West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first in Quarter final Match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 being held between West Indies and Pakistan. With the bat West Indians were not able to do well against the Pakistani bowling. West Indies were all out after doing just 112 runs all team out in 43.3 overs. The best scores on West Indians score card were S. Chanderpaul (44) and RR Sarwan (24). Most of other batsmen got out without even entering the double figures. There were also four ducks on the West Indian score card.

On other side Pakistani bowlers have done very well, it all started in third over with the wicket of Chris Gayle and there was no looking back then. Back to back wickets broken the back of West Indian batting, in Pakistan bowling side the leading wicket takers were Shahid Afridi (4), Muhammad Hafeez (2) and Saeed Ajamal(2). Umer Gul and Abdul Razzaq also took two wickets each. So collectively Pakistani bowlers done awesome job in containing the West Indians to just 112.

Pakistan also done awesome job with the bat and West Indians also look ineffective in this department as well. Kamran Akmal and Muhammad Hafeez started for Pakistan with the bat and were able to do good job as openers. Start was real aggressive  and Pakistan were able to reach 100 runs with without a wicket. Muhammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal are now batsmen out from Pakistan side, lets see if they can pull of to the victory without any one of them being out.

They were very much able to pull of the victory and Pakistan won by 10 wickets. Kamran Akmal scored 47 and Hafeez contributed to the score with his stunning 61 runs.

Pakistan cricket team performed tremendously in world cup 2011 match against Australia and won the match. Australia was on winning streak after worldcup1999 and was winning all their worldcup matches continuously throughout in three world cups coming in between.

Last time Australians lost was in 1999 cricket world cup against Pakistan and now again the team which broken Australian winning streak was team Pakistan. Australia is team ranked currently ranked number one on ICC Cricket rankings. Overall Pakistan and Australia played 8 ODI matches in world cups and each team have won 4 of them.

Australia won the toss and decided to bat first, after that it was all disappointment for Australian team against Pakistan. Australian batsmen struggled big time against Pakistani bowlers and no one was even able to score a 50. Best scores from Australian team were Brad Haddin(42), Michal Clarke(34) and Steven Smith(25). A number of em gone back with ducks or single figures. Australia was all out on 176 in under 47 overs.

Pakistani bowling was outstanding and was team work in terms of sending Australian teams back to pavilion as each bowler took at least one wicket with Umar Gul (3) and Aubdul Razzaq (2) wickets standing tall.

Pakistan batting was also quite a success as they achieved the target in 41 overs with loss of 6 wickets. Best scores from Pakistan side were Asad Shafiq (46) and Umar Akmal (44) and Younas Khan (31).

From Australian side Bret Lee was only successful bowler who was able to take 4 wickets, Micheal Johnson and Jason Krejza were able to take one wicket each.

14 teams are participating in this world cup divided in two groups. Pakistan is now on top of its group as per points after winning from Australia. This will put Australia on fourth place in the group, that way they will be facing South Africa in quarter finals, which will eliminate one top team from the world cup. Few matches are remaining before decision of all quarter final matches but it is expected that Pakistan will meat West Indies in their Quarter Final Match.

So far Pakistan have played 6 matches in world cup 2011 and won 5 of them and lost only one and that was against New Zealand.

Hope team Pakistan team continues their good performance in coming matches and brings the world cup trophy back home. Remember this world cup tournament had to take place in Pakistan but was shifted to Srilanka, India and Bangladesh due to security situation back in Pakistan.  Green shirts are now very much in position to make up for this by bringing the trophy back home. Pakistanis had been cricket world champs after winning world cup cricket 1992. They also had been cricket world champs after winning world cup twenty twenty tournament in recent past  years. Current cricketing side  of Pakistan is very much capable of repeating the history in terms of bringing the World Cup trophy back home. So lets hope for the best.

Team Pakistan was not able to uphold their winning streak in World Cup Cricket 2011 when they lost a match against New Zealand. New Zealand batted first, Ross Taylor was the bats man who made 131 runs, other big score from New Zealand side was from the opener Martin Guptill who scored 57. New Zealand while batting first were able to do 302 runs.

Their is another side story this tremendous success of New Zealand with the bat, that is poor fielding performance from Pakistan side. Worst of them was from the wicket keeper who dropped few catches as well as not responded to few very easy stump opportunities. From last two days there is too much buzz about these blunders of wicket keeper in match against the Kiwis, however the captain and coach of team, they told the despite the poor performance in previous match they will retain the Kamran Akmal as keeper of the team during all the remaining matches of world cup. Which is fair enough decision, he must be given chance to make things right in coming matches; specially when he realizes the issue with his performance in last match.

However it was not all bad with performance of Kamran Akmal but while batting the whole Pakistan team was not able to perform well against Kiwis. Whole team was out just under 42 overs. Best score was from 62 and Umar Akmal did 38 and Umar gul did 34, beyond that the score card was just disappointing with lots of ducks and single figure scores.

