.
Yeah, seems like. So a little bit of grass here
and there doesn't make a massive difference.
I can't believe. They played three Pacers, but
when all we were hearing it was spinner, spinner, spinner,
spinners, yeah, Mike in the team announcement press conference
that they would likely play 2 Pacers, the second one being
Fahim Ashraf and see and also then the crazy thing then
becomes is OK, you saw a bit of grass, you saw a little bit of
seams, a sea movement up front as well.
Never gave Fahim the ball, not not even an over.
That's where I'm like maybe the the decision was a bit panicked
and you just wanted to go with an extra pacer.
I get that this month out of K would have been lethal though.
Yeah, they just played it safe, I think.
But I think I've never checked a forecast of a city as bad as I
did for Colombo the last three days.
You and me together. I'm checking different apps, I'm
going online, I'm checking what the the meteorologist is saying
about Colombo weather. We had some friends on in the
city. I was messaging them as well.
But luckily we got a full game and there is no rain nearby.
Again, I spent some time in Malaysia and I do understand the
nature of coastal island countries like that.
I mean, you can never actually predict exactly what's going to
happen. Sometimes it says 100% raining
in your city, but it's like the city's big enough that it might
be raining at a different part of the island, and it completely
misses you and you get complete sunshine throughout.
So Sri Lankan games are fickle like that.
And it's good to pay attention to it.
But don't, you know, tie your hopes to it?
I had the same experience in Lisbon in November where I was
in the city. I was checking the forecast and
it said it was sunny, but I was literally soaked in rain.
You were drenched. I'm like, bro, it's raining on
me right now and you're saying it's clear?
Anyway, I never, never trust that.
So Bakasan when they pick 3 Pacers, they pick Salman Mirza
ahead of an Aseem shop and I think the reasoning behind that
is that Netherlands had 11 right-handed batters and
historically right-handed batters struggle against left
arm bowlers. So that reasoning made sense.
It was my first time seeing Salman Mirza play a real
pressure match. He's making his World Cup debut.
How did you? What did you think of his World
Cup debut? I thought in the power play he
bowled better than our premium bowler Shaheen Avidi.
I think he bowled with his brains.
He used the variations really well.
He bowled good lines and good lengths.
I thought Shaheen, on the other hand, he looked a little too
greedy, was bowling more with his emotions than with logic.
And that's the issue that I've had with Shaheen for a while.
The first ball that he delivered, it was off radar.
It's swinging down Lakeside and the batter, the opener, he knew
what Shaheen is going to do. He's going to ball into a New
Yorker. So he danced down the track,
messed up Shaheen's length and hit him for a boundary.
Yeah, Shaheen, man, it's, it's tough because there's a couple
of people that I, I do pinpoint. To.
For the reason for the whole debacle of the end of this game,
and I think Shine is one of them.
Barbara is the second person. I think Shine is playing his
fourth T Tony I World Cup, his fifth World Cup in general or
6th World Cup in general. This is not the way that a
senior statesman performs in a crunch match like this.
I think a lot of the bowling and a lot of the batting and it's
the same culprit, which I, if I give you the names that I have
suspect intention from, you will hear the same names that we've
been hearing for the past five, seven years.
It's the Shaheens, the Babers, the Shahabs, the Nawaz of your,
of the, of your world that are just not able to get ahead of
themselves and are treating this game a little bit too casually.
And there are moments of grace for Shahab and Nawaz.
I, we can talk about that, but Shaheen and, and, and Baba just
felt like, I felt like they were playing an SNGPL versus BIA game
at this point. Like there was a very casual,
the bowling was off radar, there was no plan signing comes in for
his second over in the power play after he goes and hits,
gets hit for 9 for one in the first over and the first
delivery he bowls is a off cutter.
Like you have to set these deliveries up, you have to give
them a really quick one and then throw them off with the off
cutter. If you just come in and bowl a
straight up off cutter and that'll just be, you know, the
Bassman is ready for any kind of variation at that.
Point and that next ball he bowled was an incident Yorker,
sort of like how dare you hit me for a boundary.
I'm going to bowl you a fast Yorker, get you bowled out.
Exactly. And I think any other baller
would be like, OK, this pitch is kind of sticking a little bit.
The ball that's going across with the angle, it's getting
good carrying bounce. Might as well just ball back of
a length, top of a stump and stick to good lines in length.
Wait for them to make a mistake. It's I think it's their stat
that even we've propagated so many times with 25 wickets in
the first over in T20 is or like something like that, right?
25, yeah, 25. It's just like, I get it.
That's an exceptional, exceptional stat.
And I'm glad that, you know, he Shaheen is able to give those
breakthroughs. But what's more important is how
many wickets do you take in the total power play that you ball?
It's not just about the first over, it's about the 1st and 2nd
over and 3rd over if need be. And so Shaheen needs to temper
his bowling according to the whole power play.
And now there's the first six deliveries that he comes to
bowl. I think he's getting carried
away with that. And this is a problem that he's
had since 2022, like 2021, he had the same issues again.
He was newer. He had more pace, a little bit
more accuracy, a little bit more WIP in his action.
And so he could get away with a lot of these, you know, in order
to do we say fungaria and not even just get away get positive
results getting out getting Rahul out like those are
amazing, amazing stats and I mean amazing achievements in the
T20 World Cup in 2021. But that sort of same reflection
is not, cannot be control C, control V in this position only
because he's been playing cricket for so long and people
know exactly what he like. Netherlands openers who may have
been facing Shine for the first time, knew exactly what he was
going to do that the left the leg cleared because they knew he
was going to insert it in their arc and he just went for it
levitated. Additional he needs plans ABC
Plan A is if it swings, you go full.
If it does not swing, I'm going to pull the length back, ball
good, good length on stumps or just challenge the outside edge.
We're not seeing Shaheen use that Plan B quite effectively.
He went for 23 runs in his first two overs in the power play on
the ground where 15160 was a power score and Netherlands was
already off to a flyer. If it wasn't for Salman Mirza
getting that wicket and we'll get to that catch that Swan Khan
took, which was I think an incredible catch.
We've been quite critical of Swan Khan and his keeping his
batting. We'll get to his batting, but
it's keeping the catch he took today was basically in the
middle of four fielders. Salman Mirza was there, Baba was
there, I think car was here as well.
And Swan Han's like yo, hold up, I'm going to go in.
He takes a catch, dives for it, and gets blocked on the first
breakthrough. Building in general I think was
pretty good except for that couple of Slimai Mirza lapses on
fine leg or third man. Apart from that, we saw a relay
catch between Shaheen and Barber.
Who would have thought two years ago that we would be seeing this
sentence together? Bobber proving himself to be one
of the best long off fielder like he's just a guaranteed pick
there. The ball gets guy there.
You you know that bobber going to pouch that reverse cups in in
a couple of different occasions as well against Australia.
So I'm I'm pretty much happy with the field positions.
You know, even in at backward point time had an opportunity to
hit a single stump from backward point and he was like marginally
close like the you know what they say the the skin of your
teeth. That's how close it was from
hitting the bales and those type of efforts.
I really have to come in to fielding in general, except for
a few lapses here and there. And Salman Razz as notorious
Salman, Razzan Nassim are notorious to be bad fielders.
Even a broader A broader's gotten better, but they're still
hiding him behind the stumps. Of course.
And you know, I, I know that Mike Hessen has said many times
that fielding is one of the most important things to him.
He's building an 11. But they are a little bit of
lapse, a few lapses here and there in in that department.
Yeah, Pakistan. Then bring on Mom and the boss,
which I thought was a a decent move because left armor spin
against right-handed bats spin. That's also a good match up.
And that's when we saw the the relay cat that you mentioned
really good awareness by Bob. We're also to just come towards
the boundary and if there is a chance of a relay, to cut that.
Never thought I'd see Box and actually execute successfully a
cast like that. Shout out to the fielders.
Like I mean, there is definitely some field work being been done
with to these guys that they have that wherewithal that hey,
Barbara's is like I'm going to I'm definitely overrunning this
delivery. But if I can catch it and throw
it back before I step in, there might be a chance for somebody
else long on to come in. And just like having those two
run ticket like it was just a very good coordinated,
communicated execution and prompts to them like that.
You know, we'll, we'll give them their start, their flowers when
they need it. Netherlands were 50 for two in
the power play. In my opinion, when I saw that,
I was like, that's a bit too high, that's a bit too high. 8
to 10 runs too high. They kept losing wickets but
they weren't stopping the run scoring.
They were still hitting at least one boundary and over getting
singles and double s and and what was impressive for me was
the way they were playing spin. And there was a a segment by
that you see where they were showing the sheer amount of
sweep shots that Netherlands was spring.
