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Sunday, September 27, 2009
KARACHI: Hundreds of thousands of people have come out on the streets all across Pakistan cities including Karachi, Hyderabad, and Lahore to celebrate Pakistan’s victory against India by 54 runs in an ODI of ICC Champions Trophy at Centurion park on Saturday night, Geo news reported.
With this win Pakistan have also qualified for the semi final race by beating West Indies and now India in two consecutive matches of their group.
People in jubilation are dancing on drums doing Bhangra (traditional dance) and chanting slogans in spirit of victory.
Young boys are riding motorcycles and doing wheelies
D) on main roads in Karachi, Lahore and Hyderabad.
KARACHI: Hundreds of thousands of people have come out on the streets all across Pakistan cities including Karachi, Hyderabad, and Lahore to celebrate Pakistan’s victory against India by 54 runs in an ODI of ICC Champions Trophy at Centurion park on Saturday night, Geo news reported.
With this win Pakistan have also qualified for the semi final race by beating West Indies and now India in two consecutive matches of their group.
People in jubilation are dancing on drums doing Bhangra (traditional dance) and chanting slogans in spirit of victory.
Young boys are riding motorcycles and doing wheelies
D) on main roads in Karachi, Lahore and Hyderabad.
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Pakistan won 
Win the trophy now
Win the trophy now
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Someone noticed ?
Pakistan Winning Voting rates are Jumped
Pakistan Winning Voting rates are Jumped
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Pakistan and Younis Khan wanted to win aganinst India and Allah blessed us with that victory, Many thanks.
Dhoni is a sore loser who don't know anything about sportsmanship, guy couldn't say a single word about Pakistan's performance - fitay moon
During presentation, Ravi Shastri invited 'the Indian capt' instead of saying 'I would invite the captain of the losing side' which is the standard in these presentations.
This is a sweeeeeeeeeeeeet victory and I hope that THE sore losers pack their bags before the semi finals!!!!!!!!
Dhoni is a sore loser who don't know anything about sportsmanship, guy couldn't say a single word about Pakistan's performance - fitay moon
During presentation, Ravi Shastri invited 'the Indian capt' instead of saying 'I would invite the captain of the losing side' which is the standard in these presentations.
This is a sweeeeeeeeeeeeet victory and I hope that THE sore losers pack their bags before the semi finals!!!!!!!!
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What an amazing game this was. What Malik and Yousuf did, when it works, it's beautiful. But when it fails, its disastrous. They slowed the innings to a crawl, at one point we were going at 1 to 3 runs an over in a 10 over span. Had we lost one of them early at that point, disaster. Any way, it worked this time, they survivied those overs, so anything negative I say will be taken as pessimism. In the modern game, rotating the strike and maintaining at least 4.5 RPO is a necessity, especially on tracks that don't help bowlers.
But, I can't tell you how happy I was when we finished them off, I've never been more happy to be wrong in my entire life. I was at work, and I'd take "bathroom brakes" every 15 minutes to come out of the lab and check the score. I was both ticked off (for missing the match live) and delighted at the same time. My Chinese co-worker is now a half-expert on Cricket (she couldn't believe a sporting event could last 10 hours).
If we rest one or two of our top players against Australia (Younis, for his finger, and maybe Yousuf), and let Asif have a go in place of either Gul or Rana, I wouldn't mind too much (not Aamer, he needs to play Australia, it's always a worthwhile experience for a new bowler to face Ausie batsmen). We should win, but even if we don't, I think our Run Rate is good enough to see us through to the next round.
If India kills Australia and the West Indies, be prepared to face them in the Final. I still think they're strong enough to beat many teams, especially since no score seems unreachable for their batting line-up.
But, I can't tell you how happy I was when we finished them off, I've never been more happy to be wrong in my entire life. I was at work, and I'd take "bathroom brakes" every 15 minutes to come out of the lab and check the score. I was both ticked off (for missing the match live) and delighted at the same time. My Chinese co-worker is now a half-expert on Cricket (she couldn't believe a sporting event could last 10 hours).
If we rest one or two of our top players against Australia (Younis, for his finger, and maybe Yousuf), and let Asif have a go in place of either Gul or Rana, I wouldn't mind too much (not Aamer, he needs to play Australia, it's always a worthwhile experience for a new bowler to face Ausie batsmen). We should win, but even if we don't, I think our Run Rate is good enough to see us through to the next round.
If India kills Australia and the West Indies, be prepared to face them in the Final. I still think they're strong enough to beat many teams, especially since no score seems unreachable for their batting line-up.
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Tamam Pakistani khilarion ko meri taraf say aik aik puppy!!
mmmmmmmuuuaaaaaahhhh!!!!
mmmmmmmuuuaaaaaahhhh!!!!
