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Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal has said the pain of losing the semi-final of the ICC World Twenty20 to Australia still lingers, having bowled the last over which conceded the game

Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal has put an arm around Saeed Ajmal's shoulder after Pakistan's shock defeat against Australia in the ICC World Twenty20 semi-final in St Lucia

Pakistan's coach Waqar Younis said he "couldn't believe" his team had lost to Australia in the final over of their World Twenty20 semi-final

Michael Hussey was still taking deep breaths when he sat down shortly after the match to discuss what he had just achieved. It hadn't sunk in

Australia re-taught their opponents the lessons of four days in Sydney from earlier this year, the moral of which remains that till the precise moment Australia are out, they are never out

Michael Clarke knows Australia's dominance at the World Twenty20 will count for nothing if they don't continue that form in the knockout stages starting with a semi-final against Pakistan

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan captain, has singled out his team's fielding as the major worry ahead of the semi-final against Australia in St Lucia

Much about the way these two teams have arrived at this juncture suggests that we could have a repeat of last year's tense semi-final between South Africa and Pakistan. In reality nothing stands further from the truth