I did not invent those words, the Family Planning Minister of Pakistan, some old fat lady called Firdous Ashaq Awan, she said this on TV before she went to attend the wedding in Hyderabad. The person who interviewed her was a bit astonished when she said, she is going to attend the wedding after saying what I have written above. Besides, when the couple came back to Pakastan rather to Sialkot, the people of Sialkot decorated the whole city with their posters and banners and distributed sweets on the streets. The uncivilized and uncouth attitude which one assumes is over hundreds of years ago, is still found in the sub-continent. This marriage was touted as a victory. Some said, Indians could do this only in movies we did it in reality, how farcical and how trivial. It goes to prove that when there is lack of education contentment and complacency plays a dominant role in survival. This reminds me of a phrase on one of the trucks in Pakistan, which says:

Aqal hai tou Rona-e-Rona
Aqal nai tou Mojaan-e-Mojaan

well, the pak spinners have let the team down, along with the batsmen. may be ajmal should be tried more in tests, after all afridi-ajmal combo is so consistent in ODIs. I was/am envious of this combo, the most underrated yet most consistent in the ODIs for the last 3 years.

and well, about fawad alam, i dont know much…but he obviously deserves a chance after that century..after all, any guy in ind/pak teams gets a wildcard for atleast 5-10 tests after a test century..exception is our Sir agarkar, after a lord’s century lol

Saleem Jaffar was a rubber stamp in that organization, in fact they all are. But, he was there to fulfill the quota. What I don’t understand is people like Ijaz Butt and Yawar Saeed who are 74 plus in age and they should have been sitting at their graves dangling their legs in it and hoping no one pushes them, instead they are taking major decisions in Pakistan cricket and are pushing cricket in the graves. I don’t know how this MF Zardari can be so blind that he cannot remove this Big Fat Butt & Co. from the PCB and bring in some new, fresh, young, junior blood. Why is this illness of young, fresh, junior should be restricted for the players only? Why not the board members?

I have highlighted your point on Punjab ki Shaan, because those who are blind by this regional bias should also know that how they treat others? So, who is UMAR AMIN? Who is he related to and what is the source behind him? He keeps scoring in single figures and he is retained in ALL the matches as if it is his BAAP KI JAGEER? Whats wrong has Fawad Alam done? He could be a hundred times better than him and even Malik. He is a better player in test cricket and has the temperament to stay longer at the crease. How come these retirees like Wasim Choora Akram and In The Man ul Haq forget about Fawad Alam when talking about juniors?

They will bring him back into the team for T20 to make him sit outside and he seldom gets as many chances as Umar Amin is getting or Malik got up till now. Misbah is a third class player who belongs to domestic circuit only was pushed in and in and in until they realized the whole nation is crying about his bad form, only then they dropped him. He is already 36 officially and he is still learning?

Now look at the way they got out in the second innings 15 for 3 in 7 overs, it is a test match not even a twenty20 and they are playing like gully kay buchay! Even they play better than these idiots. Salman Butt is NO CAPTAINCY MATERIAL, he has no clue about captaincy yet he is hailed as a very talented “young” captain. I dunno how long they (Butt, Malik, Akmal) are young, junior or new? They never get old, experienced or senior, whereas Younus and Yousuf are seniors. What a load of trash.

Yes, Misbah is not considered ‘senior’ because he is gouped in the Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Rana Naveed batch. They consider Younis Khan and Mohd Yousof seniors because they used to play with the previious, older batch. The other thing is that, when players are very good, that increases their propensity towards being labeled as ‘seniors’. In other words if the Malik batch, or the ‘juniors’, are underperforming, it is the irresponsibility of the ‘seniors’. Because they are seniors, it is time for them to retire. The filtering process holds the worst players within the team and removes the best. So, for instance, if Malik tomorrow hits 5 centuries in 5 matches, he would have become a senior. After that, if he were to average considerably lower (much more than now though), they would think he has ‘lost it’, the ‘senior’ is irresponsible, and needs to retire.

I recently realized that people over there have a relatively more holistic view and their approach overall may be completely different.

I think what is happening is that the whole or the one over there has a different meaning: seniors is ‘one’, Akmal brothers are ‘one’, juniors are ‘one’. So, with their mindset, either both go (which is one for them) or none (which is again one). But how can this young, spectacular talent, Umar Akmal, go? Hence, the ‘whole’ remains to torment cricket in Pakistan.

The other thing is that, the concept of this whole doesn’t imbibe the player only, but also the person, the ethnicity, and so on. If anyone says Kamran Akmal doesn’t belong to international standard cricket, then it is a matter of Punjab ki shaan. It becomes about Punjab and cricket then.

I think overall the average person’s perspective in Pakistan is much more holistic in analysis.

On the contrary, if you look at the Australians they reduce things further and further. So, in that case, ‘one’ can be an arm, or a leg, or the back, or the height. So, when they’d be analyzing an individual bowler, they’d break him further and further into the parts and see which part makes it happen and which one doesn’t.

More often than not, though, it can be a confluence of events, the precise combination of a particular height, action, and so on…coming together to produce what it does. Anyway, its interesting how they see things in Pakistan, because tend to break it down a bit further and the Australians tend to reduce things even further.

I guess just different ways of seeing things.

Miffed with his behaviour, the Pakistan Cricket Board has decided against renewing the contract of former Test pacer Salim Jaffer as a national selection committee member.

The PCB, apparently unhappy with his behaviour, has sent a letter informing him that his services were no longer required as a member of the selection committee after his contract expires on Saturday.

“The order to release Jaffer as national selector has come directly from the board Chairman Ijaz Butt who was not happy with his behavior in recent times,” a source in the board said.

Jaffer upset the PCB Chairman and chief selector, Mohsin Khan last month when the touring squad for England was announced from Sri Lanka.

Only Mohsin went to attend the meeting with the team captain Shahid Afridi, coach Waqar Younis, manager Yawar Saeed. Ijaz Butt also attended the meeting.

Pakistan is still waiting for Malik, Akmal and Butt to learn Test cricket.

In fact they are still waiting for Misbah to learn Test cricket when he is 36/37 years old.

You have mentioned how Inzamam has ruined the cricket culture of Pakastan, now he has offered his Tableeghi Services for the team as a full time batting coach, he wants to kill 2 birds with one satone, ” Kirkat A Tableeg dono Ee.” May God help Pakastan. Here is the link of his statement from today’s DAWN:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/cricket/07-inzamam-ready-to-help-young-batsmen-ha-17

In his statement he is saying that, “even a good batsman requires a year or so in Test cricket to settle down and play long innings.” Who is he talking about Malik, Butt, Farhat, Kamran?” They are all playing test cricket for 7-8 years now and they still need another year to settle down to play a long innings?