Pakistan Vs New zealand 24th Match ICC world Cup 2011

Kandy: Pakistan has to face New zealand in 24th Match of ICC World cup 2011. Two changes are expected in the team.Shoaib Akhtar has to include in the team in place of Wahab Riaz and Abdur Rehman will be in place of Saeed Ajmal.

Ahmed Shahzad is very keen to repeat his Last performance against New zealand and M.Hafeez is also confident to bang the New zealand balling.

Pakistani experts say that Pakistan should chase a match before Quarter Final.Pakistan is on the top of the Group A with 6 points and also only team with 6 points in both A,B group.

Predictions about Pakistan is that Pakistan will lose toss & will chase the target. New zealand will set 270+ on the board and Pakistan will definitely chase these runs easily.

The New Zealand captain has labelled the match up against Pakistan as the most important of the tournament.
“If we win this we could secure a spot in the quarter finals and it will give us a chance to be higher up the rankings and arguably have an easier quarter final than if we lose this game,” Vettori said.
One bonus is the fact that the opposition are familiar and despite the series loss at home earlier this is a team the BLACKCAPS know they can beat but to come out on top their top order needs to counter their quality bowling line up.
“I think the areas we struggled a little bit against them is that six, seven, eight – Akmal, Afridi, Razzaq and how they can take the game away from us so we’ve got to be ready for them and also the nature of how good their bowling attack is. 
“They have arguably got one of the best bowling attacks in world cricket and for us to succeed our top six has to stand up. 
“We came out on top last time we played them and hope the confidence we took from the last game can be taken into this one as well,” Vettori concluded.

Weather forecast in Kandy is it will sunny day on tuesday.There will be no chance of rain Max temp. could  be 28-29 C & Min 22-24 C.