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Heros and Villains...9B
Two Exiting Teams Fight to Salvage Pride
On the second part of day 9, the Cricket world cup entered Round III with Pakistan and Zimbabwe playing out their third and last match in the Group stage. Paksitan had already been eliminated from the tournament but as a team with the reputation of being the past Champions and plagued by the sudden murder of their Coach Bob Woolmer, had to salavage some pride out of the math. Besides Inzamam Ul Haq, the captain was playing his last ODI and as one of the greatest players of the game required a fitting farewell. To some extent this objective was served by Paksitan beating Zimbabwe comprehensively and Imran Nazir playing a good knowck which briefly raised the hope of a World record.
In the end, despite with rain intervening, Pakistan l managed a good victory.
With this loss, Zimbabwe also exited from the championship.
The ratings of the players of these two teams according to Naavi Cricket Rating Methodology are given below.
8.Pakistan (PA)
Name
M1 M2 Total M3 Total (Group)
No of Matches
Country Rank
1 Inzamam ul-Haq (C) 33 0 33 51 84 3 3 2 Younis Khan (VC) 18 5 23 14 37 3 9 3 Mohammad Hafeez 50 28 78 - 78 2 4/2 4 Imran Nazir 10 10 20 96 116 3 2 5 Mohammad Yousuf 15 6 21 17 38 3 8 6 Shoaib Malik 51 8 59 3 62 3 6 7 Azar Mahmood -22 -22 - -22 2 13 8 Shahid Afridi - - 10 10 1 11 9 Kamran Akmal 39 23 62 10 72 3 5 10 Mohammed Sami 34 34 23 57 3 7 11 Yasir Arafat - - - - 0 NR 12 Umar Gul 49
-9 40 38 78 3 4/1 13 Danish Kaneria 17 - 17 9 26 3 10 14 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan -7 - -7 - -7 1 12 15 Rao Iftikhar Anjum 96 5 101 23 123 3 1
10.Zimbabwe (ZI)
Player M1 M2 Total M3 Total (Group)
No of matches
Country Rank 1 P Utseya (C) 6 13 19 6 25 3 9 2 GB Brent 15 - 15 84 99 3 4 3 CJ Chibhabha -5 19 14 -12 2 3 12 4 E Chigumbura 30 62 92 76 168 3 1 5 KM Dabengwa - - - - - 0 NR 6 S Matsikenyeri 33 13 46 9 55 3 5 7 CB Mpofu 12 20 32 12 44 3 6 8 T Duffin 3 - 3 - 3 1 11 9 AJ Ireland - 19 19 - 19 1 10 10 F Kasteni - -1 -1 -20 -21 2 14 11 T Mupariwa - 20 20 22 42 2 8 12 EC Rainsford -8 - -8 - -8 1 13 13 V Sibanda 30 16 46 -3 43 3 7 14 BRM Taylor 48 86 134 4 138 3 2 15 SC Williams 23 73 96 35 128 3 3
As can be seen from the abovr, Rao Iftikhar of Pakistan and Chigumbara of Zimbabwe emereged as the top players for their respective teams.
Naavi
March 22, 2007
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