Pakistani team is football crazy
Are they going to let go Inzi … ?
Football crazy
Never mind the cricket, it’s football that has ignited the passion among the world’s top players.
If you drop in on a typical training session, you’re more likely to hear the sound of leather on boot than willow.
But in the Pakistan camp it wasn’t just the ball being kicked, as tempers got a little heated.
By the time the players had finished it looked more like a West Midlands derby than a friendly knock-about.
So what caused the brawl? Did everyone want to be Australia or had Wasim Akram threatened to take his ball home?
The official reason was a late tackle on Inzamam ul-Haq by Younis Khan.
And can you blame him? He was probably hoping to take Inzi out of the Zimbabwe game - to give Pakistan a better chance of going through.
Washout sends Zimbabwe through
As it turned out, mother nature sealed their fate, but only after the big man had produced yet another memorable knock of…three, to go with his other World Cup innings of 6, 4, 0, 0 and 6.
Inzi certainly hasn’t been seeing it like a football.
Can you imagine the tournament he would have had if he’d struck the ball with as much passion as he struck his team-mates?
Of course we’ll never know whether the ruckus would have affected Pakistan’s chances of beating Zimbabwe - but after listening to captain Waqar Younis it would seem there’s a lesson to be learned.
“This sort of thing often happens when we play football,” he admitted. “We always argue.”
It brings to mind an old Tommy Cooper joke. Man goes into the doctor’s with his arm in the air and says: “Doctor it hurts my arm when I do this.”
So the doctor says: “Well don’t do that then.”