Adil Najam
How do I feel today with Pakistan having lost to India in the Semi-Final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup?
I feel exactly as I did on November 4, 1987. I was at the Ghaddafi Stadium in Lahore, as a sports reporter for the newspaper The Muslim, covering the Semi-Final match between Pakistan and Australia in the 1987 World Cup. Pakistan was the clear favorites. Pakistan lost.
How did that feel? Pretty much as today feels. It felt like this:
But as a reader wrote on my earlier post, I am sad, but not angry. Nor am I ashamed or dejected. In an odd sort of way, I am fulfilled. We tried our best.
Today was not our best day; but frankly it was not our worst day either. There have been many days in recent weeks and months when I was ashamed of what was being done in my name. Today was not one of those days. Today, I took many blows, but I stand tall. Today, I wait for tomorrow. Because, tomorrow is another day.
Congratulations, Team India on a well-earned victory.
Thank you, Team Pakistan, for a month full of thrills and chills and making us come together as a country again. Your fielding was rather pathetic, but you have made us proud nonetheless!
Dear Nizam,
Try to understand the pressure that the team must have gone through, agreed they did not win, but I don’t think they have lost either.
This time around, the team was not expected to go out there and win, they were instead sent with an open mind, but they baffled everyone with their performance
Shahid & boys were spot-on in all their games, agreed they did not win the semi-final, but don’t forget they ensured the master could not score his century against them, they ensured the Indian don’t go past 300 (owning to the fact that India was playing with 7 finest batsmen in the world today), it was great to watch the way we restricted them to 260.
I’m proud of Shahid and Team Pakistan for doing a job as wondeful as this, don’t forget they were pitched up against the strongest batting line up in the world, and that’s exactly what makes them the proud owners of the title “Most feared bowling attack” in the world.
Shahid, put this match behind you, it’s just a match for us, I’m sure you’ll do great in all your future matches against the best teams in the world.
Cheers
@ Khuram Khan
Well said, indeed Tendulkar is an oridnary guy…. an ordinary guy who has 99 tons to his name, an ordinary guy who scored 85 on a pitch where most failed to go past 10. An ordinary guy who does not need an umpire to tell him when he is out.
An ordinary guy who even the most respected in cricket have respected.
You are right he is so ordinary in his attitude & character, but it’s his this attitude and character that makes the rest of us feel less than ordinary
Cheers
Mr Kurram Khan,
Yes indeed Tendulkar is a very ordinary guy,because he is not a muslim.May be Adi Amin and Gaddaffi are great by your standard.Its high time you should name one of your stadiums after the great Adi amin
Mr Kurram Khan,
Yes indeed Tendulkar is a very ordinary guy,because he is not a muslim.May be Adi Amin are Gaddaffi are by your standard.Its high time you should name one of your stadiums after the great Adi amin
Mathrfakkrs saled Pakistan for maney. Fakaff all criketars