And I think if you compare their sweep shots versus our sweep
shots, they probably paid played way more sweep shots than we
did. I don't think we played a sweep
shot. I think Farhan hit a slog sweep,
but I don't think you can consider that to be a sweep.
Shot. Yeah, actually, you might
actually be right. I'm trying to think if anybody
else did play anything. Square the wicket.
I think you're wrong. We're right.
We didn't like all guys. Probably the only one who
actually plays a sleep shot successfully and goes for the
maximum for that. And he was only there for a
delivery. So I don't think anybody
properly executed it. I feel like Pakistan, we'll talk
about it. When we could talk about
Pakistan's chase, they were just looking at hitting it down the
ground in the V and in front of square.
So when you do that, you got to hit for power and then you can
talk about how that leads to issues.
In the seventh, it was at the 8th over where Abrar gets a
wicket. And what was hilarious is, and
you were told after this because you were on the live stream that
Vakar Yunus was on the comms and Vakar Yunus says Abrar huck is
the wicket taker. And so he he said Abrar Hammad
is Abrar Huck. I mean, this is classic Vicki,
classic Vas and wiki. And you know, if it was either
one of them saying that, I would have been like, yeah, that makes
complete sense. You know what's funny?
This is where I think the Pakistan meme game is absolutely
crazy. Within minutes of of of wiki by
saying that the meme's already on Twitter and Instagram just
rolling with the router, like singing to and they memed abroad
Hemat's face on it. Like this is this is like we're
too quick. We're too quick.
Wiki by is too good. Even if this is a mental lapse.
Give more to me. But you know what Aruj?
You can never expect this from Aruj.
Aruj is just too classy for this and.
So the four boxing commentators in this World Cup are Misaja
Wasim Akram, Vakar Yunus and Basil Khan.
Rami Raja, who made an extremely rude and patronizing comment to
the losing captain Scott Edwards in the post night presentation
ceremony, saying that was thank you for making entertaining
entertaining. Like, oh, that's all you're here
to do is to make give us a fun match.
And I'm like, these guys are here to win.
Like in their heads, Netherlands has 100% opportunity to win this
World Cup. I don't know, like a little bit
of professionalism, a little bit less, less sarcasm from these
guys and you could actually get pretty good amount of
commentary. But that's tough, Netherlands.
Was actually on a pretty good run and up until the 15th over
they were around 1:27 for four and at that point their
projected score was around 16170.
If they had gone to that like around 8 or 9 and over and that
could have been that totaled the box and would have really
struggled to chase, it was likely that they lost about 6
wickets for 20 runs. They had a collapse.
They were bowled out for not even like the the 20 overs they
played. Yep, this is again coming back
to great bowling and great captaincy from Ava near the last
10 overs. Now this is interesting.
So they had two water breaks in this match.
I think this is going to be the case in the entire tournament. 2
water breaks at six overs and at 14 overs that kind of divides
the innings to one third, one third, one third.
And that's where you saw Hassan come in or send a message in.
And I think right after that, that 10 over mark is where I
felt like Agha started like really putting in the squeeze,
getting your bowlers to really lock in.
And that's that's also where I saw Shaheen lock in.
He had he gave five runs away in in his third over with a wicket
as well. Four dots in that over.
And so the genius Masters work, in my opinion.
During the middle end of the innings was Saman Laga bringing
in Simon Ayub. The number one all rounder
hadn't ballen over until the 17th over of the match.
Yes, again, this is, I feel like Agha at this point was like, oh,
we kind of misread the pitch and even though it is a bit grassy,
it's still the same Sri Lankan pitch that we know of.
I want to see what Simon can do here.
If he gives me a wicket here for 10 runs or eight runs, he can
really damage the momentum. You know what he does?
He comes in and gives you 2 wickets for seven.
Yeah, that point we were talking.
Should Sam ball another over? Yes, yes, we were generally
talking about that and Sam Mayu, the man that he is proven again
with the bat and the ball in the field.
Just an all around performance really coming into his own in
the past couple of weeks, past couple of months.
I would say, and I love this Sam Mayu that we were promised his
arrival is here. I I think Ava has seen what Sam
can do again on a on a bigger stage.
This is the latest I believe Sam has ever bowled in a world in a
in a 20 match. And they just proved that time
is, you know, we're talking about 3 dimensional bowlers,
three phase bowlers. He can come in and give you a
couple of overs anywhere. He might get hit, he might get
whipped, or he might come in and give you 2 or 7 and one over.
Yeah, it's crazy Pakistan actually is spoiled with so many
bolting options that play much of their any ball.
Sime only balled one over and Pakistan luckily were able to
restrict Netherlands for 1:47. This could have been a lot
uglier if they had scored even 10 or 15 more runs, which were
they were on track to scoring. I think I want to give a shout
out to Sylmar Mirza who was quite impressive on his welcome
debut. His feeling does need a lot of
help because he there was a really there was a shot on
Schlaf's bowling. It went to short third.
He sort of overran it. It went for a boundary.
And this is not the first time I've seen him do a fielding
lapse. There is a game in Lahore where
he was also at like short fine leg and the ball went between
his legs nutmeg and he's also dropped catches.
So his fielding is definitely a liability.
He needs to work a lot harder on that because at this level you
can't afford to drop a catch or have a miss field in a crunch
situation. And what I've noticed is when
you're having a bad field day, the ball just follows you.
This was a rule that our coach told us back when you're playing
cricket in school is like when you have a bad field day, you
cannot hide a bad fielder anywhere in the field because
the ball will find him again and again and again many times.
And that this is what happened to him in this field.
Again, this is, I feel like, I feel like the lads were not
ready. I feel like they were rusty.
Everybody was a bit casual. Everybody was just a bit, it's
like, you know, walking in, lounging in the field.
Couple of incidents was Farhan not diving for the ball?
Did you see that? I did see that.
I didn't notice that. I think it was a bar or Chalab
delivery where he was a little bit worried, upset, I would say
lack of effort from the feeling. Let's talk about Shalab now that
I've mentioned him. 4 for 26, no wickets.
He was the one who kind of had that mishap happened to him by
someone, Marissa, where he goes for four and then there's a
single also stolen. So, you know, a little bit
unlucky there. Also, Shalab drops a catch onto
his own bowling. Honestly, I, I, I actually
reached out to catch those like 9 out of 10 times.
So it's really insane that he was able to drop.
That. That's a Dolly for Shadab
Standard. I I agree and it was, you know,
apart from that, I think if you add those mistakes in, if things
go a little bit in his favour, at least that ball pretty well.
I agree with you. I think I because you watched
his spell, blah, blah ball, there wasn't a lot of bad balls.
No, maybe a little too full sometimes.
Sometimes, yeah, that's about that.
We saw the past couple of years where he's balling short stuff,
he's balling Y, he's balling full tosses.
We didn't see that Shadab in this match.
I think we saw a lot more control.
His googlies were landing in the right area, which was like right
outside of off stamp a little bit on good lane.
So the ball turns in, gets the batter the opportunity to go for
the back foot and maybe hit him on the pad or bold him or even
just cramps him up for space. So I was just really happy with
the way that Shadab bold in his I mean, he went record list, but
if he gives me. That average, that economy and
gets me a couple of wickets. I think he'll be lethal.
It wasn't Nawaz's day because he went for 38 in his four overs.
First couple of overs he did take a couple of wickets but I
think. He was bowling a little like at
least 2 bad balls in his overs, like they were going down leg
side or they were going too much on the off side.
And and that's where Netherlands was like really using the sweep
shot. And I feel like Nawaz, as good
of a bowler that he has, should have realized that the more that
he's drifting towards middle leg, the more that he's being
exposed to that fine leg, square leg fielding position.
And I feel like, again, casual, lethargic, lazy, whatever word
you want to put in from, from from our main boulders.
I'm talking about the Shaheens and Nawaz's of the world where
they know that if the opposition is any opposition, doesn't have
to be Netherlands, but any opposition when they get you at
like that, there always has to be a counterpoint.
And I feel like they just were like, why should I use the
counterpoint? It's Netherlands in front of me.
And that kind of almost came to bite them.
We have learned nothing from Zimbabwe and USA, by the way.
Nothing. And the fans have learned too
much. Bogathon on their pursuit of
148. We're off to a a good start.
Credits to Simon U who looked to finally come out and show the
world what talent that he has. He was a total flop in the last
two in the World Cup. He was a flop in the Asia Cup
and now he was coming here in this two in the World Cup as a
more seasoned player. He he's played around 60 matches
in 229. Second, while he faced went for
six down mid along on. Talk about intent, talk about
impact, talk about Pakistan trying to play more aggressively
in the power play. I think Mike hasn't mentioned
that he didn't want Bauer to open because he doesn't think he
can maximize the power play. So instead, he thinks Simon
Farhan are those guys who can take advantage of that fielding
restriction. Again, Simon Farhan, all three
have locked in and that's the truth of the matter.
