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well yes i checked it...he dint exactly refuse...
this is exactly what he said...
Pak cricketers prepared to sit out of IPL: Tanvir - Express India
i had read it sometime back...


oh, but that is wat he is expected to say, aint it? anyone(south-asian or not) would have said exactly that. no surprises.

though, his thinking that IPL is only about financial gains is flawed. he would get a chance to play with/against the best in cricket and that will improve a cricketer immensely.
 
Just because he scored a 100 years ago. Doesn't mean he is good enough buy in the IPL. The best would have have been Sakibul-Hasan.

Bangla has good players, not all.

Sir, Sakib is ranked as the best one day all-rounder, not twenty20... IPL is a twenty20 game and Ashraful has the record of being the fastest batsman in 20twenty history... but i agree with you at one point that Sakib deserves to be selected...:)
 
i think this season of ipe wont get heights as they did in their first season
 
Pakistani players were not big last year, remember how - butt was a failure to calcutta just like gul, and asif for delhi was a big fail, younis khan didnt play at all for rajustan royals, only player who stood up was sohail tanvir.
so Pakistan's absence wont make much of impact, I think IPL will be bigger this time. Pakistan should have allowed their player to make a little money.
 
i think this season of ipe wont get heights as they did in their first season

Why??, because Pakistani players are not playing?.

This season will be a bigger hit, as there are more overseas players. New markets like Bangladesh and England have been added.
 
Why??, because Pakistani players are not playing?.

This season will be a bigger hit, as there are more overseas players. New markets like Bangladesh and England have been added.

Last time I supported Rajasthan Royals for Smith and Warne.But this time gotta shift to Knight Riders...

"Korbo Lorbo Jitbo re...."

The song sucks though..no offence:P

They should add more teams I think.
 
IPL will miss pakistan's flavor surely.....Remember there is nothing better in the wolrd watching a fast bowler running hard and fast and getting batsman jump all over their crease...and giving them a hard knock....PS...(Shoaib akhtar against Daredevils.) :P.....Sohail tanveer is the best bowler so far in 20/20....Umar gul surely has one hell of a yorker.....

Asif is a gone case.....
 
IPL will miss pakistan's flavor surely.....Remember there is nothing better in the wolrd watching a fast bowler running hard and fast and getting batsman jump all over their crease...and giving them a hard knock....PS...(Shoaib akhtar against Daredevils.) :P.....Sohail tanveer is the best bowler so far in 20/20....Umar gul surely has one hell of a yorker.....

Asif is a gone case.....

Yes IPL will miss pakistani players..but I dont think it will affect considering addition of england and bangladesh..
More than ipl rajasthan royals will miss tanveer..
 
England crash to humiliating defeat



Monday, February 09, 2009
KINGSTON: England dramatically crashed to an innings and 23-run defeat at the hands of West Indies in the opening Test on Saturday at Sabina Park in the face high-class fast bowling from Jerome Taylor.

England, trailing by 74 runs on first innings, collapsed to 51 all out in their second innings, five minutes before tea break on the penultimate day.

It was England’s third lowest total in Tests, and was wrapped up when Steve Harmison was bowled trying to sweep a delivery from spinner Suleiman Benn and dragged the ball into his stumps.

Andrew Flintoff hit the top score of 24, but England’s batting was undermined by Taylor with a career-best five wickets for 11 runs from nine overs in which he was lethal in speed, length, and direction.

There was little respite for England from the other end, where Benn was steady, if not spectacular, and also collected a career-best four for 31 from 14.2 overs.

West Indies now take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series which continues in Antigua on Thursday.

England had made a shaky start to their second innings, when they lost vice-captain Alastair Cook and Ian Bell, and were 11 for two at lunch.

But nothing could have prepared them for what transpired in the first hour after the interval.

Taylor produced the perfect out-swinging yorker and Kevin Pietersen was sensationally bowled off-stump for one in the second over after lunch.

Paul Collingwood joined Strauss, and for close to half-hour, they took some of the tension out of the air before Taylor struck again.

Strauss nibbled at a delivery outside the off-stump and was caught behind for nine.

Taylor then struck twice in his next over. Collingwood was bowled off an inside-edge for one off the first delivery, and Matt Prior played right across a well-pitched leg-cutter and was bowled for a four-ball duck.

England slid further into the mire, when left-hander Stuart Broad turned a delivery to forward short leg and was caught for a two-ball duck off Benn that sunk England to 26 for seven.

Ryan Sidebottom came to the wicket and succeeded with Flintoff to get England past their lowest ever total of 45 against Australia at Sydney 122 years ago, and their second lowest total ever, against the West Indies of 46 at Port of Spain 15 years.

Sidebottom fell next, when he was adjudged lbw to Benn playing back and across a delivery that spun from outside the off-stump. His challenge of the verdict to the video umpire proved futile.

Flintoff tried to slog Fidel Edwards over mid-wicket, missed, and was bowled when the ball ricocheted off the pad.

The drama followed career-best bowling from Broad, as the West Indies were dismissed for 392, replying to England’s first innings total of 318.

