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links for 2009-06-23 « Rumblegumption — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:51:25 +0000

[...] Pakistan Ka Matlab Kiya III [...]

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:52:58 +0000

PS– It seems Miandad is striking a more conciliatory tone now:

http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_india-can-help-pakistani-cricket-javed-miandad_1267603

By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:21:56 +0000

Fantastic performance, fantastic result.

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:16:22 +0000

Aside: Younis Khan has long struck me as one of the nicest people ever to lead a cricket team…

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:34:26 +0000

Younis’ moving appeal to teams to tour Pakistan was really touching. But the problem is that I don’t see any way out of this morass: other teams are unwilling to tour Pakistan, and the victory is unlikely to change it. Actually (the BCCI’s smugness notwithstanding) the whole cricket world is on the verge of a precipice: England resumed their tour to India after the 26/11 attacks (just barely); the IPL was shifted to SA (yes, it clashed with the elections, but it would certainly not have been shifted if the attack on the SL team in Lahore had not occurred), and before the latter decision was taken, the NZ board had refused to clear its players to play in India, and when the SL civil war was winding down, the Australian tennis authorities did not allow a Davis Cup team to visit Chennai — any more attacks would raise serious questions about the World Cup in India as well. [Aside: Miandad's dog-in-the-manger attitude on the whole thing is also unhelpful, not to mention eyebrow-raising given he's now related to Dawood Ibrahim!]

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:27:56 +0000

Ah, Hinglish and Urdish (?): “Aqib Javed ne khiladiyon ko guide kiya aur hausla afzai ki…”

By: sepoy

sepoy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:33:27 +0000

thabet: I am sure today’s schoolkids will say the same bout ’09.

By: thabet

thabet — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:11:06 +0000

Don’t think anything will beat the ’92 final though. I still remember bunking off school with all my friends to listen to the match on the radio.

Plus, it was England in the final :-)

By: karachikhatmal

karachikhatmal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:52:04 +0000

it was the most incredible night i have ever experienced in pakistan – the aftermath of that win… absolutely insane scenes in the streets of karachi. 17 years in the waiting, it was so worth the wait! :)

By: Conrad Barwa

Conrad Barwa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:04:44 +0000

We wus robbed! LOL!

Seriously not looking forward to the gloating from my Pakistani colleagues, but well played. Sri Lanka didn’t really turn up!