The first test between Pakistan and Australia will long be remembered for an emphatic confirmation of the famous dictum that cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties. Brisbane crowd is unlikely to have witnessed before, such breathtaking turn of fortunes. Pakistan for just under three days had been under great pressure to avert one of its greatest humiliations in living memory. Our newscasters and TV analysts had been in some kind of a competition to find more and more ‘abusive’ and insulting words for the members of our cricket team— whether bowlers or batsmen. The news bulletins are not supposed to be loaded with adjectives and epithets that clearly reflect bad taste. But most of our newscasters were giving full vent to their inner urge to ridicule our cricketers.
Then came the fightback. Azhar Ali, Younus Khan, Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz and Yasir Shah, all joined hands with the hero of the game, Asad Shafiq, to write a glorious chapter in the history of Pakistan cricket. The game in which Australia had looked like trouncing Pakistan in as humiliating a manner as can be thought of suddenly entered a stage where the Kangaroos looked to have come perilously close to losing. In the end luck ran out for Pakistan but this was a defeat which had the taste of Pakistan’s greatest victories in the past— like Fazal Mahmood’s Oval test in 1954, or Imran Khan’s Sidney Test in 1976.
Well done Pakistan!
And dear cricket analysts, don’t hate to miss an opportunity to insult Pakistan’s emerging heroes!
Pakistan has acquired No 2 status in Test Cricket not by playing like novices.
Support them. And they will keep bringing honours to the country.
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