2nd Semi Final: Kolkata Tigers v Lahore Badshahs

[Oxy]

Sami - FULL TOSS

AND 4

8 off 1 ball so far

[Oxy]

22 off 11

[TruSachFan]

5 wides



roflllllllllllllllll

[Oxy]

Single

21 off 10

[RumiNYC]

oh fu.....sami...that's it game over....

[sehban]

5 wides just horrible

[Mohsin]

Sami, Sami Sami!!!

[kasoo10]

Sami can be excused if he can get Klusner bowled out.

[Oxy]

Dot

21 off 9 balls

I thought Sami had been retired to 'stud'?

[sehban]

another 4

[pakcricketfan]

My word, if the tigers win this one...GIVE THE MAN OF THE MATCH AWARD TO SAMI!!

[Oxy]

Single

20 off 8 balls

[RumiNYC]

20 runs 8 balls

[Hash]

Sami! Sami! Sami!

What a CHAMP!!

[Oxy]

leg bye

19 off 7

[Oxy]

Single

Klusner on strike

18 off the last over.

Sami - take a bow

[W63L35]

Sami! Sami! Sami!

What a CHAMP!!

Come on Hash............. Sami is just making it much more interesting & thrilling! :P

[RumiNYC]

c'mon sami! U CAN DO IT!!!!!

[Oxy]

Single

17 off 5 balls

[Hash]

4-0-49-0

Brilliant figures by Sami. Great stuff! The spearhead of the attack that would beat our current Pakistan team 'easily' according to some muppets over here.

[RumiNYC]

6 balls / 18 runs...

[Oxy]

SIXER

11 off 4 balls

[Mohsin]

NO

[TruSachFan]

666666666666666666

[Amjid Javed]

Come on azhar use your experience and quality as a death bowler!

[Oxy]

2

9 off 3 balls

Should have been a runout.

[TruSachFan]

9 in 3

[Oxy]

DOT

9 off 2 balls

[Amjid Javed]

Klusener smashing ball around like its 1999!!!

[W63L35]

Who wants a bowl out?

[Oxy]

DOT

9 off 1 ball

[Amjid Javed]

Klusener to lose out again in an epic semi-final?

[Oxy]

Jesus Christ

WIDE

8 off 1 ball

[Mohsin]

Jeeeeeeeez wat a match!!

[Oxy]

Bowl it straight - let him hit it for 6!

[Amjid Javed]

So its the Heros v Villians (Badashahs) in the final..

what a script!

[TruSachFan]

idiot gavaskar

[RumiNYC]

oh boy! what thrill! amazing game.....great knock by klusener...memorable

[Oxy]

OUT

Badshah's win

Talk about making it hard work!

[Mohsin]

Lahore Badsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah's

[kasoo10]

Is it too hard to bowl on the off stump to Klusner, or Sami jsut can not do it.

[Oxy]

I'd drop Sami for the final for a start!

[W63L35]

idiot gavaskar

Like father like son! :P

[W63L35]

I'd drop Sami for the final for a start!

For who.... Riaz Afridi or Arshad Khan? Saqi is in London right now.

Plus finals are best of 3!

[RumiNYC]

nah sami has been great prior to this match...and he can hit some big shot too...91 runs off 57 balls....i still cant figure out how in the earth afridi hit century out of 37 balls

[dblock]

Azhar you nervous legend!

SA player had to choke, why didn't he run for 3rd to last ball.

[FAM]

lol. what a match!

[PlanetPakistan]

What an innings that was from Zulu! As AJ mentioned this reminded me of the 1999 world cup.

So thats 8 in a row now

[Oxy]

For who.... Riaz Afridi or Arshad Khan? Saqi is in London right now.

Plus finals are best of 3!
I would drop him and play with 10 men...

[PlanetPakistan]

Azhar you nervous legend!

SA player had to choke, why didn't he run for 3rd to last ball.
It was a 50-50 decision, i was once in an exact same situation in 7th grade but the difference is that i won the game for my team and zulu didn't:D

[Pak_Pace]

I dont believe this, Tigers needed something like 12-13 runs an over from the start of 12th over( thats when i started wathcing)...but thanks to Sami they stayed in the hunt till the last over...but thank god an embarrasment of a life time has been avoided and Badshaahs are through to semis...

[Blitzkrieg]

Awsome match!!! congrats badshas

[pakcricketfan]

oooohh....
Congratz to the Badshahs...

