Why this Kolaveri kolaveri di © Getty Images

Yo Pakistan
I am wondering
very wondering…
strange wondering …

Why so miserable miserable di ..
Why so miserable miserable di ..

Rhythm correct?

Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di..
Maintain please!!
Why this complacency .. aa di.

Aa.. distance la Testu Testu
Testu colour-u white.
White-u background green green-u
ONEDay-u coloru black-u
Haan.. why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di
Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di

White skin-u Pom-u Pom-u
Pom-u heart-u black-u
Eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
Green’s future dark
Haan..why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di
Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di

Green, notes runout-u,
Chasing target piece of cake-u,
Pa pa pa ppaan, pa pa pa ppaan, pa pa pa ppaan pa pa ppan
poor performance (@%#*@#%^&%)

Hunhhahaha..
Super green ready..
Ready.. one..e.. two.o.. three.. four.

Hun… um
Ha…
Hun…

Whah, wat a change over Green?
Ok Green, now tune change-u

Uunu..aa..
T20-u
-Only English-a
Hand-u la whitewash-u
Greenwash la Whitewash-u
Eyes-u full-aa tear-u
Empty life-u
ODI-u come-u
Life-u reverse gear-u

Aa..Lovv-u lovv-u
Oh my lovv-u
You showed me bouv-u
Cow-u cow-u, holi cow-u,
I want u win now-u
Godu I m dying now-u
Green is not happy how-u

This-u song for GREEN boys-u
We dont have choice-u..e…

Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di (Aahaan.. aa…)
Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di (hun tan ha meyyah)
Han why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di
Why this complacency miser-ability whitewash di.

[If some one can make it better or even sing, it will be fun get in touch with me ]

Pakistan gather to celebrate their 3-0 whitewash of England © AFP

Any one of you ever happened to watch “You, Me and Dupree” ? Do watch it when you get time. Its not a block buster or something but not bad for a cold lonely night with nothing to do, in no mood to watch a movie but yet going to watch it kind of time. Oh wait isn’t it already drawing some resemblance with something else? What else, nothing but Pakistan v England series.

No? watch the movie again and match the history of Pakistan v England over the years and decades. You will be able to clearly see a Carl (Pakistan), Molly (England) and a certain Dupree. Pakistan aka Carl role is pretty obvious he want to do thing rights but something along the line goes horribly wrong and he end frustrated or trying to fix it. England aka Molly is not a big fan of any disturbance in her peaceful and hormonious life which she dreams off a lot aka Test cricket. So anything flashy gets her annoyed.

Ah ah ah not this time mate. yeah its ok © AFP

But than there is always a Dupree to get the best of both of them either in the form of someone’s Mother in Law or an umpires v captain finger waving competition or the reverse swinging tempered balls or  Buckner not finding it enough dark to stop even when he was already invisible or a disco dancer trying to use cricket pitch as a practice stage for his next Boom Boom performance in X factor or Oval ‘s bizarre match result a forfeited or a 007 style sting operation and spot-fixing.

But this series almost felt like a happy ending, obviously happy for Pakistan fans but not much for the English yet for cricket fans must have been much happier. Dupree even tried to create some waves here too and this time it had bowling actions and the hot DRS but Pakistan and England were much mature to avoid that. They need all the applause for that both teams but special mention must be given to Carl (Pakistan) who is gone beyond all expectations on the field as well as off the field, it is something that his fans eyes are still wide open and they are doing funny thing on social media out of pure surprise but that is not a big problem one match will bring them down to earth, it always does.

Here I would also like to add, just for the sake of filling this post and adding few more un-necessary lines to this post that Carl and Molly were probably away from their respective home might have helped them avoiding anything fishy. Who want trouble on holidays? eh?

