Why England cannot win Ashes

A team suffering with frequent collapses cannot expect to win Ashes. A team that has its skipper without a 100 for 22 innings and its best batsman without a 100 for close to 2 years and 26 innings cannot expect to win Ashes. A team which has a frequent violator of thin line between aggression and arrogance cannot expect to win Ashes.

When a new kid on the horizon skittles out a team proposing itself to be # 1 despite 5th on rankings, that team cannot expect to win Ashes.

Playing in a country when they last lost a series 0-5, they cannot expect to win Ashes.

In short, England cannot win Ashes at this point of time. Or in MoYo style for now.

By the way can we lure Mohd Aamer to play for India rather than play for Pakistan ? In India he would have a calmer dressing room and good IPL money would beckon.

Worth a thought ? Super bowler.

Pakistan middle order fails again sans Umar Akamal

Pakistan play to lose. When they are off the field they fight and plot each other's downfall. They secretly meet at former captain's place and take oath on name of GOD to dislodge Younis Khan. On the field they have a brain freeze.

No matter Shahid Afridi is captain or no captain, he is bufoon just like Ijaz Butt. A duck.  Responsibility is never a strong point or atttribute for this forever 17 lad.

Mindless batting followed by some sensible batting by junior bugger is good enough for Pakistan to hand the game to their nemesis, the yellow fugly Ausssies.

Shahazib made 0, Afridi made golden duck, Kamran Akamal made 21, Shoania made 21 and Umar Akamal fought a lone battle to keep Pakistan in game.

I pity Pakistan fans who must be feeling disgusted for every inept performance the seniors and juniors dish out on every outing in the middle.

PS : Mohd Yousuf is planning a comeback to international cricket after Wasim Akram brainwashed the disgraced former captain.

Drama from across the border!!

Fine them and then revoke back.

Retire and then revoke it back....

For now....

Pakistan is a joke on cricket and even bigger their players are.

Fine on Afridi is revoked, but the reason for ban on Younis Khan is not disclosed. Yousuf Convertuddin bhai retired for now. 

Butt goes stronger and wilder in 72.....Budhape me jawani!!!

If thats not enuf, Shoaib Malik is marrying Sania Mirza, Indian (now Dubai/Pakistani) tennis star.....He has already married one Hyderabadi girl and now fixes another Hyderabadi girl....Lets see how long does this last.  Individual choice, but then why go across the border?  Hurting political sensibilities? The bigots in Pak are already waging their tounges asking Mirza bibi to play for Pakistan......

PCB bungles again

The things in Pakistan cricket could not have turned more ugly and comical from what has turned out on Wednesday. The incompetent Ijaz Butt banned Yusuf and Yunis for life and then did a u-turn by terming it indefinete. The most important players of Pakistan in the formats that matter have been banned for indefinete period if we may call it, thats going to plunge the team to even more lower heights of performance on field.

The show stoppers -- Malik and Rana including Afridi and bugsy brothers have been let off with relatively easier bans / fines.  Butt has not bothered to explain the reasons behind the severe and stringent punishment handed out to Ys. Neither to Malik and Rana. And why were Akamal brothers let off just with the fine ? Did not Kamran Akamal make mockery of the PCB stance to drop him off the 3rd Test and instead have Sarfaraz somebody to play the test in public by giving out interviews to Oz media ?

What about Butt ? He goes scot free. He has been the man in the center of all the incompetence and drama thats been happening in Pakistan cricket all this years and he has got no stain on his resume.

This is not enough, there is more to follow and the things would only get murkier.   Only if PCB and its bosses had some balls to deal with this rut long back when it started, the things would not have come to this level. But then Butt has been known to show no logic and common sense. 

Australia played cricket, Pak did something else

So Aussies inflicted a 5-0 loss on Pakistan and has caused even more trouble in their camp. There were reports of fights between MoYo with Inti and then the Boomer captained the side to have a brain freeze and then get caught tampering the ball.

Imagine a captain doing it. Few days back the same gentleman was taking a moral high on the loss of Indian people to watch players like him in the Indian domestic t20 league.

What was he thinking ? People watching it on TV and laughing out loud over the desparate attempt to win a match by illegal tactics.

Pakistan would now like to cry cheating again and war like protests back home on banning Afridi by an Sri Lankan match referee albeit in Australia. National pride hurt ? Yup indeed, with the captain of a side caught cheating on camera and banned for 2 games.

Thats called brain freeze. Actually now I doubt if he even has brains ? Pathans have little bit of that, but then this Pathan does not have any. The moral high he took few days back has now turned to a comic act, actually illegal act of ball tampering. Well thats how their fast bowlers have got most of their wickets all this years from the legendary Imran Khan to Sarfaraz Nawaz, the original brain freeze guy, Waqar and now Afridi. Not to forget those lesser bowlers Zahids, Akrams(not Wasim), Asifs, Akhtars and sundryuddins.

