Pak Attitude & Professionalism Sucks!

They are saying the same thing on Geo Sports, so I will
not mince any words. The attitude and body language of
the Pakistani players in the game versus india, has been
nothing short of shameful.

Be-gheruT.

When you have just handed a game to india, it does not
behoove you to be showing your baTT-tesi and goofing
around like a bunch of jokers when the final winner is to
be determined. From the captain on down, there was a
clear lack of professionalism. I have said it here before
and I'll say it again, Shoaib Malik does not have a winning
attitude. It's like, winning is not important to him. They guy
looks like he's on dope or something. Not like Shahid Afridi,
who looked rightly PO'ed towards the end.

Our regular batsmen disappointed us today, but our
bowlers truly disgraced us. Today, the secret is out. We
can't bowl straight to save a match. Pathetic.


Sheikh Chilli


PS: Umer Gul needs a haircut and a spanking.

calm down it's only a stupid 20-20 game, atleast they qualified for the next phase.

What are you trying to do ?

they've played such a good match and after all this your trying to insult then ?

Ease on the chilli, sheikh saab.

Its a 20-20 game

It was clean and evident today - we can't handle any sort of pressure.

We are the mentally weakest team in cricket.

How can we go from winning easily over a very strong Sri Lanka team to losing to this second string India team (even with a heroic performance by Asif) ?

how is shooting down stumps going to decide a cricket match. I would have laughed too. I hope this doesnt happen in the final. I really thought they were going to HIT 5 balls.

winning
losing
20/20

it doesn't matter..

what does matter is the disturbing trend of our batsmen failing under even the most modest pressure.

butt, malik, afridi and yk were are playing great before today .. what happened ?

We tied , it's just the bowl out thing , we werent really thinking who to pick , I think they should've picked Afridi , Younis , all slow/ spinners bowlers .. etc


& we werent ready for the bowl out thingy, now it proofs pak need to improve in their bowling they should've atleast aim for the wicket once?

well the main point is atleast we're through.

It's only a game in the end, a lot of teams have faltered under modest pressure and Pakistan already advanced to the super eight's anyway.

they definitely played very well until the bowl out! the jokes and laughing around during the bowl out and Umar Gul laughing at Arafat after he missed the stumps didnt show 'professionalism'. Well done Misbah!

We used to be like this in the 90s also when our batsmen used to fall under pressure while chasing. Smartly - at that time, whenever we won the toss we'd at least bat first. We gotta do this again, no matter what the pitch conditions are.

yea chyll man dnt worry about it na!

we get em in da semi'z !

You have got to be kidding me! Us getting into the semis? The only thing I am hoping from these right now is that they atleast beat Bangladesh. Its a foregone conclusion what our fate is going to be in the rest of the championship

Did you think for a second that playing conditions were different today?? In form batsmen failed but out of form Asif (who you think sucks in 20/20) bowls amazing spell, it's not only a co incidence.

I am not defending our batsmen but just imagine if Misbah had scored one more run, we wouldn't have been talking about our batsmen failing under pressure.

Today we lost BUT today I am so PROUD of PAKISTAN what a FIGHTBACK! so what if we lost in some Stupid penalties!

"If Pakistan lose [in the ICC World Twenty20] because of bowling, I will never be able to forgive myself." Shoaib.

I bet he's so far laughing his @$$ off atmo.

Well, Yasir and Misbah made it so close otherwise our middle order was ready to give up hard hitting. Malik and Butt wasted too many deliveries. They should have started hitting ball from 11-12th over. Batting order was wrong and Afridi should come before Malik.

Blow out was very shamfull because our blowers can't see wickets on right place without batsman. Is it really difficult to hit wickets without batsman?? Yokers could the job easily.

I know we can't hit wickets at all and told my mates that we gonna lose it, which was proven true.

Anyway, good luck for next matches.

I agree with you on that kashif77 I mean the players we really expected to perform today under pressure didn't & players we least expected to perform they are the ones that made US PROUD WHAT A FIGHTBACK! PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!!!

Negative mentality is what I hate the most.

