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KARACHI: Having recently returned to his hometown after his debut series as a Pakistan player, Saim Ayub was all smiles as he shook hands with teammates and staff at the Omar Associates dugout on the sidelines of the Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament. a breezy Saturday night on a luxury gated housing association’s floodlit cricket pitch.
While Saim, dressed in a crisp white polo and light blue jeans, was gathering congratulations from the tight-knit cricketing community in the metropolis, Attock Traders’ Yousuf Afridi pounced on his team in the middle of the quarter-final.
Omar Associates manager Azam Khan, with 128 to chase on a tricky surface, a fatherly figure would not have thought twice about sending Saim to face the new ball if the classy southpaw had been available to play.