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The Tortoise and the Hare (22)

March 7, 2010 • Category: Cricket Pakistan

Over 50,000 people came to watch Afridi in action for his home team, millions remained glued to their Tv’s till late night hoping that their hero will not only entertain them but will also take his team into the finals, when he came into bat all 50,000 spectators chanted his name, they celebrated every shot [...]

The Tortoise and the Hare

Cricket Australia»

England Vs Australia 1st Semi final (4)

It’s a rematch between two sides who are quite familiar with each other. Based on the stats Australia has an upper hand over England and probably that is the sole reason most of the pundits are picking Australia as the favorite.
Gregg Chappell has even predicted a final between Pakistan and Australia he only stopped short of predicting [...]

Cricket Bangladesh»

Tigers Roar But Australia Too Strong (2)

Tigers Roar But Australia Too Strong

Australia 219-6 (Watson 52, Mahmudullah 4-37) beat
Bangladesh 179-7 (Shakib Al Hasan 53) by 40 runs
ICC World Twenty20 warm-up, Trent Bridge
Australia beat Bangladesh by 40 runs but only after they had survived a blistering onslaught from the Tigers, who made a game chase of 220 to win before closing on 179 for seven.
Tamim Iqbal thrashed 21 [...]

Cricket England»

England Vs Australia 1st Semi final (4)

It’s a rematch between two sides who are quite familiar with each other. Based on the stats Australia has an upper hand over England and probably that is the sole reason most of the pundits are picking Australia as the favorite.
Gregg Chappell has even predicted a final between Pakistan and Australia he only stopped short of predicting [...]

Cricket India»

Sachin breaks another record (6)

The grand master of Batting Sachin Tendulkar has created another record by scoring an unbeaten 200 against South Africa in an Odi innings. Records are made to be broken, but in my opinion batting records are made to be broken by Sachin. I had only three players in mind who could have broken Saeed Anwar’s [...]

Cricket New Zealand»

It will be hard to lose from here (0)

It will be hard to lose from here

The love of Father in Law prevailed over justice, honor and integrity. To everybody’s utmost surprise Imran Farhat again made it to the playing eleven after single handedly causing the loss in the first match. I saw it coming Mohammad Yousaf didn’t had the balls to remove Farhat from the slips in the first match [...]

Cricket Pakistan»

The Tortoise and the Hare (22)

Over 50,000 people came to watch Afridi in action for his home team, millions remained glued to their Tv’s till late night hoping that their hero will not only entertain them but will also take his team into the finals, when he came into bat all 50,000 spectators chanted his name, they celebrated every shot [...]

Cricket South Africa»

The favorites crash out (2)

Like many other pundits I also picked South Africa and Sri Lanka as favorites for the champions trophy based on their recent ODI performance, South Africa has already crashed out and Sri Lanka is just sitting on the brink hoping for a miracle.
South Africa’s big event jinx is not over, they never looked good as a [...]

Cricket Srilanka»

The onus is on Murali (0)

The onus is on Murali

SriLanka scored 366 for 8 on the first day of the third test against India, the pitch offered early movement to both spinners and seamers but Indian seamers failed to take advantage of the early movement and wasted the new ball, Zaheer Khan bowled too full and Sreesaanth failed to control his length and direction [...]

Cricket West Indies»

The West Indian bowlers gifted the match (0)

Out of the 22 players only a few players showed up in the second semi finals of ICC t20 WC to play cricket and compete the rest perhaps didn’t wanted to be in the finals and were just pretending to compete, it was a great acting job by some of the West Indian players. 
I have never [...]