World Cup 2019 Social Pavilion: Shambolic Pakistan, furious Shoaib Akhtar and West Indies being West Indies

Well well well… What is happening? Pakistan have been in the UK for 38 days now and came come to a flat wicket like Trent Bridge and ended up being bowled out for 105. Surely Pakistan can do better than that. Twitter even designated the hashtag #WehaveWeWill after Pakistan’s dismal performance. Here’s what transpired on social media following Pakistan’s terrible loss against West Indies. To start with, Pakistan PM and former World Cup winning captain sent in his wishes to the team ahead of their clash against West Indies.

Cricket pundits, broadcasters, journalists and keyboard warriors of social media went all out on Pakistan for their shambolic effort. Guess the England series right before the World Cup didn’t work out as planned.

It didn’t look as bad as it eventually ended up being. They were 35 for the loss of 2 wickets with Harish Sohail, babar Azam and the skipper yet to come in(and be dismissed to a short ball). Side note :Cricket has always found a way to give technology a nip in the bud. (Cue: DRS)

And then, Pakistan succumbed to a 105 in a 50 over game. Oshane Thomas, Andre Russell and Andre Russell were the destroyers-in-chief.

Vinod Kambli thought the Pakistani team was a little too novice to play against West Indies who qualified from the World Cup qualifiers. Hmmmmm.

Every cloud has a silver lining. Every loss has something positive to look forward to. Even if that means you are experiencing one of your worst losing streaks in ODIs. So, in the 1992 World Cup winning campaign,

However, the best comment/review came from the Rawalpindi Express. And much like his bowling, it was unapologetic to say the least.

Let’s look at some stats here.

Some more stats.

Guess we’re going nowhere with the stats now. Let’s look at the batting highlights of Pakistan. Oshane Thomas, Andre Russell and Jason Holder bowled short balls in tandem to rip apart their batting. Here are the highlights from Pakistan’s innings.

Wait, What? ICC scammed you into watching a video of their fall of wickets and you thought it was their batting highlights. Well played, ICC. Well played. Honestly, we wouldn’t be too surprised if the highlights video was a replica of this and they added a few short balls from 3 of Windies’ pacers. What succeeded the brief Pakistani innings was an even briefer innings from the Windies. With a perpetually sprained back, Gayle storm was out in full force.

If only a decimal of Gayle Force had rubbed on the men draped in red kits a couple of nights ago in Azerbaijan. What say, Piers Morgan?

Friday night or Monday night, the Windies have been partying from a long time.

With his innings today, Gayle also topped the most sixes hit in the world cup. #UniverseBoss for a reason.I guess we now the reason for his child-like excitement ahead of the World Cup.

Guess who wasn’t excited for the World Cup. We’re not telling you it is the man dressed in green jersey with a badge of Pakistan on the front and sitting on the couch. We’re asking you to take a wild guess.