Ross Taylor thanks Kamran Akmal for the birthday gift – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849, has ironically thanked the discarded Pakistani wicketkeeper, Kamran Akmal, who dropped the Kiwi batsman twice in a World Cup 2011 encounter earlier this year, giving him the chance to score a match-winning hundred.
Pakistan had a fantastic http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760. However, they had a forgettable match against the Black Caps.
The Green Shirts were favourites to beat the Kiwis in the group match, and at one stage of the game, they were on top as the Kiwis had lost four of their top order batsmen for only 113 runs on the board.
Pakistani wicketkeeper, Kamran Akmal, dropped Taylor twice on two successive balls by Shoaib Akhtar, and after that he never looked back and thrashed the Pakistani bowlers in the death overs.
Ironically, the match was played on the 8th of March, 2011, which is the birthday of Taylor, who believes that this is was the best birthday gift he could have received.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kamran-Akmal-c70122 for my birthday gift. I wasn’t high on confidence running into that game and the scores were a bit low as well. It just shows how much a couple of balls can change the way you play this game. Had a bit of luck
go my way and ran into a bit of form”.
The Kiwis were considered the underdogs in the tournament, but they went on to qualify for the semi-finals of the tournament after a morale boosting victory over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. The right-handed batsman was also made the Kiwi captain after the mega event.
The most astonishing thing about Taylor's innings was the way he slammed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Razzaq-c41623 for sixes in the latter part of the innings.
“It was a shortish boundary the end http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Razzaq-c84421 and Shoaib were bowling from and I was backing myself to clear it even if I got a little bit of it on the bat,” he added.
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