Pakistan's St Patrick's Day nightmare

Mar 17, 2007

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Rankin to Younis Khan, OUT, gone! Good ball, banged in back of a length and pitching on off and catching out Khan, who sends a thick outside edge to first slip. Two wickets now for Pakistan and that's a big incision - Khan snapped up for a duck•AFP

Rankin to Kamran Akmal, OUT, "What a catch!" screams the entire office - and indeed it was, Johnston running back from mid-on and taking that over his shoulder. Poor shot to one which got big on him, and he mistimed a pull, sending a leading edge over to the captain who winds himself in diving flat on the ground. He won't mind, though. Akmal does - crashing the bat into his pads in disgust as he walks off, chuntering to himself•AFP

Shoaib Malik to NJ O'Brien, OUT, O'Brien uses his feet once too often, and to be overly critical he was nowhere near that, much more of a yahoo than anything that had gone before, and he was up the creek without a paddle as Akmal completed a simple stumping•AFP

...and then trudges off, trying to comprehend Pakistan's elimination, and bracing himself for the backlash•AFP

Mohammad Hafeez trudges off cheaply as Ireland got off to a great start•AFP

KJ O'Brien to Shoaib Malik, OUT, and he strikes with his third ball! Unbelievable work out there from the Ireland team - and brother O'Brien takes the snick behind the sticks•AFP

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A delighted Trent Johnston celebrates hitting th winning runs•AFP

Johnston does a victory lap around Sabina Park•Getty Images

Kamran Akmal cracks one through the covers during his 27•AFP

Mohammad Sami to Bray, OUT, inswinger which is through Bray before he can get a bat to it, pitched in line and ... was going over the top of the stumps says the much-loved Hawkeye. In fairness, Porterfield should have gone in Sami's previous over, so two blunders by Brian Jerling have evened themselves out•AFP

Inzamam-ul-Haq congratulates Johnston for the win...•AFP

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