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Thinking about boycotting Pakistan Cricket

topspin said:
Career averages are not the be all and end all especially for players who haven’t hit their peak or were late bloomers.

A case in point is Hafeez when he stopped being his stubborn self and finally gave up opening to bat at 6 in ODIs.

Another example is Salman Butt. He was on the ascendency particularly in the last 12 - 18 months before he decided to throw it away.
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Azhar has been our best opener ironically. It's not a surprise given his competiton 😂😂.

Fakhar has been the most impactful though, not even close to how impactful he was

^^ These 2 were our best opening pair in 2010-2020 decade.
 
I am sure after today's game there would be many PCT fans who would be thinking the same but they will all be cheering the their team on Monday when they play against Afghanistan.
 
hassan918 said:
I am sure after today's game there would be many PCT fans who would be thinking the same but they will all be cheering the their team on Monday when they play against Afghanistan.
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Let’s see what happens. Afghanistan is a hungry team and full of match winners. They’re gonna give Pakistan a tough day.
 
Is there any point of watching the remaining matches?

I makes my blood boil seeing Babar & his buddies putting on a clown-show match after match.

Now, with Pakistan eliminated, fellow boycotters can sleep sleep sleep. 😴

Congratulations Pakistan cricket team for having our worst WC campaign in history.
 
I feel Pak has been thrown too many chefs i.e, foreign coaches etc. See India, they have like a mentor in Dravid and thats it. Leave the team be and put a local young recently retired player and let them play.
Right now, too many things are told to them
 
Now I don't feel emotionally attached with this team,,,like used to when we had Shahid Afridi, Razzaq, etc....they are a bunch of selfish players that just want to make runs to keep place in team and dont show passion for country
 
I will just enjoy the tournament now without the tension of watching Pakistan.

It's been a long time since I truly thought we were rubbish. Only player I enjoy watching is Abdullah Shafique. Our bowling is toothless unless it's picking up wickets via boundary catches i.e getting smashed basically.

Watching as a neutral now.
 
I will not boycott this world cup as this is what I had predicted for the last four years. For me even though as a Pakistan fan is the worst I've felt, I still take solace in knowing that in 2019 when Sarfraz was removed and the Babar-Ramiz nexus began, I stood with the right side of history, the side of courage, humbleness and leadership. This world cup is nothing more than retribution for us fans that have had to endure four years of friendship over competence, stats over results and individuals over country
 
CerebralPatriot said:
I will not boycott this world cup as this is what I had predicted for the last four years. For me even though as a Pakistan fan is the worst I've felt, I still take solace in knowing that in 2019 when Sarfraz was removed and the Babar-Ramiz nexus began, I stood with the right side of history, the side of courage, humbleness and leadership. This world cup is nothing more than retribution for us fans that have had to endure four years of friendship over competence, stats over results and individuals over country
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Misbah is part of the corrupt nexus too. He is one of the most corrupt dangerous person in Pakistan cricket.

See this post below:

ArabKnight said:
Sarfraz Ahmed being removed from captain is one the biggest injustices in Pakistan cricket. Removed just a good captain and replaced him with a timid, soft, unconfident, loosing player.

Misbah-ul-Haq was made chief selector & head coach dictator, just 1 month before Sarfraz was sacked as captain from all formats on October 18, 2019. Coincidence? I think not. This is the Black Day of Pakistan Cricket.
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October 18 2019 was the black day of Pakistan cricket.

Now it’s October 23 2023, I hope all fans have realized that now what a wretched cursed disgusting day 18/10/2019 was.
 
Pakistan cricket is again a victim of politics and favoritism. When will we stop doing it and start thinking out of the box?
 
Many players have complained that he has a very strict personality, so I don't think it will work.
 
Pakistan cricket is currently at a very low point

This is what happens when an incompetent board comes into power
 
ArabKnight said:
I've been thinking about boycotting Pakistan cricket team. They have absolutely pathetic and the PCB is absolutely corrupt & ridiculous.

