Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 21 runs
Dawn Sport
Published
March 12, 2012



















Umar Gul took three wickets with Mohamamd Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi claiming two each as Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 21 runs in the opening match of the limited-overs Asia Cup tournament on Sunday.
Chasing a target of 263, Bangladesh was dismissed for 241 with 11 balls to spare, with Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan contributing 64 each.
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baqar hasnain
Mar 12, 2012 08:41pm
Pakistan need to groom the next generation of fast bowlers instead of making Hafiz open the bowling attack. This strategy seems to be self defeating in the long run and sooner or later will backfire on them. It is also time for Pakistan to have three separate teams for the three different formats of cricket.
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Dan
Mar 13, 2012 02:19pm
This is not good news, if a low ranking team like Bangladesh could come within 21 runs of winning a match, Pakistan doesn't have much of a chance against any of the bigger teams, these guys need to pull it together and keep up with the consistency !
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Ali
Mar 14, 2012 01:17am
Pakistan team always perform when they are together as one unit and whenever theres a politics in team you can clearly see, as of today we can clearly see that team and public are not happy with misbah and i guess frustration is gona come out in the form of half of the key players not performing and end result would be a loss to pakistan.
This problem is never gona get resolve until a strong board of strong and instant decison makers will be there to help and guide pakistan team. Also mental fitness it required as we have seen number of times that our players get nervous so easily and cant handle pressure situations.
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Ahmed Saeed
Mar 14, 2012 11:07am
The present team is out of steam and may no longer prevail. Look at the performance of veteran batsmen. Pakistan need to inject fresh blood and must say good bye to Misbah, Afridi, all Akmal Bros and Younas. Its time to move ahead.
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faraz
Mar 15, 2012 01:04pm
i would call this is not a victory.if u saw this match .it was going superbly till 25 overs.no wicket fell.but after 30 over the whole pakistani batting order went to the pavilion.the middle order batsman having no responsibilities like younus,misbah .should not say about afridi because if he does not play in batting he actually performed in bowling.but the key batsman who spent a lot of time in pakistani team and having responsibilities on their shoulders they did not perform.and all stuff just because of politics.younus also had been captain of pakistani team .so the senior players fighting with amongst and there lost of whole pakistani team.so they should be think about nation that how they love cricket and when they listen about the news about fixing of match and how betrayed players just like asif,sulman and amir they just frustrated and become hopleless
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