Angry Pakistanis pelt donkeys in protest at fixing

[EnterTheVoid]

Younis Khan spotted outside PCB headquarters, preparing to come to England for the ODI's

[Holysmoke]

"Cornered Donkeys" indeed.

[bhanu]

Beating up the poor donkey is sad man...i hope da donkey beats pakistan team wen dey come back :phehehe:

[goose]

Breaking News ! Back home, supporters of Pakistan's maligned cricket team have been voicing their anger. Ex-cricket greats Imran Khan and Wasim Akram have also joined the cries of disgust. 'The whole Pakistan infrastructure is rotten and incompetent' said one ex-cricketer. 'Who's coaching these kids? Back in my day we never got caught. These amateurs have brought shame to Pakistan cricket and need to be mentored properly on how to avoid being caught'.

[goose]

Telegraph - Donkeys Paraded As Cricketers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/pakistan/7971785/Pakistan-match-fixing-claims-Donkeys-paraded-as-cricketers.html Donkeys have been given the names of Pakistan's cricketers and abused by protesters, as the country vented its anger at match-fixing allegations. By Rob Crilly in Islamabad and Martin Beckford Published: 11:48AM BST 31 Aug 2010 Pakistani cricket fans pose with a donkey as they shout slogans against national cricket team players involved in a match fixing scandal Photo: AFP/GETTY

Residents led a procession of the animals through the streets of the eastern city of Lahore, with the names of players accused of taking bribes during the fourth test against England stuck on their heads. The donkeys were then pelted with rotten tomatoes and slapped with shoes during the demonstration on Monday, which was shown on live television, while others carried placards venting their anger at the sports stars. Related Articles * Pakistan match-fixing row: three arrested * Somerset offer Pakistan 'warm welcome' * Australia investigating 'tainted' Sydney Test * Cricket match-fixing: suspicions about 80 games * Match-fixing in cricket: how it works * Alleged fixer's brother in Pakistan hotel "These players have let us and the country down. We are already facing so many problems because of the floods and terrorism and they took away our one source of happiness," one protester screamed at a television camera. The latest scandal to befall Pakistan cricket has managed to shock a nation that has long been resigned to mismanagement, corruption and crisis in its national sport. For the first time in a month, the country’s devastating floods have been knocked from top spot in the newspapers. Dawn, one of the leading English language papers, described the allegations on Monday as “the final humiliation to a cricket team that has lurched from disaster to disaster for several yearsâ€. Pakistan is a nation obsessed by cricket. The team’s victory over England in the Third Test had brought the country together even as more towns and villages were being evacuated in the face of rising floodwaters. The timing of the scandal at a time of national emergency has heaped further misery on the flood victims. “Our cricketers should have been ambassadors for us at this time – instead they have stabbed us in the back,†said an editorial in The News, which went on to call for the entire team and management to be sacked. Former players and captains lined up to denounce the current crop of players while Yousef Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister, said the scandal had made his country “bow its head in shameâ€. Imran Khan took time off from organising a convoy of relief aid to say simply: “It’s a very depressing day for Pakistan cricket.†Beyond the outrage and anger, the sports pages dissected the rot at the heart of the team. The Daily Times took aim at the inability of the Pakistan Cricket Board to clean up the game after years of rumours, innuendo and infighting. “Some critics are of the view that most of the time it was because of the players’ power that exists in Pakistan cricket that the Pakistan Cricket Board did not take action against the alleged players and the situation has come to a head in England,†wrote Muhammad Ali in his Beyond the Boundary column. Now Pakistan is waiting to see whether this is the scandal to force a clean-up or whether the sport will continue to lurch from crisis to catastrophe.

[Rajan]

donkeys would feel outraged because i think they are more consistent than paki cricketers and dont cheat..

[The Outsider]

Were they cornered?

[King Tendulkar]

ICF should have copyrighted the naming of pak cricketers as donkeys. Clealry they have ripped ICF of in this regard and copied us. Just shows how many paks look to indian websites for their info

[King Tendulkar]

Great pak cricketers cheat. And its the donkeys that got pelted by pakis! Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(RSPCA) as well as scotland yard should be involved. Although not sure wether its the donkeys in pakland or ones playing cricket in england that RSPCA should be concerned with.

[Rajiv]

Knowledgeable crowd the guy on the extreme left does stats analysis and has all cricket book,s the guy in the middle is an expert in fantasy cricket and the rest are just crazy fans who know how to play by the rule

[flamy]

they all look so happy in those pics

[yoda]

this is a good group photo:

[goose]

i swear some of these pics have been taken from the old ICF threads.

[Ram]

R.I.P Arun Lal. He was too young to die of a heart-attack. :((

[ViruRulez]

I misread the title as 'angry donkeys pelt stones at pakis'

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Shawn]

Lol at these idiots.Gotta feel for the donkey

[Params7]

At least the donkeys are honest and hard working, why pelt them?

[gaurav92]

Pakistan indeed "Cornered Donkeys"

[singhprakash72]

All I can say is "Is mein Khotay kya Kasur" !!!

[f.b.m]

I dont know if this is the right place to post this but this really shows something much deeper about the religious and backward mentality that is so prevalent in places like Pakistan. The whole practice of scapegoating; 'transferring' all the sins of a tribe onto a goat and sending it to die of starvation and thirst is a practice that was invented in lands not far away from Pakistan. Of course, the tribe thinks that its freed of all its sins after the goat is dead. Also, there's a very skewed sense of forgiveness thats being shown when someone believes "its ok, god will forgive me". Imagine you were stabbed by some guy and want the criminal to be punished. You go to court and the judge says "We are a loving government. As long as you repent and praise the government 1/5 times a day you are forgiven". Will this make you feel any better? Would you feel that you have been treated justly? Anyway, I think people pelting stones at donkeys is just the tip of the iceberg. With such a distorted sense of morality, much more gruesome atrocities are to be expected. /rant