If you have played cricket or are aware of its dynamics, you should be knowing what one does when the score at the last ball of the match is 199 and you need one run to win. Whether you yourself are facing the last ball, or you are at the bowler’s end, you simply run like mad, after playing. Hassan Ali did exactly that in the crucial match of Peshawar Zalmi against Quetta Gladiotors. But from the other end there was no response. If from the other end Sammy (the skipper) had run, he would have either made it or got out.
It would have been likelier that he would have made it, as the wicket-keeper Sarfaraz had fumbled with the ball for fraction of a second.
What actually happened? Hassan Ali ran after playing the ball; then turned back to regain the crease as if that would have earned Peshawar Zalmi a win!
Quite clearly the experienced Sammy had no intention to win. If he had, he would not have taken a single at the second ball of the over, with only one more run required for victory.
This Pakistan Super League is entirely a farce.
It provides many of its organizers (and associates) to make millions the easiest way. Are the bigwigs of the government involved in this dirty ‘bet game’?
Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif were made scapegoats early, so that the ‘credentials’ of the absolute honesty on the part of the organizers could be established.
But then Najam Sethi at the end made sure that the tickets for sale would be in the right hands so that Rs. 500, to an overwhelming number of the cricket enthusiasts, would mean Rs. 1000 to Rs. 2000.
You are a genius Najam Sethi!
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