We have a toothless captain that crumbles in the slightest bit of pressure, that is, no one other than, Babar Azam. A useless player like this does not merit a place in the XI. A few centuries against Zimbabwe, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Indies, etc. and we made him the commander of the team for all formats.

We removed an amazing smart charismatic nice-hearted genuine man from captaincy, Sarfraz Ahmed.

His T20I series captaincy record looked like this:
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
L (just an one-off vs England)
L (he was the top-scorer for Pakistan)

His last 10 ODIs as captain:
L
W
L
L
W
W
W
W
W
W

Sarfraz Ahmed being removed from captain is one the biggest injustices in Pakistan cricket. Removed just a good captain and replaced him with a timid, soft, unconfident, loosing player.

Misbah-ul-Haq was made chief selector & head coach dictator, just 1 month before Sarfraz was sacked as captain from all formats on October 18, 2019. Coincidence? I think not. This is the Black Day of Pakistan Cricket.



Now we have a captain who selects his doosto-yaaron and the whole board reeks of nepotism. I could call out names after names, but I don't want to. This is such a shameless team that will persist with the same failures and losers again and again. Pakistan is going to crash out of the World Cup after this massive loss to India. They didn't even have enough skillset to save the RR, shows how pathetic this team is. This looser team that isn't going to win any trophies, let alone any good bilateral series. That's why I've decided to boycott this team until the necessary changes are made.
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Honestly speaking with experience. You should take time off. At least a couple months. Block all Cricket related news and notifications. Purposefully cut it off from your life. If you can't or are finding really hard to, then see it as a practice for self discipline and self control.

Trust me mentally you will be in a lot better shape even if and when you decide to come back to all things Cricket.

By the way this is an advice for everyone here who thinks Cricket and Pakistan Cricket more specifically is effecting my mental health.
 
Cricket Warrior said:
Pakistan cricket is currently at a very low point

This is what happens when an incompetent board comes into power
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Considering the board is appointed by the government. This is the worst incompetent government we have ever had, with a psychotic dictator behind the scenes pulling the strings. What do you expect is going to happen to the cricket?
 
FearlessRoar said:
Many players have complained that he has a very strict personality, so I don't think it will work.
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I don’t think giving Babar a free reign worked too well either, did it? I think, especially with Pakistan cricket, several of the players are the lazy kinds with poor discipline, so having someone with a “danda” over their head might work better. Given that this is a Pakistani ex-cricketer in charge who’s still relevant in cricketing circles, players won’t have the excuse of “goras (read, foreigners) don’t understand our culture” excuse. In my opinion it would be best to give Hafeez time before making a judgment call.
 
I am sick and tired of seeing us losing left, right and centre and have decided to quit watching us play. We have a loser mentality and no skills.

Having high expectations from them has given me nothing but heartbreak and I honestly feel my health is deteriorating watching them play.

Although I've decided to drop watching Pakistan play. I will stay on this forum and continue to share my views.
 
Come on, it’s a random t20 series no one will remember. You gotta bow out at a more momentous occasion.

We won the t20 series Vs NZ in NZ right before the 2022 t20 WC but did it matter? No. We lost to India, Zim and needed a miracle to get to finals.

Ofc we should be pleased we got to the finals but my point is t20 is very unpredictable, and these t20 series shouldn’t be taken *too* seriously.

This same Pakistan could see finals again after decimating India at Madison Square.
 
Suleiman said:
Come on, it’s a random t20 series no one will remember. You gotta bow out at a more momentous occasion.

We won the t20 series Vs NZ in NZ right before the 2022 t20 WC but did it matter? No. We lost to India, Zim and needed a miracle to get to finals.

Ofc we should be pleased we got to the finals but my point is t20 is very unpredictable, and these t20 series shouldn’t be taken *too* seriously.

This same Pakistan could see finals again after decimating India at Madison Square.
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Brother, even if Pakistan decimate India at Madison Square it will be a proper fluke. Even India under 19s can beat our senior team.

We are just not good enough in any format.
 
