Pakistan in England/Scotland 2006

[evertonfan]

Apparantly, England have already organized a back-up Twenty20 match against an International XI on Monday, should Pakistan refuse to play. Sorry if this has been mentioned already, i've only just woken up.

 

[Eddie]

yeap, they move a few county games foward to free up some overseas players...

 

[evertonfan]

In all honesty, I think England have a chance of winning this series if Pakistan are concerned over this matter. No way will they be able to be 100% focused on winning with things such as ball tampering and Inzi's fine hanging around in their minds.

 

[James_W]

Darrel Hair wanted $500,000 US to retire!

 

[Sureshot]

What an astonishing news conference.

 

[evertonfan]

Hmm, I haven't seen this press conference yet, what exactly happened in it?

 

[usy]

best way to get Pakistan to play..

Tell them if them pull out of this series they are banned from the word cup..

simple really...no way they'd pull out then

WoW, thats one of worst post long time on PC, so baby-ISH...

Darrel Hair wanted $500,000 US to retire!

give him 500,0000 and ask him to turn round and never show his face.. ..

 

[Eddie]

WoW, thats one of worst post long time on PC, so baby-ISH...

whereas pakistan are being so mature about things :

toys were well and truly thrown out of the pram.

(BTW i was 100% serious)

Darrel Hair wanted $500,000 US to retire!

and he had only 3-4 yrs left...i am definately in the wrong job...

 

[ballers101]

If darrel hair steps into a pakistan stadium he will die for sure its not good for him to countinue to umpire in this series either cause there are a lot of pakistanies who r at the england matches

 

[James_W]

Yeah I was thinking that, dunno if it's wise to say it though. There's lots of angry Pakistanis in the UK as well who take Cricket very seriously.

 

[Eddie]

If darrel hair steps into a pakistan stadium he will die for sure its not good for him to countinue to umpire in this series either cause there are a lot of pakistanies who r at the england matches

I think thats taking things a little far...

 

[usy]

whereas pakistan are being so mature about things :

toys were well and truly thrown out of the pram.

(BTW i was 100% serious)

I don't give 2 Billion if you were 'serious', thats just stupid kicking Pakistan out of World Cup, I mean Ban a player or anything? Kicking team out of WC for that is Kinda stupid idea i recon.. I'm not saying what pakistanis did (I don't mean ball tampering) was good, but that hell too far young boy.

 

[Sureshot]

I think thats taking things a little far...

Obviously.

At the end of the day it's only a sport, and some people take it for too seriously. (Eg, Israel game in Scotland).

 

[evertonfan]

Talk about Hair being killed is way too far; I know Pakistan fans hate him, but saying that he will get killed is a bit much. After all, he's only doing his job.

And Sureshot, are you ever going to change that avatar? You've had it for ages!

 

[nightprowler10]

Here is a quote from Malcolm Speed on Cricinfo about the ball tampering issue:

"The jails would be empty if we had to rely on video evidence to prove any crime."

Am I the only who thinks that is a stupid statement considering the circumstances?