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.

They have lost all three games of super eight round, something they need to worry about, as their team is out of shape even though india is very tough team !

anyways, in other match , sri lanka beat newzealand with 40 plus runs, on playing first , sri lanka made 159 runs and even though newzealand had a good start but their 6 players bold out under 15 runs, what could had we expected from them.
After losing to Pakistan, new zealand captain danial vettori said that pakistani fast bowler Omer gul would had ball tempered otherwise its impossible to reverse swing in 12th over, but vettori, we didn’t see omer gull in this game but you performed even worse !

First semi final will be played between pakistan and south africa on thursday, while second semifinal will be played between West Indies and sri lanka on friday. Final will be played on sunday.

After winning toss, Dhoni should had to bat first , but he looked feared due to previous beating from west indies so he went for bowling first, but defending champion india with Yousuf pathan, yuvraj singh and dhoni, could not make 153 and lost the match. India is out of world cup t20, and so does the hopes of every indian. Better luck next time. I am really really happy !

Fall of Wickets: 1-3 (Luke Wright, 1.4 Over) 2-74 (Ravi Bopara, 10.5 Over) 3-92 (Kevin Pietersen, 13 Over) 4-122 (Owais Shah, 17.2 Over) 5-138 (Paul Collingwood, 18.3 Over) 6-145 (James Foster, 19.3 Over) 7-145 (Graeme Swann, 19.4 Over)

India Fall of Wickets: 1-12 (Rohit Sharma, 1.5 Over) 2-24 (Suresh Raina, 3.4 Over) 3-62 (Gautam Gambhir, 10.4 Over) 4-85 (Ravindra Jadeja, 13.3 Over) 5-87 (Yuvraj Singh, 14 Over)

Talking to a newspaper he said joining ICL was a big mistake and now he is ready to play for pakistani national team. Well, Abdul Razzaq is no doubt the no1 all rounder of the world , and with him being in the team, pakistani team would atleast become 20% more stronger.

Yasir arafat has been called back , as expected .