Now Inzi tells us that India are favourites....whateverrr!!!

Inzi feels India are favourites as our performance against England counts for little

Dont know about the players but I am certainly losing the plot !!!

General u really are reading too much about Cricket.

Inzi is just playing games, its obvious. He feels going into a series as underdogs favours us, as there is less pressure.

This is very unlike inzi and a very bad thing to say, what does he mean India have the advantage, what a thing for a captain to say!!!

Hashim - but the funny thing is , the reasons he gives for Indias advantage are simply mind boggling ! In one breath he says that we have good batsman and bowlers and in the other he claims that India have an advantage !! which is it ?

Yeah exactly meningreen, it is very strange.
Pakistan are in excellent form, our pace attack is now one of the most feared in the world, our batsmen our firing, the confidence is high we just beat England convincingly in the tests and ODI's, so what possible advantage has India got...and why admit they have this advantage...which they don't!

Guys he doesn't mean what he says, he is quietly confident but he doesn't want to boast or talk out of his backside, becoz he probably believes that it will backfire and something will go terribly wrong.

He is just being cautios. That is ALL, calm down everyone, let the cricket to the talking.

Exactly let the cricket do the talking, if he wants to be cautious then why not just say it will be a even matched series and so on, why put our own team down by saying India are advantages! Dont you feel the pakistan cap (especially the younger players like salmaan butt, Mohammad Sami and Danish Kaneria, Razzaq etc) will feel some pressure and lose some cnfidence knowing their own captain is saying the opposition has the advantage!

At times i feel dat inzi doesn't read da game dat well. Just look at da 2nd odi vs eng. He let them add 100 runs for the 9th wicket when v cud have easily restricted them 2 less than 150.

Psychological warfare from Inzi!!

I think you are reading way too much into this statement.

Inzi knows that as the home team, they will be the team under most of the pressure. I think he made this statement trying to take some pressure off.

He is just playing games. He knows deep down that the 2 teams have an even chance and that pak maybe slight favourites.

PPL thats a good sign! It shows pak aint taking india lightly!

Everybody and their aunt know that pak are the favourites but india want a complacent pak wich they wont get!!!

Exactly, the players know as well that inzi is playing games and they will not read into it AT ALL.

This is true, but still i dont think he should have said that the Indians are advantages, he should ave just said that both teams are evenly matched and it will be a tight series....that is a cautious approch and he is not giving the Indians a complacent pak side.

??? wow.. is he doing this just to get Imran Khan angry? What a silly thing to say for Inzi...

I'm not sure why Inzy did say that.....Pakistan are the favourites to win.
On other hand the India have won in Pakistan and drew In India vs Pakistan in 2004/05.

Whatever it is.......India will be well prepared.....and will be very determined to win another series in Pakistan........right now the Indian camp is confident.

Thing is, if Inzi says this for public consumption, then he should give better examples of how India have an advantage.

Just saying that for the heck of it and then listing all Paks advantages or no clear advantage for India makes Inzi look very silly - we know that he is not a great public speaker - why look sillier by making incomplete statements ? He does great injustice to himself.

inzi is right in saying that india are favourties

I'm not sure if it will boost thier players confidence and mora aswell by saying this. Just like you said he should have listed thier advantages. I also think he knows himself Pakistan are the favourites.

Oi bananay!!

Bhai, read his statement and based on that list to me the comparitive advantages etc !

inzi said before the eng series that eng were favourties, but look what happend eng got thrashed, he said this again but hopefully india wont get thrashed and they will win

You're totally bananas arent you?

I am working on the same theory....

^ who will win?

India or Pkaitan?

r u indian?

I'm not sure why Inzy is saying this.........me and certianly the Indian players know that Pakistan are favourites. I still dont think it will take any pressure off.......the Indian team knows to well that Inzy is playing games, to take pressure of his side. Lets hope Sehwag can do the early damage and make the bowlers lose thier line. Favourites or no favourites, India wont be under that much pressure, they won both series last time in Pakistan, and the Indian team will want to do it again.

