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Darkest before the dawn

Inzamam-ul-Haq’s run as Pakistan came to an abrupt and traumatic conclusion
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Osman Samiuddin
It’s a new dawn,
it’s a new day,
it’s a new life
For me
and I’m feeling good
‘Feeling Good’ - Eunice Waymon aka Nina Simone, 1965
A brief dawn in Lahore gave way to the rising of the sun at 5.53am PST today. Six hours and seven minutes later, at Gaddafi Stadium, one day ended in Pakistan cricket with Inzamam-ul-Haq’s heated press conference. An hour after that, a new day began with the chairman’s press conference.
Four years ago, another new dawn greeted Pakistan’s cricket and yet it appears in no better shape today than when Waqar Younis’s dysfunctional rabble was dumped out of South Africa. Possibly worse, some contend. Cynicism in these times comes cheap and easy. There is no captain, no coach, no selectors and a chairman who was waiting to […]

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