The are many speculation about Pakistan performance against New Zealand in the ICC champions trophy semi final. Some saying Pakistan fixed the match, some said there was hidden agenda and few accusing India of influencing the umpires to favour New Zealand.
No such thing actually happened the only factors behind the loss were
1- Broken finger of Younis Khan
2- Some bad decisons by umpires
Younis Khan was playing the ICC champions trophy matches with his broken finger due to which he was not performing well in batting and could not manage to lead the side with his own performance. He did a big mistake of playing ICC matches while he was unfit. It cost Pakistan very dear when he dropped catch at the last moment where Pakistan can turn the match into his favour. It was an easy catch but avoiding ball contact with broken finger leads to drop the ball and drop the match too.
The other valid reason is the lbw decision of Umer Akmal at a crucial stage of the match but if some one see replay very carefully and find that the decision was difficult and Simon Tuffel was at an angle where he cant see the contact of the ball with bat. Only camera catched that thing otherwise the straight angle difficult to judge. There were few appeals which were against Pakistan when Pakistan was fielding and simply it was an unlucky day for Pakistan cricket fans.
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