Can Pakistan carry on winning?

Yes, according to our dear captain. He thinks the team really shoed their talent during the Twenty20 tournament and their good form can be carried on to the one day series against South Africa. South Africa arrived today in Pakistan for a month long tour that involves two tests and five one day games.

Shoaib says:
"South Africa are a very good team so we have to be at our best to beat them. But I am confident that we have some good players who can transform their Twenty20 form into Test cricket,"

He also talks about the final against India and does concede that it was Pakistan who played badly. But it is still nice to see how Pakistan made a comeback from the crap ICC World Cup a few months back when they got kicked out in the 1st group stages...the only good point being is that at least India went out too, lol.

"Twenty20 cricket is different, so a player can come good at one time and can fail in the next, so all the available players made the team stronger..."No, it's not that we were playing against India, There was no such pressure. We batted poorly and India defended an achievable target of 158. But all in all it was a good final and a very good tournament for Pakistan."

"The players are very committed and that was proved by their performances,"

"We don't think about what happened in the past; our focus is on the future, especially on the series against South Africa, then the tour of India and finally on the series against Australia."

So things sounding good for Pakistan cricket at the moment. Don't know how long it'll last though. SA will be looking to prove that they're not chokers by playing well against Pakistan...which doesn't really prove anything since they are a good team when it comes to normal matches. Though I have hope for Pakistan...I'm hoping this is a start of a new era when we have a good team that's not selling the matches, Whoohoo!

Lol, I'm exuberant and there's really great weather here which puts me in a good mood. Have a great day everyone...well, the 5 readers who've been here so far.