Archive for the ‘11/26’ Category
We dont go to India. World cup doesnt go on.
Ahoy Butt. My favorite Butt. Whenever he says something, its got to be gibberish. Crap and stupid. Laughable.
If Pakistan doesnt travel to India for its world cup game, simple award the game to the opposition. Why cancel the world cup ? On what premise ?
In 1996 SL won 3 games on forfeit, 2 league games against WI and Aus cos they refused to travel to SL and then the semi-final.
In 2003 Zim got through to the Super Six on account of England’s forfeiture. Kenya got through to the semis cos NZ awarded them a game.
So given the history that there is no cancellation of World Cup when a country refuses to travel to other then why does Pakistan wants the world cup to be cancelled if its government who was in all terms behind 11/26 refuses its team to go to India. And its not for the security fears Pak team wont go to India..
There should be no discount to Pakistan for its blackmailing on not to go to India. If they dont go declare them the losers. Anyway they are known to take a step ahead and then take 3 steps behind. Sue ICC, fight a legal case only to withdraw it.
Ban drug addicts only to withdraw later.
Ban ICl players only to withdraw later.
Sacking, reappointing, match fixing allegations on every defeat, groupism, Miandads, Sarfarazs, Rashids and Butts. Wow man so much of soap opera in the Pakistan cricket. Who needs T20 ? Watch PCB and its headless chicken. Laughters guaranteed.
Oh Aussies, stop playing for a while.
Is match being fixed to give some confidence to belaugered team of Pakistan. Gone are the days when you had McGrath or Warne or Lee to have responded in similar fashion and have betted to win. Damn damn damn. I rest my case. Geoff Boycott and Rameez Poor Raza are laughing.
Pakistan loses World Cup
Intiqab Alam gets it all wrong. Horribly wrong. The IPL was moved out of the country to South Africa not for the security fears but for the smooth completion and execution of elections in the country. And the security fears, if they are in India, they emanate from the terror threats from the land which was stripped of World Cup. Every body knows Ajmal Kasab and 9 others who showered terror in Mumbai on 11/26 were Pakistani nationals. The terrorists who attacked SL cricketers in Lahore were Pakistanis and Afghans.
So this pretendence of victim and self pity isnt going to help Alam and his cricketing setup. It would be good for him to look forward to the ODI series against Australia.
ICC has been just in taking the world cup out of Pakistan. And i wont be surprised if the world cup would be moved out of subcontinent (whatever that is) altogether, thanks to the Pak sponsered terror in the region. That could be a valid move cos we dont want the game to get affected to this useless jihadis (if you ask me i would like to shower lot of abuses on this terror elements)….
So as usual Pakistanis have been crying foul and sissy babies to see an ice candy being snatched away from them. Its amazing that they are ready to cry foul rather than have a strong will and eradicate their own bred terror elements from their western border…
Politics behind IPL.
Here are few things to ponder.
1. Lalit Modi has just lost the RCA elections to the state government nominee. Not that it would affect his power and stature in the BCCI and IPL. But for sure some petitions and court cases would come up against him. And they have come up. Its a puppet who rules the state government in Rajasthan.
2. Mr P Chidambaram, the honorable Home minister, the only shining star of this useless government has decided to up the ante on IPL by publicly discouraging it. I have been vocal on this. He has created an impression that India is an unsafe state to play cricket in. And we have been crippled by cross border terrorism. Rather than saying that come what may we wont let it affect our country and iPL, he went ahead and said I am a useless minister. Cannot provide security to the IPL. So does he feel that the 11/26 masters wont be listening / reading his statements and laughing ? God forbid if this public ugly row might create another opportunity for them.
3. The UPA state governments ruled out security, more shamelessly the maharashtra DGP. Assholes. They were caught napping during 11/26. And now they are just using IPL as an excuse to hide their monumental failure. Sad to see cricket being victimised in a state which is hostile, intolerant and ridiculously known to have its own anthem and agenda.
4. And the most horrendous intention of Mrs Sonia Gandhi. She is the most powerful political person in the country. The PM, VP and Prez are her puppets. Long back in 1999, mr Sharad Pawar had sabotaged the plans of Mrs Gandhi to be PM by citing her foreign origin as a show stopper. Unfortunately Mr Pawar got his way. After that Mr Pawar was kicked out. He formed another regional party and now he harbors the ambitions of being a PM in ruling UPA govt in the upcoming elections, something which Mrs Gandhi would never allow. He is BCCI macho man. Hurting him was the motive. And IPL was the biggest chance for Sonia and company to hurt Mr Pawar. She was successful. Point to note here is, the PM didnt speak a bit on this. All talking was done by Mr Bong and PC, the Anna.
5. MP, Guj, HP governments gave go ahead to IPL in their states. This states are ruled by the BJP, the principal opposition party and a power hopeful in this elections.
Now the question is will Pakistan government headed by Mr 10% allow its players to play in IPL, now that security wont be an issue. This is another fact that his own millitary and intelligence wing over which he has no control plotted 11/26 and 3/3. And thanks to this useless Indian government, the world now knows that Indian homeland is unsafe to play cricket in. Amazing isnt it.
