Hulk
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I just don't appreciate cricket based diplomacy - its a competitive game , if you wanted diplomacy do it after 1-2 months , not at the day of an important match
Just feel that perhaps the gov went in talked to these two senior players and asked them to just "understand" the situation that going to Mumbai might cause problems diplomatically so they just cooperated.
Shahid /Umar and others were not in on it but I strongly feel Misbah / Younis had their hand , and also the person who calls the power play back in dressing room
I have never seen such act of deliberate , refusal to take singles and doubles specially from Misbah I mean 20-30 runs he stuttered not only himself but he tried to get the other batsmen runout he is with bookies or something
I mean poor Asad Safiq , kept asking him to take runs, and every time he would stop - stutter , stop , and refuse to take run say NO ... when the ball is all the way to the boundries ??? I mean his assets should be evaluated for bookies money, and he did the same also with Umar Akmal as well
In end , when he was 100% sure match is out of reach he went on to make his 50 so no one would blame him or that his position in team would be in doubt
Also is it a coincidence that one is an ex-captain , and the other is also an ex- captain who was axed just before the tournament ?
I mean Younis I mean he played as if he was , Danish Kaneria he did not even look like a batsmen who had scored 200 runs in India , he just went in wasted balls 20-30 balls wasted and then he packed his backs what other way you could ensure that bookies won their bets!!! You just go in and don't score runs its simple and effective way to sabotage the game.
If Misbah had to make his 50 he could have done it earlier , meaing 10-14 overs were left for Umar Akmal , Afridi , Razzaq + tail to play and only 70 odd runs to get in 10 overs...
But he wasted all the balls and in the end decided to just pretend to be playing obviously after the game was over.
Even Rameez Raja stated I have no idea what kind of inning is this Misbah playing ... he said it out right in the commentary and mocked him rightfully so ...
It was almost like , we were driving seat , and then Misbah/Younis came in they lifted their foots off the gas for 1 hour ... playing calmly as if they are just practicing , and when Younis noticed its 40-50 minutes , time wasted and Gilani and Manmohan have finally gone to start negotiations in dinner , he calmly gifted his wicket away ...
Singles and doubles is bread an butter to test players - and these guys played 10 overs , between them where they took dot balls , and the field was not even set up closely they had miles wide gaps all over the field as ppl were standing in boundries ....
Even in the interview Shahid Afridi stated quietly , well I know Misbah probbly did not intended to bat that way but it "happened" obviously he is also shocked at his odd style of batting
And what is happening to the Opening players???
Well of course Kamran Akmal will be gone and his brother will take over , family business bana diya hai
Either way you look at it Misbah + Younis played 10 overs dot balls , and remove Mibah's nonesense runs in end , you could count - the balls they wasted it is 10 overs !!! 60 balls wasted ...
Plus if you count Misbah's stuttering where he caused other players to register dot ball hits must be at least 20 odd runs that were not taken -
This guy was doing something in his , and he was on his own agenda
If I consider everything true, what kind of country is Pakistan, where government can decide anything wow.