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I saw how gambhir and Dhoni showed a great lack of sportsmanship, I dont understand why they have such hatred for Pakistan,
still as SSGPA1 said:
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And so it begins, again
After a period of overkill in the middle of this decade, cricket's most fraught rivalry has an edge again. Or does it?
Sambit Bal
September 26, 2009
Matches: India v Pakistan at Centurion
Series/Tournaments: ICC Champions Trophy
Teams: India | Pakistan
Sites: Cricinfo ICC Site
Oddly enough, in all these years of writing about cricket, I have never watched a 50-over match between India and Pakistan at a cricket ground. I have watched Tests in Lahore, Bangalore and Chennai, and the World Twenty20 final in Johannesburg, but never an ODI, the genre that has engendered much of the passion between the fans of these two countries, where cricket has always been close to the national identity. I was at the 2007 World Cup, but India and Pakistan were in different groups, and in any case both the teams had gone home in disgrace by the time I landed.
So here it is then, it's that time again when cricket acquires an edgy subtext. For a long while this decade, familiarity threatened to breed tedium. But India and Pakistan haven't played each other for more than year - 14 months, 22 days to be exact, and the world has changed quite a bit in between, so inevitably, though not ideally, it will be a bit more than cricket at SuperSport Park in Centurion on September 26.
Without the friction, the edge, and occasionally even the mean spirit that great rivalries bring, sport will be sterile. India and Pakistan provide all these on a cricket field, but with them, cricket has managed to not merely remain a sport. Sometimes it has been a salve, sometimes a weapon; it has enabled bonding and it has divided; at times it has been a bridge, at others a vehicle for ugly chauvinism; and governments have used it as both a handshake as well a show of fists. Consequently, cricket has provided both India and Pakistan with some beautiful and uplifting moments, as well some noxious ones.
The Ashes, cricket's original big rivalry, and the more traditional, begins and ends on the playing field. Indian and Pakistani cricketers have rarely had that simple luxury, because for their nations the cricket rivalry has always been a small, but profoundly symbolic, part of a bigger, far more complex rivalry. And for the major part of their cricket history neither the players nor the fans have managed to escape this. It has been a burden.
It seemed on India's tour of Pakistan in 2004 that a breakthrough had been made. No one who went on that tour came back untouched by the swell of goodwill and fellow-feeling, and it carried on when Pakistan toured India the following year. However, as the cricket boards, which had always been bound by mutual interest, worked overtime to milk the situation, things began to change.
The teams started playing every year. India went back for a full series in 2006; the same year the two sides played in Abu Dhabi and Glasgow; Pakistan toured for a full series in 2007; in 2008 they took part in the forgettable Kitply Cup, also featuring Bangladesh, in Dhaka, and then in the Asia Cup in Pakistan.
From a pure cricket point of view, it was overkill. It took away the anticipation and the intensity. But from a larger perspective, it also took away the heat and emotional charge, and that was not a bad thing at all. Since they were always playing, wins and losses no no longer felt like life and death. It felt somewhat dull, but it also felt sane.
The Ashes, cricket's original big rivalry, and the more traditional, begins and ends on the playing field. Indian and Pakistani cricketers have rarely had that simple luxury, because for their nations the cricket rivalry has always been a small, but profoundly symbolic, part of a bigger, far more complex rivalry
It's hard to imagine the players wouldn't have found that liberating. After all, no one takes to a game to avenge a nation's honour - though from Indian and Pakistani cricketers, their fans had come to expect nothing less. So even though many of the players were friends off the field, often sharing meals in restaurants and at homes, and schoolboy jokes, they were expected to growl and snarl at each other on the cricket field.
Once the pressure eased, they could allow themselves to be themselves. It wasn't a coincidence that no captain lost his job on account of a loss to the old enemy in this period. And, inevitably, when the Indian Premier League came, Pakistanis constituted the second largest pool of foreign players. They could have been the largest if the Indian Cricket League hadn't appropriated a big lot already.
And then, with the Mumbai terror attack, the landscape changed again. It was clear from the moment it was known that those who burned and killed in Mumbai had come from Pakistan that cricket was bound be affected, and so it was. The first diplomatic response from the Indian government was to cancel the impending cricket tour to Pakistan. It was no more than symbolic, but it was most convenient.
So on Saturday in Centurion there will be yet another resumption of cricket's most fraught rivalry. The governments are talking again, and somehow the build-up has been far less frenzied for this match. In fact, it's been almost muted. Perhaps that is because it's only a one-off, and at a neutral venue, and the Champions Trophy has never been such a big deal. Or is it a sign?
I am looking forward to my first one-day match between India and Pakistan. I am hoping it turns out to be as good as the last one these teams played at this ground. It will be naïve to expect cricket to sort out our countries' problems, but in understanding the meaning of sport there can be a beginning.
Sambit Bal is the editor of Cricinfo
After a period of overkill in the middle of this decade, cricket's most fraught rivalry has an edge again. Or does it?
