Everybody has had some weird baby moments and when you grow up your parents never forget to mention those moments, without skipping a beat and not missing a chance to embarrass you in front of people. My weird baby moment was…. Ta-Da watching cricket on TV all day long. Yes, that’s what I did. I don’t know why. But perhaps, I am a kid who grew up with PTV, STN and NTM. While my class fellows talked about *heena* on Zee TV , I was the one thinking about 8 bajay ka drama on PTV. So since my babyhood (is that a word?) I was watching PTV and since it was not 24/7 entertainment thing back then, it was mostly cricket. Test cricket I guess.
I support TEAM PAKISTAN because why not? From *Allah miyaan Pakistan jeet jaaye kyunk hum musalmaan hain and you are our Allah* to Dadi who is telling all the kids to raise their hands for *ijtimaayi dua* for Pakistan’s win, I did all of that. I had cousins who knew scores from matches before their birth and I am the one who asked them last week , ‘is Inzamam ul Haq playing?’. The look I got was definitely a sign for me to shut up.
I have no idea what power play is. I had no idea what T20 is. I thought , maybe 20 countries are playing. Till someone told me to go watch POGO. Still didn’t get the sarcasm, and watched POGO.
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And here’s the most awkward part. Didn’t tell anyone yet because I figured it out somehow but oh come on you must know it. I always thought that the umpire is standing right there in the middle of the pitch and the baller (baller/bowler, kya hai bhai ye??)has to show his talent by not hitting the ball on his hat. It was simply a NAZAR KA DHOKA. And i had no idea that all players are involved somehow. It looked like two are always running and the others are just there standing (or is that a squat?)
Right now I just witnessed Misbah ul Haq receiving the ICC mace and my reaction to that was, *Why is everybody so freaking excited about this??? ALL he got is a GIANT CHUPA CHUP LOLLIPOP FOR GODSAKE!!!* Now you can’t really blame me for that, it does look like a pale gold wrapper lollipop. Even though I have zero knowledge about it I would still watch it because I want to update my Facebook status in case no one’s watching it. *Sarcasm*
