You see, I don’t have much problem with the ad, which I cleared in my first post - this is marketing gimmicks and I understand that domain a little. Idiots are everywhere and for a country of almost 1.5 billion, even a fraction of that population makes a big size and they’ll love it - bottom line is, there is a market for it and Segway must be paid handsomely for this. This ad is in the same line of “Ane do” or “Angregi ka ghanta”
My problem is - you are trying to justify this, and that too being Pakistani whose board, players and fans haven’t brighten the nations face in many occasions. For the conspiracy theory or blaming - after blaming the whole world for anything & everything for the troubles of Pakistan, you guys should be the last person to raise the issue here.
Regarding the players behaviour - there are two parties here, and unfortunately you didn’t see the other guy apart from Tammi in that brawl, which is double standard. We live in sonically media era so it’s easier to post clips here, but I know PAK cricket history more than most here - if I start to call names of PAK players for on & off the field, you won’t have the taste to go through even half - fixing, doping, drag trafficking, prost... what not - I better keep PP decent here. Your captain cheated bluntly to beat a minnow in their first tour, and you are questing BD players here!!
I have explained “cobra dance” many times, why & how - and everyone is aware of that - your choice is to be ignorant, be like that. But, at least think about what Hasan Ali was trying to dance on an international border gate...
Finally, the power house post - that guy had his fun after fooling lots of people here and finally he has left in peace..... still, no one can match average Pakistani fan when it comes to boasting cricket or expectations.
Do you think that I enjoy posting these and hurting lots of Pakistani posters here? But, I won’t and can’t accept that my stay at PP will be bitter every day - it’s not my job, rather a favourite pass time and I won’t allow anyone to spoil it.... definitely not from people living in glass houses.
No I'm not trying to justify the video ads, although I'm not against it either. In other words I hold no strong opinion concerning this, but what I don't do is play the troll game and take sly digs at others, as was apparent from last week. I also remember the time when you said something along the lines of "
I hope the BCB never tour Pakistan". When I see comments like this, there is inevitably going to be an irrational reaction from a section of the posters on here, who will take offence to this. I wasn't personally offended by it but it was in poor taste, that's all I'll say.
Now what I'm actually trying to say is the BCB, Bangladesh players and their fans have no right to get butt hurt about this video because of their antics cited in my previous post.
As for the history of Pakistan cricket concerning all the controversies that have happened, firstly what they do in their spare time is none of your business and none of my business. Believe me I'm well versed with what has gone on in the past, even for the events that occurred before I was born. You can tell me, the following source pretty much sums it all up right?
https://www.dawn.com/news/1018005
But once again you're showing a double standard here. Bangladesh cricketers are no strangers to corruption as evident by the bans handed out to Mohammad Ashraful and Shariful Haque. My heart actually sank when I heard about the former getting banned for eight years because I have fond memories of watching him score a match winning ton against an ATG Australia team, who were still very much in the peak of their powers. He followed this up with an amazing 94 off 52 balls in the next match against England. Back then only a handful of hitters could pull off such a sustained assault against an exceptional bowling attack.
Pakistan cricket are a bigger target market for the betting mafia to tap into and when you consider they have been playing test cricket for almost 70 years, it is only expected to see them hold more players guilty of corruption in the sport. Bangladesh on the other hand are a much smaller market and have been a minnow for two decades from when they commenced playing test cricket.
"Your captain cheated bluntly to beat a minnow in their first tour". Please elaborate because I actually can't remember.
I agree with you on Hasan Ali. His head was in the clouds after the CT success, but he is now paying the price for letting it get all to his head.
Prior to the 2015 WC, I had no issues with the BCB, Bangladesh team and its fans. I tell you what changed the mentality of all three parties, it was Mustafa Kamal. The chain reaction of antics coming from Bangladesh all began when he was the Vice-President of the ICC and all of a sudden just lost it when he stated the following:
"Speaking as fan, it appears to me that it (ICC) has become Indian Cricket Council. There needs to be an investigation. A result was forced on us today."
The damage of this statement alone is simply immeasurable and unfortunately you have also become a victim of this culture change (all for the worse),as evident by some of your baseless predictions, such as the Pakistan v Bangladesh contest in the 2019 WC and more recently there was that outburst from you, when you made it clear, that you wished "BCB would never tour PCB", so please spare us with all the self-pity, the vast majority of PPers are not trying to "spoil" your experience on this forum. We cherish your posts and you are a fine poster but of late your standards have gone down in my eyes.
