Gulbadin Naib memes: Twitter reactions on Afghanistan skipper’s ordinary last over to hand victory to Pakistan in a nail-biting contest
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It’s done and dusted. The ‘mercurial’ Pakistan Cricket Team have yet again managed to keep their World Cup dreams alive as they beat the gritty Afghanistan side in an absolute humdinger of a game by 3 wickets at Headingly, Leeds.
The Afghanistan side yet again, akin their game against India fell agonizingly short of a debut World Cup victory in the ongoing edition. With this win, Pakistan have, for the first time moved to the 4th spot in the points table, pushing the Hosts England down to the 5th.
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But, the Twitteratis, especially the Indian users, were simply unimpressed by the Afghanistan skipper, Gulbadin Naib, who had taken the onus upon him to defend six runs off the final over of the match. Although, defending six runs in as many deliveries was a challenging task under pressure (to say the least), but the fans were not impressed with the manner he went about bowling those deliveries.
2 full tosses, a missed run-out and plenty of drama
The fans expressed their anger on the fact that Gulbadin’s over consisted of two full tosses and a missed dolly of a run-out at the non-striker’s end.
In the very first delivery of the last over, the skipper bowled a juicy full toss outside off to the set Imad Wasim. Although he was lucky enough that it was smashed straight to the fielder at deep cover, costing him only a single.
He then bowled a haywire wide slower delivery to Wahab Riaz outside the leg-stump, which again went in his favour, as Wahab went for the pull t get his glove on the way for another single.
But, the biggest of them all happened in the third delivery, where he missed an easy run-out opportunity at the non-striking end. He failed to gather an easy return from the fielder at covers, to run Imad out, and what’s worse, nutmegged the ball through his legs for Imad to get back to the strike plus costing an extra run.
Not learn from his mistakes, and let the pressure piling heavily upon him, he again bowled a dolly of a full toss to the all rounder, as he smashed it towards the boundary thereby sealing a 3-wicket victory for his side.
