{"id":6263,"date":"2019-06-24T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policenama.com\/english\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:38:23","slug":"play-fearless-cricket-in-remaining-games-akhtar-tells-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policenama.com\/english\/play-fearless-cricket-in-remaining-games-akhtar-tells-pak\/","title":{"rendered":"Play fearless cricket in remaining games: Akhtar tells Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: Policenama Online:<\/strong> Pleased with Pakistan\u2019s convincing win over South Africa in their crucial World Cup fixture, former speedster Shoaib Akhtar is hoping that Sarfaraz Ahmed and the boys play fearless cricket in the remaining games and make it to the <a href=\"https:\/\/policenama.com\/english\/2019\/05\/25\/india-and-other-teams-chances-at-the-world-cup\/\">semi-finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recommend Pakistan to hold their ground, play pressure-free cricket, play according to the best of their abilities and display their talent,\u201d Akhtar said on Monday in a video posted on his YouTube channel.With five points from six games, Pakistan are now at the seventh spot in the points table.<\/p>\n<p>They will next face New Zealand on Wednesday. After that, they play Afghanistan and Bangladesh on Saturday and July 5, respectively. If Pakistan manage to win all their remaining three fixtures and results of matches of other teams go in their favour, the 1992 champions can secure a spot in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan have a good chance of making it to the semifinals. They need to play fearless cricket without any pressure. If England lose their three matches against Australia, India and New Zealand, Pakistan can come through,\u201d said Akhtar.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Pakistan defeated South Africa by 49 runs at the Lord\u2019s, thus knocking them out of the competition.Opting to bat, Haris Sohail played a brilliant knock of 59-ball 89 \u2014 which consisted of nine fours and three sixes \u2014 thus helping Pakistan post 308\/7 in their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p>In reply none of the Proteas batter expect skipper Faf du Plessis (63 off 79) could handle the scoreboard pressure and were restricted to 259\/9.\u201cSouth Africa looked disintegrated. After losing the toss, their morale went down. Their batters, especially Quinton de Kock, didn\u2019t look interested in getting South Africa out of hot waters by scoring a hundred. Faf looked a very average captain. They bowlers could not manage to bring out the magic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Policenama Online: Pleased with Pakistan\u2019s convincing win over South Africa in their crucial World Cup fixture, former speedster Shoaib Akhtar is hoping that Sarfaraz Ahmed and the boys play fearless cricket in the remaining games and make it to the semi-finals. \u201cI recommend Pakistan to hold their ground, play pressure-free cricket, play according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1145],"tags":[2151,13318,1968,1886,137,63,115,19747,15482,10189],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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