ARTICLE: "Asad Umer and the use of cricket terminology to warn leaders of the opposition that The Khan is in for the long innings..."

"The Khan only understands cricket terminology you know that. For all other matters he is highly manipulatable...."

"Ha ha yes I know, he talks of the current account deficit like the proverbial broken needle in the old record players...."

"Which incidentally Hafeez Sheikh seems to endorse...his narrative, that in many respects, has remained the same and..."

"In this present term."

"Sorry?"

"The narrative is the same this term, if you recall he has the capacity to adjust to whoever he serves and he has served many - he was finance minister Sindh, then privatization minister then finance minister and now again finance minister..."

"The first two times was courtesy Musharraf, one time courtesy Zardari and now courtesy...."

"Right but the proverb like the old needle getting stuck in the old time record players is an expression that would not be understood by the young Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) supporters..."

"Yep scientific improvements have made many proverbs and words obsolete, maybe if we get Fawad Chaudhary to..."

"Don't be facetious, anyway Asad Umer's cricket terminology has not changed right!? Innings remain innings and..."

"Agreed and please don't repeat the comments that you heard last night - that The Khan was never a batter, a few sixers if he was lucky and then out, he was a great bowler and even a good batter can be LBWed or caught or..."

"Hey my thesis is that The Khan was a great bowler in cricket but in politics he is a batter which is where his inexperience shows....see a bowler engages with the other team which The Khan doesn't do in politics, a batter hits out at the team while the fielders then scurry around trying to contain the runs and that's what The Khan is doing in politics don't you think!"

"So Asad Umer was right?'

"He may not be much of an economist but he is now The Khan's Ishaq Dar..."

"You mean Deputy Prime Minister?"

"Indeed..."

"I forget now was Jehangir Tareen the DPM before or he wasn't?!"

"Don't be facetious."

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