funny - Lashkar-e-Taiba Responsible For Cricket Debacle: India

CENTURION – Within minutes of Pakistan’s last ball defeat at the hands of Australia at the Centurion ground in South Africa, Indian Minister for Extrenal Affairs S M Krishna has sensationally pointed the finger at Kashmir-based militant group ‘Lashkar-e-Tayba’ which it alleges is supported by Pakistan’s InterServices Intelligence Agency (ISI).

‘We know there is no way Pakistan would have lost to Australia after being in a winning position towards the end. We have intercepted calls from Lashkar-e-Tayba masterminds made to the Pakistan dressing room in those last few minutes of the game. You can see why Misbah-ul-Haq went down and asked the physio came out with the message that they have to lose the game.’ He remarked.

Earlier, Home Affairs minister P Chidambaram had talked of Lashkar-e-Tayba using earnings from betting on allegedly fixed matches to fund what he called ‘Terror attacks’ on Indian soil......


Complete article here ....

http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/lashkar-e-taiba-responsible-for-cricket-debacle-india/

India out of ICC Champions Trophy

Pakistan defeat cost us - Dhoni

Dear Dhoni ...
Pakistan's victory against India cost you ...

this is a tournament of Champions, last night we say a match of 2 Champion teams ... Australia (ICC ODI World Champions) vs Pakistan (ICC T20 World Champions)... now if everything goes according to plan we should see a Champion vs Champion in the final i.e. Pakistan vs Australia

Muntazer Al-Zaidi article

Article by Iraqi Journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi who threw shoe on former President, published in The Guardian. Just read it.


Why I Threw the Shoe
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents

By Muntazer al-Zaidi


September 19, 2009 "The Guardian" -- I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.

Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.

We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.

Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.
I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib, The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.

As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.

The opportunity came, and I took it.

I took it out of loyalty to every drop of innocent blood that has been shed through the occupation or because of it, every scream of a bereaved mother, every moan of an orphan, the sorrow of a rape victim, the teardrop of an orphan.

I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.

When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.

If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.

I didn't do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.

Ends

India hopes cling to Pakistan

India would be praying for Pakistan victory ... heheheee ... after we had beaten them !!!
... and i thought the champions trophy won't get any much better.

The washout in Centurion means India and Australia will battle it out for one semi-final slot in Group A, with Pakistan already through. If Australia beat Pakistan on Wednesday, they'll obviously go through as toppers in their group, while Pakistan will take the second slot. It'll get more complicated, though, if Australia lose to Pakistan and India beat West Indies. Then, the margins of the wins will decide which team joins Pakistan in the last four.

The vital question is the margins of victories. Currently, the difference between the net run-rates of Australia and India appear vast: +1.00 for Australia, -1.08 for India. The good thing from India's point of view, though, is that those numbers have come about on the basis of one match only - the stats from no-result matches are excluded in the calculation of net run rates. Thus, Australia's positive net run-rate is because they've scored 50 more runs than they've conceded (in the win against West Indies), while India have conceded 54 more runs than they've scored (in the defeat against Pakistan).

For India to pip Australia, they need to ensure that they redress that balance; in other words, they need to make up for that combined difference of 104 runs. If, for example, Australia lose by 50 runs and India win by 54, the net run-rates of both teams will be exactly zero (in which case the tie-breaker will be balls per wicket for each team in completed matches). If the margin of either result is one run more, Australia's NRR will slip below India's.

That difference of 104 can be made up in any combination - if Australia lose by 20, India will need to win their game by 85 runs (assuming Australia chase and India bat first). If Australia lose by 104, a one-run win will suffice for India.

The logic is similar if Australia bat first and if India chase, though it'll be much tougher for India to overcome the NRR deficit: if Australia and West Indies both score 250 batting first, Pakistan and India will both need to chase the runs in about 40 overs for India's NRR to sneak ahead of Australia's.

It's a tall order for India, whose only advantage is that theirs is a day-night game on Wednesday, which means they'll know exactly what they need to do halfway into their match.

