Sarmad

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[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

کوئی گل باقی رہے گا نہ چمن رہ جائے گا
پر رسول اللہ کا دین حسن رہ جائیگا
سب فنا ہو جائیں گے کافی و لیکن حشر تک
نعت حضرت کا زبانوں پر سخن رہ جائے گا
حضرت کفایت اللہ کافی۔۔۔۔۔

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@KhalidAlNumi 8000$

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

Saeed Anwar made a golden duck as Pakistan collapsed to 26 for 6 and were bowled out for 185 at Eden Gardens. In the second innings he made 188 not out, carried his bat, and out-scored his entire team's first innings on his own. He held the world record for the highest ODI score for thirteen years, and yet this, a Test innings in Kolkata, might be the best thing he ever did. Happy birthday to one of the most elegant openers Pakistan has produced.

So how bad was the situation, really? Pakistan were 26 for 6 on the opening morning of that 1998-99 Asian Test Championship match, with Anwar back in the pavilion for a first-ball duck. Moin Khan dragged them to 185 with a 70. And at the other end, Javagal Srinath was in the middle of the greatest bowling performance ever produced by a man on the losing side, 8 for 86 in one innings and 13 for 132 across the match.

Then Anwar walked back out. In front of a crowd of over 100,000 who had watched him fail once already and wanted nothing more than to watch it again, he made 188 not out. He never got out. He carried his bat through the innings, becoming only the third Pakistani in history to do it, after Nazar Mohammad and his son Mudassar Nazar. Now the freakish part is the arithmetic: 188 not out is 60% of Pakistan's total of 316, and it is more than the entire team had scored in the first innings when he made nothing at all. Pakistan won by 46 runs, and it stood as the highest Test score by a Pakistani on Indian soil until Younis Khan made 267 six years later.

But I keep coming back to the fact that he did this to the best attacks going, repeatedly. Throughout the 1990s Asian batters crumbled against Australia's pace and bounce. Anwar dominated them, 886 runs across 8 Tests at 59.06, three centuries and five fifties, which is the highest Test average any Pakistani has managed against Australia. He was not surviving those attacks. He was dictating to them, pulling and hooking the fastest bowlers of the era and turning their primary weapon into a scoring zone.

Happy birthday, Saeed bhai.

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@Mark_FPL Playing 2 Chelsea players 🤣

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@_iamhabeeb Hahahahaha 🤣

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@LegacySiu Suarez

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@princexsol 3000$

[Dylan K @MightyDylanK]

Spain just went dark in the middle of the day.

Total solar eclipse. Absolutely unreal. 🌑🇪🇸

Tarragona, Spain 🇪🇸

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@tophz_ Robb stark and o Brian......
Literally broke me to pieces

[Premier League @premierleague]

Phil Foden makes it look so easy 😮‍💨

@ManCity

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Spain are #FIFAWorldCup Champions. 🏆

[isabel f. @ohcrefasi]

lamento confirmar que los rumores son ciertos: vivir cerca de donde trabajas mejora tu calidad de vida infinitamente.

[PTV Sports @PTVSp0rts]

How Pakistan helped Argentina to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup

@Rehan_ulhaq

#FIFAWorldCup #KickOffPTV #argentina #pakistan

[Rehan Ulhaq @Rehan_ulhaq]

There was a time Pakistan’s hockey inspired tactics of other sports & today we are still stuck in the past. Pak didn’t necessarily go downhill: we just stood still, while everyone else moved forward.

That could be true of so many other things in Pak too.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The male instinct to smile when one is broken inside

[Amenyah @G2Amenyah]

Forget 48 countries, I want EVERY single nation next World Cup for the 100 year anniversary!!

No group stage, straight knockouts. Don’t ask me about logistics 👍🏽

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

@Rehan_ulhaq France v Morocco'
Spain v Belgium
Brazil v England
Argentina v Colombia

[Sarmad @SarmadAbid2]

Overmorrow

[Kam ✨ @PatsKam]

Wait why do so many people not know that there is a word in English for “the day after tomorrow”??? 😭

[Rehan Ulhaq @Rehan_ulhaq]

Time to play the world’s smallest 🎻 & replug this eternally beautiful rant by @karachikhatmal. Adios Germany

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The group of frauds