Anybody here from UK?
I was surprised at the crowd composition. Before the game I read on Hindustantimes that there are more Pakis than Hindians in Birminghan (actually my chacha went to uni there as well)
I was suprised that the crowd was Indian dominated. I though it would be more 50/50. Not an overly impressive showing by our fans.
Oh well at least a lot of dissapointed Indians went home 2day 
Yes lots of indians
Maybe they got the tickets 1st !
Plus cameraman must have been ind ..
He only focused on them !!
I was at the match and there were a lot more Indians than Pakistanis. On the way from London to Birmingham I saw around 4 coaches of Indian fans and many cars too.
Re: From UK?
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Anybody here from UK?
I was surprised at the crowd composition. Before the game I read on Hindustantimes that there are more Pakis than Hindians in Birminghan (actually my chacha went to uni there as well)
I was suprised that the crowd was Indian dominated. I though it would be more 50/50. Not an overly impressive showing by our fans.
Oh well at least a lot of dissapointed Indians went home 2day :D
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In city of Birminghan itself, the ratio between pak and indians is prolly b/w 40:60 (40 pak and 60 indian)..my sis lives in england and she told me that Birmingham is Britain 's so-called ‘Little Pakistan' to match Leicester 's ‘Little India.....so by this percentage, one would expect at least 40 percent paki crowd in match...... but you are right elahi.....in ground there were at lest 85 percent indians or even more......every where there were indian flags.....so i guess birmingham pakis are too slow or lazy or may be WAY TOO MUCH KANJOOOOS to spend some money to show unity for their motherland....and may be birminghan ABCD's are too confused.....well now we have seen britan's 'LITTLE PAKISTAN".........huh.....wut a joke....i wish paki team comes to NY or Chicago or Houston and we will show the world the real support for our team......
I'm from birmingham and i would say theres more pakis here than indians. The problem was that the tickets were sold on the internet and were sold out within the first 3, 4 hours so i suspect most of those were Indians.
We were totally outnumbered but as the bbc website said we made ourselves heard. One paki actually tried to attack a whole stand of indians because he wasn't used to them mouthing off all the time. He actually knocked out about 3 indians before he was arrested. You have to admire his audacity.
99% of the Indians left before the end beacuse they couldn't take the humiliation. So at the end it was like a Pakistani street party. The final act was Indian flag-burning by some over-enthusiastic Paki fans.
Overall it was a good day. Personally i enjoyed it much more then i thought i would and that was because we were outnumbered. It gives you an awesome buzz when u win in an atmosphere like that.
Also remember that teh tickets came on sale immediately after India won their series in Pakistan. Therefore the Indian fans were over enthusiastic at the time in buying the tickets while the Pakistani fans were a bit demoralised and probably that was part of the reason why more Indians bought tickets than the Pakistanis.
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Also remember that teh tickets came on sale immediately after India won their series in Pakistan. Therefore the Indian fans were over enthusiastic at the time in buying the tickets while the Pakistani fans were a bit demoralised and probably that was part of the reason why more Indians bought tickets than the Pakistanis.
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i guess that could be a vital reason...we were pretty down after india-pak series.....