Pakistan vs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760-Second Innings: Green shirts demolish the West Indian dreams
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 have become the first team to qualify for the semi-finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 by thrashing the West Indies by an emphatic margin of 10 wickets in the first quarter-final of the showpiece event.
It was thoroughly a professional performance by the men in green as they outclassed the opposition in all the departments of the game. The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391, 2011.
Chasing an extremely low score, Pakistan was off to a great start through their openers. Top of the order has been a major problem for the green shirts in this event but http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kamran-Akmal-c70122 were clinical today as they played their shots at will. Both the openers latched on to the lose balls and made sure that they demoralize the West Indian bowlers very early in the innings.
Hafeez and Kamran remained unbeaten and chased down the West Indian total in the 21st over of the innings without facing any hiccup at all. Hafeez remained the top scorer with 61 runs which came off 64 balls with the help of 10 boundaries, whereas, Kamran remained unbeaten on 47 runs for which he consumed 61 balls and struck seven fours.
The West Indian bowling looked ordinary and none of the bowlers were able to make an impression on the Pakistani openers.
Hafeez was named as the Player of the Match for his unbeaten half-century and a brilliant spell of off-spin bowling earlier in the day.
It is a brilliant performance by the green shirts and another victory which is going to boost their confidence for the semi-final and then probably the final as well. Pakistan seem to be a different team ever since they have beaten the defending champions in their last group match.
West Indies on the other hand would be extremely disappointed with their performance as the cricket analysts were expecting them to give a tough time to Pakistan but that did not happen and the first quarter-final of the mega event turned out to be a one sided affair.
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