WhiteWolf Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 lol @ male cheerleaders Female Cheerleaders are covered from top to bottom.... bc.... IPL is boring now....its like COD games, same sh*t every year.... .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Right Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Shahrukh danced at opening ceremony? Yeh franchise owner hai ya L**dfaqeer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vip3r Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 poor strategy very poor... yusuf should have batted down the order..Its a slow pitch and yusuf would have hit the spinners out..Even the pacers would'nt trouble him much in that pitch... Morgan should have come @ 3..He would have played better...He's much better with hard ball.. n gambhir Worst judge of run....he should come up the order... But KKR seems to hv a good team... they have only played 2 overseas players..Wait till Brett Lee , Shakib Ul Hasan n Brad Haddin join the team.. Bring Back DADA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM Sunny Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 sahi kaha ... last minute mini prediction kaam kar gaya ... chai-wale ka paisa dooba kya ... f**k this sh*t man bad times here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentassassin Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Zodak atleast dont troll in this thread... Bollinger is in CSK not in KKR... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigsaw Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Stryke Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I wish Modi was there. Surely he would done things better/differently. Inspite of his grey shades, he has delivered three fantastic seasons. Not to mention the relocation to SA in 2009. He might have taken money for himself but atleast he ensured made it lively and went on smoothly. Anyway lets hope there is enough hype n excitement associated this time too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM Sunny Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I wish Modi was there. Surely he would done things better/differently. Inspite of his grey shades, he has delivered three fantastic seasons. Not to mention the relocation to SA in 2009. He might have taken money for himself but atleast he ensured made it lively and went on smoothly. Anyway lets hope there is enough hype n excitement associated this time too QFT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentassassin Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I wish Modi was there. Surely he would done things better/differently. Inspite of his grey shades, he has delivered three fantastic seasons. Not to mention the relocation to SA in 2009. He might have taken money for himself but atleast he ensured made it lively and went on smoothly. Anyway lets hope there is enough hype n excitement associated this time too what do u mean by it would hv been better ?? Nothing has gone wrong so far and 1 match has been played...that too it was good... good match @ 4..RR vs DC.. I think RCB will win easily against kochi.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Stryke Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 (edited) Of course nothing was wrong, but its modi's brainchild. His marketing genius and skill is what got the investors and sponsors. Not to mention, IPL is not supposed to be just another tournament. The IPL always had some glitz associated with it. Anyway, as long as players/fans r happy, no issues. But I just think its unfair. I mean, when you look at how badly Kalmadi handled CWG and how Modi handled the transfer of IPL2 to RSA in just 2 weeks. You gotta give the man some credit, and taking it all away from him just seems unfair. BCCI is jus inheriting an established franchise. Edited April 9, 2011 by Death Stryke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhi5hek Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 well at least he delivers better opening speech than ... Chirayu amin ... and not to mention the opening ceremonies in the last 3 seasons have been much grander one's ... with some real international icons ... not like kunal ganjawal and sunidhi showing us more of their waistline rather than singing ... and btw that too was awful ... they can't even do good lip sync to their own songs .. it was so visible ... they were just pretending to be singing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtheK Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 BCCI is not inherting anything, it was totally funded and backed by BCCI, if not for BCCI modi would have just been another man in the circle. Look at ICL. That said i am not taking anything away from him, but he moving it to SA was not in his hand, but due to the SA-BCCI relationship. Power changes people, and Modi suffered for that. You can not challenge the system that brings you up, he might be great but there is a point to stop and of all we can see he crossed that line. Anyway IPL4 has begun well and hopefully will gain popularity, there will always be a little hiccups but it will work out. PS: male cheerleaders for CSK has been there from season 1, its franchisee decision not Modi or BCCI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM Sunny Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Seriously fpr the past 3 years it was like a fresh breeze every year. Now it just looks like a to be abused cash cow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWolf Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 IPL 2 in south Africa was the best IPL imo..