In the past they have tended to treat these as part of its odd-ball culture and its ability to ride market reaction to what appear to be diversions from the core business.
The genre is technically known as a Tactical Role Playing Game, meaning that one of the primary game activities is to collect different types of soldiers (in our case, a crew of odd-ball talking animals and mythological creatures) and field them in tactical battles (ship raids and prison breaks).
In that first spell, the impressive Sharma outbowled his more experienced new-ball partner Zaheer, who failed to find as much swing as usual early on, while the odd loose delivery was punished in a calculated manner by Hussey.