Adil Najam
Earlier we had done a post on Javed Miandad’s memorable sixer off the very last ball of the match against India at Sharjah in 1986, which clinched the game for Pakistan. We had also included a video of that last over in the post.
During the discussion, a number of comments recalled how Javed Miandad was literally showered with money and gifts as a result of this feat, how Tauseef Ahmad (who was his last partner on the crease) got little or nothing and a policeman’s baton to boot, and also how an equally famous comic song on the incident was sung by Bushra Ansari.
Well, we did manage to find the song for you. Enjoy!
• All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES
“Give you an example of self-confidence. There was a riot down in Dallas, Texas one time at a World’s Fair. And the riot had been going on for some time and somebody sent for the Texas Rangers. And after a while, why, a big fellow in his sombrero and a gun on his hip came around to find out about the riot and they looked at him and they said, ‘But you’re just one Ranger!’ He said, ‘Well, there’s just one riot.’
“Now, this sort of—this sort of cockiness and confidence is very far from discouraged. It adds up to what is known as altitude, which is another factor that sort of weaves its way around in one of these codes—altitude. It’s merely an expression of confidence. Your beingness is excellent—quite certain. You know what you’re doing. You’re doing what you’re doing quite positively. And you’d be amazed how many riots you could take control of this way.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau
Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke
There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L. McClenahan
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1
Philosophy is life’s dry-nurse, who can take care of us – but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard
One man’s quiet is another man’s din. ~Carrie Latet
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. ~Ram Dass
The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Don’t miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? ~Terri Guillemets
Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding
The map is not the territory. ~Alfred Korzybski
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
Javeed Miandad ki batting hay nirali,
ArbooN say bhi us nay wahan aik car urra le,
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Aik chakay kay Javeed ko soo lakh milay gey,
Tauseef be-charay ko Dirham aath milaiN gey…
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LOL
salaam
main adnan khan agar salma agha say bara hota tu main salma agha say shaadi zarroor karta kyoonkay i liked.
magar main unsay chota hoon i m just 22.
bye