Re: The Pakistani players will express themselves in Urdu
Yes, its normal to thank God in your mind or through simple gestures (like touching the cross as someone said or even by kneeling down like Mohd Yousuf does) when you achieve something(eg score a century) ...but IT IS NOT NORMAL to thank God in out-of-context circumstances in front of an international audience everytime somebody asks you about your opinion on something like the state of the pitch, the team lineup, whether you are going to bat/bowl after the toss and such.
You make a very good point here. I think the issue is n't whether to say bismillah but how and when to say it.
And I agree it's not normal (if your boss asks you about the status of your work or if your senior asks you about the progress of a patient) to start the conversation with bismillah, thanks to Allah. A short bismillah is enough but the way Inzi says it sometimes makes him look out of place and sounds like
a- he has just come from jhoomri tallaiyan or bhai phairoo
b- he's just saying it for the sake of it without putting any thought into what he's going to say next
AA please don't murder me for saying this but I feel that bismillah should be short and more importantly said in the proper context of the situation. Yousuf's ritual of kneeling down after scoring a hundred does look very proper (and I really mean it). I don't feel the same about the way Inzi starts every interview with that goofy/blank expression on his face. Like if someone asks you in a shopping mall 'mate what's the time now?' you should n't go ''bismillah (a long one), thanks to Allah, it's 10 minutes past 7!''