actually footballers do get murdered, like the columbian who scored an own goal.

My big question though, is what is the sport coming to if the failure of the two biggest teams in terms of support leads to the failure of the world cup? if india get knocked out it will be chaos, and certainly a financial loss.

but it’s not much of a sport if the whole thing is held to ransom by the success of the subcontinental teams. something needs to be done about this, and fast. never thought i’d sat this, but cricket is getting greedier and more corrupt than football!

I hear what you are saying, but these few maniacs are not “cricket fans”. Much like the minority who are football holigans, they use the cricket as an excuse. The speculation over Bob Woolmer’s death centers around betting scandals. That’s money-making greed, nothing to do with sport. It is an absolute tradgedy, but a worse tragedy would be allowing it to overshadow cricket’s showpiece. Certainly Bob Woolmer would not want that,

Hello everyone

Please forward this email to as many as possible

I urge every Indian to follow this PLEASE :-

If this is done then India will never loose another cricket game again:-

If India looses any match from today, please do the following:-
- We Indian will ban/boycott all products for which Indian cricketers advertise
- We Indian will not fill petrol or diesel in your vehicle for 3 days
- We Indian will not go to any cinema to watch any movies for 3 days
- We Indian will not go to any MALLS or do any shopping for 3 days

This enough will give enough shocks to every one responsible for Indian team to play like losers.

I sincerely hope this is followed

If its just a Game then let the crickters be only players and not Stars on TV or any kinda of a STAR Except Sports Star

Lionking

Duckworth Lewis is definitely far superior to the joke they came up with in World Cup 1992 wouldn’t you agree?

And ho ho! India 4 down as Sehwag plays a shot off the middle of the bat to 1st slip…

What a shocker, absolute shocker. Both Pakistan and it’s pretty fair to say India are heading home.

I wonder how that Indian fan’s going to feel now- going through life with one kidney for nothing.

Sounds like you have a plan Lionking…
I guess there’s little violence in it.

indian and pakistani teams departure from world cup makes this event very booring .

as pakistani captain resign from international cricket taking responcibilty for all that happend. indian skipper and senior palyer like sachin tendulkar should be resignd from cricket they have played enough cricket now its time to take rest..

I have lost more hair by watching India playing cricket and thinking about feature than my work related stress in last 3 weeks. Well, India is out of world cup. Always first thing comes to mind is blame coach and players, do some changes in Team.
Let’s talk about Coach Greg Chappell first. Is he to blame for defeat? I say hum… No. Why? Well, Coach is a like a Guide Book which helps you to get better, but Coach isn’t the one playing on Ground. Players do. Lot of People is saying that Greg Chappell is responsible for disrupting team balance by changing batting line ups and doing too many experiments. In beginning it worked, and worked really well. I think changing batting line up was and is still a good idea. Reason I say that is, if you remember India’s Cricket History from Past 12 years than you will notice that India doesn’t have players who perform consistently. If top two wickets falls down in first 5-10 over than middle order will have to come and bat early anyway and that’s where they tumble with unfamiliar situation. “Greg Chappell tried to fix this situation by trying to make batsman more flexible than making batting line up more flexible.” Yes, there are times when He did little too much of experiment but he is not the one person to blame most for draining billions of hope.
Now the Players. Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, these are the big names of Indian Cricket. First let’s make one thing clear that if these five players perform than there is no other team that has stronger batting line up than India has. We blame all of them that they didn’t perform and we lost. True. For some of this Great Players, this is likely to be the last World Cup, don’t they feel as much worse as we feel for their performance? Pointing at Sachin Tendulkar or Rahul Dravid and saying they are not like they were before doesn’t solve the problem. They may not be what they were in performance level before their 30s but they still are good and best players. Just think of Indian Team without Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly and see what you are left with. I tell you that there isn’t and there will never be any replacement for these players. We should thank them for good games they have given us and hope they perform at their best and keep playing game of cricket that we love for long years.
People forget that there are two teams playing against each other. And both want to win. End of the day only one can win, one who players better and every day is not the same. We win today and we lose tomorrow. India has never played better cricket on foreign soil. Even if they would have made it to Super 8s, I don’t think they would have done any good against the likes of Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. These are the teams that believes in “it’s not over till it’s over”. Face it, India isn’t good as we like to think of.
Cricket is our Religion and Sachin is Our God, they say. People in India are the biggest fan of Cricket I would say. But loving the game and playing the game is different thing. Let’s Face it, India has best players that world cricket has every seen, but as a Team it’s as much bad. We have Players who performs but as a Team we fail to perform. We do not have consistency to perform as a Team, if one player or may be two players performs at his best than others fail. If Batsman does well and bowler lets us down and sometime it’s bowlers who perform good and batsman are the one who lets us down. Whatever it is, one may say India is a good Team but reality is they are not. People hope too much and believe too much in players than in Team.
So who is to blame most? It’s People. People are to blame for hoping too much in Team that is good but is not better or best. People are the one who wants to watch players playing cricket every other day. I remember 7 year ago when Cricket had its Vacation for 3 to 4 Months each year. But its Greed of People to watch more and more Cricket and Greed of Cricket Boards to make more money, there is no more vacation at all. Players need more rest, players want to do something besides cricket, and they deserve some peace from cricket just like any other person who wants to get away from his work and get fresh.
In end its not just team to blame for their performance; People are equally to blame for it too. People want more, they pay more and Cricket Boards give it to them. So People get to watch their game and Crickets Board gets more money, but all at cost of draining our players & excitement of Game.
There is no reason to go on riot. We all including players are equally disappointed. We just look forward to another day in cricket and hope they do better this time. At end of the Day it’s just a Game.

I can’t wait to see what Hayden, Ponting and Symonds does to him mate… I am virtually licking my lips. I’m thinking even worse than 0-99 as last year. Whatcha reckon?