ISLAMABAD – Referring to unpredictable Pakistan team’s top performanceagainst England in the 2019 Cricket World Cup (CWC) match, former skipperand cricket commentator Ramiz Raja said it is only the Green-shirts who canturn the tables so quickly, without taking pressure of the past defeats.Pakistan once again proved their unpredictability and knocked the CWCfavourites England by 14 runs at Trent Bridge on Monday.Ramiz said what analysis one can give for a team like Pakistan. “On one daythey (Pakistan) lose miserably but on the next day they shine as bright asthe sun,” he said in his YouTube Channel.He said Pakistan team deserves all the praise for not losing hope aftergetting crushed at the hands of the West Indies team in their first CWCmatch.“Losing to West Indies had caused a lot of embarrassment for Pakistan butour team took all the negativity of the first defeat and converted it intopositivity in their second match against England,” he said.Ramiz said Pakistani players played the short ball very remarkably and alsodominated the English spinners. “Fielding of the players was seen improvedand the bowlers that Pakistan pitched against the English batsmen did theirjob well,” he said.He said our opening partnership between Fakhar Zaman (44 runs) andImam-ul-Haq (36 runs) paved way for the middle order to perform better.“Muhammad Hafeez, who scored 84 runs against England, had been contributinggood runs for quite some time now and is dominating the middle order,” hesaid.Ramiz said the Pakistani batsmen took away the game from England and putthem under pressure when 90 plus runs were scored in the last 10 overs.“Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz and Shadab Khan bowled extremely good andcontrolled the English batsmen very well,” he said.He said Pakistan team unleashed its talent very well against England.“Recovering in such a wonderful way against England after suffering from asequence of defeats shows the passion for comeback in the team,” he said.Former pacer Shoaib Akhtar said he had already predicted that Pakistanwould beat England. “Pakistan team made a comeback with a bang and this wasthe passion which was missing in the previous match,” he said in hisYouTube Channel.He lauded Wahab’s performance in the match saying this was the reason hewanted Wahab in the team. Shoaib while praising Sarfraz Ahmed’s captaincyin the match against England said Sarfraz was seen fighting for victory.“England did a big mistake while inviting Pakistan to bat first afterwinning the toss,” he said.
Ramiz Raja responds over Pakistan team stunning victory in World Cup
