Interesting thing: Its been 'bout 7-8 months since Inzi has left the team (as captain) and I can’t recall any of the players giving sajda after a century or half century. When Inzi was captain, almost every player did so after an accomplishment. Sure we haven’t played many matches but wouldn’t it be interesting and in a sense revealing if from here on players don’t prostrate?
A larger question - if the above does occur (i.e. players don’t give sajda) - would be if Inzi and his chums in the team were infact imposing religious duties onto the players.
Also, has the team ba jamat namazay continued? Do you all think the religious nature of the team has continued since inzi’s departure?
Salman Butt did sajda yesterday...
Inzi has left doesn't mean others are not praying in jamaat. Maybe there are couple of players who do not want to be affiliated with TJ work but I don't think religion is out of the picture.
i dont think there is anyone who does sajda after 50. After Inzi left we only got only 2 100z in team 1st by Yunis Khan who didnt do sajda in his last 2 centuries either
I never saw Inzamam himself doing Sajda after 100, 200 or even his inning of 329 :)
Religon is personal thing , its nothing to show that they are praying in Jammat and in ground :) , if they will pray, they will get reward, if not, will be punished, so nothing if Inzamam "forced" them to do, and he himself mentioned it too. all the guys are bit more religious or rather i should say bit more serious about their personal sins and i can see how modest they look even after winning matches, and scorring 100s, never saw anyone jumping and punching in air as other team players do, and that is a change that Inzamam and specially Saeed Anwar brought to them "Be Modest". i feel its a good attiude that they are modest now and doesnt matter if Inzamam is there or not, its something they like now. Even Afridi , who was a real party boy, didnt play matches in Ramazan, and Yousaf has already said that he will be available for 11 months and not in ramzan from next year. if you see carefully , being neutral and forgetting what happened in past, Shoaib is also not the same Shoaib.
I personally think, even it is a game, it will be good to start it as Inzamam was doing "Bismilah and stuff" , nothing bad if players get reward of their work, and i am sure they will as they play for country.