Vote politics man. IPL is not kicked out for the lack of security,but for the vote politics. The very same reason for no action on 11/26 terrorists, the 08 serial blasts in different parts of country accused, the 7/11 accused and of course the 01 Parliament attack accused.
Sick sick !!
Stop begging guys!!
http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India-should-come-forward-to-help-Pakistan-cricket/articleshow/4266753.cms
Messrs Kamran Akmal. Yeah right. We help them and they send 10 perpators to Mumbai to ……
SL agree to tour them and their team is attacked.
Chris Broad speaks out against poor security in Pak for 3/3 and he is being filed for a ban by great Ijaz Butt and Javed Miandad whose son has married Dawood Ibrahim daughter, Mumbai’s most………
We have IPL coming up in 25 days time, there is an ugly row in public between Home ministry, state govts and IPL. And bang on time Naseem Ashraf, the fly who was thrown out post General era in Pakistan, speaks that terrorists would target players in India!!
Bloody hell who sends terrorists to India ? GOD sent or Pakistan sent ? Or non-state actors ? Time for Pakistanis to stop begging Indians for help. Indians wont and shouldnt help a country which binges on terror and nourishes terror and goes soft on it.
India unsafe to play cricket in ?
“Pakistan has barred its players from participating in the IPL after its foreign ministry deemed it was unsafe for the cricketers to travel to India in the wake of the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai”
Sour grapes ? Unsafe security situation in India ? Who caused it ? Who sent the attackers ? Non state actors ?
At best this ban on Pak players for IPL is out of vengeance and revenge for India’s cancellation of full tour to the troubled country. By the way except for Sohail Tanvir no other Pakistan cricketer was of any use to the franchisees. Ok Younis Captain Khan too. But then who else ?
It’s a funny situation. Don’t want to get into political perspective, but this ban evokes laughter out of me.
SL snubs Pakistan too ??
That’s what you call double catastrophe. After royale Indian snub, most likely Lankans are also planning to drop Pakistan in lurch……All cos Arjuna Ranatunga was sacked. Good idea right now for Pakistan would be to have a domestic cricket tourney with ex-international players led by Shoaib Malik, the ICL dump led by Inzamam Ul Haq and terrorist team led by anybody out of LeT or Huji or any militant organization flourishing in Pakistan………
.Srilanka is unlikely to tour Pakistan with authorities reconsidering the decision of sacked Cricket Board Chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to support India’s stance of not touring that country following the recent terror attacks in Mumbai “We follow a pro-India policy. We know the circumstances in which the Indian tour to Pakistan was called off. The tour (of Sri Lanka to Pakistan) is unlikely,” top sources said. When contacted, Sri Lankan Sports and Recreation Minister Gamini Lokuge said he would hold discussions with the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the issue. “We are reconsidering the decisions taken by Arjuna Ranatunga,” Lokuge said adding that the Foreign Ministry would also be consulted on the proposed
tour.
And this is not worse, ICL and IPL are also planning to dump Pakistani players out of their leagues…..So no cricket for them!!! All their bloggers could do is have a wishful thinking of a fight between Sachin or Dravid and Dhoni or Yuvraj………….
GOD save Pakistan cricket and may it provide some relief to the beleaguered PCB with some decent cricket………May be invite BD for a Test series or Zimbabwe for an ODI series…..
History in Chennai
Close to full crowd in last 2 days, the Test cricket won. Nobody spent a tear on cancelation of Champions League. The test cricket returned in the venue of the country which has seen classics like 1986 Tie test, 1999 Test against well Pakistan, 2001 against Australia. And defying the weather and terror threats out of Terroristan the Chennai crowd won once again.
Having being outplayed for 4 days, Indians bounced back in style to win the Test match. This is the pinnacle. Doesnt get better than this. Indians defied the 4th innings jinx, the turning pitch, menacing Flintoff, dangerous Swann, turned Panesar to Warne and won the Test in style.
Yuvraj was the stand out in the 4th innings. Not only he sealed his place for a while in the XI, but also showed sense of urgency after Laxman fell. Indians are fast becoming the supreme Test playing country and they would be the worthy replacement for Aussies as # 1.
And this was set up nicely on day 4 by Virender Sehwag and helped in the morning by good knocks by Gambhir and Laxman, followed by Yuvraj Singh.
But the man who did it today was nobody but Sachin Tendulkar, the GOD of Indian cricket. He was being pressurised to retire post Lankan series. Since then he has hit 3 100s in 5 Tests in India. He was having supposed bad 4th innings record, doesnt play in crunch situations and he is selfish.
The man dedicated this 100 to Mumbai victims. So little and irrelevant is cricket before what happened in Mumbai, but the man rose above the grief and showed the way to the world. I salute the man for his excellence. I know critics (read bloggers) would still raise some doubts and point to flaws of his innings, but then who bothers. Tendulkar is GOD and he has shown it today by his excellent 100, which could be his BEST.
Dhoni led the team, but it was again a team effort. Himself and Bhajji in batting in 1st innings, Zaheer and Ishant in bowling in 2nd innings, Ganbhir, Viru, Yuvraj, Laxman in 2nd innings….Team effort….