While chasing the target of 303 to win Green Shirts were able to score just 192 in under 42 overs and lost all their wickets at that point. What green shirts have to do is to figure out the causes of this defeat and prepare better for the next match, they need to stay focus and try to win all coming matches so that they can bring the Cricket World cup 2011 back home. They are very much capable of doing that, so best of to team Pakistan for upcoming matches.

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Today Pakistan is going to play their fourth Cricket match of world cup 2011 and its against New Zealand. Pakistan VS New Zealand match will start on 2:00 PM Pakistan Time. Just before World Cup Pakistan had won cricket series against New Zealand and also Pakistan won first three matches of World Cup Cricket 2o11 so they are favorites to win this cricket match.

However Pakistan team will have to play carefully and aggressive at the same time. If we see team Pakistan’s previous match against Canada, at one point Canada was looking in good position to successfully chase the score. New Zealand Cricket team is much more experienced team than Canada so team Pakistan will have to put in some extra effort to win this match against them.

Against Canada the batting performance of Pakistan team can very well be counted as poor and all team got out at 184, however bowling saved us, however this time a good total will only save us even if we bat first or not. For qualifying to quarter finals this match may not be very important but to sustain the momentum and winning streak in this world cup green shirts have to win this match.

At end best of luck to green shirts for this match against the kiwis, we will be coming up with the match results later on. Subscribe Info Pakistan on Facebook, Twitter and via email for useful information from and about Pakistan, we are committed to keep you updated.

The start of world cup cricket 2011 was somewhat pleasant for Pakistan. With three victories in a row, green shirts are now in a very good position of Playing the quarter finals. The challenging match of all was the one which was played against the Sri Lanka other matches were not technically challenging,  but at some point against Canada Pakistan seem in trouble for a while. Lets have a look over performance of our team in previous world cup matches.

Pakistan VS Kenya

The performance of green shirts was very good in this match. Kenya being the inexperience team, still team Pakistan played so well that they took victory over Kenya with huge margin of 205 runs. Pakistan bated first in this match and given a target of 318 runs to the Kenya’s cricket team. Top scorers in Pakistan team were Kamran Akmal (55), Younis Khan (50), Mishbah-Ul-Haq (64) and Umar Akmal (73) all others doesn’t even entered double figures, also none of Pakistan player seem able to doing the 100 runs that day. Both openers as well got out in single figures. Razzaq and Rehman both were not out.

Team Kenya wasn’t able to do good at their batting as well, during the up hill chase of 318 runs Kenian team lasted only for just above 33 overs and were able to do just 112 runs. For kenya Collins Obuya (47) was the best scorer same for them other than 4 players no one entered the double figure and a number of players just got out at 0 runs. Pakistani bowling was impressive Afridi took 5 wickets. Shoaib and Afridi had the best economy rate (2.0) against the Kenya. Umar gul was also able to take 2 wickets. So it was good job overall by green shirts.

Pakistan VS Sri Lanka

Second match that Pakistan played and won was against the Sri Lanka. It was and achievement for team Pakistan as Sri Lankan were being thought as favorites to win this match but green shirts did well and took the victory, this match was close call though still team Pakistan was able to to pull it off.

Pakistan batted first in this match. Again the best scorers in this match from Pakistan side were Misbah-Ul-Haq (83- Not Out)  and Younus Khan(72). Muhammad Hafeez (32) and Kamran Akmal(39) also did quite well and collectively Pakistan team was able to give 278 runs target to team Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan’s tried well but were able to do 266 runs in 50 overs, it was a close call. They had just one above 50 score by Chamara Silva (57) on their score card in addition to 49 by the captain Kumar Sangakkara. Pakistan bowling was again impressive and Shahid Afridi was again leading with 4 wickets and with the economy rate of just 3.7/per over, over his 10 overs that he bowled.

Pakistan VS Kenya

This match was again won by green shirts but Pakistan performance was bit of disappointment for many. Pakistan again batted first that day but all team was out after doing just 184 runs in just 43 overs. Top scorers from Pakistan side were Umar Akmal (48), Mishbah-Ul_Haq (37) and the captain Shahid Afridi (20). This batting performance can be called poor because if repeated again against some experienced teams in coming world cup matches, it can harm team Pakistan very much.

Again Pakistan did well with the ball and were able to contain the Canada. Canadians were able to do just 138 and were all out in 42.5 overs. At one point it seem like that Ireland winning against England, Canada winning against Pakistan will be second upset of World Cup Cricket 2011 but team Pakistan did well to prevent that. Again Shahid Afridi was on his role with the ball and again took 5 wickets with good economy rate of 2.30 per over in his 10 overs that he bowled.

Pakistan VS New Zealand

This match is the next which will be played on 8th March 2011. Pakistan did well against New Zealand just before the world cup and were also able to win a series against them, so they are very much capable to win this match, what they have to do is plays sensibly while batting and if bat first give a good total ideally more than 300 to convincingly win this match. So best of luck to team Pakistan.

We are look forward to Green Shirts bring World Cup Cricket Trophy back home. Its long awaited and long due now as last time we won this in 1992 for ODIs. So best of luck to team Pakistan.

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