Save your heart burn , I stopped following pak cricket since last 6 months and didn’t even watch the worldcup apart from one innings against India , I am just following scorecards and that’s it and highlights if there is any good play from our side
 
Muhammad Saad said:
Save your heart burn , I stopped following pak cricket since last 6 months and didn’t even watch the worldcup apart from one innings against India , I am just following scorecards and that’s it and highlights if there is any good play from our side
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Its a terrible feeling honestly. Spending hours watching them play and they chase 225 scores as if they are chasing 140. Not to mention the hours spent looking forward to the matches.

Complete waste of time. Hard truth is Pakistan cricket is not the same as the 90s. We don't have those legendary players anymore. We now only have timid, unfit and lazy cricketers.
 
But why?

The problem is the expectations of the fans and not the performance of the team. Why do you expect a standard of cricket that Pakistan isn’t capable and never will be capable of playing?

Does it hurt? Perhaps, but you have to accept the reality too. The fact that I will never be as rich as Jeff Bezos hurts me too but it is what it is.

Let me make it very clear and this is what I have been preaching for a decade and got abused for it too: Pakistan is just not good enough and doesn’t have what it takes. It never has and never will.

Therefore, the fans have to lower their expectations instead of demanding the players to play a level of cricket they aren’t good enough to do.

The real problem is not the performance of the players but the gap between the expectations of the fans and the actual capability of the team.

Some of the most passionately supported teams in the world are average at what they do and never compete for the championship that they are partaking in.

Pakistani fans should be no different.
 
Sher Khan said:
Its a terrible feeling honestly. Spending hours watching them play and they chase 225 scores as if they are chasing 140. Not to mention the hours spent looking forward to the matches.

Complete waste of time. Hard truth is Pakistan cricket is not the same as the 90s. We don't have those legendary players anymore. We now only have timid, unfit and lazy cricketers.
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Thing is cricketing world has also moved on. You can see how teams prepare when they work out our batsmen and bowlers. Our players probably sit around a table eating biryani or have quick meetings with cups of chai and cake to discuss tactics.
 
Suleiman said:
Come on, it’s a random t20 series no one will remember. You gotta bow out at a more momentous occasion.

We won the t20 series Vs NZ in NZ right before the 2022 t20 WC but did it matter? No. We lost to India, Zim and needed a miracle to get to finals.

Ofc we should be pleased we got to the finals but my point is t20 is very unpredictable, and these t20 series shouldn’t be taken *too* seriously.

This same Pakistan could see finals again after decimating India at Madison Square.
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Its a culmination of things, we get battered in Test and ODI and now getting phainty in T20. Issue, its not even been close - completely obliterated so it is quite depressing.
 
IMMY69 said:
The issue is not Babar or who HE selects to play in the team. the problem is the PCB, the selectors and the management.

These are the people you and others here should be blaming and not the captain.
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Well that’s not true is it?
 
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I'm not following the match after my goodbye to Pakistan cricket. Just interested to know are we doing well in today's Match?
 
Outplayed in T20s blanked in Tests, Chairman resigned Director about to be sacked , foreign coach left with mutual consent what next Afridi as Chairman, enough reason to boycott
 
I don't think fans would desert PCT unless we show a similar choking performances like India.
 
Hahah.. Bro you are right but remember for any final encounter Pakistan is 10 times better than India to seal the title instead of just losing it in a one sided affair.
vprasanna83 said:
Uhh ohhh . You guys have to find a way to win 9 matches out of 10 for that . Currently you can’t even win one 😁
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The Bald Eagle said:
Hahah.. Bro you are right but remember for any final encounter Pakistan is 10 times better than India to seal the title instead of just losing it in a one sided affair.
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Well , I am happy that India Cricket Team gives Pakistani Fans Atleast this one reason to cheer . Good for you guys . Enjoy it while it lasts !
 
I’m done as a Pakistan cricket fan.

2003/4 - 2024. 20 years of blood, sweat and tears, and the swearing grandad.

The only way to resurrect me is if Sharjeel comes back.
 
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