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Pakistan bowling lineup issues. Wasim just giving away 60 runs for 3 wickets in a 400-run game is quite brilliant.
Haris Rauf and Shaheen were smashed across the ground. I didn’t quite understand if it was the bowling or the ground because there were some good balls but the way Rachin and Kane handled those balls just looked absolute class. The mentor and mentee just belting away bowlers.
Some teams like New Zealand and South always attract these bad joojoos. Losing by boundary count and now losing after scoring 400 runs? I think Kane also mentioned that they were aiming for 450, I mean imagine thinking that you are 50 runs short even after scoring 400 runs. RIDICULOUS.
Look it’s cool that Pakistan is keeping the tournament open and that team is like a wrench thrown into a bloody mixer but this match is just unbelievable.
Kane would have missed his century if he had just held back on that shot maybe he could’ve gotten his 100, and every time Kane got back after the umpteen injuries he performed. Last time he got a 78 against Bangladesh and now 95.
It’s the third century for Rachin Ravindra!
It’s unbelievable that he came in as a replacement for Kanos and is sitting on the second-highest score in ICC World Cup. Many of us don’t even know him!
I never heard of him before the World Cup. He plays somewhat like Sachin, Saeed Anward or a young Kane even, I think he’s already his protege but what a way to use the opportunity he’s been given, look at some of his shots right here!
He’s just 23, he’ll be 24 on November 18th
He’s already scored 300+ runs in this World Cup, he’s some superhero batter who’s going to a long way.
I started looking at the highest run scorers in the last few World Cups who crossed 300.
1992 – 456 – M.Crowe was the highest
1996 – 523- Tendulkar (7 matches)
1999 – 461 – Dravid
2003 – 673- Tendulkar and 465- Ganguly
2007 – 659 – Hayden, 548 – Jaywardane, 539 – Ponting, 499 – Styris
2011 – 500 – Dilshan, 482 – Tendulkar
2015 – 547- Guptill, 541 – Sanga
2019 – 648 – Rohit, 647 – Warner, 606 – Shakib, 578 – Kane Williamson, 556 – Root, 532 – Bairstow, 507 – Finch
2023 – Rachin – 523* (by his 8th match) just behind 545 by QDk
And guess what no one was as young as this kid. Well actually Sachin was around the same age and he was also the captain later that year I think.
Fakhar Zaman’s coming-of-the-age innings!
I mean he probably single-handedly gave Pakistan another day to fight! If it wasn’t for him and his 3 sixes from Ish Sodhi’s over (20 runs), they wouldn’t have won this match. They were leading by 21 runs and that was everything.
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