T20 World Cup First Semi Final 9/11. New Zealand v Pakistan 1830hrs @ the SCG

[Gough]

Squads.
New Zealand from, Kane Williamson (capt), Finn Allen, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway (wk), Lachlan Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee.
Pakistan from, Babar Azam (capt), Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Usman Qadir. Reserves: Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Pity one of my preferred tournament winners will be eliminated

 

[Jamurp]

Reckon it's NZ's time.

Having said that, an India v Pakistan final would be wild!

 

[gtrxuone]

C'mon Babar
It's time to light the fire and burn the tyres.
Pakistan will have to bat at there best to get past the strong Nz team.

 

[Nuggetz]

Head says NZ but heart wants Pakistan

 

[corbies]

The New Zealand bowling attack have gone hard at Rizwan verbally on a few occasions so I wonder if that will be used as a tactic tonight. Although a bit harder to do in T20 cricket and the way Rizwan has been batting they might not need to.

 

[NYRB]

Pakistan have some of the best death bowlers : Afridi, Rauf and Shadab on a traditional spin friendly wicket, can cause NZ a bit of trouble.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Pakistan have some of the best death bowlers : Afridi, Rauf and Shadab on a traditional spin friendly wicket, can cause NZ a bit of trouble.

Yep I'm tipping Pakistan purely as it's in Sydney. Going to the game, just hate it being on a weeknight as I can only have 2-3 beers at most

 

[StillAtLarge]

Has the potential to be the game of the tournament

 

[Nuggetz]

Yep I'm tipping Pakistan purely as it's in Sydney. Going to the game, just hate it being on a weeknight as I can only have 2-3 beers at most

yea that sucks lol. atleast the beer lines wont be long.

 

[Nuggetz]

cracker of a day in sydney, hope we get a packed stadium. 5/6 teams batting first at scg have won.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

yea that sucks lol. atleast the beer lines wont be long.

Cheap night too lol

 

[magpiemaniac44]

Reckon NZ will win, both bowling attacks pretty even but Pakistan's batting hasn't seemed to fire yet, even though they've been winning without Rizwan and Babar firing, if neither of them fire again, NZ's bowling in the middle will be too good.

Should be a cracking game, hope whoever wins tonight wins the whole thing

 

[Nuggetz]

Cheap night too lol

Its hot..getting more than a few haha

 

[samFFC]

Pakistan catching form at the right time. I think they pull it out, just.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Its hot..getting more than a few haha

Just going to take tomorrow off it’s a waste of time with me going tomorrow anyway

 

[Kram]

Yep I'm tipping Pakistan purely as it's in Sydney. Going to the game, just hate it being on a weeknight as I can only have 2-3 beers at most

Mid-strength you should be able to knock off 12-13 and still be right for work bro.

 

[the_interloper]

Looking forward to the finals, I've enjoyed this cup despite Australia's failings.

Geez I hope it's an India v Pakistan final, biggest game of cricket in history by a lot of measures

 

[Plugger35]

Hoping for an NZ win obviously but I'm not confident, Pakistan are a dangerous team that are finding form at the right time while our form has dropped off since our big win over Australia. We lost to England and our wins over Sri Lanka and Ireland weren't all that convincing but we still did enough to win.

The toss will be important, batting first is usually a big advantage at the SCG as the pitch seems to get harder to bat on under lights in the 2nd innings.

 

[NYRB]

Why are they using reused pitches? both for SCG and Adelaide

 

[NYRB]

NZ won toss and elected to bat 1st

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Mid-strength you should be able to knock off 12-13 and still be right for work bro.

Have my flask im Sweet baby!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

NZ won toss and elected to bat 1st

Huge for NZ

6 matches 5 won batting first

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Why are they using reused pitches? both for SCG and Adelaide

Lot harder to get a new pitch. Not that big a deal

 

[NYRB]

New Zealand (Playing XI): Finn Allen, Devon Conway(w), Kane Williamson(c), Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult

Pakistan (Playing XI): Mohammad Rizwan(w), Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Haris, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi