{"id":4668,"date":"2007-10-02T01:46:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/how-misbah-misjudged-mallu-and-pak-lost-finals-india\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T01:46:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T01:46:57","slug":"how-misbah-misjudged-mallu-and-pak-lost-finals-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/how-misbah-misjudged-mallu-and-pak-lost-finals-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How Misbah misjudged a Mallu and Pak lost the finals to India!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This is the final shot of the just concluded Twenty20 cricket tournament, which India won!  <\/p>\n<p>Here <strong><em>Misbah Haq<\/em><\/strong> very innovatively indeed goes all the way to the off-stump and then lifts the ball behind his back to obviously score a six or a four.  He connects real nicely as well!  Under any circumstances this would have been a great shot.  But unfortunately for the Pakis, this Indian team had a Mallu!!  And none of the Pakis know the speciality of the Mallus. <em> \"There is a Mallu in every corner of the world!\"<\/em> (specially in places where no one is).  So, when Misbah thought he was safe hitting it off in that place way back \"God-foresaken\" place.  Guess what? A Mallu (Sreesanth) was standing there having a great time.  Now, Mallus do not let things just fly past them.. do they?  They catch on to every thing worth a few bucks stick nice and well.  So, that is what happened here!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Moral of the story:<\/strong><\/span> Get acquainted with the opposition team members special talents before you jump around playing impossible shots in any \"corners\". (that\u2019s where our Mallus get you!)<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final shot of the just concluded Twenty20 cricket tournament, which India won!  <\/p>\n<p>Here <strong><em>Misbah Haq<\/em><\/strong> very innovatively indeed goes all the way to the off-stump and then lifts the ball behind his back to obviously score a six or a four.  He connects real nicely as well!  Under any circumstances this would have been a great shot.  But unfortunately for the Pakis, this Indian team had a Mallu!!  And none of the Pakis know the speciality of the Mallus. <em> &quot;There is a Mallu in every corner of the world!&quot;<\/em> (specially in places where no one is).  So, when Misbah thought he was safe hitting it off in that place way back &quot;God-foresaken&quot; place.  Guess what? A Mallu (Sreesanth) was standing there having a great time.  Now, Mallus do not let things just fly past them.. do they?  They catch on to every thing worth a few bucks stick nice and well.  So, that is what happened here!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Moral of the story:<\/strong><\/span> Get acquainted with the opposition team members special talents before you jump around playing impossible shots in any &quot;corners&quot;. (that&#8217;s where our Mallus get you!)<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Misbah misjudged a Mallu and Pak lost the finals to India!!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is the final shot of the just concluded Twenty20 cricket tournament, which India won!  Here Misbah Haq very innovatively indeed goes all the way to the off-stump and then lifts the ball behind his back to obviously score a six or a four. He connects real nicely as well! Under any circumstances this would have been a great shot. But unfortunately for the Pakis, this Indian team had a Mallu!! And none of the Pakis know the speciality of the Mallus. &quot;There is a Mallu in every corner of the world!&quot; (specially in places where no one is). So, when Misbah thought he was safe hitting it off in that place way back &quot;God-foresaken&quot; place. Guess what? A Mallu (Sreesanth) was standing there having a great time. Now, Mallus do not let things just fly past them.. do they? They catch on to every thing worth a few bucks stick nice and well. So, that is what happened here! Moral of the story: Get acquainted with the opposition team members special talents before you jump around playing impossible shots in any &quot;corners&quot;. 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