\u201cI felt bad because a few of us couldn\u2019t stop [laughing] and we were trying not to laugh,\u201d Allen said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe camera, you can kind of see the little wheelie thing at the front straight on you and you\u2019re trying not to lose it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was pretty funny. It was a bit of a remix. It was quite hard to sing it actually. A few of the boys were struggling to keep up with the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, the Black Caps remain in the box seat to advance out of the Super Eights and into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Finn Allen and Tim Seifert added a record partnership to help the Black Caps beat the UAE at the T20 World Cup in India. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
For a semi-final spot, the Black Caps need Pakistan to either lose to Sri Lanka, or win by a small enough margin that would allow the New Zealand side to sneak through on net run rate.<\/p>\n
In Allen\u2019s case, he acknowledges he needs to be better with the bat if the Black Caps are to compete for the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an incredibly frustrating tournament for me,\u201d Aleen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve had a lot of soft dismissals, in crucial games as well, which is extremely disappointing. I think I\u2019ve been doing the hard work early and getting myself set and then throwing it away. <\/p>\n
\u201cI really hope that we can get another crack in this World Cup in the semi-final.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Black Caps will learn their fate tomorrow morning (NZ time).<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s net run rate (+1.390) is currently superior to Pakistan\u2019s (-0.461). However, Pakistan now know the exact circumstances they need to win in to progress.<\/p>\n
Should Pakistan bat first, they\u2019d need to win by 64 runs to leapfrog New Zealand into the last four. If they bat second, they\u2019ll have to chase any target down in 13.1 or fewer overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI felt bad because a few of us couldn\u2019t stop [laughing] and we were trying not to laugh,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16489,74,9092,59500,35477,44485,9218,682,7022,24003,42574,39919,8609,1634,19959,38268,5593,6098,167410,78,167411,661,10543,3556,111,43,139,69,61492,10702,56769,95584,312,25093,4248,165,6736,102,377,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-306206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-admits","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-against","11":"tag-allen","12":"tag-anthem","13":"tag-batter","14":"tag-before","15":"tag-being","16":"tag-black","17":"tag-botched","18":"tag-caps","19":"tag-colombo","20":"tag-double","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-error","23":"tag-finn","24":"tag-funny","25":"tag-hard","26":"tag-hysterics","27":"tag-in","28":"tag-laugh","29":"tag-major","30":"tag-match","31":"tag-national","32":"tag-new-zealand","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-newzealand","35":"tag-nz","36":"tag-played","37":"tag-players","38":"tag-pretty","39":"tag-resulted","40":"tag-says","41":"tag-speed","42":"tag-technical","43":"tag-their","44":"tag-was","45":"tag-with","46":"tag-world","47":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}