posted 6 minutes ago
Yet everyone loves the Pakistan team so much that they are willing to tour them every month...
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Plenty of people have been banned on here from both pak and india side for talking politics. I know you're a newbie here, but as the OP you should take extra responsibility. This isn't the forum for it. Teams stopped touring since afghanistan was invaded, nothing directly to do with Pakistan whatsoever...

With Indias record in Kashmir well documented, you can hardly take a moral stance on political issues. Stick to the cricket lad

Actually, teams stopped touring since the Sri Lankan team was attacked. It has nothing to do with the invasion of Afghanistan.

Also Afridi, "QF's" indicates possession. It's just 'QFs'. No apostrophe.

Ask your teachers when you go to school tomorrow mate.

And it's "India's", not "Indias".

Most teams had issues with security and protection well before that and after the Afghanistan invasion and the impact it had on the outskirts of Pakistan - and rightly so. Lankans were on a one-off tour because they were promised security which didn't materialise. They toured us because Pakistan toured lanka during their civil war.

Now you can complain about the "conjunction" again.

comment by Vinz - Justice for the Kurds (U19980)
posted 2 minutes ago
And it's "India's", not "Indias".
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Conjunction. End.

So much for "sticking to cricket" eh?

Only pathetic people like yourself resolve to grammar when they have no response.

Vinz,

You tried correcting me, but in the process scored an own goal .... Calm down

I DID correct you. And you're obviously too blind to see the sarcasm in the conjunction.

(There, I did again).

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and all that.

It was sarcasm was it? . Not an "excuse" then??? Ok, I believe you

You see, the problem with arguing with stupid people like you is that you bring people down to your level and beat them with experience.

Is that sarcasm or just an excuse because you've made yourself look very silly? Are you speaking from experience then?

Changing the subject, has anyone seen Tagge? We are missing out on those calculations

Tagge disappeared at the same time as England disappeared from the World Cup
Looking at the QF line up - the Saffers / lanka is the only one that is appealing... Other games (on paper) appear to be one-sided

comment by Vinz - Justice for the Kurds (U19980)
posted 5 hours, 18 minutes ago
You see, the problem with arguing with stupid people like you is that you bring people down to your level and beat them with experience.
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Spot on

Always gets on his grammatical high horse when there's no comeback.

Then goes running to Admins.

Would be happy if Pakistan out a decent fight and bow out respectfully, instead of been all out for 150 odd and chased by Aussies in 20 overs

On a different note has anybody seen the "Eliminated XI" on the cricinfo website? The only Englishman in the side was Jos Buttler, and I'm not entirely sure he should have made it. Sums up their world cup really.

Oh and if we're entering a "Grammar Off" can I join in? Got some semi-colons that I've been meaning to drop for ages.

And just to add, congratulations on Pakistan on going through, but I am disappointed that Ireland went out. Just gives the ICC more excuse to exclude the associates from the following world cup.

Oh and if we're entering a "Grammar Off" can I join in? Got some semi-colons that I've been meaning to drop for ages.
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Saker going to Melbourne Renegades

Also if you had to rate the teams elimanated, I think England are probably the worst teams of all the eliminated teams.

I think UAE and Afghanistan are probably the only teams that havent really performed better than England. And that itself should be a shocking thing for England.

Hope ICC reverses its decison and include teams like ireland zimbabwe and afghanistan. They also need to get a lot more opportunities against the top 8. India, England and Aus can send their A teams to play these lot. That can make a huge difference. Just looking at how good Zimbabwe and Ireland have fought this wc means that if given equal opportunities I have no doubt that these teams will prosper. And then if you look at the other side cricket is becoming very popular in Afhanistan and Nepal. This is a golden opportunity for ICC to invest in these countries and they will reap the rewards in the future.

I think most associates can become competitive if given more opportunities to play against the top ranked teams, even if that means playing the A teams. Most A teams barely play that much cricket anyway, so I dont see why these top teams dont play them that often.

And this is just for t20s and ODIs. I personally dont think there is scope of increasing teams that play tests anymore. Even the current top 8 are struggling with this form, that also given years of experiance.

I've got no problem with the associates playing, but why do we need to watch them play 6 games to realise they won't finish in the top 8. Only Kenya in 2003 have done the business and got to the semis, but where are Kenya now?