Official 20/20 Thread | Day 1 (merged) [23/2/06]

[Easa]

There are three scheduled games today.

Post all updates, views, and sixes here.... :D

We're in for plenty of action!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Mods, please make this a sticky.) :D

[HAFRIDI]

what 3 scheduled games?

[Oxy]

Why call it Day 1... they only last about 3 hours long!

Also, can you state the game please...

[Amjid Javed]

24 Feb 2006 Pool A Faisalabad Wolves v Peshawar Panthers National Stadium, Karachi T20

24 Feb 2006 Pool A Karachi Zebras v Rawalpindi Rams United Bank Limited Sports Complex, Karachi T20

24 Feb 2006 Pool A Lahore Eagles v Sialkot Stallions United Bank Limited Sports Complex, Karachi T20

24 Feb 2006 Pool B Abbottabad Rhinos v Islamabad Leopards National Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex, Karachi T20

24 Feb 2006 Pool B Hyderabad Hawks v Quetta Bears National Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex, Karachi T20

24 Feb 2006 Pool B Lahore Lions v Karachi Dolphins National Stadium, Karachi T20

Teams - http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Articles/3/3973.html

[ataullah]

No Afridi. Crowd will miss him. Who u supporting AJ?

[Easa]

From Pool A:

Faisalabad Wolves v Peshawar Panthers

Karachi Zebras v Rawalpindi Rams

Lahore Eagles v Sialkot Stallions


From Pool B:

Abbottabad Rhinos v Islamabad Leopards

Hyderabad Hawks v Quetta Bears

Lahore Lions v Karachi Dolphins


Post updates here... :D

[Easa]

I already made a thread, Amjid bhai.

I'll be supporting Sialkot Stallions.

[kayanni]

Sialkot win their first game v Lahore by 8 runs, Malik 60 off 40, Asif 4 wickets

[Nauman]

AJ always supports Faisalabad, I am supporting Islamabad though I doubt that they would make it to the next stage.

[aabbasi]

can somebody post the scorecard ? Imran Nazir plays for Sialkot as well ? wats their score?

[iqbalharoon213]

is it on tv?

[aabbasi]

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Scorecards/85/85181.html

Good to see Sialkot win vs Lahore Eagles. Last time around, it was their clash that made news in the tournament. Shoaib Malik deliberately threw away a match, in order to kick Lahore Eagles out of the tournament, because of an earlier mishandling of affairs by the official people.

I support Sialkot stallions though....

[Easa]

Ten Sports are supposed to be showing it, but they're showing the cheap Board X1 Match against England.

What the hell?

[Waseem]

SIALKOT WON!!!!!!!!!!:D

Malik took his revenge this time;)

Go STALLIONS!!!!!!!

[SUNNY]

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Scorecards/85/85179.html

Heyderabad Hawks bettered Quetta Bears in a low scoring game..notice Arun Lal playing for Quetta Bears.. :31: :O :12:

[Nauman]

Peshawar is 142/3

Overs - 15

Batsmen are Younis Khan and Rafatullah. The use of orange ball was a very bad idea, one can hardly see it with sun setting.

[Oxy]

Go Lyallpuris!

[Nauman]

Go Lyallpuris!
Must say fielding display has been pathetic so far, I was impressed with Faisalabad's fielding in the last 20 20 cup and in England but the use of orange ball and over all poor fielding standards is having double effect.

[Hash]

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Scorecards/85/85179.html

Heyderabad Hawks bettered Quetta Bears in a low scoring game..notice Arun Lal playing for Quetta Bears.. :31: :O :12:

yeah I noticed that. Imagine if he plays for Pakistan :))

[Nauman]

Younis gone
Rafatullah gone

170/5

in 17.5 overs

guess who is batting right now.

drum roll please, yes it is none other then








Wajahatullah Wasti

[Nauman]

180/5 last over in play, a six by Wasti.

[Nauman]

185/5 in 20 overs.