Pakistan needs to start producing a lot of optimists as opposed to pessimists otherwise this nation is doomed.

We all knew we lost the match when Afridi got out, but MIsbah and Yasir almost won us the match, that's called resiliance and professionalism when its needed.

We lacked professionalism in the begenning dats all! Otherwise we had the bowling. Just need to fix our openers.

Yes, it's a game and I don't bemoan the result. What disgusted
me today is how we played it. No freaking commitment, no spirit
like you saw in the Aussies today.

And I blame it on the non-serious, immature, no-character leader-
ship of Malik, Younis and Butt, which is affecting the younger lot.
Atleast Inzamam commanded respect, but now there is nobody to
fill his shoes.

We have a bunch of goofy-a** children running around, without
any adult supervision.


Sheikh Chilli

Sheikh if misbah got that 1 run at the end... I'm sure you're entire outlook would be different and everything else would be forgotten.. Thought it was a fantastic match and there should be more games like this.

Sheikh, you have a right to be upset at the team under one condition - if knocking down stumps was a part of their training camp. It was a fun way to end the game and thats the way they treated it.

Gul just could not stop smiling today lol.. when he got hit for a 4.. took a wicket.. pressure of the last ball.. missed the bowl out.. just carried on smiling lol

your one of those people who would still have been complaining if Inzamam was still around, it was only the first round and we already got through

i know it hurts to loose to India but you cant just insult the players, and stop ticking us off about your complaints creating useless threads by taking your anger out, u need to learn to handle defeat

and about malik - its his first majour tournament it was never gona be an easy ride let the kid learn while i was watching till the end he lukd upset (quite the opposite to what you mentioned sheikh)

have no idea why salman butt was in todays lineup seriously wasting so many balls in this 20-20 short game we aint expecting a 50 from him

all in all i think it was a very good fightback from misbah and yasir arafat and asif's bowling was tremendous im glad he got MOM!!!

Whats a Bowl out thingy?

when bowlers bowl to hit the stumps like a penalty shootout in soccer but Pakistani bowlers missed the stumps by a foot

Bowl out is each team gets to choose 5 bowlers and each team has 5 balls, so each bowler has only one ball to hit the wicket

and suprisingly pak didnt even hit one lol

If only girls started to open up a bit now and helped us in the hitting department, yes Muzy?

It is a nerve jangling affair. If you are an off spinner you can hit the stump 9 out of 10 times confidently as it is easy to target and control.

three at a time would be the way to go.

Well, we just did it in the warm up match against them, so I think we can do it again. We need to be more positive, we loose one game and it's the end of the world. And btw, what do you mean our bowling was pathetic? I thought we did pretty well to restrict them to 141...

Today, Shoaib Malik had the gall to come out and whine about
how they were not prepared for the bowl-out. Gimme a break!
like India were prepared ?. You could not hit the stumps, even
once. Dubb ke maro. Our captain is on something, I tell you.
He should be checked for DoDays.

All the 'positive and optimistic' statements cannot hide the fact
that we had trouble chasing a measly 141 score. That all of our
top order batsmen were duds and aside from Asif, we don't have
any serious bowlers. I don't foresee us getting into the final 4.
No way, no how. We just don't deserve it.


Sheikh Chilli


PS: Being positive does not mean hiding your head in the sand.

sheikh chilli is loosing the plot

c'mon man this bowl-out was pathetic and was a stupid way to decide who won the match

how the heck is it maliks fault if his 3 bowlers cudnt hit the stumps? i mean if he had a go fair enough you could blame him

lay off stop whining we still got through to the next round, i knw it was a pak-indo match at least we didnt loose hands up we fought till the end even if some of the players didnt provide much help in the game,

and excuse me but what is wrong with being positive and optimistic - i mean look at ricky ponting at the post match presentation after they lost to zimbabwe, he was like 'oh it happens they outplayed us blah blah blah, he didnt admit that his team lost coz they were 2naive to think they could thrash zimbabwe, - so what if a captain wants to encourage his players that to learn from mistakes and look ahead to the next game

its you that needs to get his head out of the sand not them