Today, the entire nation witnessed the brutal reality of Pakistan’s national cricket team in the ODIs. Just after being ranked as number 1 test team in the world, the whole country opened its eyes to see the other side of the coin; Pakistan Cricket Team’s ODI performance.
As if the British rule on the subcontinent was not enough, Pakistan knelt like a slave once again and gave away first three ODIs to England. Being 3-0 up in a 5 ODI series, England has won the series and would only be looking forward to improving their ICC rankings.
People have reacted in a lot of ways. Some suggested a change in captaincy, while others preferred to express their dissatisfaction after watching England score a blistering 443 runs; the highest target in ODI format by any team.
Please Azhar @AzharAli_ #PakvsEng pic.twitter.com/k6u3MtcBFd
— Umii#TeamAhmad❤ (@Uafridi933) 30 August 2016
We went to England,played 4 test matches,won the last game at Oval & came back.Thats it,the tour ended there,nothing happened afterwards
— Osama. (@ashaqeens) 30 August 2016
England se haar kar “at least we are better looking” bhi nae bol saktay 🙁
— Khattak (@AzmarKhan) 30 August 2016
However, Misbah ul Haq, a villain-turned-hero in the eyes of the Pakistanis, came to the team’s rescue and tried to console the defeat with these words:
We all fall down in life the question is who gets up?Winners are not those who never fail but those who never quit! Still three to go.
— Misbah Ul Haq (@captainmisbahpk) 30 August 2016
While some tried to spin the situation towards humor
Look what we discovered:
Wahab Riaz becomes first Pakistan bowler ever to concede 100 runs in ODIs. #EngvPak
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) 30 August 2016
The Indians were not going to be the ones who would let such an auspicious occasion to pass by. This is what some of them had to say:
Congrats ? Pakistanis u too have a run machine #WahabRiaz 110 of 60 10 4s & 6 6s #ENGvPAK
— Ashish Jangra (@ashish01jangra) 30 August 2016
Indians are good at math
10-0-110-0
These are nt binary numbers
Infact these are the bowling figures of @WahabViki .. Well played Champ.#EngvsPak #WahabRiaz— Arjun Bharath (@velarjunbharath) 30 August 2016
10-0-110-0 is the new 0900-78601
#WahabRiaz has been seen running away frm the cricket pitch aftr figures 10-0-110-0. Call us if u see him #ENGvPAK pic.twitter.com/7V2OGYQwlU
— SportsNow India (@SportsGupShup) 30 August 2016
Let us now hope, and pray, that the lads pick themselves up, and show a good fighting in the remainder of the tour to England.