[Daoud]

Jeez, Wasti looks like a carbon copy of Inzi from 2 years ago.
And Im glad I got to hear Sikandar Bakht again after 3 years - such a funny commentator.
Decent batting effort from Rafatullah and Younis to get Peshawar up to 185. Should be a difficult score but we'll see what the master blaster from Sarghoda can do

[Nauman]

Nah Inzi wasnt even half as fat as Wasti is right now, Wasti looks more like Sehwag.

[Daoud]

I just noticed that Imran Nazir was captain for Sialkot and Junaid Zia was captain for Lahore. Seems like Malik has been stripped of his captaincy after what happened last year while NEPOTIS rules in Lahore ;-)

[Raz]

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Scorecards/85/85181.html

Good to see Sialkot win vs Lahore Eagles. Last time around, it was their clash that made news in the tournament. Shoaib Malik deliberately threw away a match, in order to kick Lahore Eagles out of the tournament, because of an earlier mishandling of affairs by the official people.

I support Sialkot stallions though....

Imran Nazir wins the head to head collision with Humayun Farhat. Humayun will be back though :D

[cavin420]

Imran Nazir wins the head to head collision with Humayun Farhat. Humayun will be back though :D
but the farhat brothers got to do a tag team on shoaib malik.......

im waiting for humayun to fireeeeeeeeee .....btw the match was a bit close wasnt it ...lahore n sialkot one.......i say send imran and humayun to open next time around :16:

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

AJ always supports Faisalabad, I am supporting Islamabad though I doubt that they would make it to the next stage.

im cheering on islamabad too! i hope they can do reasonably well!

[Team Slayer]

Karachi beats Rawalpindi! Yah baby!

[cavin420]

Karachi beats Rawalpindi! Yah baby!
:O:O:O
:O
they just got lucky im sure!!!

[cavin420]

2 of our best players mohd wasim n yasir arafat bloody run out which cost us the game :69:

[Raz]

but the farhat brothers got to do a tag team on shoaib malik.......

im waiting for humayun to fireeeeeeeeee .....btw the match was a bit close wasnt it ...lahore n sialkot one.......i say send imran and humayun to open next time around :16:

Yeah it was close, and as for Imran and Humayun opening? I like the idea very very much.

PS. Humayun's highest score when opening an innings was.............
































139* FROM 63 BALLS with 19 FOURS AND 6 SIXES!!! :O :16:

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Archive/Scorecards/a/14/a14946.html

[cavin420]

raz, just imagine if humayun ever plays 100 balls....:16:

[Raz]

raz, just imagine if humayun ever plays 100 balls....:16:

Imagine if Afridi and Humayun opened the innings and faced 100 balls each!! :16: :16: :16: :16:

[cavin420]

Imagine if Afridi and Humayun opened the innings and faced 100 balls each!! :16: :16: :16: :16:
sadly no freeedi :( but 20/20......send imran n humayun together lets say both play 60 balls each.............hummayun scores 150...imran score hmm 100 ?
what a treat to watch.......too bad imran nazir was in the opposition ;-)

[Nauman]

im cheering on islamabad too! i hope they can do reasonably well!
Oh well lost by 1 run today, pity they didnt show this match live because I was looking forward to seeing Islamabad play.

[amarmak]

Peshawar beat Faisalabad..

Good batting by rifatullah, good bowling by Jannisar khan and great field management by Yunis

[Nauman]

Imagine if Afridi and Humayun opened the innings and faced 100 balls each!! :16: :16: :16: :16:
Well Afridi failed in the last 20/20

[Team Slayer]

:O:O:O
:O
they just got lucky im sure!!!

we were the runners up last time, so no, we didn't get lucky...we're just damn good :11: and btw, we did this without Freedy...imagine what would have with Freedy in the Karachi lineup :D

[cavin420]

we were the runners up last time, so no, we didn't get lucky...we're just damn good :11: and btw, we did this without Freedy...imagine what would have with Freedy in the Karachi lineup :D
oo give it a rest blah blah blahdi blahdi blah...its all happening since im sat here..otherwise you guys had no chance :P

btw admit it , it was a close call...our last 2 tailenders wasted 6 balls without scoring....had been someone decent could have got us home...but well played :P

