Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first, Though Shahzaib was out in the very second ball of 2nd over but after him Shahid afridi came and he played a stunning inning, Kamran looked destructive he hit 4 fours in first two overs and he was looking too dangerious.

After both the openers gone, Shahid and malik played really well and they made 68 in 10 overs and pakistan made 100 runs in 13.1 overs. After shahid afridi and malik were out, Younis and abdul razzaq tried their best to play long shots, but South Africa bowling was awsome and they restricted pakistan to 149, well we were 15-20 runs short of the total we thought would be safe.

Anyways, Due to shahid afridi stunning over and 2 wicked of Gibss and Ab.Devliers , we were back on the track and then Saeed ajmal and afridi restricted south african opener Kallis to play  freely, and which made run-rate required jumped to 11.40 in 15th over, It started to look impossible for South Africa.

Pakistan made following mistakes today as well,

1. Omer gul again dropped the catch.
2. We were 10-15 runs short
3. Fielding was poor but better than previous encounters

Positives

• Afridi he was awsome in batting and especially bowling
• Omer gul, what a bowler he has become.
• saeed ajmal , we told you, we had top 3 bowlers of the T20 in our side.
• captain looked aggressive whenever his players made mistakes
• Positive expression to S.A bowler Kallis by a kiss from AFridi ( it was amazing gesture to see )

Anyways , congratulations to every pakistani and pray that we bring this BOB WOOLMER TROPHY to Pakistan this year, we have dedicated this trophy to our late coach !

• 5 most successful bowlers of this tournament include 3 pakistani bowlers, Omer gul, Saeed ajmal, Shahid Afridi
• Abdur Razzaq is back so no need to try injured bowler like sohail tanvir and Razzaq will add extra strength to our middle order batting.
• There is no-more sloppy  Salman butt as opener , Shahzaib is great T20 player, he showed that he can hit in the air during first 6 overs.
• Afridi has started to play more responsibly , he made 29 and 21 in last 2 innings, if he made 30 runs in semi final it would be more than we want from him as a batsman.
• Omer gul and saeed ajmal are quiet amazing bowlers, saeed ajmal needs to look into fielding as well. But if we talk about his bowling , he is quite a find for pakistani team.
• Younis khan believes on partner ships and he has made clear to every one including shahid afridi to play for partner ships.

So we know south africa is a tough team, but we do know pakistan is no1 ranked team in t20 format and they can easily beat south africa in semi finals. The only thing which need to do right is , field right and avoid any run out.  Shoaib malik and misbah owe us a big performance, especially misbah , he didn’t show his real face in this tournament. So we hope that team will perform better and every player will realize that they have dedicated this tournament to their dead coach BOB Woolmer, so play good for his soul and bring this worldcup to home this year.

Pakistan win or lose, one thing the luck is in their side, they have been on the edge of loosing this cup twice but they finally made it to the semi finals. So good luck to our team ! and may God bless Bob Woolmer, he was a great guy for sure ! ,

South africa made just 130 against india in their last match, so we must not forget that no one remains unbeaten for ever, may be today is the last day of south africa in the tournament.