Come on boys let bury this Dupree for ever, © AFP

But I will also like to congrats both teams for producing such a great cricketing series, empty of any mess and full of competitive and gripping cricket for all days, never a dull moment. This series enjoyed good attention from neutral viewers as well which is always good for cricket specially test cricket. There might be different reasons but it kept them glued.  Indians were obviously trying to shut their eyes from the other cricket going on in the other far east part of the world and trying to get any consolation in any form for last summer.

Many of us were expecting this a run fest bat dominated series with a possible result of 0 – 0 or 1 – 0 either way, so our Poker faces were already out and most of them were ready to bet on a poker game rather than any win for a team in series but soon they felt that they were bluffed and raised unexpectedly. Even the fans from the nations yet consider just a cooing child in cricket family like Germany’s Wes were all eyes attached to any source available most probably jerky streaming.

Anyways there is a lot to tell and lot to write about either it is English batsmen misery or Pakistan excellence but that for another time. For now just soak in another brilliant test series continuing the revival of test cricket and also ball dominating or matching the dominance of bat. All iz Well for now than, cheers!!

Leaving you with this amazing interview of Saeed Ajmal

Saeed Ajmal interview after Pakistan sew up historic whitewash @ Dubai, 4th day

Pakistan celebrate beating England by 72 runs, Pakistan v England, 2nd Test, Abu Dhabi, 4th day, January 28, 2012 © Getty Images

As soon as the Mardan boy- Umer Gul bagged in the catch of the last Englishmen in the 2^nd innings at Abu Dhabi to wrap up the 2^nd 5-dayer against England, the entire electronic media in Pakistan got berserk. Without a seconds delay, maddening headlines about the triumphant effort of the men in green got the better of the “Memo-Scandal” at every news channel. The reporters started hitting the road to capture the patriotic slogans over the “humiliating” defeat of the “Goras” at the hands of “Desis”. And soon this turned into a façade of greetings and “critical analysis” of the “great win” by the “experts”, all of whom, who had already, before the start of the English 2^nd innings, penned down the rationale for not only to sack Mohsin Hasan Khan but also to launch a comeback call to the mercurial fellow-Afridi into the Test Squad due to a disastrous batting collapse and a much anticipated loss of the locals at the UAE Capital. But now all of them were found hostage to the media channels, busy in approving the witty captaincy of Misbah, while some got carried away by calling Team Australia the next prey in line for the Pakistani Shaheens. This whole drama continued till midnight.

 Amongst all the nationalistic tones, surprisingly, the most awaited voice of sanity came from the most unexpected “expert”- the Bad boy of Pakistan Cricket- Mr. Shoaib Akhtar. The speedster-vis a vis-the local historian of Cricket Dr. Nauman on PTV Sports actually did the post-mortem of the match in a very deserved manner.

Even a person with the lamest of the cricketing sense would agree to Rawalpindi Express that Pakistan as always should pay homage to their bowlers (this time the spinners’ duo) for turning the tables round at the 4^th Inning. Akhtar rightfully held the opinion that even after the penultimate inning of the four Innings, Straus XI were in full capability to level the series, having had an authoritative batting line up to get to the meager target of little less than a 150 with almost 2 days to bat with. But credits to Left-arm Spinner cum overnight star-Abdur Rehman, who, in the 2^nd innings, made the English Batsmen look wanting of what was happening off the pitch, which also served a face-saving for the Pakistan’s disastrous batting performance.

Having had a reputation of dealing with spin as bread and butter stuff, the manner in which the experienced duo Misbah & Younus, Mr. Professor and Taufeeq Umar making a comeback in the National Team, felt a prey to Monty Panesar (a mediocre spinner from England) in the 2^nd Test, once again raised eyebrows over the batting strength of the Pakistan Squad. Now a counter argument of a batting collapse of the Best Test Team in the world (England) at the hands of Pakistani spinners on very similar tracks is not fair enough.

The Englishmen, who had already been stunned shock by the spectacle of Saeed Ajmal in the 1^st Test, are not really known for their negotiation abilities with spinners and on such placid tracks you don’t really expect the English XI to bowl out a team twice in 5 days with swing and seem stuff in their repertoire.

