Shahid Afridi Vs PCB – Drop Scene

Disciplinary committee has find Shahid Afridi for Rs. 4.5 millions and the NoC of Shahid Afridi will be restored so that he can play County cricket. After this decision Shahid Afridi said that he is not presently in mode to play international cricket for Pakistan. He said that he is satisfied the way the matters preceded.

The question is for what he has been punished? What is his crime? Is it Kingdom of Ijaz Butt or PCB? What happened if Afridi disclosed a group which is working against him. This is not the first time when a Hero from Pakistan has been humiliated. This is our tradition to humiliate our heroes and the same we did with Afridi. All these happened against the desires of Pakistani people. The question is why all these happened if Pakistani people are against? And the answer is that there is no real democracy in Pakistan, infact this is a worst dictatorship in shape of civilian face.   

IPLISED Tillakaratne Dilshan

Sri Lankan skipper Dilshan has welcomed the decision of his board not to travel Pakistan for upcoming due tour. He said, “The last time it was a bad experience for me as a cricketer in Pakistan. As a player, I do not want to face the same situation again in future. My personal view is that I don’t want to play cricket in Pakistan again”.

Pakistan cricket’s fans are not happy on the statement of Dilshan on an open forum. Tauqeer Zia the former PCB Chairman said that Dilshan’s comments are insensitive to the problems being faced by the Pakistani people. I don’t think there was a need for such personal views on a public forum once Sri Lankan board had turned down our invitation.

Infact in past Pakistani team had visited so many times Sri Lanka (in worst security situation of Sri Lanka) in response to avoiding tour of Sri Lanka by some Western countries. In response to this positive attitude Sri Lankan team had also visited Pakistan when Western and Indian team avoided to visit Pakistan, but unfortunately Government of Pakistan failed to provide them security and they were attacked by militant. After that accident no wise person can expect Sri Lankan tour in the prevailed worst security situation of Pakistan.

The question is why the PCB is making things confusing? The plan has to be straight forward and i.e. no international matches in Pakistan till the end of war against terror. So, PCB should not stress any team to visit Pakistan as it is impossible in the current situation. Therefore PCB should adopt the plan of neutral venue otherwise the current unwise attitude of PCB will provide chances to IPL players like Dilshan (who have already faced match fixing allegations from his former captain Kumar Sangakkara) to speak harshly against Pakistan.

Is It Huge Event of ICC Cricket World Cup?

Is it cricket world cup? What cricket lovers expect in a huge event like world cup? As cricket fan I expect tough matches like played in world cup 1992. Where 9 test playing countries played a match against each team. This was a beautiful tournament. But after that successful world cup, I don’t know what happened to ICC, who inducted associated teams into a huge event like world cup. This step from ICC really decreased interest of this event in cricket fans. Because cricket is a purely technical game and every one cannot play it. This game requires comprehensive structure at country level. After that it requires experience of playing with master cricketers. But here ICC included those teams to this event who even not played any single international match before playing in world cup.  Resultantly one sided matches reduce the interest of cricket fans in this event. Even I personally feel that Triangular events at Sharja and Austral Asia cup at Sharja were more interesting than this world cup event.  

If ICC is sincere with the promotion of this game, she should organize tours for these associated teams in ICC future tours programme. This is only way to let them play with experience players. By this way these teams can gain experience day by day. And one day these teams will be able to play in a huge event like world cup. But the existing way of inducting these teams in this huge event is not good for the game and these teams.

ICC should realize technical differences between football and cricket.

Let Kamran Akmal Play his “OWN” Game

According to media reports Pakistan cricket team management in Sri Lanka has decided to give responsibilities of Wicketkeeping to Umer Akmal after disappointing performance by his elder brother wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal. The performance of Kamran Akmal is worst for last 6, 7 years. But the management selected him in team again and again. After recent inexcusable performance by him management should disclose the reasons of his selection in team when he is even not able to take a simple catch. Now Pakistan team has to face this embarrassing situation because of terrible thinking of PCB.