Question arises why is this team like this ? Why cant the players see eye to eye ? Unfortunately they are losing the plot and time withstanding they would lie in the bottom of rankings soon.  The drama has begun already, chief selector is gone. Butt is saying he wants young skipper, Yosuf is fighting with Alam, Younis is laughing silently, Afridi is tampering the ball, Kamran Akamal is babysitting while dropping the catches and nobody is batting, bowling or fielding cos they cant..,,

What a team. Imagine the outrage they would now face. 2007 World Cup would be a distant memory now. Even 2003 overhaul would fade now before the new look (or ugly) the side is going to get. They cant play Test matches, now they cant even play ODIs, they aint part of T20 leagues anyway, so what are they going to do now ?

Fight with each other, rest their brains in freezer and plot the downfall of each other. Thats what they are planning while Australia almost completed their transition and now stand strong chance after India (Chivalrous me) to win 2011 WC. While Australia played cricket, Pakistan played politics within the team and the biggest victim of this would be MoYo. May be end of career for him, but before that throw out Afridi and elements like him in cold.

Yousuf sacked mid series

If all the IPL drama was not enough, then Mr Butt Sahib declares publicly that Yusuf Khan is going to be sacked after the Aus ODI series.

Oops Mohd Yusuf.  And he is still playing.

Publicly a board chairman declares that this captain is not good enough to lead the side in any form of the game. So who comes in ? Younis back again ?

Pakistan cricket itself is in a mess and their dramatic antics is providing enough fodder to the world to peek a laugh at them.

Jerks rule the PCB and even bigger jerks become T20 captains and ODI vice captains.

Yusuf nears the end of his career

Yusuf must be deplored when he was ran out in the final Test on day 3 to seal a 0-3 win.  He publicly bashed Butt with some very unkind remarks.  Not good for the morale of the batsman who is yet on the crease playing.

What this means is the 2 best batsmen of Pak are now back in the hut and chance of follow-on seem largely likely.

I am not sure if I have seen the comments by any other captain in public besides Yusuf and Sangakara (over jaya).

And we bash MSD for being unfair over his bowlers. Since when MS singled out a bowler criticising him ?

Tough times await Yusuf. Most prolly end of a career.

Pakistan cricket runs into mess

Pakistan cricket is back in the news for bad reasons. I missed out posting during the madness of Akamal brothers who felt that playing and resting in Pakistan cricket team is just like their gully cricket team.  The behavior shown by bugsy Kamran was cheap and ridiculous to say the least.  Just shows how mafia has gripped the Pakistan cricket.

And this is aided by a lose captain. Selfish and T20 fantic. 

Hobart test did not alter their fortunes. They dropped sitters, hugged with malice in the heart.

Umar Akmal must know that his behavior would have good enough to throw him out of the international cricket should there be Imran / Wasim around.

And if the player feuds are not enough, the likes of Jamshed Dasti and Ijaz Butt are ruining the cricket even further. Mr 10% cannot be hoped to rescue Pakistan cricket from growing Talibans within the team itself.

What happens when Pak returns home would be anyone's guess. Match fixing.  Lol.

Pakistan vs Australia : Preview

Pakistan play their first Test in Australia in 5 years. There are very little hopes that they would do any justice to their fans' expectations of doing good. A 3-0 result for Australia still looks a possibility.

I am keen to watch the repeat of 2008 Sydney with Pakistan or even for that matter Perth 2009. Want to see how Pakies react to the umpiring blunders and Ricky Ponting's pressurising tactics.

And if Pakistan escape a 0-3 result then would Yusuf still thank heavens, that remains to be seen.

How fragile Pakistani openers perform against Sid, Mitch and Doggie? How selfish would Yousuf / Yusuf be ? How would Umar Bugsy Akamal be playing here ? And how would Danya Danya perform in Sydney and MCG ?

Cmon a repeat of 2008 should happen with Pakistan. Would pep them up and they would show us their spirits of 90s. This Pakistanis are too soft, at least on the field. Lol.

They believe Australia are beatable. They could not beat Australia in 1999 and 2002 when Ws and Akhtar were around. They could not beat them through 2004-05. So a chance to beat them with Aamer, Drug Peddler, Sami ICL are feeble.

15 years for a Test win against the Aussies for Pakistan. 10 years for Sri Lanka.  BD have never won. India ? Too many wins against them in 15 years :P.

Pakistan vs Australia would be interesting. If not Sydney then at least half a repeat of Dennis Lillie vs JAved Miandad should happen.  Yusuf would run behind Watson ? Lol. Yusuf would get a life ban. ROTFL. Watto would escape with 15% match fees.

Aussie test woes

Another altercation down under and another non Aussie player stands a  risk of getting banned or facing a suspension.

