tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600258.post113673599547044409..comments2024-03-25T01:20:22.817-04:00Comments on a bengali in TO: Pakistan Vs India Unclesmezbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16450639860657867772noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600258.post-1136841454809322342006-01-09T16:17:00.000-05:002006-01-09T16:17:00.000-05:00@Behbood: Good one. Atleast in Bdesh matches we kn...@Behbood: Good one. Atleast in Bdesh matches we know the outcome from before and only switch on margin of defeat!<BR/><BR/>@arnab, zainub: yup, know a bit abt Canada cricket. I used to play league cricket in Toronto until last year. Everything Zainub said is probably true. We have potential to have potential but that's it. Most of the guys are from Caribbean or Asia. I think the ICC needs to put aside some money to pay national salaries of two or three minnow countries (canada, nepal, bhutan) and so for Canada it should be $50,000 per player per year for 5 years. That way, Canadian cricketers can consider cricket a full time job and train and play accordingly. They are then better positioned to win, which translates into tv coverage and interest of the locals. The 20Twenty cricket should be popularized in the Americas.<BR/><BR/>@zainub: Thanks for the comments about the post.mezbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450639860657867772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600258.post-1136835345475127632006-01-09T14:35:00.000-05:002006-01-09T14:35:00.000-05:00Not sure if it's as simple as that Arnab, Australi...Not sure if it's as simple as that Arnab, Australia and South Africa are countries with a strong and rich tradition of the game, that in case of Australia goes back to right to the time test cricket was first played. In addition to the money that is put in the game there by the authorities the success of the national sides is in no small part down the amount of talent available to them. In fact, South Africa actually struggle with this at times, especially with respect to spin bowlers. This is also an area where historically small countries like like New Zealand struggle. Because they have such a small number of professional players to chose from, depth in reserves is not something they are famous. Although it's imperative to any side's chances of long or even short term domination of the game.<BR/><BR/>Of course more money and investment could help Canada's chances, as could more sunshine, and better facilities (like real pitches for starters) but the biggest issue will remain that of recruitment of players. There aren't many orginal Candaians in the Candaian nationl team, and I'm not entirely sure too many them are waiting in the wings out side it (may be if you do, you can tell me). Most of Canada's cricket playing community comprises of expats from test playing nations, especially from thes sub-continent. Canada's best player at the last World Cup, for instance, Mr. John Davison, who smashed a the fastest ever World Cup century against West Indies, has an Aussie background. For Canada to have a chance of becoming one of the leading test nations in the world, this will have to change sooner rather then later. Canadan Cricket authories should try and focus more on getting childred to play cricket at school, and in general get the game more popular amongst the natives. So that more and more people take up the game.<BR/><BR/>Something will also have to be done about the widespread reports of curruption within the Canadian cricket authority. I've even come across alegations of bias for the east coast among the national selectors. <BR/><BR/>Now to Mezba's actual post, that was great read. I'll give you a mention on Sundries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600258.post-1136741564196313542006-01-08T12:32:00.000-05:002006-01-08T12:32:00.000-05:00hehe..nice categories. But there is also one more ...hehe..nice categories. But there is also one more group:<BR/>"Support-the-majority-group"<BR/> - These are the uncles who come with the intention to support a particular team, and when they see that their team is losing and that the majority supports the winning team, then they change their intentions.<BR/>I have seen this happen a lot of times :)<BR/><BR/>- BehboodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com