Umer Akmal is not a full time wicketkeeper. There is no guarantee that he will perform well behind the stumps. Currently he is an inform batsman. By putting extra pressure of Wicket keeping on him can really have an effect on his batting performance. Because if he also dropped some catches, naturally he will become under immense pressure. Therefore, let him play his own game.

Some media reports say that he has declared himself unfit for wicket keeping. This is his right to do so. Team management has no right to sacrifice him for their own mistakes. The stance of Umer Akmal is right.

Question should be asked from Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt, Chairman Selection Committee Mohsin Hassan Khan and Coach Waqar Younis regarding selection of Kamran Akmal for World Cup. The current captain was not appointed captain at the moment of selection of team for world cup.  One can also sense some conspiracy behind the mystery escape of Zulqarnain from Dubai. Because, in presence of Zulqarnian the selection chance of Kamran Akmal was almost nothing. Now when after all his bed performances in last few years Kamran Akmal is still in the team by the courtesy of PCB.

Let Kamran Akmal Play his “OWN” Game

Successful Use of UDRS and Questionable Performance of Elite Panel

In a World cup 2011 match between Pakistan and Canada which was supervised by umpires Nigel Long and Darrell Harper, successful demonstration of Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) has acknowledged its importance. In this particular match 8 decisions from umpires were challenged by the players.   UDRS made corrections to 6 decisions of umpires. Only two decisions were ok.

Now imagine in absence of this system where the results of the match were going. A very massive controversy was expected in the absence of this system. Because 6 wrong decisions were enough for changing the result of a match. The standard of umpiring was below standard in this match. Especially the attitude of Australian umpire Darrell Harper was ordinary because 5 of 6 decisions by him were reversed by third umpire. This match also showed the standard of Elite Panel of ICC to the world. After this match the name of Elite Panel should be renamed as Nastiest Panel because of its worst performance. Infact massive changes are required from ICC to improve the standard of Elite panel, but unfortunately no Pakistani umpire is involved in these worst decisions therefore, ICC will remained blind, especially Haroon Lorgat will remained Blind as well as Deaf. The attitude of Indian Board is also unconstructive regarding UDRS. Only one decision in a match between India and England which goes against India made India angry. Now India who is already against this system is criticizing this system with more resentment.  Infact most of the cricket boards are in favour of this system because of its positive results. 

Therefore, fair cricket boards should support this system more aggressively for the betterment of the game. These boards should not allow India to fool around with the spirit of the game only for her own interest.  Because in the presence of this system franchise cannot get their desire results in IPL matches.

Was It a Revenge Game Mr. Sehwag?

An addition to Sehwag’s witty statements is that “Win against Bangladesh is revenge of World Cup 2007 defeat” which he stated at the end of the game in presentation ceremony after wining the match. The context to this statement is that Bangladesh kicked India out of the World Cup in 2007 by beating them , so Sehwag  believes that by defeating Bangladesh in a single match in this 2011 world cup ,they have take the revenge .But the question arises, is this defeat comparable to the one that Indians faced in 2007, certainly not because this defeat has not caused complete evacuation of Bangladesh from the World cup, contrary to 2007, where Indian had  to leave West Indies after defeat against  Bangladesh. 

Before this, one of the statements that show’s Sehwags childish behavior was stated few month back by him, when he said that in a Match when Shoaib Akhtar was challenging me to hit a six on my bowl and when I was not able to do so, Sachin Tendulker hit a six to Shoaib and then I told Shoiab that look Tendulkar is your father because he hit you a six.  Now  here Sehwag was also wrong,  if we assess the situation defined by Sehwag than Tendular is not Shoib’s Father, infact  he is Sehwag’s father because Sehwag was not able to hit a six to Shoiab while Tendulkar did it. For a bowler, if some one hit him six, is not a matter of concern because some times bowler will got out batsman and some times batsman will hit him shots. So, therefore, for Shoiab it was not a matter of concern.  

Now what type of a player is he? He never played big innings away from subcontinent. What was happened to him when Bangladesh ruined his team and thrown out of tournament in 2007.  Infact he failed on seeming pitches in Australia and South Africa every time. The only place where he can score is subcontinent. It shows flaws in his techniques. Because brilliant players like Inzamam, Tendulkar and Lara can play big innings all over the world.

