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Start poor, have your back against the wall, then begin to roar. The path of Imran Khan's 'Cornered Tigers' has long been Pakistan's favoured strategy in ICC events. Babar Azam's men have now reached that juncture in World Cup 2023. Having lost three on the trot, which includes a shocker against Afghanistan, Pakistan have their campaign in disarray with hopes of a semifinal qualification hanging by a thread. And while the time couldn't have been more perfect for Pakistan to emulate a 1992-esque comeback, the question remains whether Babar and Co. can pull off a miraculous turnaround starting Friday in the match against South Africa.
The former ODI world champions began their campaign on an impressive note with wins against Netherlands and Sri Lanka before being handed a reality check with a loss against India in another lop-sided World Cup encounter. Pakistan then lost against Australia before incurring a shock and first-ever ODI defeat to Afghanistan.
The hat-trick of losses left Pakistan in the sixth spot in the points table, below Sri Lanka, who gave themselves fresh hope of reviving their World Cup campaign with a win against defending champions England on Thursday.
Pakistan will play against a red-hot South Africa, who stand second in the points table after incurring just a solitary loss in five games, on Friday in Chennai, before taking on Bangladesh in Kolkata on October 31. Pakistan then have two more difficult matches left in the league stage - against 2019 runner-up New Zealand on November 4 and England on November 11.
Pakistan still have four matches left in the league stage to script a turnaround, but even if the Babar-led side snap their three-match losing streak to win all their remaining games, a maximum of 12 points will not be enough for the team to make it through to the semi-final. Pakistan will depend on how the league stage unfolds for the remaining nine teams.
The side will also be wary of their net run rate which tends to play a crucial role in the final stages of the league phase. Pakistan's NRR of -0.400 is what keeps them below Sri Lanka (-0.205) and above Afghanistan (-0.969) despite all three having secured two wins in five matches so far.
As things stand now, Pakistan's biggest competitors for a semi-final spot are Australia and Sri Lanka. They have lost against Australia and won against Sri Lanka. Australia have two more points than Pakistan and are looking ahead after a hat-trick of wins. Babar's team would be hoping that the Aussies falter in at least one of their remaining four matches for the net run rate to come into play.
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The sun has just set over Hattian, a small peri-urban area about an hour's drive from Islamabad, and I am sitting on a sofa on the open roof of a small building. The building is right on the edge of a road first built about 2000 years ago, and tonight heavy trucks with neon-lit geometrical designs go roaring down on it, their luminescent decorations like blurred trails in the twilight. I look at the rampaging trucks while I wait for a match to begin on a TV hooked up to a wire that emerges from a mangrove-like mass of other wires.
Pakistan versus India at the World T20, and as the Pakistani openers walk out, the call to Maghrib prayers rings out. At least half of the assembled crowd silently files into a small room near the television, where they form a congregation and begin praying. As the rest of us watch the batsmen limber up, a rakish man with his shalwar tied at a distinctive height above his ankles, hair neatly oiled and light kohl in his eyes, takes his place in the crowd. He soon starts pointing at the congregation and hisses that they are committing a sin. He asks, rhetorically, why they haven't bothered going to the nearby mosque. No one responds, and when he leaves muttering under his breath, a few grin. When I ask about him later, everyone dismisses him.
It is a clich to describe cricket in the subcontinent as a religion, even if the situation is as symbolically loaded as above. I was only there to visit a friend, and to get a feel for this piece. My brief was to try to understand and explain what made the Pakistani fan unique. When I began pondering this, I came across many such examples that showcased Pakistanis' love for the game. But at the same time, the more examples I came across, the less sure I was: after all, sports fans the world over share many characteristics and failings. So what made Pakistanis unique?
Jarrod Kimber's tweet raises some fascinating questions. Pakistan lacks alternatives for celebrity worship, and after decades of oppression of the arts, cricket genuinely cuts across a massive and diverse population in a way little else does. Everywhere you look you find cricket, every facet of society seems to bear the game's reflection, whether it's religion, politics, music, gender, advertisements, films, memes, or even symbols of national identity; cricket is an integral part of Pakistan. It is a country that struggles to acknowledge its myriad languages and cultures, a country that struggles to find space for its bewildering diversity of beliefs and traditions, and yet it is a country that has increasingly found itself in cricket.
Everywhere you look you find cricket, every facet of society seems to bear the game's reflection, whether it's religion, politics, music, gender, advertisements, films, memes, or even symbols of national identity
When I ask him how he feels about cricket no longer being played in the country, he says: "We don't need this generation to treat cricket the way we had to treat Indian movies - if you wanted to watch Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in the cinema, you had to go to Dubai. Now you have to do the same for cricket."
Not that making such a journey would be out of the question. When Pakistan beat West Indies in the quarter-final of the 2011 World Cup, Sana Kazmi had five days to arrange transport, match tickets and, above all, a visa to her country's traditionally hostile neighbour. All she had was a hashtag - #GetTheGirlsToMohali - and blind faith. It goes without saying that she got there.
Epic journeys are undertaken within the country as well. Ahmed Hassan's first match involved leaving his village at 5am with little money, on the off chance of getting tickets for an ODI against England in Rawalpindi in 2005 (he did). He makes sure to visit as many village tournaments as he can in the spring, when the fields have been harvested and are free for cricket. He tells legends of a batsman called Richie (after Richie Richardson) who is an unrepentant fixer and who once hit Sohail Tanvir for multiple sixes.
Mariam Mehdi's cricket-mad parents raised their children the same way, which meant forsaking the usual Pakistani dinner-time discussions on politics (national, provincial or extended family) to delve into cricket. When Mohammad Amir dismissed Tillakaratne Dilshan in one of cricket's great opening overs, in the 2009 World T20 final, the family made so much noise that the superintendent of their Abu Dhabi apartment building showed up thinking there was an emergency.
Mehdi has at least one important future trip mapped out. "To be honest, I don't expect international cricket to return anytime soon but the day it happens I'm booking my flight and flying to the National Stadium or Gaddafi or wherever they plan to play it."
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