Mickey Arthur has no doubt Pakistan will be "up for the fight" when they face his native South Africa in the Champions Trophy after a humiliating defeat by arch-rivals India.
"We were in control for 40 overs but we lost the plot in the last eight overs", the wicket-keeper added after what was the opening Group B match for both the Asian giants in a tournament featuring the world's top eight one-day global teams. The Indian innings was interrupted twice by rain before Rohit got run out for 91.
Harbhajan, who is the ICC brand ambassador for India, has posted photos of him taking a stroll down London's Hyde Park, sharing frames with Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly as well as monitoring the Edgbaston pitch during the India vs Pakistan match. They could not recover from the brilliant run out effected by Ravindra Jadeja to send back dangerman Shoaib Malik.
Pakistan's crushing 124-run loss to title-holders India in their tournament opener at Edgbaston on Sunday was labelled the "Mother of all mismatches" by the Indian Express newspaper.
Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan (68 from 65 balls) calmed India's initial nerves with a solid partnership of 136. In modern ODI cricket you need to innovate and come hard at the bowlers, batsmen can't let the bowlers get into their groove.
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India's top four batsmen helped themselves to fifties but none of them looked as fluent as Yuvraj, whose quickfire 53 off 32 balls enhanced his reputation as one of the sweetest timers of the ball.
"Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh than flayed a tiring attack before Hardik Pandya's cameo turned the match totally in the defending champion's favour", Afridi added. That honour went to Yuvraj, who did not play in the two warm-up games because of viral fever.
"The way he batted, I think it was the game-changing innings to be honest". The way he batted today, just did not show that he had lost it touch or was rusty.
Now, in the space of just a few days, Pakistan must somehow raise their game to beat a South Africa side who defeated Sri Lanka by 96 runs at the Oval on Saturday in their opening Group B fixture if they are to have any chance of reaching the semi-finals. Here we have a match after many years. "I congratulate everyone for this win", another fan said.
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