Thats more like it ... Pakistan bowlers dominate

2nd match ... NZ all out for 99 at home ...

Umar Akmal ... U Da Man

Pakistan 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	Khurram Manzoor	b Martin	6	15	1	0	40.00
	3.6 big inside edge, bowls it outside off and Manzoor shapes to slap it square of the wicket on the off side, doesn't get his bat beside the line properly and he ends up chopping it onto the off stump 11/1
	Imran Farhat	lbw b Martin	22	48	3	0	45.83
	16.3 we have a review here, Martin bowls from round the wicket, lands it on a good length outside the off stump and gets it to angle towards middle and leg, Farhat shuffles, plays down the wrong line and the ball hits him below the knee roll in front of the leg stump, you could see his leg stump at the point of contact and that convinced Doctrove, Farhat calls for the review but Virtual Eye also says that would have hit the stumps 43/2
	Fawad Alam	c †McCullum b Bond	29	66	4	0	43.93
	30.1 Bond's breathing fire here, he hits the deck hard from over the wicket, lands it short of a length on middle and Fawad barely had time to react and fend it off, he fails to drop his gloves down and the ball shaves his glove before landing safely in McCullum's hands 79/4
	Mohammad Yousuf*	c & b Bond	17	48	3	0	35.41
	28.5 terrific reflexes on the follow through! Bond fires this one full and induces the drive, Yousuf awkwardly pushes it through the line and ends up spooning it low back to Bond who dives forward and cups it just inches off the pitch 74/3
	Umar Akmal	c Fulton b Bond	129	160	21	2	80.62
	84.1 he finds Two-meter Peter in the deep! He bends his knee and chases a pitched up delivery outside off, the ball flies off the top half of the bat and lands down Fulton's throat at deep backward point 293/7
	Shoaib Malik	b Bond	2	7	0	0	28.57
	32.2 Bond's in the middle of a dream spell, he cramps him for room outside off and Malik still goes for the cut, there's a thick inside edge which clips the leg stump, this is great pace bowling folks 85/5
	Kamran Akmal†	c Taylor b Vettori	82	136	11	1	60.29
	75.1 he chips down the track to take him downtown but he fails to get to the pitch of the ball and ends up getting a thick outside edge to first slip, that ends a superb partnership between these two 261/6
	Mohammad Aamer	not out	12	48	1	0	25.00
	Umar Gul	lbw b Vettori	6	11	1	0	54.54
	87.4 Gul asks for a review, Vettori tosses it up on middle and off and the ball straightens and clips his front pad, Taufel raises the finger, replays don't reveal any inside edge and Virtual Eye says the ball would have just missed the stumps, it appeared at first that the ball was hitting the stumps so fair call from the umpires 302/8
	Mohammad Asif	not out	0	3	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(nb 2)	2
	Total	(8 wickets; 90 overs)	307	(3.41 runs per over)

T20 ... it was made for us ... piece of cake !!!

WORLD CHAMPS ... continue to dominate ...

Team	Opposition	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR	%

Pakistan	v Australia	2007-2009	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
	v Bangladesh	2007-2008	3	3	0	0	0	100.00
	v Canada	2008-2008	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v England	2006-2009	2	1	1	0	0	50.00
	v India	2007-2007	2	0	1	1	0	25.00
	v Ireland	2009-2009	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v Kenya	2007-2007	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v Netherlands	2009-2009	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v New Zealand	2007-2009	4	4	0	0	0	100.00
	v Scotland	2007-2007	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v South Africa	2007-2009	2	1	1	0	0	50.00
	v Sri Lanka	2007-2009	6	4	2	0	0	66.66
	v Zimbabwe	2008-2008	1	1	0	0	0	100.00

Pakistan vz New Zealand - match 1 - 2009 Abu Dhabi

Pakistan Dominated ... Great Job

Pakistan vz New Zealand - 2009 - Abu Dhabi

it starts in the future home of world cricket and the international entertainment capital the Emirates ... (i.e. UAE) ... best of luck to Pakistan

Australia wins ICC Champions Trophy 2009

New Zealand Champions Trophy 2009

New Zealand want one more team performance

If ever in cricket a side has decisively shifted the emphasis from the individual battles that form each contest to the more collaborative jousts that shape the broader battle, it is New Zealand. They've had great individuals to be sure, but more times than not, their triumphs have been built on a number of smaller, lesser celebrated individual wins, especially the modern-day New Zealand. If not always an attractive or thrilling trait, it is an endlessly admirable one.

Only the captain has been a man apart, a giant among giants. He has an embedded slacker cool about him, so if you saw him jamming with the early 90s Beck somewhere he wouldn't seem out of place. In a way more stable than it seems, he's been many things over two weeks; brooding, spiky, witty, intelligent and understated. The beard and deep voice adds gravitas, but his performances haven't needed it. He has scored runs when they have needed scoring and his bowling has been so good it's hardly been noticed.

New Zealand have been, for the longest time, honest semi-finalists. This is their first big tournament final since the 2000 Champions Trophy and that was the only other time they made a final in a global event. "I think you have achieved what you set out to achieve but once you reach that level you realise there is immense desire to go all the way," said Vettori. "There's no relief in the camp and after the win last night, it was all about how we are going win tomorrow as opposed to it's great we made it. It's pleasing for me as captain to hear those sentiments and make sure we put it in practice tomorrow."

They will be up against it tomorrow, but they have survived and thrived on that through this tournament. They have done it so long as a cricket nation, it is probably a default setting. But in this tournament, the real surprise would be if there was no surprise at all tomorrow at Centurion.