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Cricket World Cup 2019

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Wish england had shakib mind. What a cricketer

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Its Starc by a mile for me, he can win you a game from almost any situation

Honestly think he would be the first name on the team in every ODI side in the world
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Ahead of kohli? ;)
 
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Btw anyone seen the trouble between the. Afghan fans and the Pakistanis at Headingley? Unreal. I didn’t know that afghanis hated the Pakistanis that much. Wasn’t Bangladesh once called east Pakistan? What happened?
 
My Boy Harry said:
Btw anyone seen the trouble between the. Afghan fans and the Pakistanis at Headingley? Unreal. I didn’t know that afghanis hated the Pakistanis that much. Wasn’t Bangladesh once called east Pakistan? What happened?
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After the British left in 1947, there was partition, when India became divided into India, and East and West Pakistan.
It turned out that East Pakistan and
West Pakistan were theoretically one country, despite the fact that the two countries were separated by ( I'm guessing) about a thousand miles of India.
In fact all the political power belonged in West Pakistan who brutally oppressed the Bengalis.
Bear in mind soldiers(West) Pakistan had to fly over India to do this.
It all came to a head when the fractured opposition in East Pakistan united and through sheer numbers won the general election, and they would then have become the majority party governing in Islamabad.
The tables would have been turned.

A sort of civil war ensued, if it can be called that, when the two countries are about as far apart as England and Hungary ( I'm guessing again).
This was 1971, India never needing much of an excuse to go to war with (West) Pakistan, and vice versa, did so and the upshot of it was that the country of Bangladesh was formed.

Haven't looked this up, so bound to be a few errors but that's basically it.
 
El Oso said:
After the British left in 1947, there was partition, when India became divided into India, and East and West Pakistan.
It turned out that East Pakistan and
West Pakistan were theoretically one country, despite the fact that the two countries were separated by ( I'm guessing) about a thousand miles of India.
In fact all the political power belonged in West Pakistan who brutally oppressed the Bengalis.
Bear in mind soldiers(West) Pakistan had to fly over India to do this.
It all came to a head when the fractured opposition in East Pakistan united and through sheer numbers won the general election, and they would then have become the majority party governing in Islamabad.
The tables would have been turned.

A sort of civil war ensued, if it can be called that, when the two countries are about as far apart as England and Hungary ( I'm guessing again).
This was 1971, India never needing much of an excuse to go to war with (West) Pakistan, and vice versa, did so and the upshot of it was that the country of Bangladesh was formed.

Haven't looked this up, so bound to be a few errors but that's basically it.
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There has also been recent cricketing tension too

Afghan used to train and have academies in Pakistan, after a bombing nearby, can't remember where, they left for India where now they play a lot of cricket

think there is a lot of resentment about that too from what I've been reading
 
El Oso said:
After the British left in 1947, there was partition, when India became divided into India, and East and West Pakistan.
It turned out that East Pakistan and
West Pakistan were theoretically one country, despite the fact that the two countries were separated by ( I'm guessing) about a thousand miles of India.
In fact all the political power belonged in West Pakistan who brutally oppressed the Bengalis.
Bear in mind soldiers(West) Pakistan had to fly over India to do this.
It all came to a head when the fractured opposition in East Pakistan united and through sheer numbers won the general election, and they would then have become the majority party governing in Islamabad.
The tables would have been turned.

A sort of civil war ensued, if it can be called that, when the two countries are about as far apart as England and Hungary ( I'm guessing again).
This was 1971, India never needing much of an excuse to go to war with (West) Pakistan, and vice versa, did so and the upshot of it was that the country of Bangladesh was formed.

Haven't looked this up, so bound to be a few errors but that's basically it.
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Thanks for that. It was all very unsavoury and there is clearly a tension there
 
There was meant to be a plane flying a justice for Balochistan banner at the match, but I don't know if that was just a photoshopped picture on twitter. Balochistan is the region of Pakistan that borders Iran and Afghanistan and historically was independent and included part of Iran and Helmland Province.

There has been an insurgency from Balochistan nationalist separatists and lots of fighting and killings from them and the Pakistan army and then there's the Taliban too. India have been accused of backing the separatists.
 
The Rat said:
There has also been recent cricketing tension too

Afghan used to train and have academies in Pakistan, after a bombing nearby, can't remember where, they left for India where now they play a lot of cricket

think there is a lot of resentment about that too from what I've been reading
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I understood it as ....

with the Russian invasion millions of Afghans field and set up multiple very large refugee camps in the border areas of Pakistan. The Taliban arose in these camps, specifically from the regigious Islamic schools. Taliban means student (I believe).

Anyways they started playing cricket having picked it up from the Pakistanis.

Now remember the border areas is all tribal as is all of Afghanistan and much of Pakistan. Many of the tribes are situated on both sides of the border - a recipe for conflict and there's been conflict for hundreds of years before the British and after.

The dust up recently outside a match was about Baluchis. The Pakistan army have been fighting the Pakistan province of Baluchistan for years - Baluchistan consists of the Pak Prov of Baluchistan, the Iranian Province of Sistan and Baluchistan and parts of Afghanistan.

Complicated, and probably without a solution.
 
good to see the top boys in the Wimbledon royal box

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good interview with Trott ahead of the premiere of the film
 
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Crims would be fine for me. Due one over them. Edgbaston. Majority English crowd. Long way to go in both games anyway and still think it will be India.
 
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