Life would have been a lot easier and predictable if you could simply get whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted. But that’s the thing about life, it does not always give you what you want. Life throws at you times that seem difficult, obstacles that seem impossible and failure that seems inevitable. Even the toughest of figures can be brought down through constant criticism and leg-pulling.
You don’t always get what you bargain for and despite all the struggles you end up achieving little in life. They try yet they don’t succeed. They do their best yet they can’t make people happy. They execute yet they face criticism. Such people are strugglers: they have hard work etched in their palm lines.
Pakistan is a place where such people exist in large numbers, but they never seem to reach the skies that they were born to conquer. We have one such tragedy in our cricketing world as well that has single-
handedly lifted our entire national team to glorious times, but has remained under scrutiny for too long. The backbone of Pakistan cricket, the unsung hero – Misbahul Haq.
We have seen professionals reach astounding heights after a stroke of luck, but Misbah has carved a name for himself by climbing past a mountain of corrupted media,
incapable management and, most unfortunately, a nation that refused to accept him. He has, without a doubt, executed the most thankless job and blasted his critics – not through his words, but through the blade of his bat, for his actions did speak louder than a thousand words could.
Pakistan cricket arguably has has more cricketing heroes and superstars than any other cricketing nation. After all, we do play the game with everything that lives within our heart. Among a long list of national heroes like Imran Khan,
Wasim Akram and Javed Miandad, Misbah has created a name for himself by giving everything to Pakistan cricket. He came into limelight after the infamous loss to India in the final of the inaugural T20 World Cup. The loss would have been a bitter pill to swallow,
if we had not found Misbah – the scapegoat. Ever since, the cricket board and media have made full use of it and although he might not be fully acknowledged as the captain of the team, but the burden of every mistake has always fallen on the shoulders of Misbah.
