After the end of very exciting games in the league stage, now we are heading towards more exciting and important matches. Knock out round is going to begin from tomorrow with the first match between Pakistan and West Indies. All the teams reached to this round is capable to win the cup. It will be the day which belongs to one of them and that team will head to semi finals. All the teams have performed really well to reach to this round, specially teams from Group B had to fight till the last match for the position in the group.
For tomorrow's match my favorite is Pakistan. They have played very good games in league round including the end of continues victory of defending champions Australia in world cup tournaments. Opening and fielding is still worry for them but still they got success to clinch some very close games by really good bowling by Umar Gul and the skipper himself Shahid Afridi. Afridi failed to get runs with the bat but he has very good tournament with bowl so far. Yougsters like Umar Akmal and Ashad Shafiq have shown some confidence in opening and middle order. Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-haq are using their experience in middle order. Bowling department is complete with confident Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq and Abdur Rehman. The game will be played at Mirpur, Bangladesh and the condition will be suitable to Pakistan. They will have lot of support there.
West Indies have been beaten by England and India in their respective group matches. After back to back defeats they are expected to recall most experienced batsman Chanderpaul. Gayle will make come back after the game against India which will give some confidence in top and middle order. The worry for them is sudden collapse in batting which we have seen in both of thier last games. After a great start their batsmen failed to gain victory for their team. They have improved their fielding standard in last few games. In the bowling, tema management will get confused after impressive performance of Ravi Rampaul against India. Keamer Roach will come back in the match while there is chance of Russel to get replaced by Rampaul. In spin department Suleman Benn is still not in good form which caused some worry in the camp.
It will be a great first game in knock out round with Pakistan have upper hand to win this match. It is 70-30 game with Pakistan have good chance to win.
Semi finalists from my view will be India, Sri lanka, Pakistan and South Africa by looking at the home condition advantage the asian teams have.
Key Players:
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Younis Khan, Abdul Razzaq
WI: Chris Gayle, Darren Bravo, Keamar Roach, Kierron Pollard
Stats: West Indies is ahead by 64-48 games from the 114 games played between them
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