Cricket 2011- Making Bowling Work: Weak Pakistan and weaker Bangladesh

-DR. ABDUL RUFF

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Like their Indo-Hindu counterparts, many fanatic Pakistanis want the  bowlers to promote selfish interests of batboys and their sponsors by offering  space for big hits and not letting the batobys lose their wickets just like that. When the bowlers decide to offer a  100 plus or more none can stop them from "performing" that. Indian bowlers offered 300 plus to Aus captain possibly expecting similar "gestures" in  reply to Indian batobys. But Aus bowlers  did exactly what they planned to do... 

Meanwhile, a  fast growing Pakistani cricket team is progressing, notwithstanding threats and conspiratorial efforts by India, England and others. After wining against a seemingly strong Sri Lanka, now Pakistani has  exposed the hollowness of Bangladeshi team as well. Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in the second and final cricket Test in Dhaka on 21 Dec at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium.  Pakistani captain Misbah-ul-Haq, possibly the only steady and reliable batboy to bat for his country, secured the final victory by lofting spinner Elias Sunny for a big "six"- obviously as a gift from Dhaka with gratitude.. Apart from other formats, Pakistan has now defeated Bangladesh in all the eight Tests that they have played.

Thus ends Pakistan's glorious 2011 eve as the nation is being destabilized by NATO terror syndicates and the Obama drones, and looks forward to further victories in cricket, even if not in their Islamic faith and opposing anti-Islamic practices by the players. When players from other faith take holiday on their festivals, like Diwali and Christmas, etc, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis deliberately play on the Islamic special days like Eid and Muharrum, as well. That is level of their faith and "achievement".

Pakistan capped off a fruitful year in cricket by completing a clean sweep against Bangladesh.  Abdur Rehman and Saeed Ajmal bamboozled the lower order to revive fading Pakistan hopes of a victory. It was Rehman who did the major damage for BD. Pakistani bowlers were kind enough to offer two 100 plus to BD batboys, including the skipper Shakib al Hasan Shakib the Man of the Match for his fantastic all round performance was upbeat saying that this was a special game for him. Shakib was the only “superman” as he starred with both bat and ball for Bangladesh by becoming the first Bangladeshi player to score a century and pick up five wickets- thanks to Pakistan.

When a weak team faces an upcoming team, it must face problems. Right from the start, Pakistan has dominated Bangladesh. Even fading light could not stop Pakistan from marching to a victory.  Bangladeshi boys have been lying very low unable to make 100 plus in nay format for quite some time.  Pakistani friends have saved them.

It must be noted, as a positive sign for Pakistani team, the bowlers are strong point for them.  And they must further cultivate bowling and fielding skills to shine better.  The team managers and coach and others must let the bowlers do justice to their profession by preferring dot balls instead of allowing too many or quick runs in 4s or 6s to opponent batboys.

It should be noted that Pak-BD teams tried to play some serious cricket by restricting the batboys to the minimum, although some “adjustments” were also made between them. Pakistanis have played 11 Tests this year and have lost only one, with three draws and six wins. They have also equaled England for the most Test wins this year. Saeed Ajmal employed dot balls and captured 50 victims to take his tally for the year. 

Bowlers are the backbone of cricket, but cricketism, focused exclusively on the batboys, ignores bowling as nonsense. Many cricket running commentators do not know even the elementary facts about cricket.

Pakistani cricket team has succeeded in making a clean sweep of Bangladesh across all formats on their tour. Younis Khan, Pak "superman" with 300 plus “record” to his credit, after a prolonged long, is back to “form” against a weak BD team and was the Man of the Series.  With 200 plus gift from the hosts, Khan is the highest run scorer in the series.

Bangladesh found the Pakistani pacers and spinners too hard to handle. Cheema and Gul were marvelous in both the games. Rehman troubled them in both the Tests while Ajmal who could have done more was surprisingly “down” and below par.

Bangladeshi players have obviously improved their performance too and if they concentrate on bowling skills more than what they have been able to do so far, they could be a formidable team in due course. Cricketers must practice the fielding, catching techniques and throwing the ball at the stumps. Thus far none is well versed in stumps-throw skills.  Even many fail to hit the stumps even from a small distance of two yards.  As a result, batboys enjoy even 4 runs between.

That is the prime shame for these bogus record holders and  national/international award winners and their promoters!

