I figured that since I was watching the ICL, I might as well tell you about it.
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The Hyderabad Heroes were held back when they batted, or weighed down might be a better phrase, as Jimmy Maher just potted along at run a ball, when the pitch looked like a belter.
Thanks to the troglodydic all rounder Abdul Razzaq they put on 170 odd, but on the last 5 overs they should have had got a lot more.
Then Imran Nazir came out, and batted like a demon for 8 balls or so. Eventually Lahore found themselves at 3/136 needing a run a ball for the last 6 overs.
Then Chris Harris came on.
He bowled one of the overs of his life, and its been a long life.
Inzy and Mohammad Yousuf were at the crease and the game was over.
Harris came on and started off the over by bowling big Inzy with a skidder.
It was classic Harris, short of a length on the stumps, it was short enough that Inzy was eying which part of the crowd he was going to put it in, then it skidded, and bowled he was.
Then later in the over Lahore took another badly run run, so to speak, and the throw came in to Harris but it was miles from the stumps.
So Harris parried/bunted/bitchslapped the ball towards the stumps from about 2 metres away, running out Mohammad Yousuf.
Now that is an over.
Unfortunately it wasn’t enough from the grand old man, and Lahore got home at the first ball of the last over.
The Lahore Badass Mofo’s lived up to their name, the double hyphened Rana-ul-Naved gave Razzaq one of the loudest looking (I know) send offs ever.
And Razzaq got angry and just for a moment I thought there might be a chance of a little stoush.
This allowed Tony Greig to keep up with his anti-Pakistani propaganda.
“I’m afraid to say the scores are now level and Pakistan (not Lahore) are now going to win the game (because they are dirty), and when I say afraid to say, I’m afraid to say it because the Hyderabad heroes (they are good sports, which I have said many times) really have fought well (without cheating).”
He may not have made the (bracketed) comments.
But he was particularly anti-Pakistani today.
Not anti-Lahorian funnily enough.
It’s amazing he never seems to really bag Indians or Sri Lanka, he knows where he his bread is buttered.
Two more finals to go, plenty of time for Tony Greig to really stick the boot into the country of Pakistan.
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