Score board

England won toss

England 1st inns 318 (K P Pietersen 97, A Flintoff 43, M J Prior 64; S J Benn 4-77)

West Indies 1st inns (overnight 352-7)

*C H Gayle b Broad 104

D S Smith lbw b Flintoff 6

R R Sarwan b Flintoff 107

X M Marshall lbw b Broad 0

S Chanderpaul lbw b Broad 20

B P Nash c Prior b Broad 55

†D Ramdin c Collingwood b Panesar 35

J E Taylor lbw b Harmison 8

S J Benn c Cook b Broad 23

D B L Powell c Prior b Harmison 9

F H Edwards not out 10

Extras (b6, lb8, w1) 15

Total (all out, 157.4 overs) 392

Fall: 1-18, 2-220, 3-220, 4-235, 5-254, 6-320, 7-341, 8-371, 9-376

Bowling: Sidebottom 24-5-35-0; Flintoff 33-11-72-2; Harmison 20.4-4-49-2 (1w); Broad 29-7-85-5; Panesar 47-14-122-1; Pietersen 4-1-15-0

England 2nd inns

*A J Strauss c Ramdin b Taylor 9

A N Cook c Smith b Taylor 0

I R Bell c Ramdin b Benn 4

K P Pietersen b Taylor 1

P D Collingwood b Taylor 1

A Flintoff b Edwards 24

†M J Prior b Taylor 0

S C J Broad c Marshall b Benn 0

R J Sidebottom lbw b Benn 6

S J Harmison b Benn 0

M S Panesar not out 0

Extras (b2, nb4) 6

Total (all out, 33.2 overs) 51

Fall: 1-1, 2-11, 3-12, 4-20, 5-23, 6-23, 7-26, 8-50, 9-51

Bowling: Taylor 9-4-11-5 (2nb); Powell 7-3-5-0; Benn 14.2-2-31-4; Gayle 2-1-1-0; Edwards 1-0-1-1 (1nb)

Result: West Indies won by an innings and 23 runs

Series: West Indies lead the 4-match series 1-0

Man of the Match: Jerome Taylor

Umpires: A L Hill (New Zealand) and R E Koertzen (South Africa). TV umpire: D J Harper (Australia). Match referee: A G Hurst (Australia)

Forthcoming matches: February 13-17 2nd Test, North Sound, Antigua. February 26-March 2 3rd Test, Bridgetown, Barbados. March 6-10 4th Test, Port of Spain, Trinidad


England crash to humiliating defeat
 
IPL will miss pakistan's flavor surely.....Remember there is nothing better in the wolrd watching a fast bowler running hard and fast and getting batsman jump all over their crease...and giving them a hard knock....PS...(Shoaib akhtar against Daredevils.) :P.....Sohail tanveer is the best bowler so far in 20/20....Umar gul surely has one hell of a yorker.....

Asif is a gone case.....

Don't know about other Pakistani players but IPL will definitely miss Tanveer,at least I will miss his bowling:cry:He can well become the next Wasim Akram,I still remember his sixers in the t-20 Finals.The other player I will miss is Mizbah ul Haque,he really is a good player.

Frankly,don't think Asif and Shoaib would be missed much.Shoaib is unpredictable and Asif is really a gone case..:tsk:
 
only rajasthan royals will miss, tanvir. no other pakistani player was much success last season anyway. and seems like their quality has decreased completely this year.
75 all out!
even if they were available, not many would have played in the matches.
 
shoaib akhtar will be missed to sir but i dont see night riders win this time may be daredevil and chennai super kings i bet 100 out 100 one of them gonna win any way anything can happen but im sure that competition will be lacking this time
 
shoaib akhtar will be missed to sir but i dont see night riders win this time may be daredevil and chennai super kings i bet 100 out 100 one of them gonna win any way anything can happen but im sure that competition will be lacking this time

with due regard, shoaib is no more the bowler he used to be. he wont be missed. his tme has passed.

wat about shane warne royals? you reckon they will not win this time?
 
Shoaib Malik lack leadership: says report by manager, coach

Updated at: 1020 PST, Tuesday, February 10, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's humiliating defeat against Sri Lanka in the one-day series last month forced the removal of captain Shoaib Malik, rubbished as a "loner" who lacked leadership, a report said Monday.

Malik was replaced by senior batsman Younus Khan after Pakistan suffered their worst ever one-day defeat - by 234 runs - in the third and last one-day match in Lahore, handing the visitors a 2-1 win in the series.

"We found Malik a loner, aloof and involved in his own little world, which is okay, but not when the team required a fully committed captain which he wasn't," wrote coach Intikhab Alam and manager Yawar Saeed of Malik.

The confidential report, prepared as part of an inquiry initiated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) into the defeat, was made public at a senate committee meeting on Monday.

Malik, Alam, Saeed and chief selector Abdul Qadir gave their point of view in the marathon session.

The report said Malik lacked leadership qualities.

"We do not see any meaningful communication between players and captain other than Malik's five-minute talk during the team meeting. Such meetings are necessary," the two team officials wrote in their report.

"Malik also did not spend quality time with his players, which a successful captain must do. He also lacked in that."

The report said Malik -- appointed captain after Pakistan's first-round exit from the World Cup held in the West Indies in March 2007 -- did not have the confidence of his players.

"To be honest, it is very evident that the team is not looking up to their captain. We believe that this team... needs a new leader so we suggested the name of Younus Khan which came to the mind when we looked around in the team."

The report also said the team needs a specialist spinner and showed lack of confidence in wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal's performances.
 
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