Daniel Norcross

They've got three more games to play in the Super 8s with a real chance of getting through to the semi-finals, playing on pitches like today's really turned.

There was some extravagant turn, especially for Sayyid Mahyub, who bowled really well today, Atif.

And so Pakistan's game plan of having those spinners is not a bad one and could yet come to fruition here in Sri Lanka.

It's just that in the immediate aftermath of everything else that happened in the game, I know it's hard to see that, but

You know, it's not all doom and gloom, is it?

Or is it?

Your face is suggesting it is.

So a couple of little things have come out of that for me.

Surya Kamoyada, a difference of opinion there between him and Salman Ali Agha, who thought that batting first was a good idea.

The numbers suggest, well, Pakistan lost by 61 runs.

Sounds like it was a good idea.

But actually, if you quiz the movement on the pitch, there was a lot more spin in that first innings.

I think that it was the right decision to bowl first.

The pitch actually did play a little bit easier.

in the second half and it's just that Pakistan did not execute very well with the bat at all.

Akshay Patel, especially bowling at the pace that he did bowl at, or does bowl at.

The problem for Pakistan was that they were blown away by Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah.

Now, anybody can be blown away by Jasprit Bumrah, and Hardik Pandya is a very fine bowler who is getting up to 86 miles an hour.

But some of the batting in those first three or four overs are difficult.

will have incensed Pakistan fans and indeed just fans of the neutral fans who wanted to see a tight game and I don't know where to start I almost want to start at the end of the collapse which was Baba Azam who played a wild heave to Akshar Patel when he's been criticized for being too much of the glue