You, Me and Pakistan v England 2012

Pakistan gather to celebrate their 3-0 whitewash of England © AFP

Any one of you ever happened to watch “You, Me and Dupree” ? Do watch it when you get time. Its not a block buster or something but not bad for a cold lonely night with nothing to do, in no mood to watch a movie but yet going to watch it kind of time. Oh wait isn’t it already drawing some resemblance with something else? What else, nothing but Pakistan v England series.

No? watch the movie again and match the history of Pakistan v England over the years and decades. You will be able to clearly see a Carl (Pakistan), Molly (England) and a certain Dupree. Pakistan aka Carl role is pretty obvious he want to do thing rights but something along the line goes horribly wrong and he end frustrated or trying to fix it. England aka Molly is not a big fan of any disturbance in her peaceful and hormonious life which she dreams off a lot aka Test cricket. So anything flashy gets her annoyed.

Ah ah ah not this time mate. yeah its ok © AFP

But than there is always a Dupree to get the best of both of them either in the form of someone’s Mother in Law or an umpires v captain finger waving competition or the reverse swinging tempered balls or  Buckner not finding it enough dark to stop even when he was already invisible or a disco dancer trying to use cricket pitch as a practice stage for his next Boom Boom performance in X factor or Oval ‘s bizarre match result a forfeited or a 007 style sting operation and spot-fixing.

But this series almost felt like a happy ending, obviously happy for Pakistan fans but not much for the English yet for cricket fans must have been much happier. Dupree even tried to create some waves here too and this time it had bowling actions and the hot DRS but Pakistan and England were much mature to avoid that. They need all the applause for that both teams but special mention must be given to Carl (Pakistan) who is gone beyond all expectations on the field as well as off the field, it is something that his fans eyes are still wide open and they are doing funny thing on social media out of pure surprise but that is not a big problem one match will bring them down to earth, it always does.

Here I would also like to add, just for the sake of filling this post and adding few more un-necessary lines to this post that Carl and Molly were probably away from their respective home might have helped them avoiding anything fishy. Who want trouble on holidays? eh?

Come on boys let bury this Dupree for ever, © AFP

But I will also like to congrats both teams for producing such a great cricketing series, empty of any mess and full of competitive and gripping cricket for all days, never a dull moment. This series enjoyed good attention from neutral viewers as well which is always good for cricket specially test cricket. There might be different reasons but it kept them glued.  Indians were obviously trying to shut their eyes from the other cricket going on in the other far east part of the world and trying to get any consolation in any form for last summer.

Many of us were expecting this a run fest bat dominated series with a possible result of 0 – 0 or 1 – 0 either way, so our Poker faces were already out and most of them were ready to bet on a poker game rather than any win for a team in series but soon they felt that they were bluffed and raised unexpectedly. Even the fans from the nations yet consider just a cooing child in cricket family like Germany’s Wes were all eyes attached to any source available most probably jerky streaming.

Anyways there is a lot to tell and lot to write about either it is English batsmen misery or Pakistan excellence but that for another time. For now just soak in another brilliant test series continuing the revival of test cricket and also ball dominating or matching the dominance of bat. All iz Well for now than, cheers!!

Leaving you with this amazing interview of Saeed Ajmal

Saeed Ajmal interview after Pakistan sew up historic whitewash @ Dubai, 4th day