WTC20-Pakistan Stumped

Carnival is the largest and most popular celebration held in the Caribbean. Many consider the Carnival celebrations held in the Port of Spain, Trinidad to be the largest and most elaborate throughout the region. Carnival celebrations in Trinidad are held the two days prior to Ash Wednesday.  The festival is also where calypso music has its roots, through the chantwells who sang songs called Kaiso. The men in Red  were celebrating their Carnival on Tuesday. 

The men in Red from Caribbean are blessed with abundance of telent required for this format of the game. A team with a big man like Chris Gayle as opener and a pack Dynamos for end game (Darren Sammy+Dwayne Bravo) plus a “mystery bowler” Sunil Philip Narine. 

On the other side, a mercurial Pakistan Team, however have been one of the most consistent sides in this World T20. The sub-continental giant have stronger as they played every game after their defeat to India. Like the Sri Lanka vs New Zealand match yesterday, the winner qualifies to the semi-finals and the loser exits the tournament. 

Opting to bat First, West Indies started the match only after 15 overs. Pakistan having their match in pocket till that time. The Dynamo paid Sammy and Bravo gave WI the final push and pull. The Dynamo simply destroyed the Pakistan hope of restricting West Indies to any decent total. The late blitz lifted West Indies to competitive 166 for 6. 82 runs from the last 5 over. 

Pakistan could not recover from the hammering; the last 5 over of Clypso Dance from Sammy and Bravo in their mind, the Centurion of the last match Shehzad went for the first ball duck. He walked in like a zombie and went back like zombie. Pakistan's chase got off to a horror start with pace man Krishmar Santokie hitting Ahmed Sehzad's toe with the first ball of the innings to trap the in-form batsman leg before.

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Pakistan are in deep trouble as Umar Akmal is gone beaten in flight by Badree with Ramdin effecting a superb leg side stumping. Pak 9-3 in 4 overs.  

Hafeez perishes with Gayle pouching a skier. Pak 37-5 in 10.3 overs.  

The celebrations have started and Gayle as always is the leading way. The DJ is playing the Gangnam and we see the West Indian players dancing to its tune. Gayle and Russell are seen waving the West Indian flag and are entertaining the crowd. 

"What an amazing spell. Not only is Narine economical, but he has picked up three very valuable wickets. West India have played like champions and fully deserves to be in semi-final, now with insurance of confidence to chase the West Indies is the team to be watched.  Why semi, capable of getting into the final and retaining the title also. Wish them good luck. 

So, the semi-finals look like this:

Thursday: Sri Lanka v West Indies.

Friday: India v South Africa. (Incidentally South African women’s team also in the semi final) 

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