Sambit Bal
September 26, 2009
Matches: India v Pakistan at Centurion
Series/Tournaments: ICC Champions Trophy
Teams: India | Pakistan
Sites: Cricinfo ICC Site
Oddly enough, in all these years of writing about cricket, I have never watched a 50-over match between India and Pakistan at a cricket ground. I have watched Tests in Lahore, Bangalore and Chennai, and the World Twenty20 final in Johannesburg, but never an ODI, the genre that has engendered much of the passion between the fans of these two countries, where cricket has always been close to the national identity. I was at the 2007 World Cup, but India and Pakistan were in different groups, and in any case both the teams had gone home in disgrace by the time I landed.
So here it is then, it's that time again when cricket acquires an edgy subtext. For a long while this decade, familiarity threatened to breed tedium. But India and Pakistan haven't played each other for more than year - 14 months, 22 days to be exact, and the world has changed quite a bit in between, so inevitably, though not ideally, it will be a bit more than cricket at SuperSport Park in Centurion on September 26.
Without the friction, the edge, and occasionally even the mean spirit that great rivalries bring, sport will be sterile. India and Pakistan provide all these on a cricket field, but with them, cricket has managed to not merely remain a sport. Sometimes it has been a salve, sometimes a weapon; it has enabled bonding and it has divided; at times it has been a bridge, at others a vehicle for ugly chauvinism; and governments have used it as both a handshake as well a show of fists. Consequently, cricket has provided both India and Pakistan with some beautiful and uplifting moments, as well some noxious ones.
The Ashes, cricket's original big rivalry, and the more traditional, begins and ends on the playing field. Indian and Pakistani cricketers have rarely had that simple luxury, because for their nations the cricket rivalry has always been a small, but profoundly symbolic, part of a bigger, far more complex rivalry. And for the major part of their cricket history neither the players nor the fans have managed to escape this. It has been a burden.
It seemed on India's tour of Pakistan in 2004 that a breakthrough had been made. No one who went on that tour came back untouched by the swell of goodwill and fellow-feeling, and it carried on when Pakistan toured India the following year. However, as the cricket boards, which had always been bound by mutual interest, worked overtime to milk the situation, things began to change.
The teams started playing every year. India went back for a full series in 2006; the same year the two sides played in Abu Dhabi and Glasgow; Pakistan toured for a full series in 2007; in 2008 they took part in the forgettable Kitply Cup, also featuring Bangladesh, in Dhaka, and then in the Asia Cup in Pakistan.
From a pure cricket point of view, it was overkill. It took away the anticipation and the intensity. But from a larger perspective, it also took away the heat and emotional charge, and that was not a bad thing at all. Since they were always playing, wins and losses no no longer felt like life and death. It felt somewhat dull, but it also felt sane.
The Ashes, cricket's original big rivalry, and the more traditional, begins and ends on the playing field. Indian and Pakistani cricketers have rarely had that simple luxury, because for their nations the cricket rivalry has always been a small, but profoundly symbolic, part of a bigger, far more complex rivalry
It's hard to imagine the players wouldn't have found that liberating. After all, no one takes to a game to avenge a nation's honour - though from Indian and Pakistani cricketers, their fans had come to expect nothing less. So even though many of the players were friends off the field, often sharing meals in restaurants and at homes, and schoolboy jokes, they were expected to growl and snarl at each other on the cricket field.
Once the pressure eased, they could allow themselves to be themselves. It wasn't a coincidence that no captain lost his job on account of a loss to the old enemy in this period. And, inevitably, when the Indian Premier League came, Pakistanis constituted the second largest pool of foreign players. They could have been the largest if the Indian Cricket League hadn't appropriated a big lot already.
And then, with the Mumbai terror attack, the landscape changed again. It was clear from the moment it was known that those who burned and killed in Mumbai had come from Pakistan that cricket was bound be affected, and so it was. The first diplomatic response from the Indian government was to cancel the impending cricket tour to Pakistan. It was no more than symbolic, but it was most convenient.
So on Saturday in Centurion there will be yet another resumption of cricket's most fraught rivalry. The governments are talking again, and somehow the build-up has been far less frenzied for this match. In fact, it's been almost muted. Perhaps that is because it's only a one-off, and at a neutral venue, and the Champions Trophy has never been such a big deal. Or is it a sign?
I am looking forward to my first one-day match between India and Pakistan. I am hoping it turns out to be as good as the last one these teams played at this ground. It will be naïve to expect cricket to sort out our countries' problems, but in understanding the meaning of sport there can be a beginning.
Sambit Bal is the editor of Cricinfo
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thats the spirit - in all fairness India missed Sehwag, Yuvraj and Zaheer Khan but injuries are part and parcel of the game of sports. India still has a chance but they need to beat a Australian team that is playing well !!!
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