Respect or Disrespect Babar Azam Muhammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Afridi Big Bash League

Respect or Disrespect

There is a famous Punjabi proverb, which I will explain in Urdu, that “If your own chicken is good, why give someone else’s egg?” Nowadays, this proverb is completely applicable to Pakistani players…

The day Pakistani players won in Big Bash, we all celebrated as if we had won the World Cup. Some Pakistanis started saying, “Look at how many superstars our players are that the Big Bash is picking them up. But even on that day, some stupid Pakistanis like me were saying that they are only cashing in on the fan following of these Pakistani players; they are not at all impressed with their game.

Well, then no one heard us. The event started, and in the first match, our premium bowler was stopped from bowling for bowling no balls… The countrymen had not yet recovered from the pain that their domestic player removed our former captain from batting by saying that you are playing slowly…

The matter does not end here, but Gilchrist, who was commentating on Babar’s batting, said that he was playing Tests in Twenty20. And yesterday when the Sydney team was fielding, go and watch the video on the official page of the Big Bash when Smith and Babar run for a ball. Smith slows down so that Babar will catch it, but Babar does not dive. Smith did not say anything with his mouth but said with his hand, “Why did he pick it up?” and the next moment Smith dove and stopped the same ball…

Then when the Sydney team came to bat, fielding side Chris Green said during the commentary in the fifth over that our plan is to keep Babar on strike as much as possible because he does not get hits, while Sohag Smith refused to take a clear single in the eleventh over.

And after that, when Smith hit four consecutive sixes in the next over, he did not even come to shake hands with Babar once but kept showing him again and again that this is how they play.

Brothers, if you want to abuse me, then say bad things about the two Australians, but it is true that our players are far behind the players of the big teams. Now let us get angry with Smith or whatever; it is true that yesterday he did not take a single run, but in the next over he scored thirty-two runs and proved that his decision was right in every respect. And in my opinion, in this event, Pakistani players have only dishonored him instead of respecting him.

I will still tell my players that difficult times come to every big player, but hard work and more hard work is the only key to success… Whenever I am free, I play domestic cricket. If you get a chance in the leagues, try to play better than the team…  Just think about Pakistan and how my game will benefit Pakistan, and then you will see where your game and respect reach… Follow heartsport.info for more updates…

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