According to esteemed Pakistani press and the members of the elite cricketing community, Pakistan’s most strategic cricketing brain, a verily phenomenal strategist, who managed to deliver astounding stats comprised of a marvelously impressive figure of 29% when the cricketing idiot in the nation Javed Miandad was managing statistics of 44% without the star bowler and a true patriot, namely the mighty Imran Khan, managed to play another master stroke in his lifetime as an active cricketer and captain.
During the semi-final against Australia in 1987 Reliance cup, the master strategist, after having observed the match unfold over 49 long overs and using his sensationally correct mathematical brain, did some number crunching, which the strategist usually do, and decided that the best course of action would be to hand over the ball to the fast bowler who had by then received the most thrashing at the hands of Aussies, namely Saleem Jaffer. That, the esteemed nation of Pakistan and vociferous supporters of the mighty Khan, is called a master stroke: how to stem the flow of runs? Hand over the ball to the weakest bowler on that very day. In his previous 5 overs, Saleem Jaffer had received a thrashing at the rate of 7.8 runs per over, and no other bowler had given away runs at more than 5.5 runs per over. Despite Saleem Jaffer’s extremely poor performance in his previous 5 overs, the mighty strategist who because of his family’s sensational connections in the mainstream media was able to get reams upon reams of unearned praise written about him handed over the ball to the weakest link on that particular day.
Owing to a profusion of spectacular statistics that the mighty Khan managed to amass during his tenure as the captain of the team, I now have a spectacular nickname for the mighty strategist: Le Gigolo Très Célèbre — The Mighty Khan.
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