Afridi versus Samuels

Even Geoff Boycott loves to watch Afridi play. “Fantastic, great for the game,” says Boycott. “And daft as a brush”.

On the other hand, Afridi is insufferably infuriating. I thoroughly enjoyed what was, to me, one of the archetypal Afridi performances when, at Lord’s in 2010,

recalled to the Test team for the first time in four years, and as captain no less, he was caught at cow corner off his fourth ball. Off the bowling of Marcus North.

In a fourth-innings run chase. He then told the press “with my temperament I can’t play Test cricket” and quit the game for good.

Others, those who have an emotional investment in the success of the side, seemed, surprisingly, somewhat less amused by it all.

Marlon Samuels aka The Elegant One is as insufferably infuriating !

WICB versus PCB :


In the last 18 months Zaka Ashraf has been appointed as chairman, suspended as chairman, reinstated as chairman, dismissed as chairman,

re-reinstated as chairman, and sacked again. They have had five chairmen in the last two years. And yet, despite it all, they still find a way

to win more than they lose, and as often as not they do it in style.

It’s a mystery. A glorious, inexplicable mystery.

Pakistan of course has no players Union !