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A day before Pakistan’s T20 game vs. South Africa, the team is supposed to meet in their captain’s bed room, instead there is plenty of confusion
Afridi (on the phone to Manager): Nobody’s in my room!
Manager: Where are you?
Afridi: I’m in my room
Manager: But you said nobody’s…
Afridi: I’m not a nobody! What I’m saying, is like this, that the nobody has come to turn up in my room
Cut to Misbah on the phone
Misbah (to Manager): Why is everybody in my room?
Manager: Aren’t you the captain?
Misbah: yes but…
Manager: then what’s the problem…
Misbah: I’m not the T20 captain…
Manager: Then who is? Salman…no…who is?
Misbah: I think Afridi but I’m not sure
Manager: Younis is on the phone from Pakistan…hold on…
By now the poor Manager is juggling with three phones
Younis Khan (to Manager): I want an explanation NOW…what are these players doing in my house
On another line
Afridi (to Manager): Oye? Where are you? I HATE WAITING! I will RESIGN from T20 cricket if you keep me waiting…
Just then Zulqarnain Haider walks into Afridi’s room
Afridi: What are you doing here? Weren’t you injured? Where is Kamran?
Elsewhere Shoiab Akhtar walks into Misbah’s room
Shoiab Akhtar: Congrats buddy on captaincy and all that mate…you had it coming…I’ll play under you man...mate... dude...buddy…
Misbah: But I’m not the captain
Shoiab Akhtar: Bastards…I never believe what they write in the tabloids anyways…so who’s the skipper buddy? Me? Hahahaha that be cool
Afridi bustles into the room, furious
Afridi: We have to forget what happened during the tour of England!
Shoaib Akhtar: Hey mate, I wasn't there - what happened?
Which is when, Shahid Bhai sits Shoiab Akhtar down, and gives him a blow by blow account of what happened in England..
Misbah (aside, sardonic): Everybody knows, Shoiab Akhtar only reads the news when he's in it...everybody except Shahid Bhai
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The Night Before: In the Pak Camp
Masoom: a little cricket memory
So here I am, ice cream with family, and prime time TV. Stare blankly as the credits roll on by. Rajan Shahi, serial director, Rajan Shahi, Producer. That’s Rajan, the child actor with a cameo from Masoom. He was the cry baby who gets out first ball and runs to daddy. That was a tiny cricket clip, but it stayed with me. Wonder why, was it because Rajan went to school with me? Nah, it must be the cricket.
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