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Originally Posted by Zunaid
Alf - bad analogy. Membership to the UN or statehood is independent of governance else 100s of country's will need to be expelled from the UN and be denied statehood. Membership to the elite Test status has some concomitant standards that need to be met. You and I may agree that we meet that now but it is also fair to say that others may disagree.
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The UN would have to expel everyone! But you'd have to say that the country is doing a poorer job of governance than the cricket team is of playing cricket. And they've been doing it since 1971. At least I think so.
Mustafa Kamal as much as I dislike him, if the franchising of the FC cricket actually works out and the central contracts remain and expand in the coming years will have probably been one of our best administrators, if not the best.
Perhaps this analogy works better. Imagine a Democrat's critique of the Obama presidency. Then imagine Ann Coulter's. Surely you wouldn't say Coulter's is as valid as say Jimmy Carter's?
This fellow says we've skewed cricket statistics. He mentions SR Tendulkar as an example. This is hardly different from Ann Coulter spreading the fear that Obama is really a communist. They have equal morsel's of truth. We can't deny that Obama is a conservative but that doesn't make him a commie. Similarly, no one denies we SUCK, but he's using disingenous means to make an otherwise valid point.
We've played Australia in exactly 4 tests. How will those skew the overall stats of the Aussies who've played 500+ matches? Sure Tendy averages almost 3x as much against us as he does otherwise. But we've also played a correspondingly fewer number of Tests. We're playing our first test after 11 months...does he want 11 year gaps? Oh wait, he probably wants us to not play at all.