Pakistan's last laugh

        It was a heart throbbing asia cup finale between between pakistan and Bangladesh. Pakistan started their proceedings by batting first.Pakistan had a slow start with both the openers failing to impress as they lost their crucial opener jamshed when the score ticked 16.A close call costed the wicket of veteran younus khan.opener hafeez and misbah played a defensive knock even though bangladeshi bowling wasn't that much impressive.There was a sudden break through for bangladesh when misbah had a mix up with hafeez, misbah was a ran out by the beautiful throw from bangladeshi youngster nasir hossain.When hafeez was picking up his form and unwantedly played a lofted shot to sacrifice his wicket to razzak thus bringing pakistan in danger to a total of 70 for 4.

Umar akmal and newbie allrounder hamad azam played some sensible knock thus bringing pakistan back in the game with their 50+ partnership.Suddenly pakistan lost both their inform batsmen to bangladeshi spinners even though it was a controversial decision for umar akmal led pakistan to a disastrous position to a total of 129 for 5.

Pakistan boom boom afridi fully utilised powerplay 3 by squandering past bangladeshi spinners and pace attack with some excellent fours and sixes and suddenly gave away his wicket to shakib for his ambitious knock.

Pakistani wicketkeeper safraz ahmed's suprising knock of 46 with the help of tailenders reach them a modest total of 236 runs.During slog overs bangladeshi bowlers failed to impress with their attack that helped pakistan in a best manner possible.

Bangladesh started their proceeding in a best manner possible by a prolific knock by tamim and sturdy innings by nazim helped bangladesh cross 50 runs partnership and tamim also achieved his fourth consecutive fifty during their partnership.But a sudden breakthrough by afridi and ajmal left bangladesh in a little bit tensed situation as they lost both nazim and islam for mere scores.Nasir hossain, bangladesh biggest bet came to crease to accompany tamim but tamim couldnot long last as he paid his price for his offensive display and gave away his wicket to Gul.

Bangladesh was again rejuvenated by the powerful batting display by shakib and sturdy innings by nasir saw bangladesh cross 150 mark.Again bangladesh lost their inform batsmen nasir hossain,shakib and rahim in quick succession to keep the score ticking 190 for 6.

Lower middle order all rounder mahmudullah and mortaza played some excellent shots and helped bangladesh back to a winning position but it hasn't lasted long as pakistan got the crucial breakthrough of mortaza who was in dangerous form and thanks to pakistani hero ajmal for capturing his wicket that made bangladesh sinking in 218 for 7.

49th over by gul started off badly but ended the over better as bangladesh were in need of 9 runs of the final over of cheema. singles of the first 2 balls followed by a dot.In the 4th ball of the final over saw unnecessary overthrows gave bangladesh 3 runs and bangladesh were in need of 4 runs from 2 balls with abdur razzak staying the crease.Razzak's unnecessary ambitious scoop leading to his dismissal.Bangladesh were in need of 4 runs from the final ball with shahadat staying in the crease as he could really make just a run.Thus leading bangladesh's asia cup dream reaching an end.

Finally it was pakistan who were crowned the new asian champions after a gap of 12 years.

Thrilling st.vincent tie

I t was a most entertaining and crucial 3rd odi between aussie and windies as both the team were tied 1-1 each.Aussie batted first with some floppy start by losing both losing both watson and wade for mere numbers.Even warner can just contribute 37 in a good st.vincent wicket.

Mr.cricket and george bailey changed the situation of aussie with some enthralling innings both crossing their fifties but both falling to marlon samuels to bring aussie to a respectable situation.

Again lower middle order batsmen including david hussey and the rest of them couldn't make much hype as they continued their flop show against windies. As aussie lost all the final 6 wickets for just 18 runs.

Narine and samuels again proved their worth by collapsing the strong aussie side for a mere 220 which is considered a stiff target in a typical windies pitch.

windies started their innings in a worst fashion by losing keiran powell,samuels and darren bravo for a mere runs as all the 3 wickets were chipped in by watson.Great performance by newbie charles proved worthy for windies by scoring 45 runs.After charles and dwayne bravo being dismissed as the windies remained 78 for 5.In that time aussie were in a good position to seal the match.

Again a whirlwind performance by pollard took windies to a good position but windies lost the wicket of dangerous pollard for 37 and windies were floating at 117 for 6.

With russel and baugh staying at the crease there was a drama when russel was bowled off by watson in a no ball and again russel was bowled off in a no ball in the free hit delivery.

An excellent match saving 64 runs partnership between baugh and russel kept windies in a contest.But again windies lost both their saviours to mckay and kept the score ticking 190 for 8.sammy and narine stayed at the crease and narine scored the crucial 10runs and have to go to pavillion and kept windies in bay for 204 for 9.

sammy with the help of tailenders narine and roach helped windies reach close to the target and with sammy hitting a boundary in final over of lee.Windieslevelled the scores with 3 balls remaining.

There was another drama when there was a mix up between sammy and roach stranded in the same end as brett lee removed the bails.

Finally it ended in a thrilling tie and it is one of the fantastic matches to watch out for.Mr.cricket received the match of the match award for his superb knock of 67 runs.

Sachin's disastrous 100th ton

I am a great fan of sachin until india vs bangladesh match on 16th march 2012. sachin 100th ton which is praised all over the world as a historic ton and superb knock is really a worthless and selfish knock.I was eagerly watching sachin's 100th ton knock from the beginning of the match.After losing gauti's wicket at the start of the match I thought sachin is studying the wicket at the beginning of the match and I thought he may pick up his innings after 30 overs.But that never happened and I thought he might atleast play his natural play during the 35-40 over powerplay 3 but that too hasn't happened and his play only became slower over after over and he deteriorated the situation of india and I think sachin might be in his nervous 80's and 90's only to make the situation even worse and atlast at 5.05 pm sachin created history but left the indian team in a shallow darkness from which indians can never come back.Sachin wasted nearly 33balls in his knockwhen he was out for 114 from 143 balls.

Sachin scored this blunderous knock in a flat bangladeshi batting wicket to score his selfish century.

After that it was our captain cool dhoni who again played a good knock to place india to a reasonable 289 runs.

It wasn't a good total in a flat deck bangladeshi pitch and it also showed the color of our blunderous pace attack as they were thrashed black and blue by the bangladeshi youngsters.

It finally ended up with a heart breaking win for bangladesh over india for the first time in asia cup history.

It came to limelight how our "god of cricket" under performed to score his 100th ton and left india in a shallow darkness.

This loss also dashed india's hopes of making it to the asia cup finals.

I heard sachin joked that he lost 50kgs but really he not only lost 50kgs but also gave a huge blow to india's campaign in asia cup.

Sachin should look for instant retirement from odi after this selfish 100th ton and concentrate more on his test career.