At least having made these lifeless tracks, PCB should have now expected long relentless partnerships at the top order but every time, they have to face regret. Taufeeq Umar and Mr Professor with more than a 100 First class matches in their test record, should now learn to get the habit of getting into the magical 3 figures more often, at least on such docile wickets keep aside the fast & bouncy ones.

Misbah-ul-Haq hugs Mohsin Khan after Pakistan's series win, Pakistan v England, 2nd Test, Abu Dhabi, 4th day, January 28, 2012 © AFP

You know what is most exasperating? The foolish high regard of the cricket team’s performance in the recent past especially by the media and former cricket men. Okay fine, after all the dissing that Pakistan team had to face after the gory episode at Lords last to last summer, they had risen to the occasion very well but still one should be judicious while naming the team as “The Next Big Thing in Cricket”, as previous 4 Test victories that Pakistan have managed to grab also included those against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh while having only managed to draw a series with West Indies. And all of the matches were played at much like Pakistani cemented tracks except for the series with New Zealand. Therefore, this team is yet to be tested over fast and seeming wickets of Australia, South Africa and England to be called any a threat to their respective national teams.

If we continue to hail and go into raptures over our not-so-perfect national XI for what they have not yet delivered then we would only be doing bad to this resuscitating squad, in a similar manner to what Indian media and people have done to their National team. As a result of their high-ceilinged expectations and hype, both on part of the media and people, the world champions 2011 has let down their public in succession and that too in a very appalling way in England and now in Australia.

It’s high time we become conscious to be critical in a well thought-out manner so as to keep the men in green away from being a victim to the Vanity Fair.

Clarke has enjoyed success since taking over from Ricky Ponting, leading his side to four straight series wins, but has had his leadership skills bought into question over his handling of dropping opener Simon Katich, who accused Clarke of conspiring to keep him out the side.

However Hussey believes Clarke has taken brilliantly to the role and, and added that the team had to get behind him ahead of a difficult test series against South Africa that they are slight free bet underdogs for later this month.

“If you want to be part of this Australian team, you’ve got to go with the captain and we respect the way he wants to take the team,” Hussey told AAP.

“Even someone like Ricky who has been captain, he’s jumping on board as well and it just shows that the guys really do want to play for Australia, we do want to play under Michael and I think we’re definitely going in the right direction.”

“It’s been great for him personally – he’s really taken the role with a full head of steam. He’s very passionate about the role and he’s very clear in how he wants to lead the team.”

Clarke has overseen series wins against Sri Lanka in both test cricket and in the ODI format and Bangladesh and South Africa in the 50 over game, but the test series against South Africa is viewed as test of how far they have come since Ponting handed over the captaincy role, with Hussey describing the games that have split free bets as “huge”.

“If we can stick together and do the basics for long, long periods of time, which is what Michael’s philosophy is, then I think we can definitely come out on top,” Hussey commented.

“It’s going to be a huge series … it’s going to be great hard Test cricket which is what we all look forward to, but I’m confident.

“We’ve got a very important first-class (tour) match coming up in Potchefstroom [on Tuesday]. We’ve got to make sure we get into Test mode.”

Friends Life T20 - Image courtesy (http://www.ecb.co.uk)

The group stages of the Friends Life t20 are starting to come to a climax with teams looking to break into the top four and claim a quarter-final place. Hampshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire look to have sewed up their places in the next round after consistent performances but there are a whole host of teams still looking to qualify.

Alex Hales has scored plenty of runs to get the Outlaws off to a cracking start and the death bowling of Darren Pattinson has given Chris Read’s side a clear edge. The Royals are the holders and they continue to dominate with their three-man spin attack of Danny Briggs, Imran Tahir and Pakistan star Shahid Afridi – and are justifiably free bet favourites to make it to finals day this year.

Leicestershire have been the surprise package in the North Group with consistent performances with both bat and ball from Australian Andrew MacDonald while Josh Cobb and James Taylor have given the Foxes impetus at the top of the order.

