Posts by: Amer Siddiqui
So the hysteria of all Pakistan cricket fans (including me) was short lived. After the glorious performance by the boys in green during the test series, we were all on a high, the team was on a high, the management were on a high. However, what we didn’t realize is that secretly England were licking [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s the space to get the discussions going for the last two ODIs …
If you have missed our ODI series preview, you can read it right here, and comments from the first two ODIs can be found here.
Continue Reading →“It’s the eye of the tiger …
it’s the thrill of the fight, Rising up to the challenge of our rival”
So I was tasked with the responsibility of writing the post mortem and frankly I don’t have much to say other than ‘We simply took them to the cleaners’ … I cannot remember [...]
Continue Reading →“Girte hain shahsawar hi maidaan-e-jung mei”
I am not quite sure which famous poet from the pre partition Indian subcontinent said the above but for our non Urdu/Hindi readers it means “In a battlefield/competition a warrior is likely to fall”. In other words it is referring to a wounded warrior/competitor and then goes onto talk [...]
Continue Reading →Welcome to the 2nd three day test match preview between Pakistan & England … Wait, did I say ‘three’?? My apologies, I actually meant five days … Honest!
Now enough of the banter, jokes and cocky-ness … Yes Dubai was a good result but this is real business here and England are going to come-back strong [...]
Continue Reading →Thursday, 12 November 2009 was the date for the first T20 between Pakistan and New Zealand. Great plans had been made to watch the game live with a group of 30 plus friends at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Sadly, it wasn’t to be for me. Unfortunately due to a last minute crisis at work [...]
Continue Reading →Different author, same thoughts …
This is the continuation of the previous post, titled: Houston, we have a problem!
Being from the same age group as Ahmad, I can totally relate to his thoughts. Before I go into an additional analysis, I think it is appropriate to unwrap a little of my own [...]
Continue Reading →The summer of 1999 was somewhat a special one for me. I had just graduated from the University in London; it was the year we all had plans to move on with our professional careers and to top this all up the Cricket World Cup was being held in England that year.
Pakistan from the [...]
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Ahmad and Amer are fans of cricket in general and follow Pakistan cricket with great enthusiasm. They write about the unexplainable issues always surrounding Pakistan cricket.
Their cricketing achievements neither include playing Test matches nor even an IPL stint, but are exactly those of all other common fans who passionately follow their team; thus making them perfect for this particular blog where the aim to get us, the fans, heard!
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