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Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal said on Monday the pain of losing the semi-final to Australia still lingers. According to a website, Ajmal said, When Hussey hit the last six I was absolutely heartbroken, I am still heartbroken. He said, It was a very emotional and difficult time for me. My team-mates all came up to me and consoled me and told me not to worry, but I was very upset. The pain is there, when you lose a game of this magnitude it hurts really badly.Ajmal bowled the over was part of a plan, having succeeded in shutting South Africa out of the contest in their previous game. He said he wanted to fire in yorkers to keep Hussey in check, but things didnt go according to script. The first delivery was perfect, it was what I had planned, it was a perfect yorker to Mitchell Johnson and it only went for a single, he said. However, then the wind seemed to pick up and I was bowling into the wind which made me lose my line and length. I dragged the next delivery down and instead of bowling yorkers into the block hole for the remaining deliveries as I tried to fire the ball in at the batsman, the deliveries ended up being quick and became length deliveries, which was what Hussey was hoping for. He was then able to get the elevation on the deliveries, instead of having to dig them out. Ajmal said the best way to shrug off the disappointment was to start bowling again. The best way for me to get over this match is to start playing cricket again, get the ball in my hand and to start bowling again.
