T20 World Cup NZ v PAK

No Quarter

India and England will be pleased to get Pakistan in the final. They are a decent bowling unit but limited with the bat outside of Babar and Rizwan

voodoo

Classic

LABCAT

Geez, Southee at the death, that's not great.

No Quarter

We really haven't made them work for it

canefan

Terrible game from us. Pakistan far too good

voodoo

A wide then a lazy punch past you, way to finish Southee

KiwiMurph

The difference in the quality of fielding/bowling in this game was gigantic.

Donsteppa

Pakistan bowled very well and were enthusiatic in the field. We fielded terribly with unimaginative captaincy.

We were lucky to take it to the final over.

No Quarter

@canefan said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

Terrible game from us. Pakistan far too good

The most annoying thing about that is Pakistan weren't actually too good, our bowling and fielding were just appalling from start to finish.

ARHS

Yeow. But for the dropped catches we would have been well in it. Was closer than I expected and some near misses with 3 or 4 overs remaining.

ACT Crusader

Outplayed.

Well done Pakistan.

I do prefer the two sides in the other semi, but Pakistan were my smokey choice prior to the tournament starting because of their bowling.

Impressive bowling backed by their fielding. What an opening partnership! Nine T-20 century partnerships for those two. Three in T-20 WCs.

Black caps arghhhhhh

voodoo

@ARHS said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

Yeow. But for the dropped catches we would have been well in it. Was closer than I expected and some near misses with 3 or 4 overs remaining.

Really??!!!!

I reckon that's utter BS mate

We got well and truly smacked

Chris B.

Outplayed in all facets tonight.

If we'd taken all our catches, though, we likely would have won - despite that our bowlers were pretty sub par.

Not able to exert pressure.

No Quarter

@voodoo said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@ARHS said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

Yeow. But for the dropped catches we would have been well in it. Was closer than I expected and some near misses with 3 or 4 overs remaining.

Really??!!!!

I reckon that's utter BS mate

We got well and truly smacked

So Pakistan's batting lineup is extremely flaky. Basically, they all suck except for Babar and Rizwan. If Conway takes that (pretty regulation) catch at the start then Pakistan are in trouble with the chase. So I agree with the statement that but for dropped catches we would have been well in it. Gutted that we decided to have our worst fielding performance in a long time in a WC semi final.

KiwiMurph

@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

If Conway takes that (pretty regulation) catch at the start

Low and a full dive going against his weight - no way that was pretty regulation.

ACT Crusader

When you have an under par score in a do or die match, you have to mix it up with the bowling with playing one of your slower bowlers early.

Once again Sodhi and SatNav go for less than the required RR (6.5 rpo) and our 3 quicks get tapped around for 8+, 7.5 and 9+

Just doesn’t make any sense.

voodoo

@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@voodoo said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@ARHS said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

Yeow. But for the dropped catches we would have been well in it. Was closer than I expected and some near misses with 3 or 4 overs remaining.

Really??!!!!

I reckon that's utter BS mate

We got well and truly smacked

So Pakistan's batting lineup is extremely flaky. Basically, they all suck except for Babar and Rizwan. If Conway takes that (pretty regulation) catch at the start then Pakistan are in trouble with the chase. So I agree with the statement that but for dropped catches we would have been well in it. Gutted that we decided to have our worst fielding performance in a long time in a WC semi final.

We dropped 1 catch early, and 1 late that didn't matter?

For me, we lost it with the bat. Left 15-20 runs out there and that set the tone

ARHS

Definitely our worst fielding performance in some time. Yep I thought Pakistan had a flaky middle order that we had to put under pressure. But we let them off the hook...

No Quarter

@KiwiMurph said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

If Conway takes that (pretty regulation) catch at the start

Low and a full dive going against his weight - no way that was pretty regulation.

Not for a part time keeper I guess. But an actual keeper should take that pretty much every time, in fact I'd expect them to get two hands to it. Conway made that look hard, I've taken plenty of low catches to my right and I'm nowhere near professional level, they aren't that difficult with gloves on.

ACT Crusader

@voodoo said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@voodoo said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

@ARHS said in T20 World Cup NZ v PAK:

Yeow. But for the dropped catches we would have been well in it. Was closer than I expected and some near misses with 3 or 4 overs remaining.

Really??!!!!

I reckon that's utter BS mate

We got well and truly smacked

So Pakistan's batting lineup is extremely flaky. Basically, they all suck except for Babar and Rizwan. If Conway takes that (pretty regulation) catch at the start then Pakistan are in trouble with the chase. So I agree with the statement that but for dropped catches we would have been well in it. Gutted that we decided to have our worst fielding performance in a long time in a WC semi final.

We dropped 1 catch early, and 1 late that didn't matter?

For me, we lost it with the bat. Left 15-20 runs out there and that set the tone

The death batting was disappointing but I thought we still had a score to defend. But we needed to come out buzzing in the field and bowling to a field. We looked flat and pie after pie, the game was being taken away from us.

I expected better from us in the second innings

The Silver Fern

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