Like we used to have a top three issue and now we have a four or
five issue. And the good thing about that
statement is that the top three issue is not resolved with same
Ava and Farhan basically doing what they want to do, coming in,
scoring over 10 and over, making sure that the power play is
above par 6063. We used to be happy with 42 for
1:42 for 2:48 for one on on a good day.
And now we're hitting those 6055 plus marks regularly.
And that literally makes a difference between a 160 target
and 180 target. Near the end, the average power
play score when Rizbar were opening was 42 runs.
Yes, thank you very much. And now these guys have been
maybe losing a little bit more wickets, but they're at least
impacting their impact in the first six overs is higher. 63
for two in the power play for Pakistan chasing 148 on the
trot. I was about to close the stream
and walk away. I was like, this is over, this
is done. We will be out of here by 3:30
AM. You know, do some tweeting, do
some Instagramming, be be in bed by 4.
You know what time I slept Bashar 6 O 5:00 AM Me too.
Me too buddy. Like this is not, this is not
sustainable. What did you think of Simes
dismissal? He looked really good.
He came down the track to Van Beek and we saw him using his
feet for the first time in against Australia in the last
series. And now he's doing that more
often, which is turning out to be quite effective to him
because it really helps take the ball off of his length.
And they have to ball to Simes plans then so.
I think he was looking like 1,000,000 bucks for a sleep. 4
fours and a six I believe was the final count for him.
And you know, he just like throw it.
The crazy thing about form is that a lot of the shots that he
played yesterday were the same shots that he was getting out on
in the Asia Cup. You know that check shot, that
check cover shot over point he got he got caught there against
India. You know the the cover drive he
got caught again cotton bowled against I can't believe India or
Bangladesh, one of them, one of the ducks that he had.
And so this is form is just like 1 to 2% difference in style and
mindset. And suddenly those deliveries
are going over the fielder's head in between the gaps and
giving, giving you boundaries and giving you just a rapid
start. I think he was looking great.
I really wish he had continued that form on maybe a 2520 ball
50 would have really helped not only propel Pakistan to a better
and stronger win, giving him confidence as well.
And I think he was on the book for player of the match.
But Ronaldi, actually Pakistan had other ideas including
Ronaldi. But the thing that pissed me off
about science wicket is that the spinner is bowling into your arc
and turning it away because he was an off spinner, traditional
off spinner. And instead of going down the
ground or hitting him down back over the bowler's head, he went
across trying to hit him towards mid wicket and fine and long on.
He went. No, look.
Yeah. And I, I think if he just played
a little bit more traditionally in that moment, I'm pretty sure
that the four was on the like the shot was on on.
And he would have probably capitalized gotten A4, if not a
six from that moment and really would have pushed himself from
24 to 30 off 12. And we would have seen maybe a
even a bigger launchpad for box on.
But those things are little slight adjustments.
And I'm pretty sure as the tournament progresses, Simon is
going to be a wonderful, wonderful addition.
That's the question. And would you rather take
Simon's 13 ball 24 in the park? They would rather him score a 35
ball 50. Somebody said that in live chat,
somebody they positioned us as. Would you take, like you said,
the 13 ball? 24 from Siam Ayub or would you
take a 50 ball? 70 from Siam Ayub and I think I
said I'll take the shorter cameo because I do know Pakistan is in
a firepower at 3:00 and then 678 dash.
Can really capitalize it and keep things moving forward.
My stance is that if Siam is coming into bat, he's getting
sad he's scoring that 24 off 13 balls.
Like now is the time to capitalize and just score a big
total. I agree, but Siam has been
repeatedly struggling to convert his starts into beginnings and I
I understand his role is to make an impact and get boxing off to
a good start. But if you've already you're
you're set, might as well make it into beginnings.
Not for partial milestones, but just to make sure that you're
making best use of your form. I also think like the the
contrast of that is seeing Farhan.
Farhan does that like he, he starts really quick and then he
goes for the big scores, but he starts at 200, 190 strike rate.
And by the time he's hitting that those milestones, he's at
150 strike rate. So there is a moment between,
you know, when he's like what he was 15, he was 30 off 15 and
then he hit 47 off 31. So excuse me, you can see that
he definitely does slow down and I don't want that momentum to be
shifted. I would have actually, I would
have actually taken 30 off 15 from Burhan and then Pakistan
close off 70 for three and the power plane just completely put
the game at one side. You know, 70 left in the last
14. You can do that with your eyes
closed. But I mean, I see that.
I see, I see both cases. I would love for both of them to
score big at a higher strike rate, 160 plus, but this is this
for the top three. I think this is a good outing,
good outing. All came in next at #3 and in
the next score that he faced against Klein.
He's smashing for two boundaries and again looking like a
difference of what he mentioned in the the pre Ford Cup press
conference that he's now learned how to compartmentalize his
batting and his captaincy do. You think he's gonna work on his
batting? He mentioned he has, he said
that he worked on it for the month that he had off where
everybody else was playing leagues and he was in Pakistan.
He was working at the NCA with coaches, just working on new
shots on the mental aspect of his game because Allah always
had bad gear in him where he could play an anchorage role, he
could play aggressive. We saw him in Islamabad United
and the PSL 10, the one that they want, where he was
aggressive and he was also playing as an anchor, showing
lots of different shots. But when he came in the box on
team, he changed his number for #3 to 456.
And I think he just lost the plot a little bit.
And then also the the pressure of captaincy got to him, which
is one thing that I think Bobber did really well when he was
captain, that people kept saying that, oh, if you make Bobber
captain, his batting is going to be impacted.
But Bob would never really let captaincy affect his batting
negatively. In fact, his stats as captain
are probably better. As for batting.
Yeah, some of the best numbers actually, as the captain, Bob,
ASM has has the honor of having that.
Unfortunately, that's not the case in World Cups and that's
not the case, especially when it comes to bat.
I think, you know, Bob, August 12 off 18.
Again, not a huge score, but enough impact, keeping the
momentum. What did I say?
18? My bad, 12 off 8150 strike rate.
This really, really good stuff there.
It was quick. It was important to fours.
I would have loved to see him convert those into big 20s,
thirties, 40s even, but that's fine.
I at no point was stressed out that, hey, Ava scored eight off
12. Are we in a little bit of a rut?
I was like, this is fine. Like everybody's trying to get
some runs in. Everybody's playing the the type
of cricket that we saw them play a couple weeks ago.
Not, not not much has changed when it comes to World Cup,
which is good. That kind of mindset actually
helps you go deeper into a tournament like this, which is
is fast-paced, moving along quite swiftly.
And then and then Bob Rosen. Came in the park.
They also went all the right out for Han was then the aggressor.
Yeah, and he helped Pakistan get to 61 in the power play.
Now 61 for Pakistan in the power play of a World Cup.
This is a site for psoriasis. This is the big Is this the most
we've scored in the proper play? Actually talking about the
numbers on that, somebody please Fact Check us.
Let us know in the comments. But this is such a big contrast
from Pakistan's power play score against the USA in the last 20
World Cup. Pakistan in that game was 30 for
three. So they've basically doubled the
power play score and they've lost one last wicket.
So at least some improvement, at least in the power play batting.
Now, Barbara Hasam did step into the power play.
I think he had a few deliveries, maybe even like a couple of
overs left. He scored one off 3.
One off 3 in the power play. Yeah, he had three deliveries to
play in the power play and he scored one run.
I mean, I don't know what the management has told Barbara
Razzam, what his entire role is. It's his role to be 15 out of 15
and make sure the Pakistan sees them through the line.
If that's the case, then that wasn't executed.
It's his role to just take the innings on and get a few bad
balls and and make sure that he capitalizes, goes over 100
strike rate. He didn't do that either.
The 1/4 that Barbara Razzam hit in his entire innings against
Netherlands was like 1/2 tracker, like a really down the
next side clip on the pads where if you like literally don't hit
that, then what are you doing as a batsman and so.
I, as someone who is a huge Barbara Rosen fan in OD is
Tests, have lost complete faith in him and his ability to do
anything in this format. There's a time when Barbara used
to come to bat and I would be at ease.
I would be excited, OK, Barbara's going to come to bat.
He's going to take the innings forward.
But Barbara, when it came to bat yesterday, I felt nervous.
I felt stressed. I felt dreaded.
I felt like, Oh yeah, you know, that sort of feeling that I was,
I was in that state and Pakistan got to about 98 for two at the
end of the 11th over. And this was thanks to the
partnership between Farhan and Bobber, which was 45 off 38
balls. And Farhan's contribution in
this partnership was 30 off 23. Bobbers was 14 off 15.
