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On the surface, Pakistan are playing South Africa. Hang in till the last ten overs, Pakistan start to play themselves. Then around the last 7-8 overs, South Africa start playing themselves. The series is Pak vs SAF vs SAF vs PAK vs PAK. Who needs a triangular, these teams are two faced.
1. The Run-out: Haider plays back to Parnell. Runs a few paces down, and as it should be Haider’s call (but isn’t), Wahab runs more than a few paces down. There is time for a mid pitch conference, instead Parnell runs Wahab out. Wahab looks so sad, if only he could see the run out, he’d laugh too. (And so we tweeted: Next, they should try and run before the ball has been delivered. Even better when the bowler is gng back to his mark.
2. The Run-out that wasn’t: The tailenders go for a second which wasn’t. Ball thrown at bowler’s end, Steyn collects, with his back to the runner, responds to AB’s call, and instead of knocking the bails at his end, about turns and throws to keeper. If only he could see the replay, appears he does. He resembles an annoyed Wahab.
3. Brain fade that wasn’t: It was just Afridi. Just over a 100 to get, 18+ overs to get them in. Boom Boom down the wicket to hit Botha outta the ground. Yes, he’s the captain.
4. Return of the other Y: So the other, other Y has gone away. The world is not big enough for both Ys. Today, Younis hung in long enough to face more balls than Afridi has faced in his entire ODI career. He even made it to the Man of the match. He didn’t smile much, spoke in Urdu. Refreshing.
5. Return of the other captain: Smith was setting the field. Appears he was captain. The other day he wasn’t, Botha was. It is obvious now, both teams complement each other – but not themselves.
6. Gibbs takes his lance out – he sticks it into Smith and his gang. As a result, Smith, Kallis, AB, continue to think about weird excerpts from Gibbs’ book (most expensive shag) when they really should keep their eyes on the ball. Catch dropped. Demands for a new tech called Speech Blurb Cloud find voice.
7. Steyn takes his place – goes for 79 of 10. And that run out.
8. Shoiab Akhtar takes his place – scores 0 runs again to see Pak through. In the 2nd ODI he faced 1 ball, in the 4th, no ball. He did not however receive a free hit.
And so we tweeted: Gng by the freak cricket they produce, SAF and Pak should be part of each others' domestic tournaments.
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The Pak-SAF Freak Show.
pcb makes sense this time...
before the pakistani team's departure for the asia cup... ijaz-butt-of-all-jokes hurriedly arranged a press conference and this is what he said...
pakistan cricket has seen it all in recent times... match fixing... infighting... indiscipline... ugly politics... to cut it short... you name it we had it... so we were obviously worried what to do now to live up to the 'promise' we are known for... and we are glad we have found a solution in shoaib akhtar... who will not only keep the team management busy with his antics but will continuously provide fodder to our media partners... to keep the show going... i wish all the luck to our boys... with the hope that they will not let us down with their on and off field activities... thank you...
shoaib akhtar could not be contacted for comment... we were told he was busy getting the medical certificate from... oh sorry... please pardon me... i just forgot wart was the name of that department...
the story of shoaib's 'wart' infection...
ejaz butt: shoiab do you have skin infection...?
shoaib: what infection...?
ejaz mis-heard it as 'wart' infection...thanks to shoiab's international accent...
...and rest as they say is history...
KhufiaBaaz: Shoiab Akhtar is fit.
KhufiaBaaz: Shoiab Akhtar - “to sue or not to sue is the question”
"I listened to Ejaz Butt and dropped the idea of suing the team management because Butt is a player-friendly administrator"
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