A Pakistani cricket fan does not want to win or win, it is just a fight.
Grief, as they say, comes in stages. Denial: It was just a test, and the real tournament will start now. Bargaining: Well, God, you took it from us, but does that mean that we are winning the World Cup two years later? Depression: What is the matter of anything? Anger: Who are these people? Who allowed them to keep the bat? Eliminate them.
Pakistani cricket fans often revolve around these stages – before the tournament begins, when it begins, and after its end. If they are given some respite, it will be a dream goods. They do not even want to win or for a long period of victory. No, they are just some silent. A period where nothing happens, where there is nothing to worry about.
However, for this Pakistani fan, the Champions Trophy 2025, which ended with a blockbuster final in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, was nothing but silence.
Once …
About three weeks ago, the tournament had great hopes and dreams. However, Pakistan has been hosting an international cricket event at home after almost three decades.
If nothing, the green advertising supporters of the tournament, which raised every flat level in the country, indicated. As in the last minute, there were long queues of people waiting to buy tickets outside the courier offices after the stadium renovation updates.
The thing is, Pakistani fans have a relationship with their cricket team with a lot of unexpected spouse – you will never know that they will bring you flowers or forget your anniversary, cook or not show home.
Green shirts have numerous clutches about being unexpected and mature, so you never know which version of the boys can appear. The one who plays six times as a World Cup champion or one who falls into the first obstacle.
But when such a big thing – cricket is returning home, defending our sole title, a chance of glory – is at stake, even the most frustration of us will hope that the team will show. If not as a winner, then only as a rival, as a protector.
Unfortunately, for us, this unfortunate cycle of sorrow, anger and denial hardly can be done.
To expect or not expect
Here, I urge you how a phase of grief permanently eliminates the fans of Pakistan cricket: acceptance.
When a rhetorical and incomplete -looking squad is announced, someone begins to doubt their cricketing knowledge and, for a short moment, begins to trust the administration’s decision. But when the aforementioned squad, in the opening match of the tournament, offers one Performance against New Zealand, which is eligible as a masterclass lesson to not play cricket, tries to understand the hope that whatever hope they can find.
In Pakistan, the emotional anatomy of the cricket fans is combined with some undesirable threads. A small cockroach of hope, which changes his beautiful eyes to bright and curly legs, even after several times hitting the heel of shoes. A smoker of deception, which also puts a very loyal shameful interpretation, also puts the loan from the fiction and still rejects them.
Any unstable marriage veteran gives you the same advice: After a particular point, it is better to give up hope. But this is a maturity that has not yet touched the Pakistani cricketing brother. In this chronic organs of sports grief, they have not yet felt the relief of acceptance.
As a result of disappointment and disappointment, Pakistan cricket fans are being fully trained, defeating New Zealand in Karachi. This is one thing to lose, but another thing that is completely playing cricket that is lame and restless. Something says Vigo, Black cat He made a chemo during the match, causing the team to misfortune – I would say that the cat was unfortunate.
But despite the loss, especially our obstacle did not give up.
The journey of acceptance
In the past few years, India vs Pakistan has become a unprecedented fact, long, rather than late, the old memories and abstract tribes have been left together more than each other. In his previous ODIs, India is Often with Pakistan, there was a great deal of dominance with just short, flames and losing.
But with the greatness of what was at stake in this tournament, and how important it was to live in it, even the most masculine of us will once again revive the famous cockroach of hope for a last last dance.
A hollow squad, politically disrupting organizational process, administrative delays and shocks are all things that fans cannot control. But what they can control are their expectations and their expectations. Since then, what is wrong with the team after the match begins – since then, all of them can be proved wrong.
For all negotiations of Pakistan’s unexpected capacity, however, all assumptions proved to be correct. The batting fell, partly due to rush and incompetence, partially foolishness. The bowling was flat and restless, eyes shone, just looking for a living. Fielding – Well, said less, better.
Lost is one thing, even not trying. I am not sure that if this loss is disappointing for the Pakistani fan – the loss of sports, however, it seems that there is something in which the country is rescued in large quantities.
No, what could be a particular loss in this particular tournament, perhaps many cricket viewing coffins have the ultimate nail. Finally, with irreparable cockroach’s death and signing at the end of divorce papers, the bereaved Pakistan cricket fans can finally accept acceptance.
Header image: In Karachi, cricket fans watch a live broadcast of the Champions Trophy match between India and Pakistan on a big screen. – AFP