Now what this does when Bobber is playing 14 off 15, he's
hogging up one end. He's also putting pressure on
Farhan on the other end, which is basically a having him to
play more aggressively and cover up for Bobber being slow.
And playing more riskier shots. There's a difference between
aggression and risk, and there's calculated risk and uncalculated
risk. When the other side is being
completely dried up for runs, you'd start taking uncalculated
risks because you are just desperate for runs.
Some a quick start making sure that you don't get behind the
cue ball when it comes to runs required and runs that are being
scored at an overrate. I don't understand the strategy
from Bob Rossum in this whole entire thing.
I think this is where the downfall of this inning started,
is where Bob Rossum stepped in, went for three in the power play
and then. Just.
At innings that goes absolutely nowhere.
I've seen these types of innings from Bobber many times.
You remember when he was in New Zealand, he had a very similar
innings like this and innings a very similar innings like this
against the USA. That we keep bringing that game
up because there's a comp here that we don't want ever to
fulfill itself again or we don't ever want to make that comp
again. But that's the same innings that
he played nine of 23. He was at that point when Shalab
Khan came in in against the USA in 2024 and there was a very
similar type of innings. Now it is the same culprits from
the scene of the crime from 2024 and 2022, Zimbabwe, Shalab Khan,
China Fidi, it's barbarism again.
I'm I would even say Usman Khan, Osman Khan as well.
Yes, it's the same people that are putting you in similar
situations where there's just a mental block.
Like you could see, you know, I'm jumping the gun a little bit
here, but you could see Mama Navas 13 off 6.
I believe he was where he would just could not get back to ball.
And I believe he just found himself back in, was it the MCG
or Sydney Cricket Ground in 2022 against Zimbabwe?
Just he just found himself back there again and he could not
believe that he was there. And he could see the
frustration, hear the frustration when Nawaz was just
missing a short ball that he should have just chipped away.
And he was like, oh, that's why, right.
And the umpire was like, that's not why.
That's one of the over. And you could just hear audibly
the stress that he was feeling. I remember when we did that, we
did that video, that famous video with Nawaz and we were
talking to him and you know, we were making jokes about the
India game, Zimbabwe game. You could just tell that when we
were talking about that Zimbabwe game and we were talking about
it in the car when we were dropping him back to the hotel,
he just felt his tone shifted a little bit.
He was talking about that game in a very different kind of
light. And I think there is a level of
trauma to a lot of these guys who play that USA game, play
that Zimbabwe game that I don't think they they they were able
to shake. And This is why I was nervous
going into this boxing versus Netherlands game.
I didn't think that Pakistan would lose.
I just thought we'd see things like this happen and just a
chance of bottling it becoming higher and higher.
I just I'm shocked at the approach of Barbara Azam in this
scenario because you can blame Osman Khan, Shadab and Nawaz if
you want as well. And all four of them didn't
really show up in this game. But where does the?
Where does the downfall start? It felt like Bobber's innings
just suck the energy out of the entire chase.
And the reason why we're talking about Bobber a lot in this
podcast is because this is Bobber's 11th year now thing
with box on. So we've invested so much in
this guy and we've been told this is this, he's Bitcoin, he's
Ethereum, he's going to be giving you crazy dividends.
And now when it's a time for giving these dividends, Bobber,
we're looking at the Bobber out in stock and it's dipping.
It's it's all red. It's his 7th ICC tournament.
We're bleeding money with Barbara Osman 8th actually, if
you come to the Champions Trophy in 2000.
And I think it's important to talk about what Alber was
dropped, how was he brought back in and what has he done since
Bobber was dropped when Allah became the captain And Mike
Hessen in the Bangladesh series, Bangladesh Home Series press
conference said that we've dropped Bobber because we've
asked him to work on his strike rate and his game against spin.
And unless he improves on those things, he's not going to come
back and box on team. Now host Asia Cub, we see Bobber
magically come into Pakistan team.
And you know what's interesting? Bobber played no T20 games
between that press conference and his comeback.
So there's no evidence of Bobber going back into domestic playing
any leagues, any matches T 20s to improve his strike rate or
improve his game against spin. The only evidence is Bobber and
like, yeah, I worked on it. I, I I did, I did my homework.
And the teacher's like, well, I don't want to see it.
I trust you. Come back.
You could write this exam. It's, it's a little bit
disingenuous from, from the management.
And the, the reason why he was brought back was because in the
Asia Cup, Pakistan had multiple batting collapses.
And so they were like, if we could Barber at #3 #4 at least
he could hold one end and ensure that we can get guys who can
play quickly around him to get to that 16150 par scores, which
is going to be the scores you'll get in Sri Lanka.
So that was Barber's rules definition.
Again, when you saw this, the first thing that we said, the
chat said, everybody in the group chat said was this is
tailor made for Barbara Rossum. He's going to finish it in the
17th, 18th over probably like 5040.
Ball 40 Ball 50 For Barbara Rossum, easing himself into
women should boost his confidence and make himself more
aggressive towards the middle and back end of the tournament.
We said the same exact thing when Pakistan was chasing 120
off 120 against India. Absolutely we were like 120 off
120. Run a ball Rizbar.
This is tailor made. Please go out to finish the
match. So is this not about skills
anymore or is this more about the mental side of the game?
Barber had a horrible Big Bash. Nobody is talking enough about
that, where he made a record of having the lowest strike rate
for any top water batsman who had scored 200 runs.
Horrible. And not even just the runs he
scored, but his behavior off the pitch.
When Steve Smith denied him a single, Barber got offended.
His reaction was it's on record. And there was also a a, a
statement by Moises Henriques where he said that it took
Barber a couple of days to get over that.
And he mentioned that it's a difference in culture in
Australia. The team's more important.
Whatever is needed for the team to win, they will do that.
And Steve Smith denying him a single bobber, if he had that
positive outlook, he would have been like, Yep, let me prove you
wrong. Next match, I'm going to improve
my game. I'm going to score out of breast
strike rate. But Bobber instead took the
other route. He was that rate negatively
personally and. It's just a lack of evolution,
man. I don't, I don't know.
What? I think it's the straw that
broke the camel's back. I have a slight aside on the
denying the single situation. I want to take you back to the
amazing 2021 T 20 World Cup where Pakistan was playing
Afghanistan. As if he comes into bat and it
was the last over of the what is this 18th over or the 17th over?
The last ball of the 17th over, Shalabh punches it towards
square leg and as if he says no in the next over he hits the
other hand. I believe who was who was a
Ghadeem Gennis. He has Ghadeem Dennis for four
success. So there is precedence of
somebody having that RF arming and going out there.
Same thing with Steve Smith in that I don't have to remind
anybody, but Steve Smith denying Bobber that single hits 32 in
the next. Over bro, we've been saying on
the podcast Bobber, improve your game, improve your strike
rating. For two years now improve yours.
Have some sweet sweep shots, play some reverse shots.
Improve your sustainability, but I feel like Barbara at this
point is just stubborn. I don't know if he's trying to
improve, if he is making an effort, why is he not coming off
in matches against Australia? This last series he got out
playing a reverse sweep against Stampa and that's one of the
worst reverse I've ever seen. So it's like he's working on his
game, but when the shots already, he's then playing the
matches and that's all working out for him.
I think the problem, I mean, we've done many an hour on
Barbara Azam and what's going on with him it's he's not able to
differentiate signal from the noise.
I know there's a lot of people chirping in his ear for a lot of
stuff. And you know, talking about Bob
Rossum gets views clicks, talking positively about him
gets a certain types of views. Talking negatively about him
gets a certain type of views. Being moderate gets like there's
a spectrum when it comes to Bob Rossum and and the and the
discourse around. Him.
I think we've been on both spectrums now.
Yeah, we've been almost. Three years.
I mean, people think we hate Barbara Oz, but I'm a genuine,
genuine fan. I think he's one of the great
batsmen of Pakistan. And I just don't think he should
play this format anymore until he improves his game.
And he has improved his game. And I don't think he should play
this format. Like it's not rocket science.
I still think T20, sorry. I still think Tesla and ODI.
He's a lock. Like, there's no way.
I would even say Tess ODI is. OK, fair enough.
But you know, you can translate that game in a test.
That's a whole different conversation.
I want to have that right now. But I all I wanted to make, the
point that I wanted to make was there's a lot of people talking
at him. And the problem with him is he's
listening to everything. And So what happens is when
Steve Smith denies you a single, you don't think about this
nature of the game. You take that personally because
you're like, oh, I have these 1,000,000 people already telling
me that I can't hit. And now my own teammate is
losing confidence in me. I will take that personally
instead of taking that objectively and working on my
game. When I when I stood as Barbara
Azam took that personally, his game fell a couple more stops
that that that's what we saw because when he came back from
the Australia BBL to the Australia series, it was worse.
