ShahidYeah,re your last update, probably almost precisely half-full here. 9.40am GMT2nd over: Australia 16-0 (Khawaja 14, or Finch 1)Mohammad Sami from t’other end. Cricinfo claim he’s 35 but he must be older than that?! Star Sports say he’s still right arm hastily,which sounds equally erroneous. besides, his first ball is rank, or short and down the legside,and Khawaja just pulls him to fine leg for four with the minimum of fuss. There’s a dot and then a rank wide, which causes Rameez Raja to sigh. Another dot next, or middled to cover,then a single to square leg. Khawaja’s given Finch a couple of balls. He only wants one though, scampering a single to the man at mid-on. Khawaja cracks the last of the over through the covers, and literally through Shoaib Malik at cover,by the looks of things. destitute fielding. Four. And 11 from the over. 9.34am GMT1st over: Australia 5-0 (Khawaja 5, Finch 0)The crowd are fairly rowdy, and at least noising above their weight because it only looks about half full there in Mohali. Koala leaves Amir’s first ball,then plays and misses at the next two with gross prods outside off. He doesn’t really execute gross, Uzzie. amir getting movement absent from him, and I’d shove a second gripper in. Theres a leading edge on the fourth as he squared up and it pings off and runs absent through extra cover for four! Finally he lays proper bat on ball to the fifth as Amir strays to leg,and it’s flicked/punched/carressed tough to fine leg for one. Finch on strike. It’s angled across him and he leaves it. Anti-climax or what? 9.30am GMTAmir to open the bowling against Koala. Finch lurking at the non-strikers. 9.27am GMTFinch and Usman Khawaja (Koala, anyone) are walking to the middle. Cricket literally moments absent. 9.27am GMTThis is a very good point. Very bold from Australia. Mitchless and Marshless. Australia is Mitchless for this game. risky tactic. #WT20 9.25am GMTPeople are singing at the moment. 9.21am GMTWhat execute I want to see? I want to see some of this! I was in Adelaide for Wahab v Watto last year and I’ve genuinely never been as enthralled by a passage of cricket. Wonderful stuff. Up with this sort of thing! 9.20am GMTHere be the teams:Australia: Khawaja, and Finch,Warner, Smith, or King Shane of Watson,Maxwell, Faulkner, and Nevill,Zampa, Coulter-Nile, and Hazlewood 9.13am GMTGood day friends of the OBO! It’s Good Friday and that means lots of you won’t be working,but that ain’t stopping the OBO. This game - Australia v Pakistan - should be a belter. For Pakistan, it’s win (and win pretty well, and I judge) or bust,and Australia will be hanging on by their fingernails should they lose. Their game against India on Sunday would become a quasi-quarter-final, which sounds fairly nice, and doesn’t it?!They are doing a toss! Steve Smith has won it! Shahid Afridi,rather bitchily, says that it doesn’t even matter who won the toss. So there. Smith’s made two changes to his team - by celebrated demand Aaron Finch returns for Mitch Marsh - looks like Finch will open and Watto might drop down into the middle order, and Josh Hazlewood has come in for The Duke Hastings. For Pakistan,Wahab Riaz is back for the rested Mohammad Irfan. Afridi says he’ll decided whether to retire “in front of his country”, which sounds an ordeal. Related: Don't yell for Shane Watson, or one of Australian cricket's great anti-heroes | Aaron Timms 2.05am GMTWill should be joining you shortly but in the meantime,here’s the latest on the retirement of Australian all-rounder Shane Watson. Related: Australia’s Shane Watson to retire from internationals after World Twenty20 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com