I'm still watching to see if sami gets the man of the match awards for making the match all the more thrilling and nailbiting!!

by the way, why was Klusener demanding 2 balls when Azhar bowled a wide??!

[Dhonifan]

well done badshahs and well done Lance

looking forward to the final now

[W63L35]

I would drop him and play with 10 men...
:))
No... its not that I was disagreeing with you Oxy, I just wasn't sure which bowler to pick instead of him. If I have to, then I'd vote for Arshad!

[Dhonifan]

oooohh....


by the way, why was Klusener demanding 2 balls when Azhar bowled a wide??!
he was hoping the umpire forgot to count. :))

[W63L35]

357 runs in 40 overs at a S/R of 8.925 .... wow!

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

What a match !! Klusner played like a true champ that he is. But in the end, a good victory for the Bad'shahs after Sami almost single-handedly cost them a place in the finals.

[pakcricketfan]

he was hoping the umpire forgot to count. :))

:)) :))

[Mohsin]

Sami's the man!!!!
See how he cares for us poor spectators who watch the match. He always wants (and does everything he can) to keep the game alive until the very last ball!

I salute u Sami!! :107:

[pakcricketfan]

What a match !! Klusner played like a true champ that he is. But in the end, a good victory for the Bad'shahs after Sami almost single-handedly cost them a place in the finals.


yeah...see Sami is such a great cricketer...independent!! He needs no assistance from anyone else in doing such things..!
Cricketers are remembered for a long time becoz of their match winning ability...Sami would be remembered for his match losing ability!

[W63L35]

What a match !! Klusner played like a true champ that he is. But in the end, a good victory for the Bad'shahs after Sami almost single-handedly cost them a place in the finals.

Sami did not bowl bad..... it was klusener who batted superbly. Plus..... Azhar's bowling figures are identical to Sami's;
Bowling O M R W Econ
Azhar Mahmood 4 0 45 1 11.25
Mohammad Sami 4 0 47 0 11.75

[pakcricketfan]

Sami did not bowl bad..... it was klusener who batted superbly. Plus..... Azhar's bowling figures are identical to Sami's;
Bowling O M R W Econ
Azhar Mahmood 4 0 45 1 11.25
Mohammad Sami 4 0 47 0 11.75


yeah....but it was Azhar only who saved the Badshahs in the end in the last over otherwise Sami had almost set the stage for Tigers' victory in the 19th over!!
2ndly, it was Sami who dropped Klusener's catch not Azhar!!

[Monsee]

I would drop him and play with 10 men...



Or give Sami to the opposition and allow them to play with 12 men including Sami... :D

[W63L35]

By bashing Sami, you are taking all the credit away from great batting by Zulu!

[dblock]

For a moment I thought Lahore were going to do a 'New Zealand' at the 1992 World Cup, by walking through the group stage, but then getting knocked out at the semis as favourites.

[Xoib]

Or give Sami to the opposition and allow them to play with 12 men including Sami... :D

Still haunts me that we wasted 32 test caps on this guy.

[pakcricketfan]

no one's mentioning Shahid Nazir..
His figures are excellent .. 4 overs and just 12 runs..

[W63L35]

yeah....but it was Azhar only who saved the Badshahs in the end in the last over otherwise Sami had almost set the stage for Tigers' victory in the 19th over!!

I disagree here. 31 runs were needed in last 2 overs. Sami did HIS JOB by giving away ONLY 13 runs and leaving Tigers to score 18 runs in last over......which were impossible any aways because even in this match 18 (or more) runs were scored in only THREE overs...out of which 2 were by Badshahs.

In my opinion, 13 runs in 2nd last over SAVED the game!


2ndly, it was Sami who dropped Klusener's catch not Azhar!!
If he did not drop it, somebody else may have! :P

[W63L35]

Still haunts me that we wasted 32 test caps on this guy.

This part, I totally AGREE with! :D
http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=25443

[pakcricketfan]

By bashing Sami, you are taking all the credit away from great batting by Zulu!

no way!!!! :9:
I'm not taking any credit away from Klusener..
He nearly won the match for the tigers single handedly..he just choked at the last moment..
As for Sami, I'm after him coz he bowled poorly...he bowled on all the wrong areas..and did all the wrong things..
Azhar also gave lot of runs but am not bashing him coz Klusener was playing awesome against him...even when Azhar was not bowling as poorly as Sami!!