At least that Sri Lanka Tri series, he was pretty good.
He had a man of the match. He had he had a 15 there as
well, a quick fire. He did get a quick fire 50 in
the 1320 high against Australia as well.
But but that was that was a. Slow 50 considering pocket on
score 200 he actually. Had a quick start and the last
eighteen shots that he the run scoring shots that he played,
none of them were boundaries. No, I was looking at Pakistan's
T20 batting history and I was thinking about who is a batsman
who has really evolved his game or improved, proved his game and
I could only think of one name. That was Mom of the Fees.
Mom of the Fees, the last two or three years of his career really
went in the Nets. He improved his range hitting,
he played golf a lot more which help with his batswing and we
saw Fees as a different batter in the last half of his career.
He was such an important person in making sure that boxing
crossed that 300 mark in the Champions League final.
Probably his. Best.
Innings of all time. His absolute beast innings came
in at strike of 180 plus he's absolutely tarnished.
Put the game on one side, as we say, and put 330 on the board.
Vernier, the Chase. And Afiz mentioned that he went
to the Cpl. He saw a lot of the West Indies
guys who had big muscles and they they sort of relied on
successive abilities. And Afiz was at the time an
anchor player and he saw that, he's self reflected.
He saw the need of improving and he worked on it.
We're not seeing any improvements.
If anything, Barbara has been in such a steep decline.
Like there used to be a time when Barbara would come, he
played the ball late and analysts would talk about how
Barbara is such an elegant batsman.
His cover drive is so good, he's such easy on the eyes to watch.
Today's game, I saw him get squared up by a baller from
Netherlands. I didn't even know his name.
Van Wiekern, I don't want to know his name.
You. Don't want to know his name?
Yeah, like Barbara was shaky. He was nervous.
It just he got one boundary that was a bad ball and you know,
he's in the team to do a specific job and he wasn't able
to do that job. Look, as I said in the press
conference that he's ready to make tough decisions and the
management is ready to to put away legacy and and the name and
star power for the betterment of the team I want.
To. See Bob, See Saman Aliyaga.
Not only have those empty statements, but actually follow
through. This is the time to make those
calls. Drop Barbara Razzam, he is not
suited for #4HE cannot bat at #3 because Salman Aliyah has locked
there. Your top three is locked.
Your your middle lower 3 is locked.
You have a huge issue between #4 and five.
And that's where the momentum of the innings gets carried
forward. That is where the inning, that
is where your innings decides if it wants to go to 200 or stop
yourself at 1:45. And if you have players like
Barbara Razzam and Usman Khan, both different levels of bad,
then you will find yourself really struggling in this
tournament. This was Netherlands was a
decent half side when it comes to games against India.
If you play that game or in the Super 8, when you make it over,
sides will not give you any sniff to come back in a game
like this. You will not get innings like
the one that we saw from Ranaji again and again and again.
Those are free innings. You know, the Rosat was able to
do it once or twice in his life. You you get one of these innings
once every 10 years where a player comes in and just
absolutely demolish to the other side.
I simply had that. He did that once again.
Remember, Omerga had that. Omerga had that again.
You cannot bank on these innings to keep take you deep into a
tournament and even in that tournament Pakistan went to the
semi finals, could not pass Sri Lanka and I just don't want
Pakistan to make those same mistakes.
I cannot believe I'm about to say this, but in 2017 Pakistan
dropped Ahmad Shahzad and replaced Fuckerzaman and won the
Chinese trophy on the back of Fuckerzaman's heroics.
I think Pakistan has to drop Barbara Azam, bring in Huazan
and hopefully he becomes the Fuckerzaman of this tournament
and takes box on home. And I cannot believe that we
have come from an arc where Barbara Azam was one of our
starlights. The the, the, the North Star
that everybody used to point at to a point where like
everybody's rallying around the one rally cry, which is get Bob
Ross out of, but get Bob Rossman out of the. 11 did a poll on our
Instagram stories asking if Bob or should we drop for the next
match and 72% of people said yes, Barbara should be dropped.
And I I agree with those people. I think Alga has already made
some tough calls. I mean, Farhar Zaman was getting
water last this last match so he's already made some tough
calls and I I wouldn't be surprised if they do bench
Barbara the next game. I think it's important for the
ego of Barbara Azim that he comes in wearing a yellow babe
in the middle of the ground, getting water and supporting his
team from the outside. Exactly how Farhar Naseem did at
this match. They did it with that.
By the way we talked about this, he's never been dropped.
Never been dropped. He's always been released from
the squad. Never seen him in a yellow bit,
Sydney. Sector sent back Barbaraazum
before dropping him because he was called up to Pakistan's
white ball camp. So important.
Akhadravid Drop released him from the squad against England
in the Test series when when they dropped him, so this is
important. For if you're not playing a
bilateral, this is not a Tri series in the UA, this is AICC
World Cup. Now is the time to make some
tough calls. And if Barbaraazum is a
weakling, you see, if he's a liability in the middle order,
drop him. You know, even Farhar Zaman
coming back isn't the worst idea.
I I say this because Farhar at #4 has a 25 average and 1:50
plus strike rate. So he wouldn't be the the worst
option. But Farhar has also been in
really bad form. So I think I've given into the
idea that maybe Nafis should come in.
He could be an X Factor player. Nobody's seen a lot of him.
He has a bit of a fearless attitude to himself.
And you know he has no baggage behind him.
He has no PTSD of any USA, Zimbabwe, Ireland matches.
So wouldn't be the worst call to bring with Nafi in for Barber,
let's go to Swan Khan. Swan Khan.
Let's just let me tell you how bad Swan Khan is, OK?
He has played five games. You don't have to tell me.
By the way, in World Cups, 5 innings, 20 runs, five average,
5 average. In ICC World Cups high score of
13, strike rate of 83 and he scored his first duck Martial
law. In today's match, Wusman Khan
struggles against pace have been documented pretty well, whether
it be the PSL or internationally.
We're in this World Cup now. He got an inside edge, seemed
like he was slow on the ball and it's just I look at Pakistan's
keeper scenario right now and it is extremely sad.
Like a country whose plays one sport millions of people play.
There's hundreds of kids in domestic but we can't find one
good keeper batsman. Can I, Can I present a scenario
to you? I remember we were positioning
Mahmoud Harris, his return into the team and we were talking
about, hey, maybe we just play him after everybody else.
What if, what if we do that with a smile on you?
You put a smile on after Fahim and you basically move.
Everybody went up, which which means they get more resources
When they come into bat, immediately slap comes into
five. No, I got 6 Fahim at 7:00.
I think it's too late, like now you got to back whatever squad
that you have and amongst the squad that we have, I'm just
saying they're shuffling the 11. That's what I'm saying.
You, you put a smile after fame. Oh, you're saying to just put a
spawn more down the order? Yeah, down the order.
I think he's in the team. So he's in the team because he
plays spin well at #5 but what's happening is when he's coming
into bad team, did bowling pace against him?
Yeah, which is his weakness. It's not a weakness.
Like it's crazy. He cannot play.
He's an international batter. He.
Cannot play high pace any anything over 135.
This is the same issue that I have with Takar.
Remember him guys, Cha cha anybody.
Bengal tiger. Was it Bengal tiger?
Bengal tiger? Bengal tiger out of the
tournament. By the way, just if anybody's
following the news, same issue with him.
He's a test player for Pakistan world class.
Played multiple finals. Cannot play high pace.
How? How is that a thing?
That's crazy to me. Pakistan lost 3 wickets in eight
balls. Farhan also got.
Out and migrant double wicket maiden.
What more do I have to say? It looked like there was over a
complete change in the moment on the entire game.
It looked like there was a clear ploy of short pitch balls
against Farhan. I watched the highlights as well
and it seemed like they're bowling slow bouncers, fast
bouncers. So maybe he has some weakness
that we haven't seen yet against short pitch stuff and he got
caught out a ball that was really wide.
He maybe should have played that towards third man or over, over
a backward point. But he just tried to heave it
towards mid wicket, gets caught out.
And then there was a partnership between Shahdab and Nawaz that
did not go anywhere. And to say how bad boxing was
doing. So before the collapse happened,
they were 98 for two. Boxing needed fifty runs off 54
balls, 8 wickets in hand. And at that point, we were
talking about, yo, Pakistan should finish the match quickly
to boost their net run rate. And in case there's any rain
outside, it came to a point where there was 44 balls for
Pakistan did not score a single boundary.
Can you imagine that's that's more than 7 overs?
Against the Dutch. By the way, this is Netherlands.
Pakistan lost 5 wickets for 16 runs.
