Pakistan v Canada- ICC World Cup 2011 match 17
Pakistan are all set to crush minnows, Canada, in their third ICC 2011 World Cup match. The match will be played at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium Colombo, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
This will be only the second encounter between both teams. Before this Pakistan played the unknown team of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 only once in the 1979 World Cup and thrashed them by a huge margin of eight wickets.
Pakistan have won their first two matches of the coveted mega event against Kenya and co-hosts Sri Lanka. Pakistan thrashed the minnows http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 by a convincing margin of 205 runs while against Sri Lanka they had a hard fought victory
by a mere margin of 11 runs.
These victories have come just at the right time when Pakistan desperately needed them. The success in the previous two matches has definitely boosted the spirits in the Pakistani camp. The morale of the Men in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Green-c60723 is very high
and they are resolute to win the title.
Pakistan have an effective blend of youth and experience in all fields of the game. In batting they have very talented and explosive batsmen.
They have two young guns, Mohammad Hafeez, and, Ahmed Shehzad, to open the innings, who are very talented and can demolish any bowling side with their scorching stroke play.
In the middle order they have veteran, Younis http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s batting line-up. Besides these two, Pakistan
have two very talented and explosive batsmen, Umar Akmal, and, Kamran Akmal, in the middle order as well.
In the lower middle order they have aggressive hitters, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 and Abdur Razzaq, who can take their team home single handedly. At times they can be a nightmare for any bowler in the world. If they click on a particular day,
Pakistan will win the match.
Their bowling attack includes aces such as, the Rawalpindi Express, Shoaib Akhtar, who can terrorize any opposition with his pace, while Umar Gul can break the toes of the opponents with his in-swinging yorkers.
Besides these two big guns, Pakistan have two more very talented left-arm pacers, Wahab Riaz, and Junaid Khan. Junaid Khan made it to the World Cup in the nick of time and replaced another left-arm pacer, Sohail Tanvir, but is still
waiting to make his debut.
The spinners play an important role on the Subcontinent tracks and Pakistan have the world’s most brilliant spin bowlers. For off-spin bowling they have Saeed Ajmal, who can easily deceive any batsman with his “Doosra”, while Abdur
Rehman, is a new find in the field of left-arm slow bowling, who is very accurate with his line and length and can restrict the batsmen to score freely.
One department Pakistan really need to work on is their ground fielding. Because a good fielding side cut the opponent’s runs in almost half.
There is also a renowned proverb “Catches Win Matches” They will have to accept half chances to win the match and maintain their winning streak in their ICC 2011 World Cup campaign.
On the other hand, Canada are just a novice in the cricketing world. There is no comparison between these two teams. Canada can give a tough time once in a blue moon.
They have the potential to tease the teams such as Pakistan but they are not strong enough to defeat such teams. They still need to groom their players in every field of the game. They have already shown, in their match against Sri
Lanka in their opener of the World Cup, the calibre they possess.
The Canadians are just part timers. They do not have any dependable batsmen or quality pacers and spinners.
Therefore, Pakistan will have an upper hand in today’s match. They can easily win the match and they should keep an eye on the net run rate, which will play an important role towards the later stages of the World Cup.
Pakistan (Probable): Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi (capt), Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar/Wahab Riaz.
Canada (Probable): John Davison, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khurram-Chohan-c1791, Harvir Baidwan, Balaji Rao.
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