by deciding to amputate the arm the tumor of which was infecting the pakistan cricket and their team... how better it would have been had they raised their hands and own some responsibility in failing to cure it...
the wound that could have been cured by timely intervention, medication and care... they waited for that wound (indiscipline) to develop into a tumor (player power) and in doing so they have send a clear message that they and their system is totally incapable of curing the 'player power' tumor and only way out, they know, is... amputate the arm... to save their skins...
hence they have decided to bar mohammad yousuf and younis khan from playing international games... handed over one year ban to shoaib malik and rana naved and chose to fine shahid afridi, kamran akmal and his younger brother umar akmal... apparantly on disciplinary grounds...
if for a moment we believe what pcb trying hard to feed on to us... even then their case looks very weak... coz if indiscipline was the factor... they should have banned...
kamran akmal... for a year... who openly flaunted team's stance by continuously giving contradictory interviews to oz media about him playing the next game and forcing himself on and above team cause...
umar akmal... for a year... who suddenly developed the back pain after he learned that his elder brother is going to be dropped from the team for the next game... and once he was told in no uncertain terms that he will have to accompany kamran to the flight back home... miraculously his back pain evaporated in thin air...
shahid afridi... for life time... for audaciously biting the ball... thereby disgracing reputation of a captain and the whole pakistan team... and compulsively engaging in team infighting in the past...
and should have fined yousuf, younis, malik and rana... but we all know that's not the case...
that is why they call pcb... the permanently confused board for nothing...
pcb admits its futility...
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Warne...you beauty !!
shared by straight point on Monday, June 02, 2008
when asked how you feel playing under warne...kamran akmal's prompt reply summed up everthing for me...
'itnaa bada khiladi hai ke achcha perform karney ka mann karta hai...'
(loosely translated - he is such a great player that you really want to perform well for him)
warne showed to world...what we were missing when he could not captain australia...
he won by playing what really can be called 'hard and fair"...
there was no chest thumping...no 'worked up' aggression...no disrespect to opposition...and still he won...and how...
this is the biggest lesson for all these newbies and some seniors too...who think that aggression is showing histrionics on field....swearing at opponent with choicest explicits.....
yes sir, you can still win matches...and we are not talking about 50's cricket here mr punter...
i hope the message is clearly conveyed...to one and all...
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The 'Indian' Boost
shared by straight point on Monday, December 03, 2007
some batsmen look forward to i.e.
after another fighting innings from misbah and especially Kamran...i wondered how, we have a history of resurrecting so many careers that otherwise would not have enjoyed that much longer run than they did...
how there are some batsmen, when not in good form and career in shatters...they pray to god to please arrange a tour with india...
so many players come to my mind (mainly from pakistan though)....
Shivnaraine Chandrapaul (barring good outing lately in england tour, he would get the top cake amongst all other players for being the kind of batsman i am talking about)
Andy flower (the sight of him coming in mid of collapse and you know that now its going to be long before we get him out)
Izaz Ahmed (i am yet to recall him playing innings of substance elsewhere, of course india were exception)
Shahid Afridi (he has hurt india than any other country he has played against...had 'india' not happened to him, wonder where he would have been...)
Kamran Akmal (would have been a goner had this series not happened in time for him...)
Misbah? (q mark is bcoz, although its early days, but after SA series bad outings here would have been enough to put doubts in selectors mind that whether he is good 'test' match material)
Saeed Anwar (very fond of our bowling...if you wake him up midnight to play match against us would almost sleep walk through his innings)
Since i am not statistician type (to search for data) i leave it to you...how many batsmen you can add?
