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9th-Mar-2006 08:36 am - Hasty Politics!
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BJP's stand on Varanasi blasts "The tragedy occured because of UPA Govt's soft stand on terrorism".

What rubbish alligations these are. Such comments really make me sick. Its very easy to say attack on  Akshardham was because NDA's soft stand on terrorism. Attack on Parliment attack was because of NDA's too soft stand on terrorism.

Its really henious to gain any sort of political gain out of it. Theres no ethics left in politics. 'Gain publicity and advatage by any means', thats the dirty strategy. Its time whole nation needs to be united n fight terrorism, lets not politicize the issue.

Its more like a 'eventhandler', any event of terrorist blast or bombs occur, this statement in no time is released to the press.. followed by yet another 'rath yatra'.. what not..
5th-Mar-2006 06:21 pm - Dont understand why?
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Today's Test match ended in a disspointing draw. But last couple of hours of the match were very interesting after Indians decided to try for a win. The match that for most part of today looked like going for a draw suddenly became lively!! But i fail to underatnd the strategy of Indian think tank.



Till Dravid got out, though they had a whole day of 90 overs to get 370 it looked evident that both Jaffer and Dravid had stuck to the crease firmly playing for a draw. Then suddenly after Pathan came to the crease they adopted a brave strategy promoting hard hitters. Why didnt they bat a little aggresively the whole day. If they were aggressive right form the start putting Dhoni and Pathan up the order, i think they would have easily gotten close to a victory. It was a sudden change of tactics at the dying hours. And it was tooo late, it was  too difficult to get 200 in 25 overs. They should have devised a clear mandate before the start of the play.
yosemete
Inzamam's criticism of Dravid and Indian team for apealing against him after he blocked the ball from hitting the stumps and calling it as un-sportive is highly uncalled for and un-appreciated. It looks childish and doesnt reflect any gentlemanness.

Suppose he saw the ball in the last fraction of a second, then as result of natural instinct if he had tried to block the ball, then his argument would have been acceptable. But from the video its very clear the Inzamam had the look of the ball being thrown at him for a quite a long time. He had a lot of time before the ball stuck him to decide what he should have done. Being sportive n as per the laws of the games he should have run towards the wicket to save himself.

Now why did he block the ball ??. Two possibilities i can think of. Either he did not know the rules, which is again totally unacceptable for a  player whos been in the game for 14 years, Or that instatntaneous action could have been caused from a 'natural decieval dishonest instinct' that i think is most common in Pakistani cricketers!! . And they think he didnt do it intentionally since the 'natural instinct' inthem itself is something 'childishly dishonest'!!.

The fact that all cricket pundits and the press in the Pakistan itself have defended Dravid's actions shows that, that appealing was perfectly under the rules of the game and there was no question of 'lack of sportmanship or whatever'. So the accusation just stands as something childishly, immorally and truely unsportively raised to gain a psychological advantage.



Traditionally Pakistanis are known for being dishonest in the game. Time and again they do some little unsportive or wrong thing here and there.
One recent example i remember is when Pak was playing against West Indies in Australia i guess, Yousuf Youhana (now Mohammod  Yusouf)  while batting dropped the ball close to the crease n started running. While running he like playing cricket on the gullies n roads of Karachi, he pushed the ball using his legs!!. It was clearly visible from the TV replay that he did it intentionally!!. After watching it LIVE!, i was laughing hard n began to feel, 'What the hell!What does this guy think?!  hes playing cricket on the roads of Karachi?!, there are hundreds of cameras like hawks watching every bit of thing that players do!! And he thinks nudging the ball from his legs wont be caught by any of those cams!! Poor fellow!!'

Now to the topic. Taking another leaf from the history of cricket i would proove that this guy(Inzamam) has no right to take the word n talk about 'sportmanship'.
It was Asian Test championship in 1999 i guess at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Sachin was batting, it was a crucial strage of the match. Sachin played a shot n went for 2 runs i guess, the fielder Nadeem Khan(Moin Khan's brother) threw the ball at the non-striker's end. Sachin was centimeters away from the crease line unfortunately collided with the bowler and was not able to cross the crease line. And the ball hit the stumps. All the Pakis jubilantly appealed n was given out. He was out technically, but in honour of true sportsmanship they should have not appealed n let Sachin play.
Only a great sportsman like Hansie Cronje would have done that. He was known for many such highly sportive decesions. If this guy Inzamam who speaks so big of 'being sportive' was a adorer of 'real sportmanship' he should have asked his captain (Wasim Akram) to withdraw the apeal.

Another thing, a newsreport on a cricket website said
'Chetan Chauhan said people who are now criticising Dravid maintained silence on Shoaib Akhtar, who was more unsporting while hurling a beamer at Mahendra Dhoni during the second Test at Faisalabad.

"Nobody said anything when Shoaib Akhtar bowled a beamer at Dhoni. This is the most unsporting gesture as the beamer was deliberate and intentional. You can't murder someone and say sorry. For that he should have been banned at least for two matches. I am shocked no action was taken against him'


Thus themselves being part of many un-sportive actions these Pakistanis have no right what so ever to question a perfectly alright action by Dravid as unsportive.               


 
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