Upset Pakistan fans stage mock funeral

Angry Pakistan cricket fans smashed TVs and staged a mock funeral for their team after a disappointing batting display and some sloppy catching helped dump them out of the World Cup.

A below-par display with the bat in Adelaide had Pakistan bowled out for just 213 and co-hosts Australia chased the target down with relative ease to win by six wickets, despite a fiery spell from fast bowler Wahab Riaz.

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News channels showed footage of fans smashing up a television set in anger at the team's elimination.

In the central Pakistani city of Multan around 50 fans organised a symbolic funeral procession through the streets, complete with a coffin with bats on top.

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Fans in the city of Multan during a mock funeral // Getty

Multan's residents staged a similar event after Pakistan's humiliating 150-run defeat to the West Indies earlier in the tournament.

Downcast fans in Islamabad slammed the side's poor fielding, after two chances went down at crucial stages in the Australian innings.

Rahat Ali dropped a simple catch to Shane Watson off the hook when the allrounder was on just four, while Sohail Khan spilled a more difficult chance offered by Glenn Maxwell when he was on 5. Both batsmen finished not out as Australia won with 97 balls to spare.

"They did their best but they get pressurised easily, that's why they made a lot of mistakes in their fielding," Mubashir Khan told AFP.

"Two men dropped catches, that's the main reason for our loss."

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Rahat Ali spills simple catch on the boundary // Getty

But there was praise for Riaz and the other bowlers, particularly as the side lost several key players to injury and suspension in the months leading up to the World Cup.

"I'm really disappointed. But our bowlers played really well and we reached the quarter finals," fan Jahanzeb told AFP.

"This team is our B-team. Our main players are not there. Overall it's a good performance, but today, it's really bad."

The defeat was set to bring the curtain down on the one-day international careers of captain Misbah-ul-Haq and big-hitting allrounder Shahid Afridi.

The hashtag #ThankYouMisbah was trending on Twitter in Pakistan in the hours after the match as fans hailed the 40-year-old captain, whose steadying influence has pulled the side out of trouble more than once in recent years.

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