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hash you say india are better then pakistan... ok you say you beat us AT HOME which fair enough india were the better side (JUST) as we lost 2-1 and 3-2 in odi's. If you look at the OVERALL ratings and OVERALL history of matches between paki and india youd clearly see pakistan win almost 2/3rds of all encounters against india. Call me dumb but i think this prooves whos the better team.

Hash, if you're gonna agree with SOMEONE, then at least agree with Ganguly:
"They are obviously playing better than us." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/3745533.stm)

Sorry to piss you off even more but India were not unlucky to lose the series against Australia. It was obvious who was the better team overall, even though that day was rained off.

India and Pakistan both have a tremendous amount of talent, but at the moment, its kind of obvious which team is goin downhill and which one uphill (not to say that they can't turn things around).

These people who are saying Pakistan are a better side just dont know what they are talking about. If anyone reads stuff like The Crickter or any articles by professionals who are not biased, they generally agree that India are currently the second best team and maybe even the best in ODI's, although i agree at the moment they aint playing to their best but even so are producing some 'magical moments'.

sorry, but the test series where india played austraila, was not even close. the end overall result may have been 2-1, but that doesnt give the whole picture. if you did actually read cricketing magazines/internet, then you would have read articles by INDIAN writers who said clearly that australia hammered india. HARD. the series was never tight and the one test that india did win was because australia didnt give a ****, and why should they, it was a dead rubber test.

Finally i do think india are a very good team, especially batting wise, but to claim they are second best to austraila is stupid. hell england and sri lanka have been playing better, and believe it or not so have pakistan.

im not trying to degrade them. I do believe they are a great team. I am trying to lower your belief that they are the best or second best. thats simply untrue. And maybe i need to clarify the point. I think the offical stat is that aus have lost their last 5 test matches only in dead rubber test matches. that means when they have won the series. India played well in the last test match. they barely won, but it is fact that aus took the foot of the accelerator.

you son need to get off the crack you are smoking. i am a 100% pakistan fan. even i admit they arent the second best team or third or fourth currently. you though cant even admit india arent second best. you are deluding yourself. india are good but the best in any form of cricket is a stretch of the imagination.

It's called sportsmanship - the Captain is expected to make such comments after a match. Obviously to win the match pakistan played better, but it doesn't necessarily make them the better team. Before the match inzamam even said it didn't matter if pakistan won or lost....you can't exactly read much into that.

No it was not obvious which team played better (India v aus). India battled hard throughout the series, and we were unlucky to draw the series (e.g. both reams were almost equal). I am sure if both Tendulkar (most prolific batsman) and Ganguly (captain) had been fully fit throughout the series we may have even won it.

The result of this match doesn't determine that India is going downhill or that pakistan is going uphill. How can you infer all this from only one match????

Rugby, becaus ethen men are more built, and generally harder

Given that many footballers seem to cry and scream their eyes out when they get a slight knock and take a massive tumble on grass, and when rugby players regularly make heavy collisions without so much an effect, I can see why people say that.

The thing is footballers generally have to play up to it to an extent, to try and get the free kicks/penalties etc. but I still think theyre little girls

Rep for the first person who can tell me what the punchline is :and where I got it from : D