My Love-Hate Relationship with Lala Pakistani

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Indexed  January 18, 2012

Contributed By Azfar Adil (guest blogger)I am not a Shahid Afridi fan. Quite the opposite. He is everything that I believe is wrong in Pakistani cricket and, by extension, Pakistan at large. He is the personification of our modern style-over-substance culture: a culture that values a 10 ball 24 over a well constructed 100, Afridi over Misbah. Hum ghaas khayein ge magar bum banayein ge.What’s particularly galling is the undeniable talent on display every time he laces up a pair of cricket boots. He tantalizes us with sparse occurrences of sanity in his batting. Even his detractors had to marvel at the way he shepherded a hounded Pakistani team th...   See the complete post here