cricket with balls

I said I would have traveled to Pakistan, and I stand by that.

When the next cricket team travels to Pakistan, I hope to be there.

I might have to wait a while, but hopefully someone cashes me up and sends me there.

I thought teams should tour there, but I also thought the best protection available would be given to them. That was not the case, 40 year old rifles and a ute or two of police is not presidential security anywhere other than Fiji.

Right at the moment international cricket should not be played in Pakistan, although I do not believe that has been the case for the entirety of the last decade.

My issues with Australians, mostly, not touring Pakistan have been with hypocrisy, the fact it has been eleven years since they have been there, and the general bullshit pretences before ‘deciding’ to pull out not long before the tour. 

Hypocrisy

Shane Watson was playing for Rajasthan when the city was attacked, just up from the Royals hotel, and he was not asked to come home.

Australia A toured Pakistan in September 2007.

That they were willing to play in war torn countries, countries with dictators, countries with active terrorism, but not Pakistan.

11 years

In that time every team in the world has been to Pakistan.

Some countries more than once.

Australia has not, and realistically, has not even been close to playing there.

Pretence

The biggest problem I have with Australia, isn’t with the players, I understand fear, but the administracrats.

The way they pretend there is a chance they are going, the setting up the tour, delaying the decision, and all that shit, when we all know they aren’t going.

Australia weren’t ever going, don’t fuck with us, don’t give us shit, just cancel the tour.

Cricket is a beautiful game, but I would prefer to see the blood kept on the pitch than off it, so for the time being Pakistan is off limits, but once a team tours them again, I will happily go along to report, finances permitted.

Ijaz Butt has attacked Chris Broad, he must be getting sick of Pakistanis doing that, over his claims of a lapse of security for the officials.

Probably would have been best if Ijaz had just shut the fuck up.

Attacking people who were attacked while you were sitting at a desk is hardly going to look good.

You can say you disagree with them, you can say that perhaps they were caught up in the moment, but saying that “”All his [Broad's] statements are false. He has now made obnoxious comments.” and “”He says there was no policemen there [but] I think there could be no bigger lie than this because six policemen died and ten are injured.” seems a bit much.

Ijaz, we get that you see things differently, but you look like a bit of a cock saying this, especially as Taufel and Davis have backed Broad up, and the 4th umpire has a bullet hole in his back.

When he had finished Broad bashing he moved on to the conspiracy theory that said the Pakistan team was delayed on purpose so they would not be attacked.

He had this to say on the matter, “It is wrong to suggest that. The same security procedure was followed”, and “The Pakistan team used to leave at the same time as the Sri Lankan team and other officials, but somehow or the other on that day they got a bit late.”

If a reporter states it was an inside job or a conspiracy, he says it was wrong to suggest.

If 3 people from inside the attacks, the attackees if you will, say that the security was lax, he says its all comments are false and no bigger lie.

Interesting that Broad gets him angrier than the statements that some of his people were in the know, and or worse.

The PCB are going to lodge a formal complaint against Chris Broad for the comments.

Broad is thinking of making a formal complaint against the PCB for almost getting his ass shot off.

For some Indian cricket fans there could be no harder side to choose between in an argument than between Chris Broad and the Pakistanis.

Fucken livid that that my game has come to this.

Pissed off that someone is dead protecting a sport I play.

That people from a lunatic fringe have wounded my sport.

Pissed off that the people of Pakistan have to live like this.

Angry at cunts that gloat in the face of tragedy.

Filty at the mother fucking assholes that forget they live in glasshouses.

The I told you so’ers lining to tell everyone that they are right and everyone else is a dickhead can fuck right off.

Fuck the people who try and score points in this madness.

The cunts who put 40 year old rifles in the police officers hands.

Fuck the hate.

Fuck me for being right.

Fuck me for being wrong.

Everyone who thought of the affect this had on cricket before they thought of the lives lost should go get fucked.

Anyone who thought of the poor Lankan cricketers before the dead Pakistani police officers should be fucken ashamed of themselves.

Fuck religion, and all the hate it brings out in people, no one has killed in the name of cricket, and it is our game, our life, our hope, our dreams, our entertainment, our spirituality, our religion.

Fuck the terrorists.

Fuck them hard, fuck them for taking something pure and good, and turning it to shit. Fuck them for thinking this will help them. Fuck them for thinking they are right and justified. Fuck them for doing this and still not making a difference. Fuck them for killing. Fuck them for maiming. Fuck them for ruining Pakistan. Fuck them hard.

Jrod, can go and get fucked too.

You get emotionally involved when something affects you, you little weasel cunt.

Fuck yourself for putting this game on a pedestal.

You and your sadness can go and get fucked.

fuck

just fuck

Since the Mumbai attacks, there has been the odd rumbling about the IPL and safety.

Nothing major, just little tid bits.

I never truly believed the IPL would be in danger.

Its too big, too strong, and too finanicially important.

Perhaps I was wrong.

The IPL is set for the same time as the Indian general elections, a time when terrorism could already be happening, and India’s home minister a MR P Chidambaram thinks the IPL should be moved.

I think this is an UnIndian comment, surely the general election should be moved.

Had he said this before tuesday, which he may have as well, it would have gotten alot less coverage.

Now it gets covereage, it gets credence, and it may just mean the IPL has to find a new date.

Our man Lalit is on the case, but changing the dates at this stage would surely be impossible.

The 2011 world cup is now also being mentioned as something that may have to be looked into.

These attacks might have been aimed at Pakistan, but cricket seems to be limping away from them as well.

King Kumar writes/dictates a brilliant piece over at cricinfo and fnishes it with this, “Will I go back? When you have been through what we have experienced, when you have been targeted by terrorists yourself and been so fortunate to escape, it changes your thinking. It is a big question which cannot be answered now. I suspect, too, for us it can only be answered as an individual. Our families will never feel the same about us leaving to play in Pakistan. That is sad – for Pakistan and world cricket.”

Obaid over at Well Pitched writes about rebuilding Pakistan, “And let us keep hoping that one day we will be able to ask another team to come play in one of our beautiful stadiums and that our children will be able watch a Waqar or a Shoaib steaming in to bowl. My anticipation builds like the noise of the crowd when they come in to bowl, but for now we must be patient.”