Chowrangi

And so ends a beautiful dream, flawless till the very end and since it didn’t end well, all is not that well for cricket fans around the country. Lots of dashed hopes and broken hearts, Pakistan lost by 5 runs to India. Misbah-ul Haq, the redeemer of Pakistan team fumbled on a relatively simple delivery to send the prospects of holding the T20 trophy aloft, plummeting down. But no one ought to blame him. He was the lone ranger of Pakistan and after having pulled the team out of a pit, being an individual afterall, there were as many chances of faltering as there were of succeeding.

The new “gora” coach has arrived in the country to beat the hell out of incompetency, defeats, indiscipline, laziness, un professionalism and attitude of the national team. Just after arriving at Lahore, he went straight to….oh not at the Academy, he just went to his room, had a lavish dinner, then had late siesta, some light drinks and then he watched English news at PTV, went sub-conscious for 15 minutes, and was again brought back to his senses by the threat of showing him the English speech of Chaudhry Shujaat.

As the captain goes down with sinking ship, Inzamam stepped down from captaincy and announced his retirement from ODI. While the nation was expecting other ’senior’ players to follow suit but no one showed courage and sportsmanship to come forward and accept the blame.

After Inzamam’s retirement and Younis Khan’s refusal of accepting the task, PCB got a job to name the new skipper. This led to a storm of speculation with number of players showing interest in the position. PCB, according to media reports, considered Shoaib Malik and Salman Butt as prime candidates, giving youth a chance this time over seasoned players like Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzak and Shahid Afridi.

I mean what the heck, if we have lost to Ireland and West Indies and have managed to kick ourselves out of the world cup with as much dishonour as possible. What the hell, if the national team didn’t perform in South Africa and got entangled in Oval issue, Doping scandal, match fixing allegations, bob woolmer murder, flopped openers, failing middle order, sloppy wicket keeper, dearth of all rounders, rarity of quality bowling, dumb and stubborn captaincy, dummy selection committee, alien cricket board and internal intrigues and politics.

Because you have destroyed the cricket in Pakistan. The loss which you have inflicted on Pakistan’s cricket in specific and to Pakistan’s image in general will be very hard to repair and would take lots of time.

You may be a great batsman in past and captured victories in some matches at your own, but nation has given you lots of regard and reward for that. With your authoritarian, dumb, stubborn and foolish approach you have pushed the squad in a very abysmal chasm.

I went to hike in the Margalla hills, Islamabad last week. I’ve been teaching myself to hike (and got pretty good, if I do say so myself) but for the first time ever, I decided to hire an instructor for a 2-hour private lesson.

He took a look at my style, fixed it on one or two points - and then it was time to learn to hike all at my own first time ever. That is pretty scary the first few times, but he managed to emphasize the fun and defuse the fear, mostly by not talking much about it but simply doing it.

Did you see the match last night? Hmmm! It was fantastic…I mean, The Pakistani Batting from Imran Nazir…….He He He! Why wouldn’t have the batting and score so fabulous? After all it was the match with Zimbabwe!

Frankly speaking it was not Imran Nazir who did the super score but it was the Zimbabwian bowlers who actually did not throw good balls and dropped the catches. The umpire at the very start of Imran’s batting did a wrong decision of the LBW. He didn’t give out though it clearly was! To Imran’s luck, the bowling was poor and he kept on scoring easily.

Bob Woolmer, the Pakistani coach, found dead on Sunday morning. He had a heart attack, feeling sorry for him…

Before this there had been a lot of propaganda against him about his coaching. But with his death this seems to settle down and converted into regret and sorry. Did he performed his job well? Everyone knows …NO! Yeaterday evening, a program with Imran Khan was broadcasted on the Geo Super , in which he said that he kept on criticizing Woolmer for his poor match strategies but Inzimam was responsible coz he used to make up the strategies and Wolmer just used to agree upon what Inzi said. So Imran Khan was sorry that he criticized Woolmer. BUT was Woolmer paid for just agreeing upon what Inzi proposed. Did he have no responsibility of making strategy for the Team?

This phrase is too good to be true. Whether it is the case of the CJP or the debacle of our cricket team just this weekend. But coming to think of it who will do the justice in either case when the judiciary itself as an institution is not independent. The head of state (HoS) pointing his broomstick at every one and thinking that it would turn into a toad and keep croaking till some other swamp monster eats it up.

Bob Wolmer died yesterday (May his soul rest in peace).

Was this coach of Pakistani team so depressed/ ashamed of the team’s performance?

(Where does the sportsman spirit go?) If he really was ashamed of this team then there he left a lesson for the team. He was the coach and the players should follow him.

Don’t come back to Pakistan. SUICIDE!

Heck, the team did not even try. We hate you!!!