I cringe every time I see a Pakistan player drop a sitter or get out
playing a loose shot. Today Younus dropped a dolly off Elliot and
Afridi got out to a very un-Afridi like shot. Even the commentator was
baffled at why Afridi would consider playing a dab to 3rd man when he
is so good down the ground.

I cringe every time I see a Pakistan player drop a sitter or get out
playing a loose shot. Today Younus dropped a dolly off Elliot and
Afridi got out to a very un-Afridi like shot. Even the commentator was
baffled at why Afridi would consider playing a dab to 3rd man when he
is so good down the ground.

It's part of cricket. Sometimes you hold hardest of catches or drop
easiest. Besides, Pakistan did much better than other "favorites" who
were supposed to win the trophy.

The dab to third man seems to have gone through the Pakistan team like a
disease.  Several of their players were obsessed with playing it, at
considerable risk.

As for the Younis Khan dropped catch, it was on a par with the catch Vettori
dropped against Sri Lanka.  Did anyone mention match fixing then?

Andrew

On Oct 6, 1:54 am, arahim <arahim_ara... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

And the stand in goes for a 14 ball duck. Surely, must mean that
McCullum and Vettori were in it together.

Par for the course for McCrapum (TM).

Disclaimer for the idiots: No, I don't believe there is any match-
fixing going on.

You are delusional.

On Oct 5, 4:01 pm, "Crapats (TM)" <crapats... at (no spam) yahoo.com.au> wrote:

On Oct 6, 1:54 am, arahim <arahim_ara... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

And the stand in goes for a 14 ball duck. Surely, must mean that
McCullum and Vettori were in it together.

Par for the course for McCrapum (TM).

So is bad fielding for Pakistan. McCullum ended up dropping a catch as
well:)



Disclaimer for the idiots: No, I don't believe there is any match-
fixing going on.

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On Oct 5, 5:17 am, arahim <arahim_ara... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:





On Oct 4, 3:16 pm, Mufta <a1kas... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

It's part of cricket. Sometimes you hold hardest of catches or drop
easiest. Besides, Pakistan did much better than other "favorites" who
were supposed to win the trophy.

Right. However, since there are so many interested in these conspiracy
theories here are some they can consider.

1. Choking is SA's cover for match fixing. How else do you explain the
favorite and home team losing out before the semis and to England?

2. India must have fixed to lose the match against Pakistan. How else
can one explain that a team that had trouble crossing two hundred in
its other games totalled over three hundred scoring heavily on a shot
that did not work against the other teams.

3. Simon Taufel fixed the match against New Zealand because he was on
Australia's payroll. Only one partnership had developed for Pakistan
per game. By getting rid of the one man who was going strong in that
game Taufel ensured that Australia would face a weakend New Zealand
team.

4. Depending on who you ask whether India's probability went up or
down after the no result against Australia definitely either Australia
or India arranged for the artificial clouds to pour down rain.

5. Tendulkar does not run away, he match fixes.

6. Ponting was biting his nails off because he had sent money over to
Younis to lose and was thinking that Younis had kept the money but was
not going to go through with the deal and lose.

7. Australia always match fixes to win. This is the only reason they
have won so many world cups.

8. India's early loss was a conpiration to achieve the failure of the
Champion's trophy, a tournament it thinks is useless and cuts into its
profits.

9. WI fixed every game. Their board fixed the team to help with the
fixing.

10. How could England lose by nine wickets in the semis. Surely that
6-1 loss was a grand scheme to make everyone believe they were
extremely bad when they were not.

Actually point # 1 may make a conspiracy theorist drool because of the
historical baggage that SA carry of choking and of course because of
Cronje

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alvey
in Bne, noting that the PCB have rewarded a convicted cheat with the v-c.
Way to go Cheatistan.

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 00:46:22 -0700 (PDT), arahim wrote:
On Oct 3, 7:37 pm, "Crapats (TM)" <crapats... at (no spam) yahoo.com.au> wrote:
I cringe every time I see a Pakistan player drop a sitter or get out
playing a loose shot. Today Younus dropped a dolly off Elliot and
Afridi got out to a very un-Afridi like shot. Even the commentator was
baffled at why Afridi would consider playing a dab to 3rd man when he
is so good down the ground.

If this is the standard you have of even suspecting match fixing then
you probably think Taufel was in it with them

snip whatever

Taufel doesn't have any form champ.

alvey
in Bne, noting that the PCB have rewarded a convicted cheat with the v-c.
Way to go Cheatistan.