Durham have an array of consistent performers including former England t20 captain Paul Collingwood and big-hitters Ian Blackwell and Phil Mustard. Martin Guptill has started to perform for Derbyshire along with 19-year-old spinner Tom Knight but they may fall just short.

Yorkshire have had to rely on Andrew Gale’s runs at the top of the order but his four half-centuries haven’t been enough for the Carnegie to reach the next stage and the likes of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire are also out of the running following abysmal campaigns.

Lancashire lost twice to Yorkshire but veteran spinner Gary Keedy has been a thorn in oppositions and Stephen Moore has finally started to replicate the form that saw him impress at former county Worcestershire. The Royals have relied on the bowling of Shakib al Hasan and Saeed Ajmal and the all-round talent of Gareth Andrew and may progress.

In the South Group, six teams are challenging for four spots. Kent have stayed in contact due to Azhar Mahmood and Rob Key’s runs and Surrey have an exciting team that could go all the way according to free bets

Somerset and Sussex will be in contention as usual with Marcus Trescothick and Luke Wright dominating bowlers from the off and, after a disappointing start, Essex have finally started to come good with Tim Southee, Owais Shah and Ravi Bopara starting to perform consistently.

Ireland international Kevin O’Brien and Hamish Marshall smashed centuries as Gloucestershire recorded 254 for three, the highest ever domestic t20 total, but they could ignite their campaign while Glamorgan have promised a lot more than they delivered after re-signing paceman Simon Jones on loan from Hampshire and are unlikely to qualify along

Middlesex will collect the wooden spoon after a dismal campaign.

The business end of the group stages has really started to hot up and whoever qualifies will fancy their chances of reaching finals day in a competition that has entertained everyone.

Cook or KP - Image Courtesy (guardian.co.uk)

There has been much discussion since the introduction of Alistair Cook as England ODI captain earlier this summer with regards to whether he is the right man for the job.

The Essex man has come from being out of the side completely, to the most important man in on the field. Is this too dramatic a jump for someone who has yet to prove himself as a consistent ODI performer?

There are many that think it is. Earlier today he was out cheaply against Sri Lanka in his first game (England won convincingly but that is more to do with bowlers and conditions more tough test will come soon) and although this shouldn’t be all he is judged upon, he could certainly have done with a few more runs.

The main argument for the sports betting pundits in the ‘Cook shouldn’t be captain’ camp appear to be that he shouldn’t be in the side automatically because he isn’t in England’s best eleven on his batting alone.

Mark Butcher was speaking on TMS earlier today asking the question about whether, if you picked the best England team for 50-over cricket without thinking about who is captain, would Cook make it?

Aside from the captaincy issue, there is no problem at all that England want to give Cook a go in the shorter form of the game. He is a good replacement for the retired Andrew Strauss at the top of the order and his form in the test arena has been so incredible he is hard to ignore.

The issue really is with the captaincy. Should he be looked at as a leader by more experienced and proven ODI players like Kevin Pietersen, James Anderson, Graeme Swann and Eoin Morgan? Does he earn the respect in this form?

Perhaps the best way to judge the decision to make him skipper is to see who else England could have chosen. Let’s go through the team that was named to face Sri Lanka earlier today and rate their prospects as a captain.

AN Cook – Chosen as captain.

C Kieswetter – Not an option.

IJL Trott – Not a natural captain, although should be in side enough.

KP Pietersen – They turned to KP before, it didn’t work out. Would they risk it again?

EJG Morgan – Twenty20 vice-captain and Butcher’s preference to lead this team.

IR Bell – By no means assured a place in the side.

TT Bresnan – Injury prone, should focus on continuing to progress as an all-rounder.

SCJ Broad – Twenty20 captain, would be too much to take on the England ODI side too.

GP Swann – England’s best bowler, never going to be a captain.

