posted Jun 21, 2009

Notice how all the indians are being nice now. They weren't being this nice two years ago.

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posted Jun 21, 2009

pakistan and india head to head statistics test matches played 59 india win 9 pakistan 12 draw 38 odi played 117 india win 45 pakistan 68 20/20 india 2 pakistan 0 which team is better pakistan all u talk about world cup matches look at the bigger pic we are better it is a fact

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posted Jun 21, 2009

India have a population of 1 billion, with roughly 100m people who have a 'european' standard of living. Cricket is also India's main sport. When you take that into consideration they are actually abysmal. They should be able to produce 10 sachins for every ponting, or 20 for every lara.
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I kinda agree with this, but even brazil don't win the football world cup all the time and they are similar in having a giant population all obsessed with one sport.

I think if lots of countries played cricket you'd see india's talent a bit better. If every european, asian and middle eastern country played the game to a high level I think you'd find india constantly in the top 5 in the world whereas most of the other countries would switch about.

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posted Jun 22, 2009

20-20 is at the forefront of commercial cricket. It is currently the post popular form of this sport and on this basis winning this cup was a huge success. However i still feel winning a One-day worldcup will be a better achievement. That said take nothing away from this 20-20 win. It was less of a slog-fest and more tactical and technical than ever before.

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posted Jun 22, 2009

Wow.

Michael Atherton was right, Indian fans are the most immature.

Some of you are just ridiculous

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posted Jun 22, 2009

Is that comment directed at me ?

And i doubt Micheal Atherton called Indian fans immature...

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posted Jun 22, 2009

I found the whole thing a bit of a bore. Not a fan still if it gets more people watching cricket let it be.
Too much like baseball slog slog slog then out.

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posted Jun 22, 2009

SL were outplayed. Dilshan copped it under the pressure...rabbit in lights !!

He could have waited for an over and got him self together before trying to chase the bowling.

Afridi was the man for the big stage, he loved it and lapped up all the glory.

The dramma could have been better if Pak lost a couple of more wickets.

A bit annoyed with how as the match went on, Akram became less and less impartial.

Regardless of the results, I think India are in a very good position with their squad and I can only see them getting better with more experience of the pressure situations.

I think SA also have a great squad.

Btw, thanks offered by the players at the end should have been to the sponsors and the ticket paying public who bankrolled the circus

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posted Jun 22, 2009

to: geniusmunir123

As for the stats, you should possibly discount anything between 1990 - 2002. Both sets of fans treated those results with a great deal of suspicion. Long before Crone owned up and Jadeja & azzurudin got banned.

Prior to that, Pak were a better test side by a longway.

Since Gangualy took over, I think India have shaded it.

I think the ICC test rankings are a better indicator of the current ratings anyway.

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posted Jun 23, 2009

;his bowling improved drastically during the Australia tour . His batting was constantly improving and he finally kept everything together . Don't forget he is a pathan .

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