Comments on: CRICKET THREATENED BY EXTREMISM http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/ .........More than just a revolutionary cricket blog....... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: khansahab http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23144 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:34:24 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23144 There is a new thread on the blog.

]]> By: newguy http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23143 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:22:54 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23143 Omer/Javed,

You are right that Pakistan has the potential to win Test matches in India, they have done so before and they may do so again. That said, I seriously doubt the current team will be able to pull it off. It’s one thing to have potential but another to actually being able to do it. I think they are very much distracted with external events that they are not able to come together for the team cause. Anyhow, these are all ifs and butts, since Pakistan is not playing India anytime soon.

Do you think SA is playing too slow in this match? I am getting bored with the overly cautious approach from Kallis and Amala, both have strike rate around 50, pitch is flat, I think they should score more faster if they want to have enough time to bowl India out twice.

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23141 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:41:06 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23141 If curiosity is man’s first instinct then, why did it kill the cat? :D

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23140 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:40:14 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23140 Diversity is good and mixed marriages are also good because they bring about the best of the species from diversity otherwise you end up like a Royal Blood with Royal Diseases such as Hemophilia and what not. :D Thank God we don’t have to worry about those things.

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23138 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:36:36 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23138 Omer

The bottom line is sab Adam ki aolaad hain. :D

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23136 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:34:14 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23136 EXACTLY this is the point what you have written just now, but Afridi haters do not wish to see him ever, you must read those comments followed by the article, and not just Ramiz wala but so many people have written since then (except us, we did not do a thread on it or wrote any article) and those people who are writing against Afridi are with Indian names and Anglo names are spitting venom. And, even a few with Muslim names are so obvious when they write Asaf and Pakastan, you know unka Tallak (Ta’aluq) kahan say hai? :D

Once again I am not defending Afridi’s action but, it is not something that he should be punished for life or stripped from Captaincy when they badly need him as a captain. I am sure if he was there in the T20 match they would have won.

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23131 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:15:22 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23131 I wasn’t comparing Johnson with Aamer or vice versa, I have mentioned what I have seen that as left arm bowlers they were pitching the ball slightly outside the off stump and for the right hand batsmen it was swinging away. The ability to swing both ways is different and certainly Aamer being so young can learn a lot more and improve a lot more provided he stays on the right track and doesn’t get spoiled like others.

Did you read Ramiz Raja’s article on cricinfo in which he has asked to “spare Afridi”, at home he was saying that Afridi should not be made captain of ODI after this ball biting episode. Then Harsha Bhogle and a few others wrote that despit all that Afridi must be made the captain because he has the captaincy material in him. This ball tampering issue has not surfaced for the first time, even the greats as well as the mediocre players have done it. Afridi was bold enough or naive to say that “All teams do that” may change the perception of those who are reluctant to admit. The irony is most of these players who are saying they used to tamper the ball have now retired and they can talk, whereas Afridi is at the peak of his form and his cricketing career and him saying this openly and bluntly is a very big surprise for many. Those who hate him wants to see the back of him even before he took a bite at the ball. :D

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23132 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:15:22 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23132 I wasn’t comparing Johnson with Aamer or vice versa, I have mentioned what I have seen that as left arm bowlers they were pitching the ball slightly outside the off stump and for the right hand batsmen it was swinging away. The ability to swing both ways is different and certainly Aamer being so young can learn a lot more and improve a lot more provided he stays on the right track and doesn’t get spoiled like others.

Did you read Ramiz Raja’s article on cricinfo in which he has asked to “spare Afridi”, at home he was saying that Afridi should not be made captain of ODI after this ball biting episode. Then Harsha Bhogle and a few others wrote that despit all that Afridi must be made the captain because he has the captaincy material in him. This ball tampering issue has not surfaced for the first time, even the greats as well as the mediocre players have done it. Afridi was bold enough or naive to say that “All teams do that” may change the perception of those who are reluctant to admit. The irony is most of these players who are saying they used to tamper the ball have now retired and they can talk, whereas Afridi is at the peak of his form and his cricketing career and him saying this openly and bluntly is a very big surprise for many. Those who hate him wants to see the back of him even before he took a bite at the ball. :D

]]> By: JAVED A. KHAN http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23124 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:58:18 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23124 Arshad Khan

The reason Malik bowled in the T20 was, they were a bowler short because of Afridi and he had to bowl, and as a captain if he had not bowled he would have been criticized a lot, so he had to bowl and the first over was expensive and he was nervous but, in the second he got a wicket of Brit he clean bowled him, that gave him a lot of confidence and from the other end too wickets were falling at regular intervals. And then in the third over he got Haddin stumped by Kamran (that was a good piece of keeping, I have to say that it was an excellent stumping by Akmal) But, his last over the was most expensive one and that is why he gave away 31 runs or 7.75 per over. Besides, Australia were all out in Gul’s over and Ajmal didn’t get a chance to bowl his last over.

Gul was lucky that Fawad Alam was fielding in the gully/point region and took 2 very good catches and a great run out of Cameron White, that was electric. I am saying Gul was lucky because, if there was Imran Farhat or Khalid Latif, they may not have taken those catches.

]]> By: Arshad Khan http://legslip.com/2010/01/29/cricket-threatened-by-extremism/#comment-23110 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:51:42 +0000 http://legslip.com/?p=1219#comment-23110 What i don’t understand is why did Malik bowl i mean there was Saeed Ajmal who is good bowler in 20/20. it surprised me when malik came to bowl and he brought Saeed Ajmal in the end. Malik went for almost 7 runs per over and that is another reason why australia reached 127.

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