This is almost a generational collapse, but not as bad as the
Asia Cup final that was. It wasn't just as bad as that.
And so I thought because I've lived through Zimbabwe, I've
lived through the USA, I've lived through three Asia Cup
games on the trot, I would be ready for this moment.
If you go back to the live guys. I was not ready for this moment.
I think I've been quiet. I hello doctors.
My old friend was playing in my head.
I was like, this is it? This is the end of the World Cup
in mere 3 hours. It's starting.
This is Champions Trophy 2025 all over again.
We're out before we're even in. And I was like this, this cannot
be happening again. I I cannot be reliving this
moment all over it. I feel like I was getting
pranked and it just like what I was feeling was exactly what the
players were feeling. You could see the dugout just
being absolutely quiet. Allah has that hairline has gone
back my friend and they would just felt like he would gone.
It had gone back a few more inches in that moment, has in
just everybody was. Crashing his beard.
Allah was like, he was incredulous.
He was like, I cannot believe this is happening right?
Like nobody had and nobody had any inkling of what was going
on. They could not believe that
Pakistan might get knocked out in this moment against
Netherlands. This could not be happening
once. Shadab.
Got out, by the way, horrible dismissal.
Shadab is batting at #6 he's Pakistan's most experienced
player and he's in the team to win them games at #6 for him to
and in the Internet went nowhere and then a very soft dismissal
just really pissed a bunch of the opposite puzzle there.
But there came a point where box on needed 29 runs off 12 balls.
So Can you imagine the required rate went from being around 5.5
to 14 1/2 in the span of 6 overs?
6 overs. That that's that's.
This is Pakistan cricket at its best.
One minute down, next minute worse.
This is worse. Fahim hits a six and the next
ball it's a store delivery he gets dropped on long on.
Now there's 2 boxing cricket teams or the future of boxing
cricket's World Cup 1 where Max O'Dowd takes that catch.
And the repercussion of that could be the following.
Pakistan eminently lose the match because Salman Rizzo and
abroad Hammer is the next batsman and there's no way
they're chasing 23 off 10 balls. There's no way it's happening.
Pakistan loses match and because the government has made a bold
call of not playing the game against India, you lose 2
points, it has a hit to your net run rate and Pakistan is
virtually out of the World Cup. So much planning, so much
strategies, hashtags, Salmac era, and all of that down the
drain within a span of a bat overs you play.
Yeah. And then the other side of that
is what happened actually, which is insane.
The wall goes up in the air Max without underneath and just
pockets sorry, not pockets just drops a Dolly like what else can
I say? It hit his hand.
It hit his palm. It hit his noggin and it hit the
ground and and for some reason the other Kyle Klein pulls A
hamstring or a calf and he was not even on the field.
He was not the one feeling that delivery.
He goes out like a lot was happening at that moment.
Runner runs two and then another six, another six, another four.
And then at that moment I, I, I was just like, I did not know
how high strung, how tensed I was until I went back and saw
the reactions of myself. I don't remember that happening.
I was just like letting the game happen to me.
At the moment. I, I, I personally felt like I
was paralyzed. You were holding your own.
I don't know how you were walking and talking through
those like 6-8 deliveries. I could not just, I, I was
again, I'm finding myself speechless again because there
was not that game was not going on in my head.
I saw the USA game going on in my head, the Zimbabwe game going
on in my head, the India game, 36 off 36 going on in my head.
I saw. What else did I see?
I saw the trauma was so deep. It took me back to Bichar 2011
where St. Michaels was playing a date ball
tournament at Ketchi Maiman and we needed two runs off 3
deliveries. Do you remember this?
I was on the running. End.
We were on the running end and we were not able.
It was a semi final. We were not able to go into the
finals and it took me back to 2011 Bichar like this is how
deep entrenched into the trauma I was like I could not see
myself. I could not see a way to get out
of this mess. But man, this is where I think
we talk about many times on this podcast, how the need of a
fastballing all rounder is so important.
World cricket has changed. You need one in your team at
least. And we kept finding the next of
those are we know we had a whole whole podcast about this, I
believe in 2023. Who is the next?
Ahmad Azam, Ahmad Yamin Fahim Mushraf, Ahmad Jamal Umar Ali,
Bilal Bharti. The name was in one of those and
we just never, he never gave Fahim Ashraf the flowers that he
needed. His inclusion in the Champions
Trophy in the series. Before that, it was met with a
lot of criticism, including us. We were on record saying we
don't like the way that a Fahim Ashraf entered.
We heard rumors about a certain phone call being made.
Cannot confirm nor. There was some political
influence involved. We don't know if that's the
case, but we heard that and that again left a bad taste in our
mouth. Everything's wrong, Everything
has been proven wrong. Fahim Ashraf.
Without him, there is no World Cup 2026 for Pakistan, There is
no. Campaign Can you imagine?
What? Can you believe the fact that
this was Fahim Ashraf's debut match in the?
World first game Fahim Ashraf has ever played in the World Cup
this man has played. His debut is 2017, yeah.
That's what I was going to say. He played the Jaguar Trophy.
He was in the squad in the Jaguar Trophy.
So 21 World Cup 2224, Fahim Ashraf has 23?
No, no, I'm talking about two World Cups.
Fahim Mushraf has missed 300 World Cups.
Why? Who was the captain?
How was Fahim Ashraf overlooked? I think every player needs to be
managed in a specific fashion. And what you've heard about
Fahim was that he's a confidence guy.
You've got to really boost his confidence, you've got to stroke
his ego, and that's when Fahim performed at his best.
And I think this management has figured out how to get the best
out of Fahim. I have been Fahim's biggest
critic on this podcast and my criticism was more around the
fact that yes, his bowling is good, he's doing decently, but
his stats as a batsman, before his comeback last year, he was
averaging 12 with the bat. His strike rate one 25129.
I'm like bro this is horrible for a fastballing or you can't
even be a fastballing honor because your batting stats
aren't decent enough. But since his comeback he's
averaging around 16 and his strike rate is 150 ish.
So he's really improved and he hasn't played many deliveries in
the last year or so. But whenever he has come to bat
he's made an impact and I just think he adds a lot of balance
to our team. There was a lot of questions
yesterday in the life that oh why is Fahim playing?
Why do we need him? I just think Fahim, if somebody
is having a bad day with the ball for him and come in and
bowled it overs, if somebody and as as a batting unit you fail,
Fahim can do what he did yesterday.
Fahim can finish the match off. He can give you batting depth,
that extra cushion that batters know that if there is a
collapse, Fahim is there to save us.
Let me get you some stats stats in so we can better give some
context on the Fahim resurgence era.
Last year he played 28 matches, 21 innings.
He batted in five not outs, 224 runs struck at an average of 14,
which is not the best but a strike rate of 141.
Right now coming to this year, he's played five matches.
He's batted 3 * 2 not outs, 48 runs.
He scored high score of 29, which was the last game. 48
average striker of 266 impact. But that's what he's coming in
facing 5 to 7 deliveries Max. This game he faced 11 and is
completely keeping the momentum and taking that into the next
innings. Not only that, big match, big
player, game, clutch player, CLUTCH clutch.
The man on my right would agree. You know what you know.
It's crazy. Let me just tell you this.
Comes in, has not bowled anything.
I believe in the Asia Cup that is meaningful.
Bowls the second over of the Asia Cup final, gets a
restriction out, comes back in the power play.
I think he bowls 3 in the power play, gets Schuman Gill out.
What? What more do I want?
Doesn't he also get Shivam Dubey out in in the back end?
In the back end he gets. Shivam Dubey out as well.
So Fayy Mushraf has played one match in the ICC to 20 World Cup
and he has won that in the match award.
One for one bro. Clutch match winner, etcetera.
How many did Barbara have? Babar Azam has played. 18
matches in 200 World Cups and he has a grand total of 0 man of
the match awards. Fact Check me Barbara has also
played six games in Asia Cup. T 20s zero man of the match.
That's 24 matches in multi nation tournaments in T 20s and
not a single player of the match.
Only one player of the match award in his ICC repertoire,
which is the New Zealand game. Is that the only one he has?
I have to go back and check. I'm not sure.
Somebody please Fact Check us and let us know if Bob Osmus won
any other player of the match awards and all of the ICC
tournaments combined. All of them, I believe that's
the only one that I can think of.
Even though he was the top scorer for Pakistan in the 2019
World Cup, was he? He was the top scorer, right,
for Pakistan, For Pakistan, yes. And he was also the the highest
run scorer of the 2021 World Cup, yes.
I didn't want anything for that. But I'm we're just talking
straight player of the matches that that is the way you gauge
impact and that's not the case and that's crazy.
