Posted by: cYb0rG Mar 14 2007, 05:19 PM

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Written March 14th, 2007 in http://worldcup.hamaraforums.com/category/cricket-world-cup-2007/ The 2007 Cricket saga began on Tuesday with West Indies bagging a 54-run victory over Pakistan in the opening match of 2007 World cup at Kingston, Jamaica . The match witnessed an awesome performance by the West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith. Smith scored 32 runs from 15 balls, a contributory score for the success of the team and got three important wickets of Pakistan towards the end of the match. http://worldcup.hamaraforums.com/cricket-world-cup-2007/west-indies-vs-pakistan-13th-march-2007.html#more-41

Posted by: LEGENDRAFI Mar 15 2007, 12:43 PM

Well, this is what the game's all about! Here we all were thinking or speculating that Pakistan would struggle due to the absence of Akhtar and Asif and what do we get? The bowlers did a fairly decent job of restricting West Indies to 240 but it were the 'always pampered' batsmen, yet again, who let the team down. The sort of shots Younis Khan and some others played were embarassing to say the least. Pakistan will truly need to pick themselves up and come back strongly in the next few games. Luckily for them, they play 2 easy games after this and that should provide them with a good chance to sort out their batting order and get back some confidence.