Re: Razzaq quits international Cricket
Loser? Listen to the kettle calling the pot black! WOW people like you are ungrateful shortsighted losers. Think of all the times he's saved Pakistan (and I'm not just talking about big-hitting, either, look at all his performances, the times when you in your mother's lap would have been cheering him on, his smart level-headed batting in run chases, his prying out the needed wickets, his hard hitting in the death overs as well as his sensible grafting in the initial overs--and slap yourself in the face to wake up and give the guy the credit he deserves. Think of it like this: after 2 years after struggling with the ball and doing as well as you can with the bat from your position down the order, you are just beginning to revive your bowling.
1) You save Pakistan in a crucial Test vs India at Karachi, where you score a priceless 45 to rescue them from 39-6 and lay the platform, along with some excellent bowling and a 90 in the second innings.
2) You then have a par ODI series, where the highlight is your 64 in a massive partnership with Shoaib Malik to take Pakistan from a bad position to 288 at Lahore. During this knock you also cross 4000 runs in ODIs.
3) You are then awarded man of the series on difficult pitches in Sri Lanka, where you bowl consistently and economically, taking wickets, and perform well with the bat in every match while almost all the batsmen on both sides, even the specialists, are struggling.
4) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are calling for your dismissal from the team.
5) It's then off north to Scotland and England. Against Scotland, you bowl poorly but when idiots like Shahid Afridi throw away their wickets at bad times, you take the reins with an unbeaten 49 to help Pakistan cross the finish line. It's a clever knock--only at the end do you open your shoulders to blast some boundaries, making sure that Pakistan's pride is preserved.
6) You play consistently in the England Tests, particularly at the Lord's Test. Here you are the most incisive of the bowlers, and you make a cool-headed 25 no off 91 balls to draw the match and ensure Pakistan don't lose.
7) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are jabbering that you shouldn't play.
8) You bowl consistently in the England ODIs. The highlight of your performance, however, is at Nottingham, where you save Pakistan from 138-7, grafting out for most of the innings and then blasting 36 runs in the last 10 balls to take Pak to a once-unthinkable 235.
9) You bowl well at Edgbaston too, taking 2 wickets at key intervals. Astonishingly, though, you are taken off the bowling and England scrape through.
10) You take 4-50 at Jaipur in the ICC Champions Trophy, and hit 38 off just 24 balls in tandem with Shoaib Malik to ensure victory in the face of controversy about your more glamorous but less useful teammate Shoaib Akhtar.
11) Conveniently, people start remembering how many times you've helped Pakistan in the past. Don't be too hopeful, though--people like yaasir tend to forget pretty quickly. Even when the whole team is playing badly, you are often criticized for not continuing your consistent performances.
12) You play mediocrely against the West Indies--although most of the team are playing badly, you alone are singled out by the venomous pen of Osman Samiuddin.
13) You captain 1 ODI vs the West Indies. Personally you bat well, making 33, but Pakistan unfortunately lose. Again you are bashed by those too stupid to realize that it's your first match as captain.
14) After being injured for the SAF tests, you play perhaps the worst ODI series of your life. It's just 1 bad series--all cricketers have them--but again, people start attacking you
15) After missing the World Cup because of injury, you play an average series at Abu Dhabi. You bowl decently enough, even completing a direct-hit runout, but your single innings is unsatisfying and you are not even called to bowl in the 2nd match.
16) Satisfied, Osman Samiuddin takes up his pen and calls it a "lackluster" performance
You've played 7 years of brilliant cricket for Pakistan. 1 bad season and you're taken off. Even when you play well, people tend not to give you full credit. They compare your quiet laidback nature to Shahid Afridi's bragging nature and decide to call you undedicated and spiritless, COMPLETELY forgetting your brilliant performances.
And you wonder why Abdul Razzaq is angry?
are you Razzaq?