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[Shahzaday11]

Thanks dear.

Next game up against UAE and it should be the final game for promotion.

[MOD-wmchamps]

You guy’s are doing a great job, keep it up.

Thank you for the support.

It has been a true team effort, and hopefully we can keep this going iA

[Shahzaday11]

Good work dear.

[Shahzaday11]

Even after loosing stand first on table. Promoted

[Boom83]

wow Congratulation wonderful job

[MOD-wmchamps]

NAT ODI Tour 2 is going to be played in India from 28 Sept - 02 Oct, and matches will start at 04:30 FTP time.

Batsmen

Saeed Amjad (23 caps)
Manzoor Ansari (Debut)
Ahsan Waqas (5 caps)
Ammar Cheema (15 caps)
Ifrahim Mufti (Debut)
Shah Saeed (23 caps)

Keepers

Jafar Vohra (3 caps)
Masood Gulzar (18 caps)
Ilyas Khanum (12 caps)

All Rounders

Imranullah Adnan (LFS) (15 caps)
Aaqib Estijaab (LFS) (2 caps)
Shaheer Akhtar (RM) (31 caps)

Bowlers

Sarfraz Waqas (RFS) (18 caps)
Tasleem Agha (LWS) (15 caps)
Shaheer Saeed (RWS) (Debut)
Junaid Jamshed (RFM) (14 caps)
Hashmat Habib (RFM) (3 caps)
Nawaz Abubakar (RF) (5 caps)

Pitches:

vs India: Dry
vs Scotland: Slow
vs UAE: Crumbling
vs USA: Dry
vs Zimbabwe: Crumbling

[Shahzaday11]

Good selection of squad. Hopefully we will be promoted this time.

[MOD-wmchamps]

We started the tour against India in Dry/Windy conditions.

India elected to bat first, and it seemed like a bad decision at first as our bowlers started off really well, reducing them to 49/4.
A couple of 50+ run partnerships by their middle order got them to a competitive total of 237/7.
Sarfraz Waqas was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 10-0-43-3.

Our chase never really got off the ground, as we could only manage one decent partnership of 50+ runs between Saeed Amjad and Shah Saeed, who both fell when trying to up the required run rate. Shah Saeed top scored with 73, but he did not get much support as we fell short by 62 runs.

Sarfraz Waqas is the Player of the Day for his bowling performance.

India v Pakistan >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
India Pakistan
Batting - Top Order 15,544 15,225
Batting - Middle Order 13,885 13,673
Batting - Tail 7,378 5,012
Bowling - Seam 15,285 (10) 15,060 (20)
Bowling - Spin 14,208 (40) 14,634 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 17,919 17,906
Overall 265,734 258,371

[MOD-wmchamps]

We played Scotland next in Slow/Windy conditions.

We batted first this time, and it was a total catastrophe as no one could get going.
Scotland bowlers were brilliant, and we were all out for just 144 with Aaqib Estijaab top scoring with 35.

Our bowlers did their best, but they did not have enough runs to defend as the Scotland openers made short work of the target.
Shaheer Akhtar and Nawaz Abubakar picked up 2 wickets each in the end, but it was too little too late as we lost by 6 wickets.

Scotland v Pakistan >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Scotland Pakistan
Batting - Top Order 15,092 14,419
Batting - Middle Order 12,747 13,963
Batting - Tail 5,433 5,643
Bowling - Seam 14,738 (20) 14,656 (30)
Bowling - Spin 15,420 (30) 14,193 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,499 17,265
Overall 255,895 254,613

We have a must-win match next against UAE.