‘Shahid’s desire to win was there for all to see’

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‘Shahid’s desire to win was there for all to see’

“No I just was trying to smell it, [to see] how it was feeling.”
Shahid Afridi tells of his lovin’ feelin’ for the ball soon after the end of the match

“There is no team in the world that doesn’t tamper with the ball. My methods were wrong. I am embarrassed, I shouldn’t have done it. I just wanted to win us a game but this was the wrong way to do it.”
Afridi regrets his actions after being banned

“I’m just watching like you. If he did that it is not a good image for Pakistan. He can tell you better.”
Mohammad Yousuf, the Pakistan captain who missed the game, was just a silent spectator

“Shahid’s desire to win today was there for all to see.”
Afridi’s manager Umran Khan admires his client’s never-say-die spirit

“He would have had all sorts of things going through his mind for the last couple of overs and as captain you have enough going through your head without worrying about things like that.”
Australian captain Ricky Ponting can bring himself to sympathize

“There must have been a bet, or perhaps he was drunk.”
The Times’ Patrick Kidd gives some plausible explanations

“Perhaps he didn’t appreciate the lunch he was given in Australia.”
Graeme Smith, South Africa captain, kicks off the series of endless jokes that the incident will prompt

“Whatever justification or excuse … cannot justify the act because in the laws of cricket it is illegal … He’s so talented and you can see the [good] body language when the team is playing under him. All this is going his way. It is so foolish.”
Former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal clearly does not support Afridi’s actions

“It’s no secret that everyone wants to change the condition of the ball but that’s through shining the ball and things like that.”
Australia bowler Dirk Nannes rejects Afridi’s claims that all teams tamper with the ball

“I don’t think there was any malice in what he did, but given his track record he probably got off lightly. I think five-six matches should have been the minimum.”
Former Australian batsman Mark Waugh thinks the penalty should have been heavier

I am not justifying his acts nor sympathizing with his acts. He shouldn’t have had done so because now other teams are openly pointing out jokes on him, keeping in mind unlike India, we lack in lobbying dept. There’s not that much stronger lobbying from our side to satisfy these goras.

Just because of his foolish act we were humiliated, else Stuart Broad did the same in South Africa but he was spared just because his daddy is on a good post.

Might is Right

Now these stains will haunt Pakistani cricket for long, which is still suffering from the wounds of the previous years.

Peace!

Afridi bites back

Afridi bites back

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Australia needs to introspect

Australia needs to introspect

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Creating unnecessary hype!

The Preview by Peter English on Cricinfo.com

The Big Picture

After the three Tests come the five ODIs and a Twenty20 to complete Pakistan’s tour. While the opening segment of the trip ended in a 3-0 victory for Australia, the limited-overs arrangements will be much more competitive.

Despite the result, Pakistan’s squad became more united as the tour went on and they have received some key reinforcements, with Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi added to the unit. The tourists have also troubled Australia in their most recent engagements and their fast-bowling unit, which includes Mohammad Aamer, will worry the hosts at times. Australia won a tight series in the UAE 3-2 last year and the teams also ran into each other at the Champions Trophy, when Australia sneaked home by two wickets.

This series will be an important gauge of the popularity of the 50-over game. Twenty20 crowds have been huge for the domestic Big Bash and five-match head-to-head series against Pakistan and West Indies will test Australia’s love affair with the format that began here in the 1970s.

I suppose this is an old tactic of winning the war before the war actually started. Creating that sorta pressure on the opposition team that they eventually end-up getting pressurized and later under-performance result.

I don’t know why our media instead of being a copy cat, try to be realistic and do the job like the media of those country’s doing for theirs, instead we’re here enflaming the views and reviews and other useless things. We need to get matured as other countries have been.

Similar sorta hype was created at the start of the Melbourne and Sydney test, and because of that I suppose the team got under-pressured, which is their weakness, we should not blame others for it as other are for exploiting your weak-points. On the other hand we’ve a habit of exposing ourselves unnecessarily, whether it refers to our weak-points, strong-points, injury etc. everywhere we get exploited because of our own weakness of exposing unnecessarily.

The way Aussie media exploiting this weakness of Pakistani cricket team and media management, I don’t think the end result of the ODI SERIES won’t be different than that of the recently concluded TEST SERIES.

Peace!