Islamabad United

um and then comes the PSL uh sort of like breakthrough and then everything starts growing walk us through that period like how old were you what was happening

so when I play under 19 after that straight away I get selected for Pakistan A so we had a first tour England and then after that we we went to Zimbabwe play there so we was coming down so Suhaib Maqsood who was playing for Peshawar Zalmi and he liked me a lot so he says I talked to Peshawar owners so they will pick you in emerging category so we was coming back from Zimbabwe to Dubai and I didn't know about that wi-fi can be used in in the flights as well that time so they was checking everything and when we landed Peshawar didn't pick me anything So I get a supplementary pick for Islamabad United.

And one of the guys who played for Islamabad last year, so I asked him, what is supplementary pick? I will play, because in under-19, it's like a reserve.

So I thought I'm in a reserve player.

In the same week, the PSL final was decided by 5 wickets, where Peshawar Zalmi chased down just 129.

And a few weeks ago, Rawalpindi's took 18.1 overs to chase 138 against Islamabad United.

So the old pattern of rotating and building still runs deep in the PSL.

But do you agree with Hanif that there needs to be a change in mindset where maybe teams and batters look at 250 and feel that, okay, we back ourselves to chase it? What do you think?

Two years ago.

He's like, "Yeah, back when you guys did the Islamabad United collaboration.

Those were really good podcasts." And I asked him, "Why did you stop watching?" And he says, "The performance."

Mm.