Pakistan win seals World Cup exit | PAK v SL | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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We thought this was going to be the worst dead rubber in the tournament, instead we got whatever this was. With apologies to the Skellies for interrupting your trip home.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we thought it might have been a dead rubber, and it turns out we've got one of the craziest games of the World Cup so far. |
| 0:07.6 | New Zealand's already flying back to New Zealand's, midway through the innings, |
| 0:12.8 | and then Shanaka just decides, you know what, I'm just going to be the greatest finisher in T20 cricket of all time. |
| 0:18.5 | In the middle of that, Pakistan are knocked out. |
| 0:22.5 | Sri Lanka don't win a game. |
| 0:27.6 | And I guess once again, this gets worse and worse for Australia somehow. |
| 0:28.9 | This calls for a bud. |
| 0:30.6 | There's a crazy game of cricket. |
| 0:33.7 | At one point I thought Pakistan were going to make 800. |
| 0:37.1 | The Kiwis, they were flying back home. |
| 0:39.9 | They were midway back to Wellington. And then they turned that thing around. They thought, you know what? We're actually going to have to play |
| 0:43.4 | the semifinals now. Pakistan, good for a bit. Shalankar weird for the entire tournament, |
| 0:50.0 | probably. And I don't know what to make of it. Yeah, Pakistan, you were in business. |
| 0:55.4 | You were in business. |
| 0:57.0 | But I suppose when you have to start your innings at minus 65 for none, it's always going |
| 1:01.8 | to be hard to make up that gap. |
| 1:04.0 | But they were doing it. |
| 1:05.6 | They were doing it Pakistan. |
| 1:06.9 | And then they lost seven for 35 or four overs. |
| 1:11.9 | Just thank you, |
| 1:12.5 | Pakistan for everything that you are. |
| 1:17.2 | I was with you. |
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