My suggestion to Sehwag is to put a lid on his beak and concentrate on his game rather than speaking meaningless talks. He should not follow thrilling words of media as it is the duty of media to display things hot and spicy. He should show sensibility as a senior player. 

Author
M Asim (APCOMS Pakistan)

India Vs Bangladesh – Match Analysis

ICC World Cup 2011

In opening match of ICC World Cup 2011 India defeated Bangladesh by 87 runs. Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bowl first. The reason for bowling first on a pure batting wicket was disclosed as dew factor by Bangladesh captain. He was hoping to bowled out India under 300 runs and then chase the target. But some furious batting by Indian opening batsman Veraner Sehwag completely destroyed his plan. Verinder Sehwag’s 175 runs help India to register figure of 370 runs on score board. Bangladesh bowling was completely out classed by Verindar Sehwad and Verat Koli. Verat Koli also scored century. This was time when critics started criticism on Bangladesh’s captain decision for batting first on a batting wicket.  Most of experts were of the opinion that this decision allowed India to play freely without pressure.

Bangladesh also started batting aggressively.  Tamim Iqbal along with his partner provided good start to Bangladesh. He scored 70 runs. But after he was got out, run rate of Bangladesh came down. Although most of Bangladesh batsman played sensibly, but the target was too huge. Run rate was increasing with every single delivery, therefore, there was not time for batsman to settle and then play natural strokes. That’s why, after even playing very positively Bangladesh only succeeded tor reach the figure of 283 runs on the loss of 9 wickets. This 283 runs figure provided cover to Bangladesh’s captain decision for bowling first. Because Bangladesh batting performance demonstrated that they are capable of chasing 280+ runs. The only difference between performances of both teams was Virander Sehwad’s marbles inning.  

In the remaining matches, Bangladesh can perform well in batting, but in bowling fire like Waseem, Waqar, Amir and Imran is lacking. Otherwise, Bangladesh is no weaker team in batting field. If Bangladesh found some talented fast bowlers through talent hunt programme in their country, she can became an elite cricket playing country very soon.

The weaknesses of Indian Bowling attack has been also disclosed in this match, because if batting line up like Bangladesh can score 280+ runs against it, how it will control Australian, South African, British, Sri Lankan and Pakistanis. Because all these countries have better line up compare to Bangladesh batting line up.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 - Complete Schedule

GROUP A:	Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada
GROUP B:	India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Netherlands, Ireland and Bangladesh

