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Cricket, and the staff of US diplomatic post in Karachi!

Q1: What is a Googly?

A: – Googly eyes like this.

     – An internet research tool?

     – Something that exists in Silicon Valley.

     – Is it a specific kind of pitch?

     – It has something to do with the way you look at the players and judge them.

Q2: How many balls are there in one over?

A:   – Fifteen.

       – Four.

       – Three?

Q3: What is a dolly catch?

A:   – An assisted catch with a cart.

       -That’s when…I don’t know what it means.

       – We catch it just as it hits the ground.

Q4: What is a golden duck?

A:   -Bird that gets hit by a ball in the air.

       -Hitting one that’s for six points?

       -Hitting one that’s zero points.

       I think it might be similar to a home-run in Baseball.

Q5: What is a silly point?

A:   -It is sound a baby makes.

       -The wicketer behind the wicket catching the ball that gets missed.

       -The point that someone gets through no accomplishment of their own. Someone else has done something and they take advantage of that.

Q6: What is a slog shot?

A:   -It is an animal.

       -No, in boxing, it’s a hard hit!

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.