RBS 20-20 Cup Semi Finals: Pak Openers Fail Again, Akmal Continues Good Show
Contrary to what I reported yesterday, Pakistan's ICC World Twenty20 squad members did turn out for the RBS 20-20 Cup semi finals.
Salman Butt (25 off 33) and Ahmed Shehzad (10 off 13) once again showed why the PCB selectors have been so wrong in their choice of openers for the 20-20 world cup.
Hell, Salman Butt hasn't even opened in the last few matches.
Lahore Lions have so many of them in these two, Nasir Jamshed (1st ball duck), and Imran Farhat (33 off 27), that it confuses Abdul Razzak.
Butt, Shehzad, and Nasir have taken turns in getting those 1st ball ducks. Well it was 2nd ball ducks for the former two, but you know what I mean.
Despite that, the Lahore Lions won a close match against the Islamabad Leopards and booked their place in tonight's final.
If it wasn't for Kamran Akmal the Lions would have been embarassed, but he managed a well made unbeaten 27 off 18 deliveries with 2 sixes and a boundary, to take them home by 3 wickets in the last over.
Razzak hasn't used Akmal well during the RBS Cup. In the first 2 games, he didn't get a hit; and then in the last game and the semi he batted at numbers 7 and 8. With the World Twenty20 around the corner, I believe Akmal should have been given more batting practice.
Akmal's keeping however has been top notch! - with another 2 catches in the semi, he's on 9 dismissals in 4 matches.
In the 2nd semi final, the defending champions Sialkot Stallions easily beat the Lahore Eagles after posting 181 in their 20 overs.
Imran Nazir faced only 10 deliveries - 4 he missed or hit to the fielders, 3 of them he hit out of the ground, 2 of them he hit to the boundary, and 1 he got out on. And that is what he scored - 26 off 10.
Oh how we are going to miss him at the 20-20 world cup.
Shoaib Malik continued his good run with the bat with an aggressive 45 off 27 balls with 5 boundaries.
The Stallions are not only the defending champions but they have also won the domestic 20-20 title thrice in 3 years.
If they beat the Lahore Lions, who have been on a rampage under Razzak, they will make it 4 in a row.
Can the Lions stop them?
Should be a cracker tonight.
Salman Butt (25 off 33) and Ahmed Shehzad (10 off 13) once again showed why the PCB selectors have been so wrong in their choice of openers for the 20-20 world cup.
Hell, Salman Butt hasn't even opened in the last few matches.
Lahore Lions have so many of them in these two, Nasir Jamshed (1st ball duck), and Imran Farhat (33 off 27), that it confuses Abdul Razzak.
Butt, Shehzad, and Nasir have taken turns in getting those 1st ball ducks. Well it was 2nd ball ducks for the former two, but you know what I mean.
Despite that, the Lahore Lions won a close match against the Islamabad Leopards and booked their place in tonight's final.
If it wasn't for Kamran Akmal the Lions would have been embarassed, but he managed a well made unbeaten 27 off 18 deliveries with 2 sixes and a boundary, to take them home by 3 wickets in the last over.
Razzak hasn't used Akmal well during the RBS Cup. In the first 2 games, he didn't get a hit; and then in the last game and the semi he batted at numbers 7 and 8. With the World Twenty20 around the corner, I believe Akmal should have been given more batting practice.
Akmal's keeping however has been top notch! - with another 2 catches in the semi, he's on 9 dismissals in 4 matches.
In the 2nd semi final, the defending champions Sialkot Stallions easily beat the Lahore Eagles after posting 181 in their 20 overs.
Imran Nazir faced only 10 deliveries - 4 he missed or hit to the fielders, 3 of them he hit out of the ground, 2 of them he hit to the boundary, and 1 he got out on. And that is what he scored - 26 off 10.
Oh how we are going to miss him at the 20-20 world cup.
Shoaib Malik continued his good run with the bat with an aggressive 45 off 27 balls with 5 boundaries.
The Stallions are not only the defending champions but they have also won the domestic 20-20 title thrice in 3 years.
If they beat the Lahore Lions, who have been on a rampage under Razzak, they will make it 4 in a row.
Can the Lions stop them?
Should be a cracker tonight.
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Islamabad Leopards is it a sponsored
name or they just selected it for themselves
Not sponsored Indophile.. They're all named after animals: Leopards, Lions, panthers, eagles, stallions, dolphins, bears, wolves, rams, tigers, hawks, zebras, rhinos..
Thats all 13 of them..
why wud u say they're sponsored?