JW Dernbach – Not an option

JM Anderson – Must have been considered, but not always a certainty for ODI side.

The point being made is that there weren’t any nailed on candidates for the role. England wanted Cook at the top of the order, made that decision, then looked at the captaincy.

With the options available, any decision they made might have been cruised. Cook is the future captain of the test side, so why not give him a go in this role?

Many sports bets being placed on the England v Sri Lanaka ODI series are going on a win for the tourists, but if Cook can get his team playing well and competing, it might keep a few of the doubters quiet.

Enough is Enough

Yeah that’s right Enough is Enough sometimes. Middle East people already knew it. Aussies knew it as soon as Ashes was over. But why shouldn’t I knew it already. It has been 5 months since I last time bragged about something here on CricketVibe. All that time I was looking for some inspiration to do it again but couldn’t find any. Why would I need inspiration you will ask? Well something happened in England exactly when Pakistan had started to do well looked like building a team a captain a good bowling attack and all that but than 3 Idiots did it (some will say they didn’t but let say they did it and I will tell you why), after that every inspiration soaked out of me. I didn’t stopped following cricket not even Pakistan but due to some other things combined I coudn’t write anything even though a lame one.

Why now? Well Enough is Enough. World Cup is here, 3 Idiots have been penalized, Pakistan is again on rise (probably ), cricket is healthier, hype is on as it is India hosting World Cup and they are favorite (I disagree) so that is better time to spread some filth of mine on the great great web

Enough is enough with spot-fixing the players have been penalized after a proper law process so I am not here to judge if they were guilty or not but I believe if I would have been in their place and I had done nothing wrong I would have come out and denying it with loud voice but all three of them didn’t deny it at all or at least in words and tones which will mean that they were really denying it. All they were doing was just making lame excuses specially Salman Butt. So leads me to believe that there was something fishy which means even if it hurts to see Aamer getting 5 years ban it is still right to do it.

Enough is enough with ODI being dead or not. ODI World Cup is upon us which is not yet thrilling but will be as it will progress and ODI will do well. ODI is a much better format than T20 if you really want to see some cricketing skill in execution. It is still more often thrilling than T20 and more gripping contest. It just need to get rid of some things that are causing trouble like a 7 match ODI series (what the hell?) better pitches and more attacking play.

Enough is enough PCB, Ijaz Butt PLEASE!! spare us.

Enough is enough being lazy and not being pro-active having all those excuses for not having time or inspiration to write, when you enjoy it you just do it. And if somebody doesn’t like it there is a X button on your browser, Thank You!

PS: I have been trying to kind of launch a forum which is an experimental work with an open source software called “bbPress“ from same group of people who build “WordPress“. I have developed a World Cup discussion forum here (CricketVibe World Cup Discussion Forum) and I was feeling pretty lonely there so I though do you mind paying a visit may be?

All the voices coming from cricket world about flood relief and fund raising games with Pakistan have sadly disappeared after bloody spot-fixing saga. We have been axing our own feet from along time without even realizing it. Still there is lot of work going on inside and outside Pakistan and people are coming out with motivation and purpose. I came to know such events which involve cricket too. Earlier it was Ramadan T20 cup in Karachi (won by Afghanistan Youth Club, amazing) and now Sprite Cricket Next.

Sprite Cricket Next recently collaborated with the credible Karachi Relief Trust [KRT] to organize a night cricket tournament at a cricketing facility near boat basin, in an endeavor to raise funds for the flood victims. Indeed the aim of the event was to raise enough money specifically for KRT’s Pak Pani Project to deploy the EPA certified, 99% effective (at removing viruses, bacteria and parasites) life straw family instant microbial purifiers to all flood affected regions within Pakistan.

Here are some Images of Sprite Cricket Next events.

Small Box with a BIG purpose

Between Sprite Cricket Next’s technology infused platform and the Karachi Relief Trusts’ inspired organization, the even succeeded in raising more than half a million rupees for the victims.

