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Fateechar not the word you want to use either
There is a subtle implicit racism in South Asian societies towards black people and black countries. It's hard to detect because it's not necessarily similar to the way racism that makes news is manifested - such as hate crimes or police discrimination etc. It's a slightly different South Asian flavour which is more a reflection of the shallowness and superficiality of these countries - being fair skinned/whit is considered better, being dark skinned/black is considered worse.Not defending Imran here - his comments were in poor taste and unnecessary.
But how is calling players from Africa racist? Van Wyk was from South Africa and Sean Ervine from Zimbabwe.Quetta's foreign players for the final were of questionable quality. I hadn't even heard of most them. Who is Rayad Emrit?
Why can't foreign players be from Africa? Would he have been as dismissive about de Villiers? If so, wtf?I don’t even know the name of any of these so-called foreign players. It seems they just picked up players from wherever. Picked some from Africa and called them foreign players. Picked some from Africa and called them foreign players.
To add to this, Imran is a repeat offender when it comes to this issue. A while back, Imran was confronted on television by a politician who happens to have a darker skin tone. The politician tried to embarrass Imran by showing a picture of his supposed illegitimate daughter and comparing how similar they looked (I guess to childishly prove that she was, in fact, Imran's daughter). In the clip below in Urdu, Imran recalls that incident and snidely remarks "if I go to Africa, I can find a 100 kids that look like you". And of course the crowd laughs uproariously in approval. Disgusting.There is a subtle implicit racism in South Asian societies towards black people and black countries. It's hard to detect because it's not necessarily similar to the way racism that makes news is manifested - such as hate crimes or police discrimination etc. It's a slightly different South Asian flavour which is more a reflection of the shallowness and superficiality of these countries - being fair skinned/whit is considered better, being dark skinned/black is considered worse.
There is reason to believe that his comment came out that way in part because they were second string players, but in part because they were black from Africa.
This was pissing me off so much. They were going to end 20 year old Sami Aslam for this dickhead.Salman Butt's selection shelved in wake of PSL spot-fixing case | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
A small mercy this didn't go through, surely there's enough of a burning furnace of batting talent in Pakistan to seek aid from the darkest of corners?
Wahab is frustrating but I think Pakistan still need him. Wonder if it is an injury.Rabat but no Wahab? Whatever.
It seems like hardly anyone bowls right arm in Pakistan these days.
Exactly a month to the day.When is the first test against Ireland?
Only two tests against England is pretty dire, especially considering they had 4 the last time round.
Pakistan squad for the Test tour of Ireland and England:
Sarfraz Ahmed (C)
Asad Shafiq
Azhar Ali
Haris Sohail
Mohammad Amir
Hasan Ali
Fakhar Zaman
Sami Aslam
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam
Usman Sallahuddin
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Abbas
Rahat Ali
Saad Ali
Faheem Ashraf
Fawad Alam overlooked yet again.
Hussain Talat and Imam-ul-Haq (Inzi's nephew) make the cut despite the former having never scored an FC hundred and the latter averaging 27 in the current season. But they're only 22 so they must be the next big thing ofc. Nevermind that Misbah made a comeback at 33, that was probably just an aberration.
I think it sucks too obviously but to play devil's advocate, maybe your two gripes kind of explain each other away a bit. Talat and Imam might just be going for the experience because they're rated as long-term prospects rather than as serious batting options, explaining the need to take nine batsmen.Basically 9 batsmen, keeper, spinner, seamer all-rounder , 4 seamers
So many batsmen. Shows you how unsure they are and the fact that Fawad Alam can't even get in such a big group picked says his chances are almost zero.