[Team Slayer]

oo give it a rest blah blah blahdi blahdi blah...its all happening since im sat here..otherwise you guys had no chance :P

btw admit it , it was a close call...our last 2 tailenders wasted 6 balls without scoring....had been someone decent could have got us home...but well played :P

of course you didn't have anyone decent, this is Rawalpindi we are talking about...buhahahaha :16: :P

[cavin420]

of course you didn't have anyone decent, this is Rawalpindi we are talking about...buhahahaha :16: :P
excuse me??? shoaib akhtar.....mohd wasim/mohd akram/yasir arafat/ali naqvi/ and God knows who ........
they are from pindi :P

but anyway its all a conspiracy see even if shoaib akhtar was fit he was going to play from islamabad........so no one wants pindi to win..although they are more then capable ;-)

[Disco_Lemonade]

khi dolphins playing gud vs lhr lions... dolphin 61/4 in 5.2 ovrs

[Disco_Lemonade]

abdur razzaq takes wicket... 67/2 khi dolphins.. faisal iqbal on for wicket
7 ovrs

[Raz]

we were the runners up last time, so no, we didn't get lucky...we're just damn good :11: and btw, we did this without Freedy...imagine what would have with Freedy in the Karachi lineup :D

Exactly, records would have been smashed im sure, carnaged would have been the result :16:

[Disco_Lemonade]

rght handed akhtar sarfaraz playing nice... 8 gone 75/2 dolphins

[Disco_Lemonade]

its not akhtar sarfaraz its afsar nawaz... 86/2 after 9

[Disco_Lemonade]

dolphins 93/2 after 10 overs

[cavin420]

what are the teams for dolphins n lions i mean main players

[Amjid Javed]

Naumnan any updates on Faisalabad?

[amarmak]

Lions win... some special effort by dolphins wicket keeper... he gave away 30 runs in byes :)

[Daoud]

Aj - Faisalabad got hammered by Younis' team (Peshawar)
That Jaan Sar Khan for Peshawar wasnt quick but he was getting huge swing around the 15 over mark. Might have even been reverse swing :O

Great game between Lahore Lions and Karachi (more like Bengali looking at their players) Dolphins.
Afsar Nawaz and Faisal Iqbal got Karachi to 199.
Razzaq played a brilliant 63 off 31 but when he got out it looked all over for Lahore especially when they needed 21 off 7 with 1 wicket left. But Imran Tahir and Wasim Khan hit some big shots and pulled off a very unlikely win

[Amjid Javed]

Thanks for update.

[cinderella]

ah man :(
faisalabad and islamabad......my teams.

[Amir_rulez]

Aj - Faisalabad got hammered by Younis' team (Peshawar)
That Jaan Sar Khan for Peshawar wasnt quick but he was getting huge swing around the 15 over mark. Might have even been reverse swing :O

Great game between Lahore Lions and Karachi (more like Bengali looking at their players) Dolphins.
Afsar Nawaz and Faisal Iqbal got Karachi to 199.
Razzaq played a brilliant 63 off 31 but when he got out it looked all over for Lahore especially when they needed 21 off 7 with 1 wicket left. But Imran Tahir and Wasim Khan hit some big shots and pulled off a very unlikely win
I thought that was possible only if Afridi was on crease, OR when I was on stickcricket.com.
21 off 7 balls is quite an achievement.
btw, any int'l level players in Khi team?

[Team Slayer]

nooo...Dolphins lost :(
good job to the Lions, sounds like a fanstastic and entertaining run-chase!

[Easa]

I watched the match live on Tensports... Wasim Khan made 16 of 6 balls, while Imran Tahir smashed 11 of three to pull of the unlikliest of wins.

Was a good match, both teams got around the 200 run mark.

Any more matches today?

[Daoud]

Unlikely Easa. Look at the time in Pakistan

The Dolphins had quite a few test cricketers. Sami, Faisal Iqbal and Asim Kamal.

