This is Amazing!!!

I am very aware of the indian media's often exaggerated and unnecessary publicity of their players, the kind of hype you see in British tabloids. The media w'd make gods and monkeys out of the same players within the space of a few months!! The BCCI's recent attitude and political interference almost isolating Pakistan internationally also leaves a lot to be desired.

And it is a fact that the indian media is more Pak-centric than the other way around. Just browse any of their websites; hindustan times, times of india etc. - any news pertaining to the 'dreaded' ISI makes front page headlines...

No one was expecting great things from this team for a number of reasons - selection errors (no Imran Nazir; Asif's unavailability; Yousuf and Razzaq's ineligibility & Akhtar's usu. shenanigans); team's recent indifferent form and lack of international cricket - but it is also a fact that if we do progress to the semis today we w'd have done so despite winning against only one established team (NZ)