PakPassion's Quote of the Week

By Saj
January 24 2005

Week 1 Winner

Anil_

"Sehwag is the Viv Richards of today. No way anybody has or ever will figure him out".

Week 2 Winner

Bob Woolmer

"If there's a good player in Pakistan that I don't know about, I can be sure that someone will tell me."

Week 3 Winner

Ravi Shastri

commentating on the match between Pakistan and Kenya "i cant really see either off these spinners turning the ball on this wicket", shortly before Afridi and Malik produced figures of 5 for 11 and 3 for 15 respectively.

Week 4 Winner

Bob Woolmer

In response to a question about "sources" in the Pak media. Bob made the following remark "I think his name is "Iamakingup this Source " who is a friend of "Iwant to stir the****" a cousin of "Havenoclue".

Week 5 Winner

Men In Green

In response to John Buchanan's comments on the pitch at Bangalore :- Dont know about anyone else , but the way they mention reverse swing in above article is like their baap invented it !! When Wasim and Waqar were bowling it they were telling us that it was a mystery or couldnt be done!!

Week 6 Winner

Amits

Irfan Pathan is better than any bowler Pakistan has produced(except Wasim). I would rate Irfan Pathan as one of the greatest fast bowlers ever.

Week 7 Winner

Kashif

"Decided to go to watch the Amsterdam match between Pak/India. Booked a coach seat! After the match opted to join in the aftermath celebrations and miss my coach trip back. Could not crash anywhere, so spent the night walking about and slept outside the coach station".

Week 8 Winner

Amit Mishra

"IF Shoaib Malik, can play test cricket, then so can I"

Week 9 Winner

Monsee

I think they mean POSTEE in urdu " (referring to monsee for his nomination for postee of the month)

Week 10 Winner

Asif Iqbal

"Every conceivable effort is made to ensure that the game is defanged of all individuality and flair and reduced to the level of a cure for insomnia"

Week 11 Winner

Waseem

"in tests india is better right now. odis hardly matter ....Blade Agar match useless tha tou kya 100000 fans CHANKANA bajanay aye thay

Week 12 Winners

Merc and Entralinks

Merc - "It only takes 11 Pakistanis to destroy the sanity of 1 billion Indians" entralinks - "Well don't know about the bowlers, my mum would really benefit from it. Last time she slapped my younger brother, her arm was bent, and my brother said it was illegal coz you chucked ... now she can go back to her old way of slapping that was pacey and sharp, right in the blockhole"!

Week 13 Winner

Bob Woolmer

"Bob Woolmer, "When the Australians talk to you just smile and stay at the crease because they can keep talking to you for so long but when you got a hundred they won't talk to you any more".

Week 14 Winner

Umar

"in the beginning I was like yes the tests are going to start, now after the performance, it feels like a countdown to atomic bomb launch and im sitting in hiroshima"

Week 15 Winner

smartguy

"In these days coaches have become almost captain of the side"

Week 16 Winner

Men In Green

"We are still breathing, some barely, others on the verge.

Week 17 Winner

Jeff Thomson

I'd say just as well he has a long run-up otherwise the Perth Test would have lasted two days.If they want a Test to go five days they might have to open the gates and let him run from the other side of the road."

Week 18 Winner

GGM

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

Week 19 Winner

MIG

"We are so very lucky to be living and breathing and writing our little posts to PP while the lives of thousands have disappeared in a matter of hours. Yet we still argue about simple and marginal things - Subhanallah"!

Week 20 Winner

Kamran Akmal's Father

"We have been watching his boy playing the whole night long and praying for his success".

Week 21 Winner

Peter Roebuck

Over the years Pakistan's most successful captains have been forceful characters who led from the front. They grabbed the ball and strode back to their marks with fire in their eyes. Partly it is the nature of a country in which the warrior instinct remains to the fore, where pride is the primary motivating force