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Intimidated by the marauding Shane Watson, Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore joked that his team will either have to poison the Australian all-rounder's food or hope that he has a bad day in office in their crucial World Twenty20 Super Eight clash in Colombo on Tuesday.
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Pakistan will take on Australia tomorrow and the prolific Watson is the team's biggest headache going into the must-win game as the all-rounder has been plain destructive with both bat and ball.
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In fact, Watson has so far collected four man of the match trophies and is single-handedly steering Australia's campaign in the event.
"May be we need to poison his food. Jokes apart, he is a human being and we hope he would make mistakes," said Whatmore after Pakistan's campaign went haywire following a crushing loss to India on Sunday night.
Watson is pretty modest about his form
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'Credit to Kohli for playing such fantastic innings'
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"We wanted to play positive cricket but lost wickets at regular intervals. We thought that we would set a target of around 160 which would have been a good total but it didn't happen," Hafeez said.
"Credit to Kohli for playing such a fantastic innings. I guess he is in the form of his life as I haven't seen anyone play better than him."
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