The supposedly best batsman in the world Ricky Ponting retired hurt and did not come back again to BAT.

Tendulkar on the other hand got hurt on his nose while he was 16 and continued batting in blood soaked  t-shirt.

Anil Kumble came out with hurt jaws in Antigua 2002 and snapped Brian Lara LBW.

Australia after making 520 runs sees Gayle hit one of the fastest Test hundreds to see the Test going to a possible draw unless WI self destruct on day 3.

A 2-0 win looks a rare possibility now for the team which not so long ago was world beater.

Against WI, against whom its media called for a "hakal patti" from the Test playing nations.

If Australia go onto lose the Test or even draw this one to be able to win 1-0 then will similar calls be made ?

By the by significant achievement for black African players in Saffa with Ntini playing his 100th Test.

Australia now are in danger of falling to # 4 in the rankings should they not beat Windies in this Perth test and if they dont then they would not have won a test in Perth for 3 years now.  The trend started by Australia's test nemesis -- Indians.

Who can forget the Perth win in 2008 -- the greatest overseas win for the country, after what happened in Sydney.

India starts the trend, the rest emulates.

Till 2005 only India beat Australia regularly in Tests and since then England started doing the same thing. They got thumped 0-5 next Ashes, Indians won 2-0 after 2004 and 2008 loss (bad umpiring major culprit).  Saffers followed the suite only to be thumped later 1-2 in the home series.

India has Australia on woods in the Tests.  And the tags of 1-1 in 2004 and 1-2 in 2007-08 wont say the real story all cos of that umpire Bucknor.

By the by Yusuf has got his ICL mate in the test team -- Sami.  And that has created furore in Pakistan. And if weakened Australia draw the series with the Pakistanis, then you can imagine who would have helped Pakistan achieve the same as per Younis.

Down under

Dany scores a hundred.

Yusuf goes for a duck.

Farhat makes a 100, saves his career.

Pak openers make a century partnership.

Yusuf prepares himself to come at 3 in wake of solid partnership opening.

Akamal junior ponders where he would bat 3 ? 4 ? 5 ?

Kiwis head towards another victory. Pakistan to other test series defeat.

What next ? 3-0 mauling in Australia and that means another olive bunch for Mr Ex-Cricket.

Pakistan inch to first Test win in 3 years

Pakistan are two wickets away from their first win in 3 years in Test cricket.  The attritional team plagued with immense tussle of egos and conflicts followed by inferiority complex owing to the torn situations back home is now getting close to a win amidst farce in the captaincy, farce in the top of the order and farce in almost everything.

That shows how individual performances matter in a game which is perhaps the longest played with team spirits.  Malik and Yusuf wont see an eye to eye, Misbah is given a booty to this career by his mate and the captain for the tour.

And the original captain, the drama king is not even in the picture. He is the man who takes most breaks in the international cricket, whimsical and impulsive. Apt that he ran to the problems within the team.  Reports now say that he is not even going to Australia for form reasons. Well, thats good. Pakistan has never succeded against Australia in ages now. Last test win against them came good 16 years back thanks to a deadly miss by Ian Healy.

Today's win would be hailed as great event in terror torn Pakistan, in fact the ego battles of the senior players and the mess Butt has spread is more horrific than the ISI sponsered and Taliban fired terror wave back in that country.

Contrasting fortunes, a win for the embattled country would see them amongst victory in 3 years and one win to their traditional rivals would see them going on the top of Test rankings. 

I imagine how Pakisani players would react when they would win. How bugsy rabbit Kamran Akamal would go to his Danya Danya, the Gujju and hug him.  How the opportunist and the worst fielder in international cricket, the Younis Youhana nee Mohd Yusuf would walk off with his gang and Malik would walk with his gang. How the drug peddler would give tips to raw young Mohd Aamer to keep the drugs, eat it, get banned and then come back.

Wow.  Pakistan cricket is never short of Ekta Kapoor's errand soap opera tales.

Yusuf. LMAO

"
Yousuf’s interpretation of running between the wickets represents a variation on this theme. His baffling strategy is to play the ball straight to a close-in fielder and take off. His vocabulary appears to consist of “yes”, “no”, and “wait” and “let us discuss when we meet in the middle of the pitch”. The result has been enough heart-wrenching run-outs to leave permanent psychological scars on an already jolted fan base.
"

ROTFLMAO on text in RED.

Resignation

So the madness in Pakistan cricket goes even messy.

Just one word for this. Fucking idiotic behavior from the Dasti (Gloveman).

And even so from the Butt who met Afridi for whatever reasons. If he has to take the account of the performance of the team, the best men to do so are the coach and captain.

Its like Shashank Manohar meeting Rohit Sharma and asking about the poor performance in World T20.

Lol.

The blame for this would be coming to the poor TOI reporter who so called planted the story of match fixing.

