Terrorism fears have seen Pakistan fans denied the chance to support their country’s team on home soil…people are starving to see their team battling w/ other international teams in Lahore..Karachi..Pindi….Our faithful PCB is trying its best to bring back international cricket to Pakistan…BUT DO WE PAKISTANI DESERVE LIVE CRICKET MATCHES …well here is some of my experiences—born and raised in Islamabad the first match I saw was at Pindi stadium..And during my 2.5-year stay at IBA Karachi I got the chance to see the second match
I have tried to give it a funny touch but if u ppl read it carefully u will notice we Pakistani need to learn a lot to behave in public events…No one can teach this. Its all sense of national pride … image and perception that u want to give outside world…
Pindi Stadium: well w/ worst possible location (surrounded by workshops..Even H-9 college stadium is better than this lousy stadium) my friends and me reached pindi stadium (following some pretty girls that we met near Peshawar moor—coming from Islamabad) to watch Pak vs. England match. I must say the roads around stadium need Skipjack class of nuclear submarine..And people on bikes need life jackets…anyway we were not aware of a massive/shocking showdown waiting for us ..Police was at its full swing..Using their Dandy like sowrds…they were treating Awwaam like Genghis Khan Tatars…being totally shocked (we had dream of staring some pretty girls plus some live cricket) one of my friend got the courage(balls) to talk to one of Thulla..but unluckily (in all that Hungama) he slipped while reaching him and end up landing between thulla legs crushing his balls..w/ mouth full of curse Thulla ne aik Shandaar danda Kazim(my friend) ke ga**d paar stamp keya..seeing that we all ran like hell…after endless struggle manage to reach inside the stadium w/ tears in eyes(from Ansoo gas)…what happen inside the stadium is another story
National Stadium Karachi: Located near Karsaaz (at least better than pindi stadium) One of my class fellow at IBA was working part time lesion officer for Indian/Pakistani cricket team…after bribing him that we will hook him up w/ one of city school darakhshan campus teacher he agreed to let us in stadium w/o ticket..It was like winning NY mega million lotto..anyway we reached their (3 punders including me)..since we were Mufta party we had to wait for Sameer who was busy trying to get hold of Ajay Jadeja(excellent person—very friendly!) uniform which was lost at PC laundry…mind u …were were not the only mufta party.. Hanif Mohd (little master of cricket—who use to bat like turtles of Galapagos island)..Asif Iqbal..Ravi Shastri ..Jeffery Boycott were all in line at the back gate..Police were not letting them in.. At last Sameer (friend) came to rescue us..and let us inside the boundary around the main stadium…Just like dark force of darth Vader Karachi police was standing checking every single person..no one was allowed to take in any food /beverage…no lighter/matchbox..Cigratte NOTHING!..all u were allowed was your clothes..as we reached the check post (being in long queue—enjoying girls infront of us) we saw a poor guy standing and drinking a 2 litter Coke w/ tears in his eyes and stomach inflated w/ excess of liquid.. Police officer had given him punishment for arguing about food…suddenly we three musketeers realized that we had precious cigarette to be smuggled in…reaching near dead end..one my friend decided to put cigarette box in his under wear…which later tasted/smelled like Babu beree…That match was lost and then we saw the wrath of mighty Pakistani ppl..they crushed every single seat (one of the memmon was busy destroying seats..while we were busy decoding the singles we were getting from his daughters (memon bachee are mostly not very pretty)…The only good out come was Sangita Bijlani w/oAzhar Mehmood.. Believe me guys Azhar was looking Choora/Fakeer in front of Sangita..Hai!!
