It may be no consolation to England whatever that they have just been beaten by a bunch of old men.The Pakistan side who inflicted a 10-wicket defeat on the No1 Test team in the world were the second oldest to have taken the field for their country.
With an average age of 30 years and 318 days, they are eclipsed only by the team who drew against West Indies inDecember 1980/January 1981, whose average was 31 years and 44 days. By the time Pakistan played their next Test almost a year later, four of their players over 30 were not in the side. That fate is unlikely to befall this team, who contained seven players who have passed their 30th birthday, the oldest being the captain, Misbah-ul-Haq, 37 years and 234 days when the match started. The youngest player was Asad Shafiq at 25 years and 284 days. Consider that when Pakistan played England at Edgbaston in 2010 they took the field with a side whose average age was little more than 25, among their top 50 youngest teams. Incidentally, Saeed Ajmal, the man of the moment, will be 34 years and 103 days when the Second Test begins on Wednesday. He did not make his debut until he was 31 years and 263 days, pretty senior by Pakistani standards when it is considered that Hasan Raza made his debut at 14 years and 278 days. But it makes Ajmal only the ninth oldest debutant for his country. The seventh oldest, Aizaz Cheema (31 years, 361 days) also played inthe match.
Cricket: Pakistan Bowlers puncture England
DATE: 21 JANUARY 2012POSTED BY : BY DR. ABDUL RUFF
The number one test team for the U.K. has been drowned in Dubai.
Of late, bowling has reinvented itself, crushing all best known batboys without compromises. Australia crushed India, while South Africa thrashed Sri Lanka and Pakistan just shattered all hopes of both England’s team and Indian sport strategist who wanted to see Pakistan crushed by English boys in Dubai so that Indians could derive some extra sadistic pleasure forgetting their own poor fate in Australia.
It seems, in order to prove that their team can win without big batboys, South Africa has asked world No.1 batsman Hashim Amla to rest and he has pulled out of the series owing to” family responsibilities” and veteran Jacques Kallis has been rested for the remainder of the series. But SA won the ODI-3 and sealed the series.
Pakistan has slapped the all powerful UK, a junior part of USA-UK terror twins, right in their face in Dubai playing test cricket. Since England claims to be the top test team today while Pakistan is no where in the map and makes no claims, the Pakistani thrash is too harsh for the poor English boys to digest. England, which asks the UK state terrorists to consume the corpses of fallen Muslims in NATO occupied Islamic nations, thought it was too easy to defeat a weakened Pakistan now.
But the English boys are deadly mistaken. It seems, a new sense of discipline, has given the Pakistanis a chance to put their cricket house in order. Castigated for a lack of unity, consistency and awareness of the pitfalls in the game, some of Pakistan’s most talented players went into oblivion.
This is the 2nd victory for Pakistan in Dubai. This is also the 3rd time that they have inflicted a 10-wicket win over England.
Match fixing is common in cricket and teams do it on behalf of the nations or mediated by mafia. But Pakistan has been made a scapegoat because the NATO terror syndicate in Pakistan wanted to control the regime and military o there by adding insult to injury. The Indo-UK spot-fixing scandal of 2010 destroyed the careers of three of Pakistan’s most exciting talents in Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer. These players also refused to quit cricket in protest against ICC highhandedness and favor of human dignity.
Since the spot-fixing scandal, conspired by Indo-UK to further weaken Pakistani cricket, Pakistan’s decision to appoint Misbah-ul Haq as captain has proved inspired and the team has not looked back, beating the world’s best team England by 10 wickets in the first Test on 18th January in Dubai, the adopted cricket home of Pakistan to play international cricket because of insistence of Indo-UK led ICC not to approve Pakistani stadiums for cricket. Misbah said he has tried to introduce the missing virtues of unity, discipline and focus into the team. Ajmal, who took a career-best 7-55 in the first innings, completed a 10-wicket match haul as Pakistan dismissed England for 160 before scoring the 15 runs needed for victory.
However, any other team would have won the match by one innings after such a turn of fortunes in their favor, but Pakistani team lacked both commitment and will or desire for that. They just wanted to win the match no matter whether with one innings or one run. Gul threw deliberate no-ball t spoil his LBW removing Swann but Swann had to return to play for more t runs to deny Pakistan a real chance for one innings win over the British “masters”.
Of course, an innings win is not that important.
The win gave Pakistan a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series. The second Test starts in Abu Dhabi from January 25 and which won’t be different from this one, but it could only be better if Pakistani boys played with a vision, inheriting the Australian drive against India.
None is too indispensable in cricket. Shoaib Akhtar has gone away because he lost his way and talent, refusing to reinvent himself. There is a need to constantly updating the team with new bowlers and batboys with better training.
In fact Pakistani bowlers are not better than England’s. Nor the British batboys are worse than Pakistan’s. But the fact is rankings in cricket are bogus- both teams and individuals. British team is not the best but they were groomed by others, including India and Australia.
Pakistani team wanted to give credit for the win to its batboys and hence they did not want to win with an innings and waited for the batboys to bat again chasing down meagre 15 runs with 10 wickets in tact quickly with UK help of fast 4s.
Pakistani victory could be explained not by the prowess of its cricketers, but bad cricketers of London which claims the number one slot in test cricket, and controls the other small nations within what is known as UK, imposing its will on other English speaking peoples. Democracy is defined by UK in its own way.
Yes, if there is one bowling attack that has the balance and the variety to win a game within 3 days in the flat tracks of UAE, it has to be Pakistan. Even faster than the Aussies. They have absolutely decimated the so-called number 1 Test side in the world, who looked pretty clueless.
Pakistan still has to re-think about their bowling options, by removing those who do restrict run flow, because England would certainly make necessary amendments to face the “threat”. England would also get generous “tips” from others like India.
It should be noted here that cricketers are not just a foolish crop of mainly school drops outs seeking big honours from regime but they are closely knit network connected with mafias and other similar networks and they have been plying to boost the image of batboys. Bowlers are used just the “helpers”. UK, South Africa, India and Africa and other teams played joint cricket exercises to pursue the common agendas and promotion of rankings. South Africa after “clinching” the ODI series 3-0 has let the SL win the fourth ODI apparently not to offend India by overtaking its ranking. SA also promotes India and others.
But the puncture inflicted upon England by Pakistan in Dubai is so huge that the English boys would have to suffer now and all pleasures of joint cricketism with Indian team in favour of the hosts and celebration of Diwali festivities not long ago in India have just melted away.
Cricket: Pakistan Bowlers puncture EnglandDATE:
21 JANUARY 2012
POSTED BY : BY DR. ABDUL RUFF
About the writer:
Dr. Abdul Ruff, Specialist on State Terrorism; Educationalist; Chancellor-Founder of Centor for International Affairs(CIA); Independent Analyst; Chronicler of Foreign occupations & Freedom movements(Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Chechnya, etc); Anti-Muslimism and anti-Islamism are more dangerous than “terrorism” Anti-Islamic forces & terrorists are using criminal elements for terrorizing the world and they in disguise are harming genuine interests of ordinary Muslims. Global media today, even in Muslim nations, are controlled by CIA & other anti-Islamic agencies. Former university Teacher. Website:
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