ICC Champions Trophy Sri Lanka, South Africa crash out

After the West Indies, Sri lanka & South Africa(match in progress) crash out of the ICC Champions trophy, now lets try to de-cipher why it happened...

West Indies - Lack of experience and a crappy board and player's union...

Sri Lanka - They couldn't perform in a must win game, their bowling attack looked to be one dimensional, and there recent record (which was so good at their home) was out and once they had new conditions and a bit of a pressure, they failed to cope with it, and new zealand amongst all teams have gone through (or have a better chance of going through)

South Africa - while i am writing this the match between england and south africa is currently being played, but knowing south africa, i know that england will win, they have set a handsome total on the board and now they just got to bowl tight line and length, south africa will never do anything spectacular, they won't even try. This is why South Africa can never be world beaters, they can win matches, and get a good ranking, but the titles will always go to courages teams like Australia, Pakistan, Sri lanka.

All the best to New Zealand and England, they weren't the favorites now they are in the semis. Best of luck.

Imran Khan biography

Don't be fooled by what you read in the press and hear in the media. In Pakistan it was decided long ago that he can do no wrong. He took those 12 wickets in Sydney, bowled that immortal afternoon spell of reverse swing in Karachi, stared the West Indies down on their home turf, led the cornered tigers in 1992. In short, he ushered Pakistan cricket into its golden era. And then there is the man. As any number of women would say, just look at him.

You would think this makes Imran Khan an irresistible biography subject - and you'd be right. There are very few autobiographies of Pakistani cricketers, and fewer biographies. Imran has become the focus now of a second worthy book (after Ivo Tenant's Imran Khan, which appeared in 1994). The latest effort is by Christopher Sandford, a seasoned biographer who has previously tackled Godfrey Evans and Tom Graveney in addition to an august list from the world of music and film.

It is not strictly a cricket book, because Imran is not just a cricketer. There is naturally a great deal of cricket in it, but it is so seamlessly interwoven with general experiences of the human condition that this book can be read with equal enjoyment by die-hard fans and casual followers alike. Indeed, Imran transcended cricket in that many people with little interest in the game found themselves absorbed by his public image and personality. This book will appeal to them too.

Sandford succeeds in his essential biographical task, which is to conduct an enquiry into the making of the Imran Khan phenomenon. The research and sources are extensive, complemented by a solid bibliography. The prose, engaging and conversational throughout, is at times even riveting. Imran cooperated and is the first in a long list of acknowledgments.

Delicious nuggets are buried here and there. Asif Iqbal pockets serious cash from Kerry Packer at 100-1 odds in a World XI vs West Indies WSC match. Imran floors Zaheer Abbas with a bouncer in a county match against Gloucestershire after being egged on by his Sussex team-mates, and immediately loses his aggression to become full of empathy. A novice political reporter asks Imran the politician in the middle of a hysterical campaign rally if he has ever seen anything like it before, and Imran quietly answers that yes, he has.

Imran's utter focus and devotion to the given task at hand - be it cricket, politics, or social welfare - is well known and understood. But Sandford provides a nuanced picture of a shy yet restless soul brimming with self-belief, who is as concerned with substance and meaning as he is self-conscious about image and style.

	Sandford provides a nuanced picture of a shy yet restless soul brimming with self-belief, who is as concerned with substance and meaning as he is self-conscious about image and style

Imran is vividly characterised for his fiercely independent Pathan streak, his bristling sensitivity towards any hint of colonial condescension, and his successful exorcism of Pakistan cricket's post-colonial inferiority complex. Yet paradoxically he is also totally at home in British culture. Sandford presents this as not merely a post-colonial but in fact a post-modern phenomenon: Imran does have complete comfort and ease in even the most rarefied levels of British society, but it is without any sense of superiority. The English, for their part, cannot have enough of him. An unstated subtext running throughout Sandford's narrative is that the English would love nothing more than to claim Imran as one of their own.