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentassassin Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 2Day you'll be seeing these gals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittoo Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 what load of horse crap. A weak and fragmented pakistan will create more anti govt, terrorist units. Guess where their first foreign attack will be ? Also pakistan is a nuclear state, its in no one's interest to allow that kind of power to go in unstable hands. granted a semi 'democratized' pakistan has not been a rosy friend to us but trust me, a further conflicted pakistan will have huge adverse affects on our India. Also i really dislike this nation profiling that some are doing, one man cannot be judged for speaking for the whole people. India and pakistanies are really the same people, sharing the histories, ethnicity and culture (at lest in north, north indians.. punjab-delhi-up will identify more with pakistanies than they would do with south indians.. strictly culture-upbringing wise speaking), we are just victims of bad politics. Furthermore, building hatred just because of some twisted comments is not realy solving anything. Although i know that Afridi is trying to save his skin back home or maybe he really is idiot eitherway one cannot undermine his comments regarding our media. For once forget about pak media; i truly was DISGUSTED the way our news channels hyped up the match.. cries of war, military music, inflammatory slogans.. utter bullshit. Sorry for the late reply. Just returning to the thread. As you yourself accepted, Pakistan has never been a friend of India. So what has it been? An enemy. And it wont require much thought to come to conclusion whether a powerful enemy or weaker enemy. I dont want an implosion of Pakistan, cause in that case we will end up with huge mass of population trying to cross the border, but I will always advocate a Pakistan that is in a constant state of internal conflict. The nuclear bogey that you talk of, how will that condition be any different to India? How is that the Army is more benevolent towards India than the terrorists will? Oh and the terrorist units? Yeah right, who are they attacking right now? Themselves. Hell, there are only a few India specific terrorist units (LeT, JeM etc) and they ALL were created by the pakistani army, and still are managed by them. Those rag-tags who are not in control (the type more will be there of of Pak becomes even more unstable) are the Taliban etc and they rarely bother India, they create havoc in Pakistan, which I am all for. Whatever gets pakistani Army off from Indian backs, I welcome. If Pakistan further becomes weak, its only better for us for it diverts its military and other resources which otherwise are meant only for India. And finally, it was long back that we were same people. In fact, read this article- http://www.hindustantimes.com/Are-India-Pakistan-really-the-same-people/Article1-683154.aspx For the life of me, I can’t understand why people in India are so outraged by Shahid Afridi’s statements made on a Pakistani TV channel. In case you’ve been living under a rock over the past week, this is what Afridi said: Indians did not have as pure and large hearts as Pakistanis and Muslims did; a nd that no long-term relationship with India was possible because of this. Now, as far as I am concerned, this is pretty much par for the course. However much we may try to kid ourselves, throwing around phrases like ‘We are the same people’, or even ‘Pakistanis are like our brothers and sisters’, the truth is somewhat different. If you monitor their media, listen to people on the street, or even log on to Facebook groups and Twitter, it rapidly becomes evident that most Pakistanis don’t like us very much. And frankly, that’s hardly surprising. Ever since the Partition, each successive generation of Pakistanis has been brought up to regard India as The Enemy. The textbooks they study tell them how awful Indians are; the media sends out the same message; the political leadership constantly harps on an anti-India theme; and the army whips up a frenzy about India’s dire designs on the Pakistani state. So, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that we are regarded with implacable hostility at best and visceral hatred at worst by our ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ across the border. And yet, every time a story like this pops up, the reaction seems to be shock and horror. How could Afridi say such awful things? Doesn’t he know that we are the ‘same people’? (And that, in any case, there are more ‘pure-hearted’ Muslims in India than there are in Pakistan?) At some level, I understand where these reactions are coming from. As a Punjabi whose family roots lie in Pakistan, I was also brought up on a steady diet of pre-Partition stories of love and brotherhood. My father’s friends from Pakistan visited, there were many evenings of bonhomie as they remembered the good old days, even as we kids hung on to every word invoking a past we could never re-visit. Shahid AfridiIt was easy to believe – as we sat down to large meals and an even larger dose of nostalgia – that we were indeed the same