- BOOM BOOM Afridi – © Associated Press
Seventeen years after Imran Khan and his band of men in Green lifted the Cricket World Cup, history has repeated itself and Pakistan has been crowned the champions of the Twenty 20 World Cup.
Pakistan started with a wonderful bowling attack and managed to demolish the top order of SriLanka. However, a wonderful knock by Sangakkara managed to lift SriLanka to a respectable score of 139 for 6. Pakistan started their batting slow but steady and at one point it looked that we might have become too over-confident and ended up handing the game to our rivals. However, the stability in wickets proved to help and wonderful knock by Kamran Akmal followed by a spectacular knock by BooM BooM Afridi led Pakistan to lift the cup once again.
For the Blogging community of Pakistan (aka Blaagers), it was a double victory. An e-rally started to turn Twitter into a Sea of Green and to trend #PakCricket to the top trends on Twitter succeeded and the majority of Pakistanis on Twitter (and some on Facebook) changed their display picture to some form of the Pakistani flag. moreover, live tweeting and comments on the match using the hashtag #PakCricket managed to scale the trending topics chart on Twitter and fell just short of toppling over Father’s Day and Iran Elections related tags. The ability to trend a topic in face of other more international issues shows that Pakistani digital activism has a lot of potential. This was also seen when Teeth Maestro led a digital campaign (#LongMarch) to accompany the Long March carried out by the Lawyer’s to restore the Chief Justice of Pakistan.
Congratulations to the people of Pakistan, the Pakistani Cricket team, and the Blaagers for their success today. Live Long and Prosper.
From Other Blaagers …
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T20 Cricket: Pakistan is the World Champion
Pictures of Pakistan T20 World Cup Victory Celebrations
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We can change our fortunes, The way we won the final
From the Pulpit ... 
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!
Another look:
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PAKISTAN ZINDABAD indeed! And Go BLAAAAAGERS!!!
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549 visitors, eh? We all hit the spikes 😛
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I had to leave towards the last 10 minutes of the game, and twitter kept me afloat, since I was anxiously refreshing every other second to see whether we had won or not! Gotta love twitter and #pakcricket and, of course, blaagers 🙂
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Twitter rocks and so do the Blaagers!
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Oh and discomaulvi, the link to “You are a twit”, says Twitter takes my browser to another site…
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Ooops! Will correct that tomorrow Insha’Allah. My mistake… 😦
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😀 Pakistan Zindabad good post.. like the incorporating links in it.. link love rawks maulvi mian 😀
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Linking is always good. Give your readers the ability to get some other good content. 🙂
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Would be very interested to know the reason why my previous post was declined.
I would like to engage in the discussion and knowing the reason will help me understand the code of conduct on this forum.
Thanks.
Tricky
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Your last commented was disjointed and made no sense. Maybe it was partially garbled due to some error? Pls repost it.
Thanx
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Thanks for the link love DM. We rocked Twitter that day, didnt we?
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We owned Twitter for that day.
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pakistan is dangerous team
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pakistan is the 20/20 tigers pakistan will the nxt 50 over world cup champion
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