India v/s Pakistan
India lost to Pakistan yesterday. No big deal. Pakistan played really well. Especially their youngsters, Kamran Akmal, Mohd. Asif,... India had good chance of winning the match and the series after Pakistan lost six wickets in the first innings. But couple of LBW decisions not given in favour of India, prevented India from getting upper hand in the first innings. Chalega. Abhi odo's baki hai!The level of enthusiasm about the India-Pakistan series was very low this time. Everybody was dissappointed that India lost but not to the extent, when we lost in last season. Imagine what would've been the reaction, if India had lost two years back. Something like, when we lost to Kangaroos in World Cup. One request to BCCI and PCB. Please don't keep India-Pakistan each year. Otherwise nobody would be interested in the series.
Well on one of the Usenet groups, a discussion was going about which is the better series- India-Pakistan or Ashes? I think, any rivalry is based on the history and regional pride. Both the series have plenty of that. But, because of the political situation in subcontinent, there haven't been regular matches beween India and Pakistan. This has done much harm to India-Pakistan series. Ashes has longer history and better presented. So there is greater interest generated among public. Also watching matches in Australia or England is visual treat in many ways. India- Pakistan series is always rife with team politics, selections,etc. Too much divergence from cricket. So I think, Ashes just edges out India-Pakistan. I know, many would disagree.
But anyways, passion generated by cricket is nothing compared to football. Just saw it yesterday, when Fowler returned to Anfield. Football rules!
posted by ninad @ 11:06 pm
3 Comments:
Well said,watching matches in Australia and England is always visual treat,comparing to our ground and pitch conditions.
Anyways,India can come out better in ODIs.
Football is the best and beautiful game in the world and no doubt about it................
hi there!!nice piece of text u came up with..some good issues u discussed. what i feel is that the reason for the poor response were the first two test matches which didnt present any fierce compitition, which jus killed the interest for the third one.(which infact was a gr8 test match)
i do not at all, disagree with you. ashes definitely have an edge over india-pakistan. i think even the border-gavaskar trophy has an edge over it. maybe even the chappel-hadlee cup, maybe ... well let it be.
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