Date-stamped : 25 Sep94 - 18:34
WC87 Group B: Pakistan v England, 12-13 October 1987

The  Pakistani batsmen always looked as if they were going to de-
stroy the English bowling, but the  Eng.  bowlers  never  allowed
them  to.  A  score  of 239 was not formidable on this easy paced
wkt, and with Imran off the field during  Eng's  batting  due  to
food poisoning, Eng had a good chance to win this match. But they
had not taken into account Miandad's shrewed captaincy  and  Pak-
istan's unquenched thirst for victory at home.

England  was heavily dependant on its top 5 batsmen. But they all
took time in settling down, and once they did, no one went on  to
make a big score. By the time Gooch, Broad and Robinson were back
in the pavilion the score was 3/141 and they  had  consumed  33.4
overs.  Qadir and then Akram and Jaffar put the skids on the mid-
dle and latter order batsmen. The most important wkt was that  of
Lamb's,  since  he  had been the one to give Eng victory over WI.
After that, Eng crumbled.

Gatting had marshalled his bowling resources  adroitly  till  the
final  few  overs.   Strangely, he asked Emburey to bowl the last
over. He had miscalculated, and his front-line batsmen  had  com-
pleted  their  quotas.  Qadir  hit  him for a six and a four, and
Yusuf joined in so that the off-spinner ended up giving  away  15
in  his  last  over. These runs made a difference in the ultimate
analysis.

A team that had shown such great resilence  against  the  Windies
only  4  days back, now panicked and crumbled against a team that
was inspired dspite the loss of its captain.

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