[Easa]

I thought Iqbal's captaincy today was pretty good, and Sami actually bowled pretty well.

[Daoud]

I thought Iqbal's captaincy today was pretty good, and Sami actually bowled pretty well.
Apart from his last over. He did get a bit of a phaintying from Razzaq.
It was also quite laughable when that bald offspinner was telling his fielder to move after being hit onto the roof off consecutive deliveries. Did he want a fielder up there?
Both this guy and the other offspinner have very dodgy actions

[Easa]

The other offspinner, Irfanuddin has an extremely shady action.

His arm is bent considerably.

From the naked eye, it looks like a big chuck.

[Uzzy]

Are these shown on t.v at all in the U.K?

[the true passionist]

good to see....Farhat, Malik, and M Asif performing well!!

[gfx]

Either Abbotabad or Rawalpindi for me...... anyone know why they have Shaoib listed under Islbad? Not that hes playing anyhow

[Easa]

Either Abbotabad or Rawalpindi for me...... anyone know why they have Shaoib listed under Islbad? Not that hes playing anyhow

Maybe because he's from Islamabad. :O

[cavin420]

Maybe because he's from Islamabad. :O
he is noT!!!!!!!!he is from morgah place in rawalpindi i belive has always played his cricket for rawalpindi..........just cause you have a house in islamabad doesnt make you an islamabadi :P many people who are actually frm rawalpindi do that..including us!!!!


PS : question to those who think hes not from pindi......why does everyone call him rawalpindi express then (use your brain think :P

[cavin420]

and was it me or was this orange ball experiment not that successfull..i couldnt pick it easily on tele wonder how the players were.....

[Farhad]

Lahore Lions needed 27 off the last 9 deliveries with just the last wicket standing...and they won!

There were a few unpleasant incidents during the Lahore innings, as a few Karachi fielders went OTT in their celebrations and sledging. The idiot bowler gave Taufeeq a flying kiss as a send-off after bowling him out. Youhana was visibly annoyed when things continued whilst he started his knock, walked up to the umpire, and sternly himself admonished Faisal Iqbal the skipper to reign things in. Poor Faisal had no choice as this was coming from someone he wants to bat with in the Pak middle order!

Razzak who blasted 61 off 30-odd balls, in the post-match interview said: "Humm tu khailne aaye thai...Karachi team waale serious ho gaye." ...(We just came to play cricket but the Karachi boys got too serious.)

[jalex382]

Lahore Lions needed 27 off the last 9 deliveries with just the last wicket standing...and they won!

There were a few unpleasant incidents during the Lahore innings, as a few Karachi fielders went OTT in their celebrations and sledging. The idiot bowler gave Taufeeq a flying kiss as a send-off after bowling him out. Youhana was visibly annoyed when things continued whilst he started his knock, walked up to the umpire, and sternly himself admonished Faisal Iqbal the skipper to reign things in. Poor Faisal had no choice as this was coming from someone he wants to bat with in the Pak middle order!

Razzak who blasted 61 off 30-odd balls, in the post-match interview said: "Humm tu khailne aaye thai...Karachi team waale serious ho gaye." ...(We just came to play cricket but the Karachi boys got too serious.)

Farhad i felt the same way that they were going bit over the top, but then i was like maybe that will give more taste to the cricket so fans will turn up to support their respective teams.
I hope it doesnt leave any bad taste for the players who will be joining eachother in the national team, coz for sure we need ONE UNIT in national team and no grudges.

[Daoud]

That flying kiss was so stupid. Taufeeq Umar laughed it off but the guy looked like such a queer doing that. Moyo certainly looked very p'eed off as well

[Easa]

That flying kiss was so stupid. Taufeeq Umar laughed it off but the guy looked like such a queer doing that. Moyo certainly looked very p'eed off as well

Taufeeq looked like he wanted to sock the guy. :)))

[gfx]

Maybe because he's from Islamabad. :O
You think a man from the streeets like Shaoib would be from a Islmb LOL
Not a chance . hes defn from rawalP