Pakistan Team for the World Cup 2003

re: #37 by Romair
Last time i heard news about Paki team, they were getting thrashed by Australians in Srilanka in front of a few hundred spectators. When was the last time any sporting team has visited your pukiland?
Sridhar

re:#32 by Pankaj
You only have to compare the medal tallies in Asian and recent Commonwealth games to know where Pakis stand. We are still better, claims of Field Marshal of chowk notwithstanding.
Sridhar

re:#24 by Romair
How about comparing the sporting medals that your country received say in the last commonwealth games with the number that India got? Or in Asian games?
Go to the following url and look at the medal table in commonwealth games:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/bsp/statistics/medal.stm
Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. Australia 82 62 62 206 (first ranking)
2. England 54 51 60 165 (second ranking)
3. India 30 21 19 70 (third ranking)
4. Pakistan 01 03 03 07 (17th ranking)

In Asian games in Busan, India ranked 8th. Pak was 23rd in ranking. We have been consistently outperforming you in all international venues. Now, do not tell me you guys do not know anything other than cricket. As far as hockey is concerned, i know that you are no better than India.
Url: http://busanasiangames.org/Eng/
Sridhar

re:#24 by Romair
I think you are defending the indefensible. Let statistics speak. How have you guys fared in comparison to India in all sporting events concerned (not just cricket)? Stop talking out of your rear end and use your brain for a change.
Sridhar

re: Pakistani cricket
For most Indians, cricket is just a sport to be enjoyed. I have not watched cricket for more than 10 years now but i remember my medical school days when India toured Australia during the Benson and Hedges series (which India won). There was a lot of interest and we had good fun.
For Pakis however, cricket seems to be more than a game. It is as if the whole nationhood is at stake (especially when playing India). I remember the time when India and Pak co-hosted the world cup (which was finally won by SriLanka). India thrashed Pak in Bangalore. There was lot of bad blood. When India played Srilanka in Calcutta for the semis, there were threats from Paki spectators from Pak to the effect that an Indian win might jeopardise the safety of Indians in Pak (for finals). When India lost to Srilanka, Pakistan celebrated, not because this loss has strenthened their chances (Pak was out of the reckoning by then) but just because it gave plain vicarious pleasure to Pakis to see Indians lose.
Our best revenge during this world cup will be to whip the Paki A$$. I have not seen cricket for 10 years but i would not miss the Indo-Pak encounter (if it happens) for anything in the world.
Sridhar

and what Imran Khan do ?

Imran Khan has totally gone insane. Seriously, it must be some psychological disease. Some say he`s trying to exploit religious feelings to gain political popularity lately, but I think its much deeper than that. I really think he should be put in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.

9 punjabi + 2 pathan against rest of the world

PagalInsaan,
I watched (on TV) a match in Chennai not so long ago where the Pakistani team beat the Indians and got a standing ovation from the whole stadium while Miandad and co did a victory lap. Maybe someday those days will come back, maybe.

Folks,
India and Pakistan are in the same group, if i am not mistaken, so there is nothing to complain about here. Put a lid on it and enjoy the cricket.

Khan calls for boycott of England
Posted Fri, 24 Jan 2003

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan called Friday for a cricket boycott of England if Britain goes to war with Iraq, saying it is the ``one language`` Prime Minsister Tony Blair understands.

The British and Australian goverments have called, unsuccessfully, for their cricket teams to boycott matches in Zimbabwe during the forthcoming World Cup in protest at the human rights abuses of President Robert Mugabe.

Imran, who led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup, said an Anglo-American war against Iraq would lead to the deaths of thousands of his fellow Muslims.

He also accused Blair of hypocrisy. ``Doesn`t Mr Blair`s acute sensitivity to the plight of the Zimbabwean people look just a little ironic next to his apparent readiness to vaporise thousands of Iraqis? A little rich even?`` the legendary allrounder wrote in Friday`s Guardian newspaper.

Imran, 50, who now leads his own Pakistani political party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Justice Movement), added:

``Although I refused to play in apartheid South Africa I have never been a great enthusiast for sporting boycotts - there are so many countries with questionable records on human rights that the overzealous boycotter could find himself left with nowhere to play.

``But if and when this cynical war begins and especially if it inflicts large numbers of Iraqi civilian casualties, other cricketing countries will have to ask themselves a tricky question: should they play in England, a country quite prepared to visit far more destruction on Iraq than Mr Mugabe has ever visited on his own land?

