Your heat races as the bowler covers the ground. You have a funny feeling in the pit of your stomach because the results can go either way. You cheer every run made by your team; groan when they miss and scream with joy when they hit a boundary. You feel depressed when your team player wicket falls but you rejoice when the opposition wicket falls on an amazing delivery. You pace around, keep standing and sitting when a match goes into a critical, tension filled phase. You want your team players to have the best records in the tournament. You keep commenting throughout the match how to play and how to set the field:). And you feel heavenly when your team wins.
If you identify with any of these symptoms, you are a die-hard cricket fan. And this is what our whole nation went through last week, even the ones that don’t know much about cricket. It was one good thing that united us apart from all the adversities that test the strength of our nation and make us act unified. A lot of preparation went in to avoid load shedding during the final, having screens installed at parks so that people can watch together and yes the tweeting too. It was truly exhilarating when we won after playing mashAllah say very well and were crowned T20 champions. Credit really go to the boys specially Younis for his cool captaincy, Afridi for his brilliant performance with bat and ball along with an excellent catch and energy filled presence on ground, Gul for his out of the world bowling, Amir for not giving into pressure and Razzaq for keep it consistent. Besides them, everyone pitched in their best too. Going forward, I hope we keep the performance consistent and eliminate the unpredictability factor from our team.
Pakistan team celebrating after being crowned T20 champions
After the final, Afridi dope test was taken which I believe was a targeted move and very belittling act. And in the end, I can’t help myself but rubbing the following in. India, the defending champions, who played IPL should have on top of their T20 match skills but alas they couldn’t win any of their super eight match 😛
Random Ramblings 
what a stupid thing, how dope can increase performance in term of technique, it can just increase the stamina….
Even if it builds up your stamina it’s wrong! There’s no reason for using drugs in sports to increase your performance!
However, they had retaliate with something so they came up with it 🙂
Sports like cricket, you dont likely to use dope for stamina. you dont need stamina in cricket, you need technique. Therefor, there is no reason for taking a dope test after tournamnet…
Agreed but we do have examples of people (unfortunately here at home too) using drugs in cricket! Strategy is needed in every game though 🙂
Yayy, Pakistan won the cup (:
Yesh! 🙂
Nice post!!!
Hum Pakistaniyon to usi din se khush hai jab se India nikal gaya tha tournament se aur Pakistan was still there 😀
[Yeh Cup kaheen nahi jaye ga.. ab to chala gaya :P]
And then Pakistan won against the two teams who haven’t lost a match in the entire tournament 😀
Pakistan sure did deserve the cup and the title!!!!
Way to go team 😀 😀
Haha…
No love lost when they dropped out of the tournament 🙂
Nice post (y)
Saw a video clip from zee news abt the Pakistan victory… They really beat the hell of their team in that special feature.. 😀
Thanks 🙂
People are noticing the end of the post as well 🙂
You’re right, people who didn’t know if there was a T20 tournament going on were very enthusiastic for the final. Somewhere at the back of our heads, we have deep love for the country and if it is Pakistan reaching new heights, whatever field it may be, the nation stands up.