It was never luckier to have a working Saturday than this Saturday for fans of Pakistan cricket. We know most people who did were slumbering when it happened (or at least when the relatively more joyous part was happening), as others sat glued to the screens, crying green tears over their beloved team's laughable performance.

In any case, if you missed some of the action but happen to be as masochistic as our national players, here's a story on how the annihilation unfolded, drop-by-drop.

 

We are calling this one the 'twin drop' because two round things dropped onto the ground simultaneously. As the ball fell out of the sky, the rotund Nasir Jamshed couldn't help spill himself over to his left, and with it, the ball.

It made us some of us think maybe we have gone too far in vilifying the phenomenon of 'load-shedding'.

Gayle OUT = Match WON!

 

Yeah right, though most people did think so.

We published a post last night on reasons why Chris Gayle should terrify Pakistanis, including but not limited to his resemblance to Snoop Dogg:

Perhaps that is why our players kept dropping balls around like they were hot.

But for this one time, they did not. At the end of the fifth over, Wahab Riaz took what was by international standards a good catch and by Pakistani standards an astronomically splendid one, to dismiss Gayle on 4 off Irfan.

In the morning, my mother told me she had switched the TV off after Gayle's dismissal, assuming there was little more to the game. How wrong she was.

 Shehzad takes a hit in the unmentionable(s)

Forgive me if I am speaking in 'circles' here, but I cannot help it. This time, three objects suffered a tragic collision as Ahmed Shehzad dove to his right in an attempt to stop Lendl Simmons' shot, and ended up getting hit where it hurts most.

He got some appreciation at first,

New record for Younis Khan on hate-o-metrebut that lasted only as long as his batting later did.

 

After all that the 'senior', 'experienced', 'legend' batsman with the average of 31 in ODIs, has put the team through, Younis Khan today managed to invent another reason for fans to despise him.

He almost ended up killing Dwayne Bravo with a throw that struck him bang on the helmet.

To be fair, he was just playing. But to be fairer, he shouldn't have been.

 Enter game-changer Andre Russell

At the start of the 48th over, West Indies were 258/4. As Sammy got caught off Wahab, Russell walked in to belt out a few in the final moments of the innings. And boy, did he achieve that.

Russell clobbered three sixes off Sohail Khan in the penultimate over.

The quadruple whammy

 

And now to get to the part which ruined my breakfast (seriously, what's a man gotta do to enjoy some buttered toast around here in peace?).

It started just as I sat down to my tea and omelette. I tore off a slice, and was just about to attack the egg when...