[infamous9383]

as long at they win, it doesn't matter how they come.

i though we should have scored more than 180 to start with espically when nazir and H. Farhat we're going ballistic. Alot of them threw there wickets away and no one has mentioned Imran Farhat who has been atrocious barring two innings. Gets LBW same way every time. This might be unfair on Taufeeq but i would bring him into the finals.

Sami was awful, I don't know why he changes his action sometimes but after giving up 5 wides and a four off a virtually one ball, he did well to keep the over down to 13.

Badshahs dodged a big bullet there and i expect them to win the finals since its best out of 3 and don't think Hyderabad is as strong as Kolkota barring Razzaq and Kemp.

[SwEeT CaNdY]

y only sami yar? azhar wasnt that economical too

[i axis]

I am Big fan of ICL but I started to feel it was ixed when Sami bolwed 5 wides in the 19th over...they just wanted to make it close semifinal and Eventually Badshash's win... so the Final becomes interesting or else if Tigers had made it to the finals,then interest would have gone down..What say


No harm done even it was fixed it was good entertainment and Good for Commerical suceess OF ICL..Which is very imp for its Survival.

Cheers

[nikred]

I am Big fan of ICL but I started to feel it was ixed when Sami bolwed 5 wides in the 19th over...they just wanted to make it close semifinal and Eventually Badshash's win... so the Final becomes interesting or else if Tigers had made it to the finals,then interest would have gone down..What say


No harm done even it was fixed it was good entertainment and Good for Commerical suceess OF ICL..Which is very imp for its Survival.

Cheers

so ICL is more like WWE. Scripting matches.:O but there were some really close games

[SameerM]

1 poor game out of 8 for Sami aint a BAD thing.

talk about over excited dragqueens wanting him dropped already!

[Ghoshtbuster]

I am Big fan of ICL but I started to feel it was ixed when Sami bolwed 5 wides in the 19th over...they just wanted to make it close semifinal and Eventually Badshash's win... so the Final becomes interesting or else if Tigers had made it to the finals,then interest would have gone down..What say

No harm done even it was fixed it was good entertainment and Good for Commerical suceess OF ICL..Which is very imp for its Survival.

Cheers
do you understand that humans play the game?

they get nervous, mess up. thats what makes it interesting

[SameerM]

i hope we can get some STATS here.. ie most wickets.. most economicAL.. MOST RUNS HIT.. etc etc..

would be good to show the pesimists some hardcore facts

[Oxy]

When is the final?

[W63L35]

When is the final?
1st Final: Hyderabad Heroes v Lahore Badshahs at Panchkula - Apr 4, 2008
Match scheduled to begin at 19:00 local time (13:30 GMT)


2nd Final: Hyderabad Heroes v Lahore Badshahs at Hyderabad (Decc) - Apr 6, 2008

3rd Final: Hyderabad Heroes v Lahore Badshahs at Hyderabad (Decc) - Apr 7, 2008

[Oxy]

3 finals?

1st one tomorrow?

I think I'll tune in.

Hope Badshah's wrap it up by winning the 1st 2!

Anyone know what time in UK? We are on BST as opposed to GMT.

[Muddaser]

3 finals?

1st one tomorrow?

I think I'll tune in.

Hope Badshah's wrap it up by winning the 1st 2!

Anyone know what time in UK? We are on BST as opposed to GMT.

Match starts at 2.30pm.

Coverage starts at 1.30pm.

On Zee.

[W63L35]

i hope we can get some STATS here.. ie most wickets.. most economicAL.. MOST RUNS HIT.. etc etc..

would be good to show the pesimists some hardcore facts

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/icl/engine/series/340231.html?view=records

[Oxy]

Match starts at 2.30pm.

Coverage starts at 1.30pm.

On Zee.Mad dash to get home for the start of that....

[Indiafan]

I am Big fan of ICL but I started to feel it was ixed when Sami bolwed 5 wides in the 19th over...they just wanted to make it close semifinal and Eventually Badshash's win... so the Final becomes interesting or else if Tigers had made it to the finals,then interest would have gone down..What say


No harm done even it was fixed it was good entertainment and Good for Commerical suceess OF ICL..Which is very imp for its Survival.

Cheers

Did you see thh looks on the players' faces? Inzi's was furious, Sami wanted the ground to swallow him, almost crying? If you think thats fake they must be the best actors in human history, better than any oscar winners! Some people will claim anything before thinking logicaly!