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Listed below are comments made by eoinsmith001 between Wednesday, 30th July 2008 and Sunday, 21st June 2009.

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Comeback kings conquer the world 8:49pm on 21 Jun 2009 From an Irish cricket fan, well done Pakistan! These guys are too talented, too explosive, and too dramatic to sideline from international cricket, and hopefully this will convince everyone that a solid and healthy Pakistan team is invaluable for the heart and soul of the game. A wonderful story; congratulations to Younus & co.!
My alternative review of the season 1:30pm on 10 Jun 2009 How can something be pre-prepared?
Lahore attacks shock England players 3:09pm on 06 Mar 2009 #18, AttackStar... precisely! You're on the ball there. There's the cricketing bubble, where we're all happy that the Sri Lankans are safe and sound, and we worry about the future of the game in Pakistan, and as cricket fans, we discuss this, but outside the bubble, there's a Real World going on. There's clearly an extremely tangled web of history, politics, war, crime, money, shady people, religion, sociology, and a hundred other things going on in S Asia, beyond the understanding of the average cricket fan. The Lankans were put in an awful situation, and thank goodness they escaped, but to suggest that it was a random act of terrorist hatred is as naive as it is dangerous. Similarly, the idea that the Lankans went to Pakistan as friendly neighbours helping out a suffering ally is almost certainly twee naivety; who knows what strings were pulled between the impoverished Pak and SL boards, and possibly governments, without regard to player safety etc.? We can talk about cricket all we want, but we have to respect that in this case, cricket and the people involved were just caught up in a deeper, endemic problem. We shouldn't nitpick the comments of Mr. Broad, Mr. Taufel, Mr. Muralidaran etc; they're scratching angrily at the surface of what goes beyond an unfortunate isolated incident. It's terrible that people were put in danger, people died, but this happened in a world where Javed Miandad can argue for the continuation of cricket in Pakistan while neglecting to mention the wanted international criminal and terrorist in his own family. Better security won't fix Pakistan's problems, or India's, or anyone's.
Frail batting costs England again 9:51pm on 30 Jul 2008 Wow, just listened to the Vaughan/Aggers exchange... not classy, not classy at all from Mr. Vaughan.

Being generous, you'd say it was mometary fit of pique, and then he certainly owes Johnathan an apology. Being critical, you'd say... well, stuff that would break the House Rules!

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