Well done Indians and you have made us proud once again, a momentary relief from the immense pain of 11/26. More stuff for the neigbhours to bark on.
We rock, India rocks and so does England. For their spirits, for their resilience and for their love of Test cricket.
Cricket resumes in the country
A min more and the first ball would be bowled in the country shocked and ripped by ghastly terror strikes. And amazingly or to my horrors, the mind is still stuck in the 11/26. And the game is not untouched by the happenings either.
9.25am The two teams line up for a moment’s silence to remember the tragic losses of the Mumbai attacks
Everything being written about cricket in India post 11/26 involves a mention of the event. The way security has changed, the way the crowds would be keeping away from the game, the way the English have come back to play the Tests, the way IPL and money factor was attributed to the return, some murmur in the neibhouring lands about the double standards over the cricket in India and Pakistan. Everything has a mention of 11/26.
Imagine what Sachin Tendulkar would be going through, a city in which he was born, brought up and lived his life in, was attacked and he must be for sure having one part of his mind in the Mumbai events. So even if we see a below par Indian performance nobody should blame the team. Given the situations, the mood and mindset is just not there.
But since the game has resumed and we being the religious followers of the only ‘TRUE RELIGION’ of INDIA, lets support it in whatever way we can. But it would be very difficult for us to look solely on cricket and not the backdrop of the events. Just too tough. Imagine the mindset of cricketers, one eye on the ball and other one outside the stadium.
God Bless the INDIAN cricket, INDIAN terrain and the country along with its proud citizens.
Let the spirit of humanity and the game resume and triumph …..
Preview to the 1st Test : India vs England
India vs England begins in 2 days and talking from fresh cricket perspective with no backdrop of 11/26, the favorites are India to win fair and square.
Expected scoreline : 2-0 (if no rains in Chennai) or 1-0 (if Chennai is rained out) to India.
Key players to watch for :
From Indian perspective :
1. Yuvraj Singh : needless to mention that this might be a last chance for himself to establish on the Test level. A fair run is essential to be granted to the maverick southpaw.
2. Rahul Dravid : Critics are out to get him. His send-offs are written and just a matter of time they are rolled out in anticipation of a possible retirement announcement. However, this blog supports him to the core and is hopeful that he would bounce back rock solid and hard to the critics. Write him off @ ur perils.
3. Mahendra Singh Dhoni : First Test series as full time captain. No Ganguly and no Kumble. First series in 20 years when India goes to a series without Kumble (excluding his injury breaks) and onus on MSD how he handles Amit Mishra as Anil ‘s replacement.
4. Virender Sehwag : Back to what he does the best. Hammer the bowlers. Primary reason for 5-0 washout in the oDIs, but was overshadowed by majestic hundreds by Yuvraj. Except for one game gave starts in all 5 games. Is one of the top scorer in Tests this year (beside Graeme Smith). A hundred or 2 in the offing.
5. Gautam Gambhir : Back after the Test ban, he would be back on his favorite spot. In form of his life, much depends on the starts he and Viru provide in every innings. Easily on the road of being India’s best opening pair EVER.
From English perspective :
1. Kevin Pieterson : England s captain and best batsman. Got form late in ODIs but made little difference in Cuttack. A lot would depend on the man if England are to show up a good performance out here. Lot of responsibilities off the field too dealing with the security issues.
2. Freddie Flintoff : Back to full fitness (?) and amongst the top 3 batsmen of the England team. First change bowler and a hard hitting batsman at 6 or 7. Would be key with both bat and ball for fortunes of England in the series.
3. Ali Cook : A man who has not hit a single six in international cricket career so far would have lot of responsibility to give a good start to the team with Andrew Strauss. Back in the country where he was rushed to the Test debut 2 yrs back, he would be eyeing few runs in his belt before of course England’s bread and butter series against Aussies begin.
4. Monty Panesar : England win or lose, lot depends on his performance. A lot of promise was showed in his debut in the same country 2 yrs back and with SRT as 1st Test wicket, would be keen to resume his battle with Tendulkar and Dravid. Would be interesting to see how he balls to Sehwag. If he is able to keep runs in the check and take wkts, he would have done a world of good to his expectations.
Chennai is a spoil sport venue this days. Its been 6 years since a game was played with a result in Chennai (WI, 2002). Since then owing to rains or flat tracks, the games have either being drawn or abandoned. Thanks to the security issues and the ongoing tussle between the BCCI and CAB, Kolkata missed out on hosting the test match.
And with concerns over Mohali too, it would be interesting to see where the second Test is held. Delhi could be one option, Kolkata wont be any, Bangalore could be third.
Let cricket begin with no mention of 11/26. No statements, no over the top opinions on separating terror from cricket, no pointings to the fragile Indian mindset right now and god sake no equating with the country lying in the north west of us. A silence on 11/26 from cricketing point of view is needed. We don’t need to listen what Indian cricketers or English cricketers feel. We must thank England for the resumption of tour in the wake of crisis and security concerns. And for now lets get on with the game. Lets get on with our RELIGION. The one factor that binds entire country and unites it.
Gentlemen PLAY!!!