He was jerk, but before going off the boil Mr Dasti should have enquired or kept quiet. Its ICC's job to find out. Not his.

Meanwhile Afridi would / could lead the ODI team too.

What about Tests ? If YK doesnt retract his resignation, Yusuf could well be t he captain, precisely for which he did the U turn.

I just hope that this gets resolved soon, Butt bhai is kicked out and sanity restores.

CT practice updates

SL's character men failed to show it against Pakistan to lose it by 108 runs. Mahela flopped, Sanga flopped.

Yusuf flopped.

Mendis flopped.

Akmal bros clicked, so did Misbah and Naveed Al Hasan. Who s he ? Is he Rana ? ICL man ?

Other hand NZ lost. West Indies lost.

Perhaps BD would have been better......

Australia would win in another practice game vs England C in England to begin their defence of the title and finally lose it to India in the semi final.

Indians in ICC awards contention pisses off Pakistan fans

They dont have a single nomination in the ICC awards that matter. They had a media men in the jury that selected the nominations. Perhaps Ijaz Butt was kicked out off his butt when he tried to sneak in to the jury. Or for that matter Rashid Latif or Javed Miandad would cry foul that the jury is biased and pro-India. Pro - India means automatically anti-Pakistan. Thats what they have lived with all 62 years of their existence.

As a result our glorious neigbhours are pissing off in their pants to see so many Indians in the nominations.

Sehwag and Gambhir along with MS in ODIs. MS and GG in Tests. Fair call. Not cos they are bloody Hindustanis, but they excelled in all conditions.

Our glorious padosis never stepped in whites entire 2008 for a very crap reason "security". Go ask the Zardaris, Butts and Gilanis who is responsible for the security in their country. Is it ICC or is it MMS ? Ask Fazalullah and others to back out a bit.

Hop across every blog and you find this stani army character ranting about how drugs should be allowed in the game and how Indians are "fixed" to win awards.

No surprise this comes from a supporter of a team which has all above characterstics : drug peddlers, fixers, selfish players, fighters and what not. All this combine to play with sole honest person Younis Khan and they are called Pakistan national cricket team.

Drug abused : Asif

Drug peddler : Asif

Fighter : Asif and Akhtar. Afridi and Malik.

Selfish : Misbah and Yousuf. One of them changed religion to grab the captaincy of the team, alas he never succeeded.

When you dont set out in whites to play a 5 day game how do you expect to be in the nomination even if you send 100 talibani fighters to the ICC headquarters in Dubai to hold gun point over the jury and ask Pakistani players to be nominated ?

Pakistan lose the series.

Wipe out the PCB current administration. They are a woeful lot and they are affecting the team performance. Induction of ICL rebels, drug addicts, super stars in the team over youngsters and talented players is hurting the cricket of Pakistan.

They cant win a Test, they cant beat a A team and they cant win a ODI.

Repurcussion ? Younis Khan would be sacked and entire team would be replaced with unknown players just like 2003 World Cup debacle.

Biggest reason for the losses is the induction of this anti team players who jump the boat to ICL or put their staticstics over the team.....

Persisting with Misbah for his 2007 T20 heroics, persisting with MoYo and Bugsy Akamal -- the bugs bunny rabbit is hurting the Pakistan team. Even the boomer isnt able to lift the spirits. The only team right now Pakistan seem capable to beat is Papua New Guinea or New Samoa. Let the cleansing action begin and let Butt be the first one to go. Once he is gone entire Pakistan cricket would see a turn around.

Jeet ka mantra

...for Pakistan would be go YOUTH policy. Dump the old guards of Misbah and MoYo from ODIs like India did in 2008. May be the fresh legs would mean change of luck and more energy on the field.

At least that would help Pakistan get 1st victory of this tour........Would you call this hatred stuff ? Would you say this biased ?

Akram on Akhtar

Wasim Akram says correct on Shoaib Akhtar that his career is over. No later this statement came and also the news broke out that he is in further trouble with Butt and he s been issued notice...

Well we never know few appeals and cases later Akhtar could still be in the team and competing with Amer for a slot. When MoYo can come in and along with Misbah who is now off for long time can keep youths like Alam and Akamal junior out of the ODIs, then why not Akhtar.

Wonder if somebody in Pakistan listens to Wasim ? He is one of those sane ex-cricketer in the subcontinent who speaks some sense.

An Indian is # 1 in Test rankings

Finally the man from Delhi gets rewarded for his golden consistency. Gautam Gambhir becomes # 1 Test batsman in the world. Still ICC rankings are crap. He became # 1 cos MoYo slipped. I must say ICC rankings are still crap but its great to ssee an Indian # 1 in Tests.....Praising an Indian doesnt mean I m scathing towards neigbhors. Yet I would be said that. Lets see how long Gambhir would remain # 1.....b4 MoYo hits another selfish century and pops up again.