But playa, the fact that they won the series last time will put them under pressure to win again ! They are unlikely to say that , well, we won it last time so who cares - lets have fun boys - Surfs' up whoohooo!!!

Jokes aside - the same pressure is on both - pressure to win!

Theier will be pressure on both sides....but not a lot on India. Inzy is just playing mindgames.

inzi and mindgames? thats something specail

Precisely, It's all mind games...He said England were favourites and we wiped the floor with them! Why not go with a winning formula....

Inzi is secretly very confident....

he said england were favorites too

well eng were actually da favorites then having beaten Aussies. Whereas we had just struggled to draw da test series against a weak caribbean side. We had not won a home series in 2 years. So this was da scenario going in2 da home series agnst eng and naturally eng were ranked as da favorites. But now v have a settled side and are confident having defeated eng so dont u think v deserve 2 labelled as an equally matched side agnst india or even as da slight favorites ?

perhaps Inzi prefers the heroic feeling of being the underdog?

What are you on about yaar. this is classic Inzi before every series. here's what I picked up from this article...

1 - India have the advantage
2 - we will have to work really hard to win
3 - performance against england doesnt count as it is in the past
4 - India have a strong batting lineup
5 - Pakistan has a strong bowling lineup
6 - our pacers have the ability to beat them
7 - our spin department is just as strong as theirs

he is telling the team not to let up. but to work really hard to win. It has worked every single series for him, why change?

I think this is just a ploy by Inzi to put more pressure on India.

You are right. Inzi always tries to show Pakistan as underdogswhen they play a quality opponent. I think he has lot of pressure on him as captain especially playing against India. He has it in the back of his mind that India won last time when they toured. If India win again this time at least he has something to fall back onto. He can always say that he had mentioned that Pakistan was a underdog for the series.

mind games!

Inzi the mindgame player! wow that is the epitome of an oxymoron neways jokes aside he is just trying to increase india's confidence in thinking we will just back down and be complacent after our recent success. India better be working day and night for this series

hes saying it to take the pressure of players like before the eng series, its good to be underdogs

When Inzi says India's batting lineup is further strengthened by Ganguly, we can know that he is not seriously tipping India as favourites.

Mind games - i like it, who cares what he really said, the headline is INZI: INDIA ARE FAVOURITES - just like he praised England before that series

Expect Imran Khan to criticise them for this negative attitude and then hopefully BW will post that Imran Khan article after the series

Good mind games Inzi.....I like this.....better then we shall smash you etc...

Let the opposition think.....good man.

Mind games. He said the same thing before england's tour.

Under promise over deliver.

I think he is playiong mind games and all the team is aware of the strategy as they do discuss what to say to the media

i already said that

He got a pretty angry rebuke from Imran about that statement and he hastily changed his tune last time saying "we are a better side and we will prove it"


He is going to get some more phainti from Khan Sahib

Maybe it will be a "mind" Phainti....

Time now for the old Khan to get some phainti. Just like he did when he had to take back his comments about Inzi's captaincy after the India series.

NICE, Is Inzi capable of giving these comments??? and i thought all he could say is "BOYZ PLAYED WELL". He is definetly maturing. But seriously, i don't see anything wrong with his statement. Good tactic on his behalf. Let Indian's feel that they are coming into this series as favorites 'n' Let Pakis do what they do best, Demolition work on the Field.

Can’t wait to see the annihilation begin

Inzy is behaving crazy. Its better to remain silent than to say oppositioons are favourates.
what does he want to achieve?It cannot be a mind game. no ways. And India re not favourates. they are not. India will be uinder tremendous pressure. India lost it last time in India. they cannot let it happen it again. Chappel - ganguly episode. and both together on tour.
Not thr right way to go Inzi. Win by playing cricket