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it was a good run on the whole, but bad selection muddled up the chances more than anything else. exclusion of haris, inclusion of malik - I wonder what unique type of pot the selectors and TM were smoking, eh?

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I personally prefer net run rate over head to head as well and the Pakistani team and the fans should move on, without complaining now. All teams knew the rules beforehand and teams played (or should have played) according to that. It’s meaningless to complain now and is clearly biased. However, I saw a lot of posts saying that Pakistan would have been on the receiving end, had head to heads being applied to tournaments, instead of net run rates. I couldn’t find a single case of that. In all tournaments where run rate decided their progress, they were tied with 2 other teams, each of whom lost and won against the other. In such a case, even if head to head was applied first, it still wouldn’t be enough as there were 3 teams tied, and net run rate would come into the picture anyway. Pakistan can certainly feel hard done as their washout against Sri Lanka and the washout against New Zealand probably had a say in the outcome. However, hindsight analysis is not fair and perhaps new zeland may have tried harder had they lost against India and won a few more. Or Pakistan May have lost against Sri Lanka and we wouldn’t be having this conversation to begin with 

Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

Don't know if they deserved or not but would have taken them instead of this insipid 2 man team NZ.

they are an insipid team, but more than 2 players did well for them. apart from kane, there were boult and ferguson with ball and neesham as an AR.

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1 minute ago, Vijy said:

they are an insipid team, but more than 2 players did well for them. apart from kane, there were boult and ferguson with ball and neesham as an AR.

An often overlooked factor, their fielding is also top notch, compared to Pakistan and Bangladesh

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4 minutes ago, Cricketphile said:

An often overlooked factor, their fielding is also top notch, compared to Pakistan and Bangladesh

and their outlook on the field. they are basically a team of 11 teddy bears - all cuddly and harmless to top-tier opposition :)

in other threads, the ind team is being visually represented by bears, eng by bulldogs, etc. but NZ should be the (teddy) bears.

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My grouse is more on the fact that they're the weakest semi team out there.

 

Australia will literally steamroll them and will get an easy route to the finals. I'd imagine the competition would be a tad more difficult if it was an Australia vs Pakistan semi.

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1 minute ago, Vijy said:

and their outlook on the field. they are basically a team of 11 teddy bears - all cuddly and harmless to top-tier opposition :)

in other threads, the ind team is being visually represented by bears, eng by bulldogs, etc. but NZ should be the (teddy) bears.

Sure they r the kiwis :-)

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6 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

My grouse is more on the fact that they're the weakest semi team out there.

 

Australia will literally steamroll them and will get an easy route to the finals. I'd imagine the competition would be a tad more difficult if it was an Australia vs Pakistan semi.

starc will be licking his lips in anticipation. he must be hungry, poor fellow. so lanky and lean - needs to eat more NZers for lunch.

Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, Vilander said:

All this deserved it crap is bs. Dont peddle it here. If they could they would have been in it. Boo hoo.

No pakistani fan will ever say pakistan did not deserve the 1992 win when they had 10 times the luck then than New Zealand team did this world cup 

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11 minutes ago, Vijy said:

starc will be licking his lips in anticipation. he must be hungry, poor fellow. so lanky and lean - needs to eat more NZers for lunch.

Another 5-fer incoming for Starc. Watch out Glenn Mcgrath, starc is going to obliterate your record this WC.

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NRR rule was known in the beginning, if teams aren't professional about the way they go about things in the biggest tournament that comes once in 4 years....entirely their fault. SF spot has to be earned and NZ did a marginally better job, case closed. There were 7 full matches after WI massacre, were Arthur and Sarfaraz chakki peasing? 

 

And what about the Afghan match, did Pak deserve to win that encounter OP? 

 

Instead of imagining things, Pak fans must question Sarfaraz. Bugger elected to field after winning tosses against Aus and Ind, benched Haris for Malik and Afridi for Wagah Ali :hysterical:. Their team deserved an exit just for the TM's lunacy. 

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2 minutes ago, Gollum said:

NRR rule was known in the beginning, if teams aren't professional about the way they go about things in the biggest tournament that comes once in 4 years....entirely their fault. SF spot has to be earned and NZ did a marginally better job, case closed. There were 7 full matches after WI massacre, were Arthur and Sarfaraz chakki peasing? 

 

And what about the Afghan match, did Pak deserve to win that encounter OP? 

 

Instead of imagining things, Pak fans must question Sarfaraz. Bugger elected to field after winning tosses against Aus and Ind, benched Haris for Malik and Afridi for Wagah Ali :hysterical:. Their team deserved an exit just for the TM's lunacy. 

this sarfaraz has been surfing along in the team without paying proper attention to selection, strategies (about NRR), etc. he should be surfer for this reason.

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4 minutes ago, asterix said:

The only reason I’d prefer NZ in Semi Finals is to get the opportunity to see the GFs of NZ players... Especially Furguson’s GF...

 

:Giggity:

you should visit NZ at some point then. there's plenty of gorgeous natural scenery (beside LoTR stuff)

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