Flame saves the day. I mean, this doesn't happen
everyday. I'm not happy with how Pakistan
has won. Like, if that catch is taken,
the game's done. World Cup is done.
But I'm happy for fame. I think this not only just gives
him like 2X3X maybe 5X the confidence that he already had,
but you have a whole nation now backing him.
We we, we put out apology forms. We put out like it was just
we're talking about Basant and Lahar.
And again, we're from Karachi. We don't experience that.
So I don't even know how that's going on.
I hope the Laharys are having fun.
Would love to experience one day myself.
But there was Basant on the TL, bro.
The timeline was lit. There was a lot of the patangs
and and all of that stuff going on, on the tail, a lot of
khushis. We're from Karachi, so Patang
for us being something different.
Well, yeah, did you see the tabehash?
For sure I did. Did you see the joke?
It's cracked Rash. Like crazy joke by the way.
Insane joke. Shout out to Tabe.
Shout out to Rash for taking that as well.
Shout out Tabeh as well. What changes would you make for
the next match? So you're saying bobber out and
nafa in? And would you also people are
saying Shaheen out and Naseem in or you play swanthotic?
Because it looks like at the at the at the core, these pitches
are still low scoring and and turning tracks.
So going with three Pacers might not be the best idea because
Fahim didn't ball a single over. Let me answer your question with
a question. Would you drop China Philly or
is it too soon? Look, salamanders look like a
better ball than him. He seems smarter.
He seemed better kept in the power play.
He balled better in the death. But you know, how can
salamanders do in in more high pressure situations?
Shaheen is kind of also there because he can hold a bat.
Like the reason why Fahim was able to get his 29 was because
Shahim was on the other end. Yeah, giving him strike and not
getting out. I would give Shahim another
shot. Yeah, one more.
One more game, I guess. The US.
But if you do have to then play 3 Pacers, how?
Who do you bench then? You have to bench some armors
though. Yeah, sorry if you play 3.
Spinners. Sorry.
Yeah, you got to bench some armors.
I think he gets to act even though he bowled pretty well in
my opinion. You got to drop #4 bro where was
that number 4? Right now I'm forgetting the
name. They're gonna drop him.
Can you imagine Fokker and Barber both on the bench?
Senior Statesman bad selection, What can I tell?
You I think you need to make these tough calls.
You got to make these tough calls.
They should not have been in the squad in the 1st place we've
been mentioning. This back on this after the
World Cup, but now? We did a podcast with pro
sports. Our call was the same.
You got to drop Barber. He should not be in the squad.
Fokker should not be in the squad.
They don't have their repertoire at the innings, the momentum,
the wings, the air under the wings to take this to the next
level. That that was not a criticism on
them. That was just our take and that
that they should probably look at someone new.
If they made the tough call to drop hottest roof and and
Muhammad Izawan, Fakhar Zaman and Baba Razan were right there
to be dropped, they should have made those strong calls.
You had Shalaf Khan there, you had Nawaz there, you had Fahim
there, you had Shahim there that were the older statesman taking
the lead and basically pushing this into a new generation.
You should have dropped these two.
You should have put in two new batsmen in.
Muhammad Harris would have probably given you that Osman
Khan situation remedy for that. And then maybe Hassan Nawaz if
he's mentally fit or not, I don't know.
I'm hearing conflicting news. Somebody else, somebody else
that goes into that number four or five spot and just is a lock.
What would you say to a Barbara Rosen fan while he was saying
but Nazarpai Barbara is playing at 4, He's been an opener or #3
now you're putting him at #4 which is not his batting
position. And no wonder he's struggling
that he's only, he's only played #4 in the last years against
Australia and now in the world. Cup, if it was communicated to
him very plainly that hey, Barbara Rosen, if you come back
in the team you're going to play at #4 he shouldn't have come
back in the team. If I don't get the position that
I want to play at, I don't think my game is good enough.
This is a conversation he has to have with himself.
By the way, Bob Rosen has to look in the mirror and say I
don't have the game to play at #4 and keep the strike rate over
1/21/25. I cannot do that.
So instead of coming into the team and have been dead weight,
I will be. I will release myself and wash
it from the comfort of my home. Maybe join the backward point
live and watch it with the laps. But I will not be a Privy to
this adjustment. We're adjusting for Barbara
Azim. Is this what the world has come?
Adjustment for Barbara Azim is an insane thing.
And again, we cannot under under.
What is the word I'm looking for?
Estimate. Underestimate.
No, not underestimate. Like underrate.
We cannot underrate the performance of He saved us, not
from this game, not for this week, not from this group stage,
for the entire tournament. Pakistan's government,
Pakistan's board has made a very strong call and everything falls
away if Pakistan lose like a Netherland.
So not only has Fame Ashraf saved you on that account in
just in terms of cricketing wins and in keeping you alive in the
tournament, the outer context of the game stays relevant.
I don't know if you saw but most enough we posted a picture of
fame Ashraf's kids. That fame?
Ashraf's kids, yes. Twins.
And is that is that really fame? That's really fame.
Ashraf's kids. OK, can you do a segment on just
some stuff that has been said about Fahim online?
This is my favorite segment, Go ahead.
When Rana tells the temperature, sorry, Rana tells the
temperature to the thermometer. OK, once PCV gave trials to
Rana, then Rana left the PCV. Amazing.
When Neil Armstrong went to moon, Rana was already there and
playing cricket with aliens. Once Rana wanted to play cricket
for five days. Now that format is known as tax
cricket. Jack Doors of cricket.
Wapta gave his money to Rana for using electricity when Rana
entered the classroom. Teacher.
Signed up for him. Once Rana was bitten by a dog.
Then the dog received 21 injections.
Hardik Parnia and Ben Stokes have just one sheep.
In cricket, they were once compared to Rana.
That's good stuff. Well, this is a meme game, man.
There's a meme game is insane. Congratulations, Fahim Rana,
man, Like what? What else am I going to say to
celebration of him, to celebration of his career of the
fast bowling all around that I was promised.
I think that you should put more confidence in Fahim bench.
Your fast bowler is be it Salman Mirza or Shahi Nafi the bringing
his monotic and just not allow these teams to get away like the
way that they did. You know, let's talk about the
box. Against USA, last thing, India
versus USA. Congratulations to the box and
fans. We're still alive in this
tournament, which means that our our campaign, which are here at
the at the backward point dailies at the World Cups,
remains live. I'm really happy for that.
Let's go to the next match, India.
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Yo, it's you know what I saw it as I saw it India versus Yashi
sports presents USAI love that that's that's the the the team
that I was watching man and Yashi sports presents Team USA
man, they almost they almost took it away.
They almost, almost did what they did to boxed on to India.
You could hear a pin drop in the wanker stadium if it was not for
Sreya Kumari Yadav, who I don't know what has happened to him in
the past couple of weeks. He's a different beast since the
New Zealand series. Player of the series in that
game and in this game made sure that India get to a total that
is above par. Man at 1.130 was looking tough
and if India got bowled out for 1:30 man, USA was chasing this
in 18 overs. And you know what, I think some
some teams would have enjoyed the walk over on Sunday.
They were like, I will take it. To summarize today's game of
cricket, you can say that drop catches save South Asian teams
100%. Max O'Dowd drops Fahim Ashraf
and he finishes the match. Team USA drops so many catches.
They make so many fumbles. I mean, Ishan gets dropped, Sky
gets dropped. Cotton wool.
The ball literally goes inside the baller's hand and it pops
out. What is Sky?
You know, What sort of prayers is he making?
He's emanating aura, That's all it is.
I think van Vankaday is his home stadium, right?
He's from from Mumbai. No, he's also from Mumbai, I
believe. Like like originally from
Mumbai. So like he's played his entire
career there and he actually showed up for for the for the
crowd, for the lads and made a game out of this.
What's interesting is that Abhishek Sharma went for a
golden duck. And second golden duck in five
games. It's such an unusual dismissal
because I've never seen a fielder be at deep point for
Abhishek Sharma like it was. It was a wide ball full.
It was there to head. He mills that gets caught at
deep point. It's like deep cover point.
Great thing about Yashi Sports Presents Team USA is that they
actually have analytics guys that are like, you know what,
this guy likes to smash it. Don't have third man, don't find
like have someone at square because he's going to go for it.
And if he missed times it boom. And you know who takes the
wicket of Abhishek Sharma? Ali Khan, a right-handed pacer
swinging it away from him in the arc right on your video.
I'm telling you, Yashi Sports Presents Team USA has seen I can
confirm this has seen the backward point video where they
tell where we tell the genta how to defeat.
