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!
Congratulation to India on winning the World Cup.
Pakistan, our turn will also come !
All Tendulkar fans, the ordinary man did meet his nemesis in the final and rightly so.
Our bowler out classed Indians,but for losing that match no one is more liable than Misbah :( whatever conclusions are we driving from that day but still we just lost because of him:(.Ignore even the worst fielding because at the end the total of 260 was quite comfortably chase able but still that Misbah:(.Now the immediate measures should be to kick out all these aged bratts who even can’t move their bats properly and should recruit some people who can do some good job with this “BAT” ALSO ..
The humble demeanor of indian team after the victory made the defeat more or less acceptable for us. as a result, i guess we are less bothered about india winning..though the disappointment of seeing Pakistan lose is there..
I am sure the great Tendulkar did neither enjoy his score nor the award man of match. He surely looked embarassed.
Riaz did not get the award but he stole the hearts.
Afridi was the true ambassdor of Pakistan and earned respect in defeat.
Overall the battle was lost but the war of sportsmanship was won