There are a few disappointments. In January 1977, Imran took 6 for 63 and 6 for 102 in Sydney to record Pakistan's first Test win in Australia. It marked him as the first Asian in the cadre of true fast bowlers, and the victory has been described by Javed Miandad - Imran's sometimes dysfunctional partner in the making of modern Pakistani cricket, as Sandford puts it - as a crucial watermark in the nation's cricket psyche. Sandford makes short work of this match, disposing of it in barely a paragraph. This is in contrast to page upon page devoted to obscure county games and to arcane proceedings such as Imran leaving Worcestershire and signing on with Sussex. Sandford does identify a watershed in Pakistan cricket, but places it two years later, in Karachi against India. But Karachi 1978 was just a jingoistic celebration compared to Sydney 1977, which with all its symbolism was the true awakening.

As the book moves into Imran's contemporary life, you keep expecting to read a dissection of his failings, but it never comes. Sandford accepts that Imran is marginalised in Pakistan's national politics, but also argues that he is better off for it. Yes, he has an obstinate side, but that just makes him a formidable proposition. And true, he may not have succeeded as a broadcaster, but an obscure poll is cited, which ranks him as the game's fourth most popular celebrity commentator. These judgments finally reveal Sandford's hand as an admiring scribe. Not that you can blame him, of course. Everybody admires Imran Khan, and those that don't are lying. Indeed, in politics as in cricket, Imran receives a great deal of unspoken credit for insisting on stepping out of his comfort zone. Sandford's treatment has done him justice.

Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician
Christopher Sandford
Harpercollins, 384pp, £20

Answers to Sambit Bal Champions Trophy 2009

Gautam Gambhir batted out of his skin and gave it away. Was he too pumped-up for his own good? Did the Pakistanis get to him? When the bat was doing all the talk, what insanity to start gesticulating wildly with the handle? And what he doing charging down the wicket for what would have, at best, been a high-risk single when fours and sixes seemed the natural order? And pray, why didn't he put in a dive?

Ans: You get frozen feat when you face up to a lion, because a lion instills fear in you. India saw that in Pakistan team.

Brain freeze two: In plain disregard of common sense, Virat Kohli, the young man who some consider the future of Indian batting, decides to take on Shahid Afrdi and the man on the long-off boundary and lofts the ball straight to him. India were then 126 for 2 off 21.2 overs.

Ans: Virat Kohli actually began to think that the media hype and propoganda that surrounds him is actually true ...

The final act. Rahul Dravid, the last man standing, eases the ball to deep cover and completes a comfortable two. Harbhajan Singh now wants a third. Then he doesn't. Now Dravid wants it. Harbhajan is now persuaded. But no, the ball is on its way now. Dravid backpedals, he is cramping now, and he slips. He is a mess. The stumps are now broken. It's all over for India.

Ans: Rahul Dravid is a good batsmen, but how many crucial games has he won, this is why Sachin is not the undisputed best batsmen, he got runs in irrelevant matches, he chokes in important time.

They lost by 54 runs. But 31 balls were still to be bowled. MS Dhoni put India's failed chase down to the loss of too many wickets. It was in stark contrast to Pakistan's calculated, controlled, polished and smooth building of a monumental score.

Shoaib Malik 128 vs India Champions Trophy 2009

The tournament is called Champions Trophy, then why is India playing ?? on Thursday we expect to see the T20 Champions take on the ODI cahmpions ...

Thanks to Shoaib Malik for his great innings.

Pakistan vs India Champions Trophy 2009

As expected, and as per the expectations and experience, Pakistan once again over came India in a cricket contest, having dominated the a country which is more than 5 times it size Pakistan again proved that talent is greater than media hype and Marketing gimmicks.

The big names in the indian cricket team which now became household names thanks to the IPL failed to deliver when it mattered the most, this is why India can never be a top team in any format be it Tests, ODI or T20s ...

in the end many thanks to Shoaib Malik and Yusuf bhai, and congrats to M Aamir to get rid of Sachin.