Sprite Cricket Next - Mock Pitch

Speaking about the event, co organizer, Junaid Aziz said:

“The tournament was conceived as an impromptu opportunity to play some great cricket… while significantly contributing to a noble cause. All proceeds from the tournament, which I am proud to say are in excess of PKR 5 Million, went towards KRT’s Pak Pani Project”.

Team HMB - Sprite Cricket Next

A total of 10 independent and corporate teams participated in the night cricket tournament with the winning team, Habib Metropolitan, taking home the trophy. Sprite Cricket Next introduced to the tournament their technology infused ‘Gulli’ cricketing pitch, whereby participating payers and members of the audience were encouraged to test their skills on the pitch, set up with a Speed gun (courtesy of ‘Pitch Vision’) which was used to measure the bowling speeds of anyone who chose to bowl on this pitch.

Bowling on the Sprite Cricket Next Mock Pitch

Teams - Sprite Cricket Next

Winning Team - Sprite Cricket Next

Sprite Cricket Next Contact Information:

Karachi:

• Colony football ground saudabad malir near rabban dada nehari wala, khokra park 1 number road
• Pak star stadium/ground colony graveyard, khokra park 2 number road.
• Malir football ground, kala board , malir tank stop

Lahore:

• Nach gar ground, gari shahu near burt hall
• Ground b block, wadhat colony main road

Hyderabad:

• Public school ground hyd, unit number 2, main road
• Wapda colony ground, near gidu chawk, inside wapda colony
• Pakka killa ground, Hyderabad
• Nursery park/ground unit number 6 latifabad near hilal-e-ahmar

Please contact these places directly for your participation in this amazing event.

I still don’t know what to write about the latest shit happening in Cricket specially Pakistan Cricket. After reading, listening and thinking a lot about it, I still don’t have my own thoughts, I still can’t make of anything out of it. May be it is too clear to have a different view about it or may be it is too blurry to make anything out of it.

Desperate time for pure cricket fans like me who will cheer cricket, win or loss doesn’t matter much as far as there is good cricket to satisfy them but this time it has hit cricket and it has hit badly. I have gone through lot of soul crushing Pakistan defeats but nothing can destroy the soul of a cricket fan than this cheating.

It is hell of a discussion which is already cut loose every where and I and lot of you already have enough of that so I don’t feel like going into that.

Here I am just going to put a conversation between some purest Pakistani fans after the hell broke loose. This might be an oridinary conversation for some but it can be a worth a notice or two for some if you feel it as a fan.

Let me first introduce you with the characters of this conversation because without this it is not going to make any sense. Two of them are my little brothers and other are little cousins and this is real conversation happened between them.

1. WiserKid: A 13/14 year old school going kid, loves to play cricket and loves to watch it.
2. CleverKid: A 12 year old more cleaver kid with more knowledge, more talkative. Latest generation more into tech stuff and video games than real games.
3. WonderingKid: A 13 year old genius but didn’t had enough exposure to the outer world due to lack of environment and his very weak eyesight, can hardly see TV beyond 4 feet.
4. YoungerKid: A 7/8 year old kid, very lively and special personality trying to learn the world around him.

Scene:

Sunday afternoon I was back in my home town in my home with family, we had a cable out yesterday so I really didn’t know the state of ongoing Lords test last thing I know was Mohammad Yousuf made a duck in first inning. It was still half an hour before the play will start for the fourth day of the test. Going through the usual routine of changing channels after every 2 minutes I stopped at a new channel for a while and that is when I got shocked to read the news ticker, my first reaction was oh match fixing blames once again what happened yesterday? Than news bulletin started and rest of the story you all know.

In the meantime match also got started, all four kids mentioned above were also sitting there watching match they also had heard the news and WonderingKid and YoungerKid started to ask about what is going on about Pakistan team in news. Someone explained them “Amir and Asif took money (lot of money) to bowl no balls!” and look at me for confirmation and I could only smile.

