India v Pakistan, ICCCT, Centurion, Sep 26

First official game against arch rivals in over 15 months, bit of a rarity considering madness of last 4-5 years.

Bring it on.

Huge blow for India, no Sehwag, no Yuvraj.

Both just love Pak bowling with Yuvraj especially playing some crucial innings against Pak.

I have a feeling that Pakistan will win this...

Yep.

We just can't lose match winners like this.

Afridi's gems just like Pak's regular skipper YK OTT comments,

Pak's current team is better than what it fielded during WC'03
What utter BS!!!! This Pak team is nowhere near that team in terms of class, talent or whatever!!!

India has been lucky in the past to defeat them in so many WC games
Again not a wise thing to say especially when you're the captain of a national team. You can be lucky once or may be even twice, but not this many times. Besides, you make your own luck.

Pak team will give 110% in the game against India
How he or YK can quantify such things to such precision is beyond me!!!

well at least my saturday evening plan is sorted. just need to get some booze

they will win this. i remember theybeat us in the 04 edition when afridi tonked pathan, good close game that at edgbaston. pak are up for it more.

Yep, even though Pathan probably lost us that game, IMO we didn't put enough on board that day.

So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet .

True, they are funny names for Subis

And so good to see Indian team not giving undue importance to this game.

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

says some one who has made 7 out of the 11 posts on this thread so far and is probably reading every damn article about this match .....

PlanetPakistan wrote:

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

says some one who has made 7 out of the 11 posts on this thread so far and is probably reading every damn article about this match .....

So is SG Tom, Dick or Harry?

PlanetPakistan wrote:

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

says some one who has made 7 out of the 11 posts on this thread so far and is probably reading every damn article about this match .....

So is probably every fan on both sides of the border. Whats the big deal? Am I that important?

And hang on, when will you ever get your facts right?

I'm no way connected with any cricket establishment. My comments on an obscure cricket forum carry absolutely no weight whatsoever. I'm an ordinary fan. Show me one Indian player comment, that beating Pak is this and that.

For your players though, its be all and end all with India. And its proved yet again.

big deal is that you are calling out other people for being overly obsessed with this game yet you have more than half the posts(your usual shit stirring posts) in this threads.

taipan wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

says some one who has made 7 out of the 11 posts on this thread so far and is probably reading every damn article about this match .....

So is SG Tom, Dick or Harry?

either tom or harry...because dick and shit(stirring) don't go together too well.

PlanetPakistan wrote:

SG wrote:So funny to see every Tom, Dick and Harry coming out of Pak closet and declaring that this is THE match for them.

First YK, Afridi, Rana, and even newbies like Aamer, Umar.................. the list is endless. And I haven't yet talked about their administrators and former players.

No wonder I said for most Pak citizens, India is be all and end all of the world, something which was frowned upon by Mr Inferiority Complex.

says some one who has made 7 out of the 11 posts on this thread so far and is probably reading every damn article about this match .....

Ouch. SG, he had you cold.

Take it like a man, I say.

Unlike me; I'd ignore PP from here on.

PlanetPakistan wrote:big deal is that you are calling out other people for being overly obsessed with this game yet you have more than half the posts(your usual shit stirring posts) in this threads.

So, Mr inferiority complex is at it again.

Do you even know the difference between ordinary fans like me and the ones who matter, in this case the players themselves?

Forget it. You don't even have enough understanding of basic English.

So furri, even you didn't understand the difference between me posting mu thoughts on a thread on one of infinite internet forums and Pak players sprouting about India match in media?

Didn't expect this from you.

What team should we play?

I feel instead of playing 1 useless trundler, we'd be better off playing 2 spinners. And Mishra would be pretty unknown commodity (so would be Nayar) for Pak. My team would be,

Tendulkar
Gambhir
Dravid
Dhoni (Got to take Yuvraj's position and probably his aggressive instincts)
Raina
Kohli
Nayar
Bhajji
Ishant
Mishra
Nehra/RP

Ind seamers have been gash at the ODIs recently. I'd pick 2 front-line seamers and 2 front-line spinners. Nayar as 3rd medium pace option and Raina/Sachin as back up spinning options.

Yuvi is a big loss in both batting & bowling.

Sachin
Gambhir
Raina
Dravid
Kohli
*+ Dhoni
Nayar
Harbi
Mishra
Ishant
Nehra

expected line ups.

Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan*, Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal

G Gambhir, SR Tendulkar, R Dravid, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*†, V Kohli, YK Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, A Nehra, I Sharma

pak elect to bat. umar akmal to top score.

any internet radio broadcast on this one? dont want to pay for espn

What has happened to Ishant Sharma? The guy seemed destined for greatness a few years back. That lethal spell against Ponting was something to treasure forever.


In recent times, (along with this current match) he seems much quiet(er). He isn't raising the roof as much at present. Is he close to burn-out? Has the IPL totally wrecked his line and length?

In the words of Craig David, 'Can you fill me in?'.

I'd like to say that the last 20 overs or sohave been the height of gash from India.

awful inconsistent stuff from india, harbhajan continues his poor form against pak. credit to shoaib malik and moyo (both have great records against india), they rode out the storm and cashed in later. perfectly paced innings from pakistan, must be favourites now.

poor captaincy from dhoni, letting them consolidate. should've gone for another wicket. it was obvious what their gameplan was. ishant was our best bowler (with nehra) and only bowled 8 overs? wtf