Younis fit for India game

Pakistan favorites to dominate India

It is now high time that our armed forces moved to wipe out the American military bases in Pakistan

http://www.pakistanintellectuals.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=330:it-is-now-high-time-that-our-armed-forces-moved-to-wipe-out-the-american-military-bases-in-pakistan&catid=13:featured-news&Itemid=8

It is now high time that our armed forces moved to wipe out the American military bases in Pakistan

On 27 August 2009, the US Ambassador, Anne Patterson, addressed the media in the wake of numerous reports of America building military bases throughout Pakistan. There are reports that America has rented hundreds of houses in the capital and bought eighteen acres of Islamabad for a mere one billion Rupees for building a huge embassy, with a staff well in excess of the 350 staff that is allowed for any embassy, including hundreds of armed US soldiers. There are also reports of the launching in Peshawar of the American private military organization Blackwater, which was hired by the US State Department in Iraq and raped and murdered many Muslims alongside the US army. And there are reports that America is supervising construction of facilities in Jacobabad to launch drone attacks from within Pakistan, complete with US military personnel to determine the targets. But as is typical of such press conferences by American officials, in their arrogance and contempt of Muslims, they only provide more fuel for the anger of the Muslims with their so-called “assurances.” The US Ambassador “assured” the Muslims that the embassy of hundreds of rooms is so large that it will take almost seven years to build and would indeed be protected by US marines. And she did not stop there, adding that America will also expand its Karachi embassy as well as build a new consulate in Peshawar, which amounts to a military expansion into NWFP and Sindh provinces as a support for the new military base in the capital. She also confirmed that America is expanding its presence in order to supervise the spending of billions of dollars for the sake of its interests, almost all of which will be spent through a web of American agencies that are already given free reign by the Zardari government. O Muslims of Pakistan! It is an open secret that the American embassies around the world are bases for spying and covert operations. American embassies enable the infiltration and funding of organizations that cause misery and injury to peoples from South America to Indonesia. As for the diplomats in such embassies, they consider intrusion in the internal affairs of the host country’s an integral part of their professional duties, ordering and forbidding according to the needs of the America. This military expansion reminds us of the British imperialists who first pleaded for soldiers to protect the trading interests of their East India Company. But then after gradual, unrelenting expansion, building fortresses and deploying thousands of troops, the kuffar were able to establish a Raj and rule over the Muslims directly. As far as the current rulers, they have exceeded even the former traitor ruler, Musharraf, in treachery. Allowing the severest enemy of Muslims, whose troops have raped the Muslim daughters and defiled the Qur’an, to build military bases throughout Pakistan is a new chapter in high treason. And rather than prevent a new American Raj, Zardari and his henchmen facilitate its construction at every stage through denials, false assurances and distractions. By doing so, these democratic leaders have once again proved that democracy cannot solve Pakistan’s problems; rather, democracy in itself is the root cause of the ills of Pakistan. In fact, in democracy, just like in dictatorship, the kuffar are able to ensure laws, policies and rules to protect their own interests. O Muslims of Pakistan! Whether it is a dictator of the likes of Musharraf or a democrat of the likes of Zardari, they are all one and the same thing. Their only aim is to trade away your security and well-being, and that of future generations, to America in exchange for their thrones. If these rulers are not stopped immediately and decisively, the cowardly Americans, who are struggling to secure their occupation in Afghanistan, will extend their occupation within Pakistan without firing a single shot, achieving an upper hand from which they can inflict greater harm that they neither deserve nor could achieve were it not for the agent rulers. Allah سبحانه وتعالى warned the Muslims, إِنْ يَثْقَفُوكُمْ يَكُونُوا لَكُمْ أَعْدَاءً وَيَبْسُطُوا إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ وَأَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِالسُّوءِ وَوَدُّوا لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ “Should they gain the upper hand over you, they would behave to you as enemies, and stretch forth their hands and their tongues against you with evil, and they desire that you should disbelieve.” [Surah Mumtahina 60:2] It is your responsibility to remove the collar of slavery from around your necks and mobilize with full force to prevent the building of American military bases in Pakistan. Cast aside these rulers, for whom oppression is a way of life and treachery is a habit, or face abandonment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Allah سبحانه وتعالى said, وَلاَ تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا فَتَمَسَّكُمُ النَّارُ وَمَا لَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ ثُمَّ لاَ تُنصَرُونَ “And incline not toward those who oppress, lest the Fire should touch you, and you have no protectors other than Allah, nor would you then be helped.” [Surah Hud 11: 113] Reclaim the authority which is your right, mobilize to uproot these wretched rulers, tools of the colonialists, and establish the Khilafah in their place, with a rightly guided Khaleefah who will eliminate all colonialist influence within the Muslim lands and mobilize all of the resources of the Muslims for the supremacy of the Muslims. O People of Power! O Muslims of the Armed Forces! Eight years, dear brothers, it has been eight years, since America began to demand from us to assist her in her evil project. She demanded our bases, our air corridors and our logistics support to invade the region. She then demanded that Pakistan is opened up further to her intelligence agencies. She then demanded that you sit silently as she struck with her drones here and there. She then demanded that you spill your pure Muslim blood in her defense, first demanding you move in Swat and now demanding that you move in Waziristan, the real cause for her anguish in Afghanistan for all these years. And even after all these years and all of these demands, she seeks to expand her infrastructure so she is in a better position to watch over you, command and instruct you, order and forbid you! Is this not enough, already, for you to move and give the Americans the reply that they really deserve? Should the seventh largest armed forces in the world, with soldiers motivated by Eeman, not now move to change the situation of the Ummah from one of disgrace and humiliation to that of dignity and victory? Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,