Pakistan is now ranked fifth in the bogus ICC Test table, edging past Sri Lanka.Now England leads Pakistan by 26 ratings points ahead of the Test series in Dubai beginning from 17 January onwards. Pakistan is trailing Australia by four ratings points, and can overtake it only if at all India wins the upcoming Test series against the latter by 4-0.  So, Pakistan must wait longer and depend exclusively on its own strength. Since Indians treat Australia as their one of the most favored destination for education, paid degrees, jobs and ncuelarism goals, Australian team is the  favorites of India. More over, India  had a tough time against a weak West indies team which is one of weakest teams like BD, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Dubai,etc, while Australia having learnt  their  sad lessons in playing joint cricket exercises with India directly and through the IPL gimmicks  for black money,  would  not like to lose to India on their own soil and make their people go insane.

Although Indian media teams, especially on TV channels,  are now trying  to woo the foreign sport teams like cricket, chess, badminton etc, though  their brand brand promotional gimmicks by canvas projecting  some players  as possible recipients of national awards on republic day on Jan 26 which is fast approaching, that would not cut much  ice. Australia also wants to win and  to let India take credits for their "good pro-India gestures" any more.

However,  it  should be stated that Australia is as much an average team as India is and "enjoys" mutual fixings for 100 plus. In fact England, Australia, New Zealand and India have been, for years,  playing  behind the scene fixings to  control the  bogus rankings and other records".  And Australians, showmen in uniforms,  are as much international frauds as Indians and others. Only Indian regime consider all these "hit and run" boys and whose stumps get destabilized by a strong bowler like railway station pickpockets as more than Bharatratana holders...

It was indeed pathetic when the BD running TV commentators plead for 100 plus for their babotys saying they have not enjoyed it for too long. They may have got what they wanted but that is not fair.  Fake records and ranks are too bad any society.

Anyone with a bat can hit or blast at will even without following any techniques, but efficient bowlers and sincere fielders can make them all fail.   If the bowlers deny runs and refuse big run score they get ample number of wickets too without wasting too many balls by targeting the stumps, LBW, alert catches, and runouts. Pakistani Aizaz Cheema, like South Africa's Philander and Imran Tahir, is a promising emerging skilled bowler to watch. However, generally, bowlers, knowing their "worth" in controlling runs, work  for "extra" money and  militaries, corporate  bosses, mafias, sport ministries offer sumptuous amount to  select bowlers to play  for their batboys. The ICC promotes  such official match fixings.

An Observation

Wickets are taken by the bowers and should not be gifted by the batboys. It is shame for the teams  that  bowlers offer quick runs in order to make some bogus batboys appear larger than size.

In order to make the bowlers efficient and sincere a few steps are  important for  the funny bat-boys promoters of ICC to  immediately implement. ICC should ensure that bowlers do not bat at all. Once their job is fixed as full time bowlers on the filed, the bowlers can behave well more efficiently than they are now.  There  has been  ridiculous practice  in cricketism to boost the "image" of bowlers as batboys after the removing the  batboys. India has benefited most from this  another fallacy of cricketism.

It is not that only cricketers are dishonest in this era of make believe bogus rankings and records, but cricketers as entertainers are deadly. 

Crazy crowds without commonsense do not make  cricket  a credible entertainment. It is our fault if we look around for honesty among the corrupt, sports-entertainment drunkards who are helped by the regimes to  conceal their immorally made money - black or grey or red... 

Look at  this fanatic India going all out to keep a depleted Sachuin Tendulkar,  the most pampered cricketer and considered by many MPs and MLAs a major "Hindu god", in the teams almost  forever by fixing matches with other team forcing an already depleted Sachuin Tendulkar to get one last 100 plus from bowlers by using  his "links", while Indian  foreign, military and sports ministries trying to contact thee foreign sources to get the last 100 plus?  Why is India so adamant? 

Cricket lives only when bowlers do their job with dedication. Their job is not exactly taking all the wickets at any cost, but rather to reduce the runs of each batboy and run rate to the bare minimum. Offering 6s and 4 s are a big mischief. 

ICC should repeal 6s and 4s and let the batboys make runs by running alone. The pro-batboy trend  meticulously promoted by all cricket teams must be reversed to enable the bowlers and fielders also do their paid job honestly .

But over-ambitious India wants to continue with batboys centered cricket where bowlers are asked to throw bat-friendly balls to the opposite boys for expansive shots for huge 6s and 4s without targeting the stumps or LBW.

Of course, for this and other crimes, India is guilty of sport crimes even if it can escape punishment thanks to its secret links with Israel-USA-UK terror trio.