``Perhaps it is time to entertain the unthinkable: a cricket boycott of the home of cricket. Might that be one language Mr Blair would understand?``

Imran has close ties to Britain. He went to school in England, attended Oxford University and played for both Sussex and Worcestershire.

He is also married to a Briton, Jemima Goldsmith.

(http://sport.iafrica.com/cricket/news/203696.htm)

PaagalInsaan,

Whoah, cool it mianji!
Youre new to this forum
I just enjoy pulling a certain handsome Kashmiri paki ex-soldier-boy pope`s chain, OK?!...
now he thinks he`s frikking Tendulkar!...

We miss ylh...

but baiting a more ``mature`` bakra is a more entertaining challenge...
esp cos he thinks he`s an expert in EVERYTHING, never thinks or admits he`s wrong....& LOOOOVES to think he`s Mian Nostradamus, but is actually Pakistan`s own Polyanna..

if Pakistan was sinking into a pile of ``goo``, he`d come up with a creative reason why sinking into ``goo`` is the BEST thing that could happen to Pakistan--and somehow at the end of his ``thesis``, will find a way to explain how India will thus be screwed & liberate Kashmir from bondage-- by Pakistan sinking in ``goo``!
Phew!...I said that all in one breath....

Aw, but what the heck..
Romair Zindabad!..
at least he has a sense of humor & can give back as good as he gets...
but thats PRIMARILY because he has Rajput genes...
his soul is still that of a bania..
so what if his mind, unfortunately, has turned muslim?--nobody`s perfect:))

Why are we all wasting our time here over pre-decided corporate shit anyway?


Dear Sadna, Pankaj, Shankar,

When will we get over comparisons? If Pakistan is a poor country, or Pakistanis are not good at sports, or they don`t know maths, how does that benefit you and other Indians? If we lose wars, how does that benefit the Indian people? How will India attacking and capturing Pakistan improve your standard of living?

If Pakistanis are only good at ``mara-oing``, why do you wanna compete with them? Why do you wanna win? How cool is it to win from a nation of losers? Why do you not compete with China? Why do you not work hard together for the progress of your country to compare youself to the USA, when you know that will have a positive effect on the lives of all Indians, and that will improve your standard of living and that of all other Indians. That will mean food and shelter for all the poor indians and better opportunities for all of you to be successful in life.

It is very natural to see frustrated youth of a failed state, trying to compete with the much better India, but it is highly disappointing to see you people getting happy comparing youself to one of the poorest states of the world! How brave is it to shoot a dead body?

shankar #36:

Question: Why should Indians not play sports?

Answer: Because, by the time the announcer finishes announcing their names, the time set aside for the whole game is over.

Skinny guys with really long names and Coca-cola glasses should stick to the Java and Linux Olympics on Xbox and Sony Playstations. I think the Indian team should concentrate on starting a .com, not on participating in the World cup :-)

PagalInsaan, sadna

When people are bowling bombs at children, anything that may buy more bombs should be aovided :)

Pankaj,
#32

Yeah! baby...you tell him!

Paki soldier boys do win the World Cup in ONE sport:
EXCUSE--mara-oing..
cant win any frikking war, but come out with every frikking excuse in the world about why their butts got whupped...

Ahemm...a little ``Trivial pursuit``, if you dont mind...India kicks Pakistan`s butt in hututu...I mean...kabbaddi...& man, we banias can hit a mean gilli with our dandas---much better than those handsome pricks from the wrong side of the border....its an Islamic conspiracy that those sports arent recognised by the IOC...

aw; what the heck, its a known fact that people who play squash are closet gays!:))

Pankaj,
#32

Yeah! baby...you tell him!

Paki soldier boys do win the World Cup in ONE sport:
EXCUSE--mara-oing..
cant win any frikking war, but come out with every frikking excuse in the world about why their butts got whupped...

Ahemm...a little ``Trivial pursuit``, if you dont mind...India kicks Pakistan`s butt in hututu...I mean...kabbaddi...& man, we banias can hit a mean gilli with our dandas---much better than those handsome pricks from the wrong side of the border....its an Islamic conspiracy that those sports arent recognised by the IOC...

aw; what the heck, its a known fact that people who play squash are closet gays!:))