ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka eye revenge, face charging West Indies in semis.Pakistan were packaged out for only 82 runs in 17.5 overs against West Indies in a do-or-kick the bucket Group 2 association match of the World T20 in Dhaka today. No batsman arrived at 20, with opener Mohammed Hafeez top-scoring with a moderate 19 off 32 balls. For the West Indies, Samuel Badree and Sunil Narine every took 3 wickets, while Andre Russell and Kishmar Santokie took 2 each. A late barrage from all-rounder Dwayne Bravo and captain Darren Sammy helped protecting champions West Indies set up a battling 166 for six against Pakistan.
Bravo crushed 46 off just 26 balls as he took the strike once more to the Pakistan camp with his imperious hitting. He struck two foursand four colossal sixes. He was generally backed by captain Darren Sammy whose captivating cameo of 42 was just as vital as it helped West Indies achieve a tolerable aggregate after they were tottering at 81 for five. Sammy struck five fours and two sixes in just 20 balls as the last three overs transformed an extraordinary 59 runs.
The defining moment in the West Indies innings was the eighteenth and nineteenth over knocked down some pins by the prepared couple of Umar Gul (0/29) and Saeed Ajmal (0/41) that processed 45 runs on the whole. Till 17 overs, Pakistan bowlers looked in complete control before the gore from Bravo and Sammy happened at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium.
Chris Gayle (5) finished not fire today as the first conveyance he confronted from Paksitan captain Mohammed Hafeez realized his destruction. Hafeez bowled one wide off-stump which Gayle attempted to play with negligible footwork and Kamran Akmal effected a great confusing.
Gayle's accomplice Dwayne Smith struck two limits off Hafeez yet was uncomfortable against left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir's ungracefully plotted conveyances. He edged one to Akmal behind stumps as the ball moved away in the wake of pitching on the off-center line.
Pakistani batsmen never looked fit for making a match out of it. In the wake of choosing to bat, West Indies were decreased to 67 for four in the twelfth over however Pakistan couldn't gain by the fortune.
Bravo and Sammy came in and opened the conduits. The 71-run sixth-wicket remained between Bravo and Sammy ended up being unequivocal as the Pakistani bowlers and fielders used up plans. Bravo and Sammy held hands to crush 24 off Saeed Ajmal in the nineteenth over, crushing three sixes and a limit.
In the past over, speedster Umar Gul was at the getting end, yielding 21 to Bravo, who hit two sixes and a four. In the last five overs, the West Indians heaped up 82 runs. The point when Pakistan came into bat, Santokie gave the West Indies a hair-raising begin as he released in-structure Ahmed Shehzad off the precise first ball. The Pakistan group could never recoup from the early setback and were lessened to 13 for four and after that 75 for eight in the sixteenth over.