Pakistan vs West Indies Champion's Trophy 2009

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Speech @ Security Council on December 15, 1971

Yesterday my eleven year old son telephoned me from Karachi...
And he said to me "Do not come back with a document of surrender" ...
We do not want to see you back in Pakistan if you come like that".

I will not take back a document of surrender from the Security Council...
I will not be a party to the legalization of aggression...

The security council has failed miserably, shamefully ...
For 4 days we have deliberated here...
For 4 days the Security Council has procrastinated.
Why?

Because the object was for Dacca to fall...
That was the object, it was quite clear to me from the beginning...
Alright, so what if Dacca falls?
So what if the whole of East Pakistan falls?
So what if the whole of West Pakistan falls?
So what if we are obliterated?

We will build a new Pakistan ... We will build a better Pakistan.
We will build a greater Pakistan.

The security Council has acted short sightedly ... By ... acquiescing to the dilatory tactics.
You know! You have come to a point when we'll say "Do what you like”...

If before you had come to this point we could have made a commitment...
We could have said "Alright, we are prepared to do some things.”
Now why should we?

You want to silence us by guns ?
Silence our Voices by arms.
So why should we say that we shall agreeing to anything?
Now you decide what you like... Your decision will not be binding on us,
You can decide what you like... You can do... because...

If you had left us a margin of hope ... we might have been a party to some settlement.
I find it disgraceful to my person and to my country to remain here a moment longer than necessary...

But I am not boycotting... Impose!!! Impose any decision!!! ...
Have a Treaty worse than the Treaty of Versailles... Legalize aggression ... Legalize occupation...
Legalize everything that has been illegal till the 14th or 15th of December 1971.
I will not be a party to it.

We will fight; we will go back and fight.
my country beckons for me ...
Why should i waste my time here in the Security Council?
I am going!!!

Kashmir bane gaa Pakistan - Insha Allah

Usain Bolt on Cricket

When I was really small, I loved the Pakistan cricket team... I was a bowler, so I really enjoyed watching [Waqar Younis]. I was a big fan until I got older, when I noticed that I should actually support my home team.

The world's fastest man, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, on his first love in cricket - Pakistan and everything Pakistani

Serena williams at US Open

Another US player who has proved to be a disaster ...first that hill billy Oudin who sent the beautiful russians packing and then the woMAN Serena ... she has got legs/biceps stronger than a man !!! the women from the US Open have been disappointing and boring, and they still can't win the right way ...