Than they went on with their own talk which went like this:

YoungerKid: oh, so they pay money for bowling no balls too?
WiserKid: Yes they bet on them.
YoungerKid: haha they first ask them to bowl a no ball and than bet on them, thats thats cheating.
WonderingKid: So this is not allowed right?
CeleverKid: yeah and they will loose a match too if you give them a lot of money.
WonderingKid: oh shit! Who took the money?
WiserKid: Asif, Amir, Akmal and Butt.
YoungerKid: Akmal and Butt can not bowl a no ball? They don’t bowl!!
WiserKid: They took it for their batting so that they will get out early, you stupid!
CleverKid: hahaha they will get out early anyway why waste money on them, stupid Mazhar.

[Meanwhile Pakistan's wicket fell at regular intervals, I am omitting their comments on each player and his wicket except a few interesting one. Amir is in for batting.]

YoungerKid: look look Amir is here for batting.
WonderingKid: Who stupid will give money to Amir, he can’t bat.
WiserKid: Idiot! they give him money for his bowling.

[Amir got out.]

CleverKid: What he will do with that money? Will he buy a new bat?
YoungerKid: He should get a good hair cut first!

[Umar Akmal hit Swann for a six]

CeleverKid: Aaah!! thats a slap in the face, thats how you play it. You bastard Swann!! take it.
WiserKid: Finally, he is batting.
WonderingKid: He didn’t took money?
YoungerKid: He will took it from his brother Kamran they will share it like we do sometime, right?
WiserKid: This is very bad.
CelverKid: So they are not as bad as it seems they just do it for money, bastards!!
WonderingKid: I was thinking why Kamran Akmal can’t catch even with those big gloves, I think I can catch too with those gloves.
YoungerKid: We will still not make wicketkeeper, you will still bad than Kamran, hehehe.
WonderingKid: But I will not take money , I don’t need money, ok I need some but i have enough for that.
WiserKid: aha but how will you buy that bike with your pocket money, thats not enough?
YoungerKid: oh shit so Amir want to buy a bike? Why don’t he asks his father? He must not be studying  well but just playing cricket so his father must be angry, right?
All Three: oh Shut Up!!!

They went on like this for a while but I don’t remember much of what they said as my mind was spinning at 1000 cycles per second as I was wondering what kind of message they are sending to these young kids, how will they act when one of them will become next Amir? There were lot of thoughts coming and going making my evening painful. My thoughts were more for future than past like:

• What will happen to bloody rebuilding of the team
• Now people will have more than enough reason to accuse every Pakistani match a fix and Pakistanis will be in front of that group.
• Who will believe in Pakistan team and its players?
• So I thought this summer went well, 2 win out of 6 and team rebuilding wasn’t bad but just than bull shit happened.

All I and almost every fan want is that at least this time around they should catch the beast of Match Fixing and/or Spot Fixing by balls and shove it to roots if they really have some love for the game.

• If there has been some shit happening, get to the root of it and not only players but so called agents, bookies and mafia should be exposed.
• As far as Pakistan is concerned they should not only be harsh with players but it is high time PCB management should be sacked and if this opportunity is lost there is no chance that Pakistan cricket will come to terms in next 2 or 3 years.
• And If all this is just a media conspiracy or some thing else as there  has been it should also be properly exposed and forces behind it should be exposed as it is not only destroying Pakistan cricket it is also destroying the game of Cricket and its credibility.
• There is a special case of Mohammad Aamer that such a rare talent should not be wasted like this, I am not sure if law will provide him any such relaxation or we should provide him some relaxation at all.

My gut feeling is:

Nothing is going to happen again, there might be few bans few punishments, few conspiracies, few judgments but this mess will still be mess at the end of it or even worse. There is so much shit under it that ICC doesn’t have the guts to get into it. While others either don’t have interest or does have such interest that they will try to keep a carpet on it.

But fans of the game will be left amused, bemused and disappointed.

• And finally I am allergic to this bull shit.