Sunday, February 4, 2007

World cup 2007 : Review about cricket teams - Pakistan

World cup 2007 : Review about cricket teams - Pakistan

About Pakistan Cricket

Pakistan, second cricketing gaint from Asia, is one of the oldest teams in the world. Pakistan Cricket has plenty of Experience in playing world cup which has won the 1992 world cup under Imran Khan. Pakistan offen get into controversies of Ball tampering and on field behaviour which yeild lot of criticism upon the team. Pakistan which is now under Inzamam-ul-Huq who is the spine of current Pakistan cricket, which is having a mixture of both experienced and young players in the team. Pakistan cricket team is also called as the team of former captains. Pakistan Cricket team was the only team which has number of former captains in its history.

Pakistan cricket produced number of speedsters who ruled the cricket field. Some of the great players produced by pakistan are Imran Khan, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Inzamam Ul Huq, Salim Malik, Javed Miandad are few amoung a big list.

Bowling Strengths

Current pakistan team has a great strength in its Bowling which is lead by Shoaib Akhtar also called as Rawalpindi Express. Shoaib Akhtar is well backed Mohammad Sami and Abdul Razzaq during the inital overs and well contained by Danish Kaneria during the middle overs. Cricket of Pakistan team has more number of all rounders who can take ball and bat when necessary.

Shoaib Akhtar the spine of pakistan criket's bowling attack against big teams is more famous for his both onfield and off field activities which produce some matches Ban. A recent clash with Bob woolmer who is coaching Pakistan team, got an disciplinary action against Shoaib Akhtar. Recently Shoaib Akhtar got into controversy of performance enhancing drugs usage before match and got a 2 years Ban from matches. After the appeal from Shoaib Akhtar it got reverted the ban was removed.

Batting Strengths

Batting of pakistan is always a unpredictable one like India. It performs under crucial condition but sometimes fails to produce the same in normal situation. Batting of Pakistan is lead by Inzamam-ul-Haq himself which was backed by Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Imran Farhat, Abdul Razzaq. Once settled in field Pakistan batting lineup is invincible and the runs on board with take a steap heights.

Records

Pakistan holds a number of great records in both bowling and batting departments. Pakistan has the record of highest wicket taker in One day Internationals, Wasim Akram who provides a lot of tips to young bowlers and convert them to big Guns. His help for Irfan Pathan of India created lot of controvercies for Wasim Bhai. Pakistan is the team which holds both fastest 50 and 100 runs in one day internationals which was made by Shahid Afridi the blaster who shows fireworks in the ground during initial overs.

Pakistan holds the record of highest runs taken by single indivijual, Saeed Anwar, the left hander who made this record of getting 194 runs in a single match against India in chennai. When he got out the entire stadium gone in a silence and gave a standing ovation to Saeed Anwar which showed the sprit of Cricket in south states of India. This got noted in the books by akram and others for the sprit of Indian cricket fans.

Cold war of India Pakistan Matches

India and Pakistan, the rivals in Cricket field which produce the 110% of their dedication during the matches. The match between India and Pakistan is like a cold war between USA and Russia. Both countries put their 100% efforts to make their team win. The cricket fans of both countries clash each other in the stadium when one goes down. A match between India Pakistan will make everything to stop in both countries from Traffic to work. The entire nation will watch wach and every ball either in stadium or in front of their TV Sets. An Average cricket fan who pays for the ticket will get full meals of Thrill, excitement while watching India Pakistan Match. It is a match of two great gaints of cricket which is rival both in field and in nationwide.

India Pakistan match produces a great amount of money for everyone from advertisement to sales. In world cup it is India which has a record of 100% victory against Pakistan. The cricket between India and Pakistan depends upon the political climate in both counties. Security for visiting team will be like a presidential security because any small incident for the team players will spark an outburst against countries. Recent peace talks between two countries provided a scope of conducting the test matchs against each other in respectieve countries after 14 years.

The first match after 14 years showed the batting skills of both countries in which sehwag of India got title as Sultan of Multan who scored a 300 against Pakistan. The first ODI in Pakistan showed the phoneix in Sachin which outbursted against Pakistan bowlers. It produced a spectacular knock of 349 runs by India which was an full action thriller in which India won by 5 runs.

India vs Pakistan Samsung Cup 2004 - 1st ODI

This world cup

Pakistan cricket team is now well set and marching towards world cup under the guidance of Bob Woolmer, it is creating great strokes in recent season. Pakistan is playing against South africa in South Africa which looks much prepared for the series.

Since Pakistan team is composed of both experienced and young players, the situations of West Indies are known to most of the players of Pakistan. It has experience playing against great teams like South Africa, Australia, India, Srilanka which comes handy.

Placed in Group D, Pakistan can beat Zimbabwe and will face a stiff restriction from West Indies. Playing against Ireland will be a cakewalk for the mammoth Pakistan team which is in the league of super 8's of world cup. Pakistan team has a bright light of winning the world cup 2007 if all departments fire against teams. Pakistan is one of the country which is going to host 2011 world cup cricket.

Other teams
Test playing Nations : India |
Pakistan | West Indies | Sri Lanka | New Zealand | South Africa | England | Australia
Non test playing Nations :
Canada | Bermuda | Scotland | Zimbabwe | Kenya | The Netherlands | Ireland | Bangladesh
Who will win Cricket world cup 2007?

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