Date	Local	GMT	PST	Match Details	Venue
Feb 12, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Kenya vs West Indies, 1st Warm up ODI	Colombo
Feb 12, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Sri Lanka vs Netherlands, 2nd Warm up ODI	Kandy
Feb 12, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	Bangladesh vs Canada, 3rd Warm up ODI  (D/N)	Chittagong
Feb 12, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Ireland vs New Zealand, 4th Warm up ODI  (D/N)	Nagpur
Feb 12, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	South Africa vs Zimbabwe, 5th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Chennai
Feb 13, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	India vs Australia, 6th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Feb 15, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Ireland vs Zimbabwe, 7th Warm up ODI	Nagpur
Feb 15, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Kenya vs Netherlands, 8th Warm up ODI	Kandy
Feb 15, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	Bangladesh vs Pakistan, 9th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Feb 15, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Australia vs South Africa, 10th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Feb 16, 2011	09:30	03:30	08:30	Canada vs England, 11th Warm up ODI	Mirpur
Feb 16, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Sri Lanka vs West Indies, 12th Warm up ODI	Colombo
Feb 16, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	India vs New Zealand, 13th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Chennai
Feb 18, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	England vs Pakistan, 14th Warm up ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Feb 19, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs India, 1st ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Feb 20, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : New Zealand vs Kenya, 2nd ODI	Chennai
Feb 20, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Sri Lanka vs Canada, 3rd ODI (D/N)	Hambantota
Feb 21, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Australia vs Zimbabwe, 4th ODI (D/N)	Ahmedabad
Feb 22, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : England vs Netherlands, 5th ODI (D/N)	Nagpur
Feb 23, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs Kenya, 6th ODI (D/N)	Hambantota
Feb 24, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : South Africa vs West Indies, 7th ODI (D/N)	Delhi
Feb 25, 2011	09:30	03:30	08:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs Ireland, 8th ODI	Mirpur
Feb 25, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Australia vs New Zealand, 9th ODI (D/N)	Nagpur
Feb 26, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, 10th ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Feb 27, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : India vs England, 11th ODI (D/N)	Kolkata
Feb 28, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : Canada vs Zimbabwe, 12th ODI	Nagpur
Feb 28, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : West Indies vs Netherlands, 13th ODI (D/N)	Delhi
Mar 1, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Sri Lanka vs Kenya, 14th ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 2, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : England vs Ireland, 15th ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Mar 3, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group B : South Africa vs Netherlands, 16th ODI	Mohali
Mar 3, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs Canada, 17th ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 4, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : New Zealand vs Zimbabwe, 18th ODI	Ahmedabad
Mar 4, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs West Indies, 19th ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Mar 5, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Australia vs Sri Lanka, 20th ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 6, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group B : South Africa vs England, 21st ODI	Chennai
Mar 6, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : India vs Ireland, 22nd ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Mar 7, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Canada vs Kenya, 23rd ODI (D/N)	Delhi
Mar 8, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs New Zealand, 24th ODI (D/N)	Kandy
Mar 9, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : India vs Netherlands, 25th ODI (D/N)	Delhi
Mar 10, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe, 26th ODI (D/N)	Kandy
Mar 11, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group B : West Indies vs Ireland, 27th ODI	Mohali
Mar 11, 2011	14:30	08:30	13:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs England, 28th ODI (D/N)	Chittagong
Mar 12, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : India vs South Africa, 29th ODI (D/N)	Nagpur
Mar 13, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : New Zealand vs Canada, 30th ODI	Mumbai
Mar 13, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Australia vs Kenya, 31st ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Mar 14, 2011	09:30	03:30	08:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs Netherlands, 32nd ODI	Chittagong
Mar 14, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs Zimbabwe, 33rd ODI (D/N)	Kandy
Mar 15, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : South Africa vs Ireland, 34th ODI (D/N)	Kolkata
Mar 16, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Australia vs Canada, 35th ODI (D/N)	Bangalore
Mar 17, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : England vs West Indies, 36th ODI (D/N)	Chennai
Mar 18, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : Ireland vs Netherlands, 37th ODI	Kolkata
Mar 18, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Sri Lanka vs New Zealand, 38th ODI (D/N)	Mumbai
Mar 19, 2011	09:30	03:30	08:30	Group B : Bangladesh vs South Africa, 39th ODI	Mirpur
Mar 19, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group A : Pakistan vs Australia, 40th ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 20, 2011	09:30	04:00	09:00	Group A : Zimbabwe vs Kenya, 41st ODI	Kolkata
Mar 20, 2011	14:30	09:00	14:00	Group B : India vs West Indies, 42nd ODI (D/N)	Chennai
Mar 23, 2011	14:30	09:30	14:30	TBC vs TBC, 1st Quarter Final ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Mar 24, 2011	14:30	10:00	15:00	TBC vs TBC, 2nd Quarter Final ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 25, 2011	14:30	09:30	14:30	TBC vs TBC, 3rd Quarter Final ODI (D/N)	Mirpur
Mar 26, 2011	14:30	10:00	15:00	TBC vs TBC, 4th Quarter Final ODI (D/N)	Ahmedabad
Mar 29, 2011	14:30	10:00	15:00	TBC vs TBC, 1st Semi Final ODI (D/N)	Colombo
Mar 30, 2011	14:30	10:00	15:00	TBC vs TBC, 2nd Semi Final ODI (D/N)	Mohali
Apr 2, 2011	14:30	10:00	15:00	TBC vs TBC, The Final ODI (D/N)	Mumbai