Posts

Showing posts from October, 2022

PCB's strategy that brought Pakistani fans closer to the cricket team on social media

Image
  PCB's strategy that brought Pakistani fans closer to the cricket team on social Be it the friendly banter between Shadab and Haris Rauf over cake or Saqlain Mushtaq's dismissal of Babar Azam during net practice, all the captains attending Babar Azam's birthday before the World Cup or the Indian team with Bisma Maruf's daughter. With captivating photos and videos, Pakistani cricket fans have been getting to know everything about the players for the past few years that they didn't know before. Pakistani fans have a similar relationship with cricket because for a long time they longed to see cricket at their home ground, during which an entire generation could only watch the Pakistani cricket team play on TV. However, not only did cricket return to Pakistan in the past years, but with the launch of the Pakistan Super League and the popularization of social media, players got a chance to see them in a new perspective, and amid all this, the relationship betwee...

Why is 'Arrest Kohli' trending in India before T20 World Cup?

Image
  Why is 'Arrest Kohli' trending in India before T20 World Cup? When almost all the teams have reached Australia to participate in the T20 Cricket World Cup and the warm-up matches are going on, the trend of 'Arrest Kohli' in Indian social media is very shocking. Thousands of tweets have been made under this hashtag in the last few hours. According to Indian cricket experts, this hashtag shows how divided and to what extent cricket fans can be in a single country. Looking at the trends, when we tried to find out more, it was found that a fan of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli and IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) allegedly posted a picture of Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Mumbai Indians (MI). A fan was killed simply because the victim was reluctant to believe that Kohli was the best cricketer in India According to India's leading newspaper 'The Indian Express', this 21-year-old man from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, S. Dharmaraj, has been arr...

Pakistan vs Bangladesh: Nawaz came back to win the match, Pakistan beat Bangladesh by seven wickets

Image
  Before the final league match of the tri-nation T20 series between Pakistan and Bangladesh at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Thursday, the fate of both the teams was already decided. The Pakistani team had made it to the finals, while Bangladesh's return journey had been decided. The Bangladeshi team definitely showed glimpses of their batting as they went. Its bowlers tried their best to defend 173 runs but Pakistan completed the required score for the loss of three wickets in the last over of the match to put Bangladesh away from just their third win against them. Earlier, Bangladesh's two wins against Pakistan were at home ground Mirpur in 2015 and 2016. This is Pakistan's fifteenth victory in 17 matches against Bangladesh Half-centuries by Litan Das and Shakib . Shakib-ul-Hasan won the toss and elected to bat first, but the powerplay took Bangladesh's two wickets. In the third over of the innings, Soumya Sarkar Sardar was caught by Shadab Khan at mid-on off Na...

Pakistan vs New Zealand: Confused batting line-up in illusions, Sami Chaudhry's column

Image
  When the strategy is only one-sided and the concepts are not completely clear in the minds, it does not take long to turn the daily conditions into illusions and then these illusions create tragedies by overriding all abilities and skills. It will be a surprise if Pakistan's batting line-up collapses in front of spin. But if the snipers are also part-timers like Michael Bracewell, the collapse is no less than a tragedy. Here, Pakistan's batting line seemed mired in illusions, chasing tragedies. When Ramiz Raja pitched the idea of ​​this tree -series to the Kiwi Cricket Board, he had in mind the preparations for the World Cup in Tasmanian conditions. Then who would have thought that the pitch of Christchurch will also behave like the pitch of Abu Dhabi and all this practice of preparing for the World Cup will be in vain. The scoring rate in the five matches played so far in this series is in no way commensurate with the conditions that the teams will face during the World Cup....

Aftab Iqbal's criticism of Babar Azam and discussion on social media: 'Why are some people so jealous of Babar?'

Image
  Babar Azam, photo source GETTY IMAGES Pakistan cricket team captain and batsman Babar Azam has become a name that is a topic of conversation every moment whether on or off the field of play. Sometimes his performance as a batsman, sometimes his captaincy, sometimes his comparison with other batsmen, sometimes some other discussion. Babar Azam is certainly one of the cricketing names in recent times who has become a social media star in the digital age as well as on the field of play. The top ten batsmen in all three formats of cricket have been the talk of the town for both their performances and captaincy during the recent series. The top ten batsmen in all three formats of cricket have been the talk of the town for both their performances and captaincy during the recent series. When his form was first questioned in the series against England, he responded with a brilliant century and an unbeaten two-hundred-run partnership with Mohammad Rizwan. Instead of words, they have be...