He's certain Abhishek Sharma and you know what it's happened
again. Ali Khan bowling Winfrey 45 plus
Pakistan origin bowler. Just it's in the it's in the
blood as John Mayer said it. There's no, there's no stopping
Pakistan bowlers which is giving me if, if that game, sorry, if
that game happens on Sunday, Abhishek Sharma will not be
having a good outing. Ali Khan got injured and he
couldn't ball two more overs and Aaron Jones is also out of the
USA team. So can we say India beat USAB
team? Anybody?
OK, moving on. But India was 4 to 6, four at
the power play and 76 for 776 for seven.
Like that's this is a insane collapse.
Suryak and Moyada stepped up, he was almost run the ball.
Sorry. 77 to 7 for six. Yep, and it would have been
tough, man. I'm telling you, I don't think
the sports yachty, the sports ducks, the odds ducks that this
ducks, the ducks would have. They wouldn't be able to do
this. The fact that if that game on
the 15 doesn't happen and the fact that they literally had to
take concessions from Team Pakistan to make it to the next
round would have been an insane, insane development in the
rivalry of cricket that we've been so deeply talking about for
the past three to four months, ever since the rivalry debate
has opened up. It would have been an insane
turn of events. Obviously, that did not happen.
But the fact that India found themselves in that, the mighty
Indians found themselves in that position where Vaughn Cadde was
quiet, Sports CIU was crying. I stuck, was melting.
Like I could not believe what I was seeing.
And if I'm being honest, I did not see it.
I was sleeping through it because again, we slept at six
AM, 6:00 AM. We slept after that insane
Parkland Netherlands game. But when I woke up at 11, the
game was already halfway done and I was like, interested in
the chase. But Team USA, sorry, Ashley
Sports Presents, Team USA just don't have that kind of fire
firepower after Aaron Jones is gone.
And I'm not saying that Aaron Jones would have made a huge
dent into that 160 total that they were chasing, but it would
have been a positive movement. I just think India's a huge team
man. This is they're playing at their
home and there's just a lot of people screaming, man.
There's a lot of credits to Surya Kumari out there.
I mean, he was in horrible form the last one year.
Lot of eyeballs on him and and criticism on his batting as when
he's been captive for India. But today to come out and play
the innings that he did, like he was looking like the old sky
that you see in the IPL or used to play for India a couple of
years ago. He's playing all around the the
crease, hitting shots, manipulating the the fielding
positions. And if it wasn't for him, India
was out for like 1/21/30. What's interesting is a lot of,
like we mentioned, Pakistan Origin players playing for the
Team USA. Rangu Singh was dismissed by
Pakistan Under 19's team member Mohamed Osen.
Did they shake hands after the match?
I did not see but I'm assuming so.
I mean, you know, if you have a dual passport, does that not
even make? That's the same thing, right?
How do they get the visas? Yo, I was going to say this like
who's the hell is issuing the Mohamed Osen and Ali Khan visas,
man? Why don't we get visas?
What do we got to do? You should also ask Saad Zafar
how he got the visa. He was.
He's in Gujarat. Today, is he, he's practicing at
the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
Yeah. Shout out to Modi.
That's a crazy thing to say. Shout out to Modi.
Yeah. Like, interesting.
The song. I'm going to say a lot of a lot
of there's, I think a Pakistani bowler in the Scottish team as
well that was playing in India. And Sufyan Sharif, yes, if you
obviously like Pakistan is one of the great exports of
immigrants in the world and a lot of good cricketers have
played for different countries as well.
And so you might find a lot of those around just a little bit
an interesting little development there when it comes
to who's from where and and why. Sky just been ballistic the last
I want to say 5 or 6 overs of the match and he particularly
talked Sword of Death Row Walker to the cleaners. 65 and four he
gave wild Good bag from Sky, bad balling from Team USA.
Yeah, but where do you? Even ball this guy when he's
ball like when he's playing so good, but he he was doing a lot
of the he was moving, shuffling a lot.
He was trying to angle the fine leg, square leg boundary.
My my beef with that situation because I was watching and I
wanted to see what fielders were placed.
No define like I'm not saying that because a lot of the shots
went for six anyways, but you at least challenge the batsman in
some sort of way that that he might he may think twice to even
attack that maybe he'd go inside out.
Maybe he'd do something different, but Surah Nether
Volcker, Netra Volcker kept bowling him in the arc.
Nothing. No change of pace, no, no short
balls. It's in the arc hoping that it
swings back or swings away and this guy was too good, man.
It's. Just a horrible day for Soloto
because everybody else is sort of under the aid economy and
it's only him. Was gone for twice that 16.25
economy there. Yeah, tough.
When USA came to bat, India just took them in the power play.
They were three down and Boomerang was on the bench.
So India's still protecting Bumrah, managing his work.
Was he in the 11 or just didn't play today?
He's in the squad but he's on the bench, not playing and I
think Harshadan is also injured so Siraj comes in for.
A ride Siraj 48 hours ago did not know he was going to play
the world. Cup, and here he was.
He almost actually caught a blinder on short third.
I saw this, he was parallel on the ground and nearly caught a
amazing catch. Would've been a great catch if
he did that. And then the relay catch we saw
earlier in the day. This would've been a great
fielding operation from from from the LATS USA batters.
They scrapped to 132. There was some impressive knocks
by Sanjay Krishnamoorthy. We saw him play for the Unicorns
in the MLC and he seemed to have some potential.
So hopefully games like this and the games against Pakistan and
Netherlands will give them more exposure and they'll get better
as a team. It was Speaking of Sanjay
Krishnamoorthy. You know who I saw?
He was on a podcast with Grace Hayden.
You know, Grace Hayden's doing a podcast for Willow TV.
You know this, I know this. Don't even get me sorted.
OK, well anyway, that's why I'm on there, a lot of Canadian
players. Look at my face and look at
Grace Hayden's face. There's a reason why they're
going to hire her. Over us.
Yeah, Grace is doing good for the ICC digital stuff, but I saw
that podcast with Sanjay Krishna Moorthy as well.
And yeah, I think our face is made for podcasting, especially
for listening, not for viewing. Someone said.
Race is made for viewing. I have a face for radio.
Face for Radio, That's us Backward Point Podcast good
morning. I think all the teams that were
supposed to win one with a little bit of a hiccup here and
there but you know 2 points in the back for I2 points in the
back for Pakistan. The next game for Pakistan is
against the USA on Tuesday. We will not be going live for
that game. I am flying, travelling during
that time and I don't think Bashar has the Bashar has the
kahunas to pull that off alone and so.
We will help him. We will.
Probably be following and doing a post match later in the day
after that game. When is India's next game?
You know who are they playing next?
Netherlands, can we do a Fact Check on that you?
Can find out. Yes, playing Namibia on.
Thursday on Thursday, so Tuesday is Pakistan, USA, India and
Namibia on Thursday. And then and then.
The game on Sunday is India against Pakistan.
India against nobody. OK, they against.
Ghosts, but they still have to travel to.
They gotta, they gotta do everything, yeah.
They gotta be the toss it has. To be for the toss.
So will the toss have one presenter or two presenters?
Because in the Asia final we had Ravi Chastity and the car units.
It's a very good question and to which an answer will not be
given to you, right? Now who's going to be the master
free? Sauce.
Andy Peckoff, I believe is I've heard from Mr. Jayshaw,
correspondent of Backward Point that Andy Beckoff had been
reinstated just for vibes. How do you how do you deal with
the skill meter thing that that they kept showing?
How do you how do you that's interesting.
How do you calculate that metric is what I want to know.
Yeah, it's it's so interesting. I'd love to see the skill metric
on someone like Virat Kohli or Bumrah.
What was Barbara skill meter? I don't remember seeing that.
I don't remember. I don't remember seeing it.
I remember the the skill meters on the Dutch pad was just like
50s and 60s. So mean that's embarrassing like
Bastilita is like a a. Decent bowler, like he's pretty
good and he can hold it back. I don't know, I wonder how they
made those metrics. Like what was the?
Vibes, yeah, vibes. I I do.
I do want to give props to the Star Sports.
I believe Star Sports is producing this right with the
help of the ICC. Great, great production.
They had this graphic where was mono Khan was running and they
showed like the worm, how fast he ran, how long he ran, how far
he ran, like all that stuff. I, I'm always into like little
stats pieces here and there. You have more of that please,
right. Anyways, thank you guys for
tuning in. We, we talked, we talked for
like an hour and 20 minutes. I was not expecting this podcast
to be this long, but here we are.
I appreciate you guys tuning into all of it.
Shout out to West Indies because I want to know what happened to
that game. You guys can check out the
Crabian Cricket podcast. A friend of ours eliminate the
podcast as well and MASH doing some some good work there and
we'll see you guys. I guess tomorrow we'll do a
quick roundup about what's happening because it's the World
Cup dailies, baby. We're here, we're there, we're
everywhere, OK?