Pakistan will have to win by 60 runs against Netherlands to continue alive in T20 World Cup

London, June 9: Pakistan is on the verge of being eliminated from the ICC Twenty20 Championship, as they now need to win their match against The Netherlands by 60 runs to keep their hopes alive in the tournament.

The team has its task cut out, and the players would need to perform out of their skins as Dutch morale is on a high after their win against England.

The Netherlands would be eyeing another upset.

Pakistan captain Younis Khan has called his senior players to rise to the occasion and perform to their potential.


"Hopefully, the senior guys will come forward and do a job for our team. It's the only chance we have," The Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying.

He is aware of the challenge posed by the men in Orange, and is expecting the game to be 'hard work'.

However, it seems that Khan does not attach much importance to Twenty20 cricket, as he termed this bang-bang version of the game as mere 'fun'.

"Twenty20 cricket is fun cricket, it's more for entertainment, even if it is international cricket. I have never attached too much importance to Twenty20 cricket. I hope we will beat Holland convincingly to avoid elimination," he said.

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Pakistan v Netherlands T20 World Cup highlight video

In the 9th match of ICC T20 World Cup 2009, Pakistan will face Netherlands in a do-or-die match today at Lord's, London starting from 12:30 GMT, 6.00 PM IST. It will be interesting to see who will join England in the Super Eights from their group.

Pakistan has already lost their opening game to England by 48 runs. Pakistan is at last place in the group with a negative run rate so a win over Netherlands will not enough for Pakistan. Pakistan will have to show an outstanding performance against Netherlands and try to win with a very good net run rate.

Netherlands already at the second spot with 2 points & a plus run rate in their group. It means that Netherlands just will have to play with Pakistan as they played against England in their previous game.

Pakistan Playing 11 for Today Match

Younis Khan (C), Misbah-ul-haq, Kamran Akmal (W), Shoaib Mallik, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Ahmed Shehzad, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul, Iftikar Anzum, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Aamir

Netherlands Playing 11 for Today Match

Darron Reekers, Alexei Kervezee, Bas Zuiderent, Ryan ten Doeschate, Daan van Bunge, Jeroen Smits (C), Tom de Groothe, Mudassar Bukhari, Dirk Nannes, Edgar Schiferli, Pieter Seelaar

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