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Woolemer's death already calmed the nation and replaced the tears of the defeat at the hands of the ireland to the tears of his death- but the pakistani nations' wounds will heal more from the early exit of india -

And in all probability they are out of the worldcup, unless bermuda comes up with another upset of the worldcup.

And looking at the face that the asian cricketing teams are unpredictable - pakistan, india, srilanka, bangladesh - bangladesh may come up with yet another unpredicatable performance by looosing to bermuda - which they should not -

So respect thy neighbour - if he didnt make it to super 8 , neither should you :)

Pakistan - what a nation-
the previous day the people were having mock burials of the coach and the captain , now they are lighting candles in his rememberance -

what an unpredicatable nation, and what a change of hearts.

In august, inzamam ul haq was the hero of the nation, saving nations pride by not taking on to the field in the oval test in protest on ball tampering charges - and now he is a goner -

He rightly announced his retirement, taking the wise decision of announcing his last one day match , rather than being dumped, dropped and forced out of the team -

The farewell he received from the crowd, opponent team and the guard of honour from his team mates was some thing special - some thing i have never seen happening to a pakistani player -

Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Rashid Latif, Saeed Anwer, Amer Sohail - and all the others were forced out of the team , dropped from the team and that led them to announce their retirement.

The world do not remember which match was their last, but will surely remember the last one day match of inzimam, which would be against zimbabwe, 21st March 2007.

On another point, our nation is as unoredictable as our cricket team.
Pakistani cricket team made it to the quarter finals of the 1996 worldcup, finals of the 1999 worldcup, first round exits in 2003 and 2007, and yet on all four occassions they received the same reaction from their nation. It is time to bring some consistency in our moods and the performance of the cricket team.

Pakistan's lost to Ireland by 3 wickets. The loss is not that bad as it may sound.
We did loose, but we did went down fighting by taking 7 of their wickets . It would have been bad and humilating defeat if we would have lost by 6 wickets or so, but loosing by 3 wickets must be considered as an even loss.

The super 8 is about to be reduced to super 6 -
with woolmer dead and big cricket powers out of the worldcup - this might well be the most boring worldcups -