Write off Pakistan during your possess peril: Afridi
Afridi says Pakistan are still in a run to win a Champions Trophy. PHOTO: AFP
LONDON: Pakistan trumped South Africa on Thursday to infer they sojourn arguably a many indeterminate group in general cricket and former all-rounder Shahid Afridi pronounced it would be a mistake to write them off in a ongoing Champions Trophy.
Four days after being steamrolled by arch-rivals India, Sarfraz Khan and his group friends dissapoint South Africa in a rain-hit compare to revitalise their Group B debate in Birmingham.
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Consistency has never been their clever indicate though Afridi, who featured in Pakistan’s 5 Champions Trophy campaigns, pronounced a win has a intensity to renovate a immature side.
“It is heartening to see Pakistan play a approach it did and we wish it continues a good work and brings smiles on a faces of a ardent cricket fans,” Afridi wrote in a mainstay for cricket ruling physique website www.icc-cricket.com.
“I also feel that Pakistan shouldn’t be ruled out of pretension row anymore. The win currently can make this side do some extraordinary things in a tournament. Once again write Pakistan off during your possess peril,” he added.
Paceman Hasan Ali led Pakistan’s softened bowling opening opposite South Africa, claiming 3-24 to assistance shorten a Proteas to 219-8 in 50 overs. Pakistan were 119-3 in 27 overs, 19 runs forward underneath a Duckworth-Lewis process — that governs such weather-hit contests — when sleet intervened to give them their initial win in a tournament.
Pakistan win by 19 runs (DLS method) opposite South Africa
Afridi was quite tender with 23-year-old Hasan Ali, who walked divided with a man-of-the-match award.
“I don’t remember Pakistan quick bowlers delivering match-winning performances in new years, hence Hasan’s three-wicket spell done me unequivocally happy,” pronounced Afridi. “He is a mature bowler for his age, has decent gait and a ability of seaming a round while he can also make a aged round retreat with exquisite control.”
Pakistan interpretation their Group B debate opposite Sri Lanka in Cardiff on Monday.
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