people, with the same roots, the same tastes, the same culture, but just divided by a border created by political forces beyond our control. It was in that mood that I made my first trip to Pakistan – as part of the press party accompanying the Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, as he made his historic bus yatra across the Wagah border. I was all set to get in touch with my Jhelum roots, re-discover the land of my ancestors, and get a taste of that famous bonhomie that had always marked India-Pakistan relations. Boy, was I in for a shock! The first false note was struck when a bunch of us were introduced to a group of volunteers who were assigned to look after us at the media centre. Our Pakistani friends repeated each new name with trepidation, as if they were trying out an entirely different language and weren’t quite sure of the pronunciation. Finally, it was my turn. “Ah, Seema,” said one of them with palpable relief. “Yeh naam toh hum jaante hain. Yeh baaki sab Hindu naam humnein kabhi sune nahi.” That’s when I first realised that the West Punjab of my parents and grandparents had well and truly passed on. Now, there was a new West Punjab, with a new generation of Pakistanis, who had grown up with no Hindu neighbours. In fact, most of them had probably never met a Hindu in their life. To them, we were foreigners in their land; not long-lost brothers and sisters with whom they could establish an instant camaraderie. If anything, the prevalent mood was one of hostility and suspicion. It reminded me of a story the late Mani Dixit used to tell about his time in Pakistan, when he visited a Pakistani diplomat at his home. He was introduced to the couple’s young son as a visitor from India. The child said an obedient ‘hello’ and then started running around a startled Dixit shouting “Hindustani kutta, Hindustani kutta!” The embarrassed parents hurried him out of the room and apologised profusely to Dixit. A friend’s aunt, who is married to a Pakistani, and often visits the country, had much the same experience. Sitting at the breakfast table one morning, she saw that her young nephew was playing with his toy airplanes. She walked across to join him, but stopped short when she heard him mutter, “Main India pe bomb maroonga...” In any case, this stuff about a shared culture only goes that far. After all, it’s only Punjabis – and to some extent, Sindhis – who have a cultural affinity with Pakistan. For the rest of India, there is no special bond in the shape of a common language or even a common cuisine. I remember an office lunch at Bengal Sweets, when there was a group of Pakistani ladies sitting at the next table. There was a flurry of excitement when our masala dosa was served. What on earth was this, the ladies wanted to know. They had never seen a dosa in their life. I often think of that moment when I hear the candles-at-the-Wagah-border brigade ramble on about how we are the same people. You know what, actually we’re not. This explains it better than I ever will that we are no longer the same people. Most Pakistanis are bought up on steady doses of anti-India and anti-hindu sentiments. Have you looked at what their text-books, especially of history, consist of? Or for that matter, have you even given a thought why their missiles are named 'Babur' and 'Ghori' (hint- they were invaders that ravaged India looted temples etc and killed people)? Hell, for your 'same people' theory, Pakistan was ravaged too at that time (most of Pak was Hindu at that time and it was within India). The ancestors of these people were ravaged and still they name their weapons on them cause they think they are different. They think they are the successors of those invaders, they think nothing as common. They think they got Turkic blood in them rather than Indians. And finally, I am a Sindhi. Along with Punjabis, we should know most about how 'same' we are. But the truth is, we arent anymore. We werent since they day they decided they didnt want to be with us. Since the day my grandfathers were uprooted from their lands and were chased out of Sindh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftrunner Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 (edited) Yeah the whole "we are the same" line is pretty much nonsense. We are the same in the way most of humanity is the same. But aside from that we have as much common with the Pakistanis as we do with the Sri Lankans. Or Nepalese. Or Bangladeshis. Edit Just for the record, Afridi sounds like a sore loser. We beat them and went on to win big. They desperately need some sort of vindication to make them feel better. Some will cry match fixing. Others like Afridi will talk about how superior they are to others as human beings (LOf**kingL). At the end of the day none of that matters. Edited April 9, 2011 by Aftrunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Ok, now can we get back to the cricket please... Fantastic innings by Devilliers...Kochi looks like it has a good stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtheK Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Rcb rcb rcb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Yeah, RCB looked really composed tonight...no panicking when Mccullum was going bananas and even our south african didn't look nervous at the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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