Serena was shouting in the semi final as if this one point decided the match ... C'mon, it was just a lousy point, she didn't act like a champion and that is a big shame ...

A champion gives credit to the winner... not b**ch about it ...

Ebook collection

http://getanebook.blogspot.com/search/label/ebook

nice !!!

Quaid's death anniversary today ... September 11

LAHORE : The nation observes death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah with solemnity on Friday. In Lahore, the day will dawn with Quran Khwani in mosques and other places for the Quaid. The national flag will fly half-mast on all government buildings. All TV channels are putting up special programmes during the day on the struggle and achievements of the Quaid, his vision and mission for the amelioration of the Muslim Ummah.

Several political, social and cultural organisations and educational institutions have arranged special programmes to pay homage to their leader who carved out an independent Islamic state for economically suppressed, socially outcast and politically outnumbered Muslims of the subcontinent.On this day the nation reiterates its pledge to make Pakistan as envisioned by the Quaid and achieve the goals set forth by him for greater good of the Muslim Ummah in particular and mankind in general

Halal search engine !!!

try it ... it is really fun !!!

When you look for something through the ImHalal.com search engine, you get results like on any other search site. But if your key words are a part of the 'danger list' specified by the developers of ImHalal.com, then your search gets a rating of one or two on the 'haram scale'. The message that you see is: 'Oops! Your search inquiry has a Haram level of 2 out of 3. This means that the results fetched by ImHalal.com could be haram!

Meera marriage scandal ... wtf

what the hell ... undisclosed marriage; unwanted pregnancy; abortion; forged pictures & videos ... what the hell people ... give me a break ... seriously ... WTF !!!

Saeed Anwar - Happy Birthday

Thanks to cricinfo ...

1968
The birth of one of the most exciting and productive opening batsmen. Several of Saeed Anwar's Test centuries for Pakistan turned into big ones, often away from home. His first Test ton, for instance, was 169 against New Zealand in Wellington in 1993-94. He also belted 176 against England at The Oval in 1996, as well as an unbeaten 188, his highest Test score, in Calcutta in 1998-99. But it's Anwar's style and speed of scoring that will stay in the memory: according to the Almanack, his runs at Lord's in 1996 "typified the uninhibitedness of modern Pakistani batting". His one-day international record is one of the very best and his 20 hundreds included the highest score by any batsman: 194 against India in Chennai in 1996-97.

Saeed Anwar broke the record for the highest individual innings in a one-day international by scoring 194, from 146 balls, with 22 fours and five sixes, three in succession in one over from Kumble, which went for 226664. He beat the previous record, Viv Richards's unbeaten 189 for West Indies against England at Old Trafford in 1984, by five, and might have reached a double-hundred had he not top-edged a sweep to be caught at fine leg in the 47th over. It was a remarkable exhibition of controlled aggression, even if he was helped by a runner, Shahid Afridi, for most of the innings (he was suffering from heat exhaustion and loss of fluid). India were left a target of 328. They began on a poor note when Inzamam-ul-Haq took an athletic catch to dismiss Tendulkar, but Dravid sustained them with his maiden hundred in limited-overs internationals - also briefly assisted by a runner, Tendulkar, until the fielding side objected. They soon fell behind, however, after he pushed a catch to mid-wicket, one of five wickets for Aqib Javed. Afterwards, Tendulkar said Anwar's innings was the best he had seen, and the former Test bowler Bishen Bedi said batting like that comes once in a lifetime. Some observers - including TV commentator Glenn Turner - diluted their praise by noting that his runner made the innings much easier, given the extreme heat. Anwar himself said: "To beat India in India is something special. Only we know the pressure we were subjected to back at home after our loss at Bangalore in the World Cup." In contrast to past bitterness in India-Pakistan matches, the 45,000 crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Pakistan ... future

Would the Khan be able to motivate his countrymen to act like cornered tigers and fight corruption that has crippled the country ?? The man who spoke about Justice and independent judiciary long before the lawyers/media/civil society's movement for justice which started in 2007 for Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ...