Leave the race behind! The same has been the case with Pakistan cricket for a few years now.
Where there is criticism of defeat, the ideal celebration we have after a half-victory often makes us forget our shortcomings. Recently we celebrated the victory of Pakistan in six consecutive series (two of which were with Zimbabwe). It was such an ominous celebration that after that Pakistan lost three matches in a row and lost two series.There was some criticism in all this and excuses like ‘England (Wales) tour is not easy’ were also heard. We were also reminded that the team is undergoing an evolutionary process and that our goal is the World Cup (not specified which year).
The solution to the evolutionary process or rebuilding process of our cricket team is like a historic turning point in Pakistan that is not turning.The absence of England’s first-class players also did not work for Pakistan and a three-nil record in ODIs is enough to set our ‘record’.
Lack of our top order in a match was the reason for our defeat, so in a match our fielding and bowling were blamed. In Lord’s ODI, if we had bowled, the batting line would not have helped. Anyway, the condition of our batting line is like the fate of a middle class servant, it rarely helps.After the one-day defeat, captain Babar Azam chanted, “We have learned a lot, we will not repeat these mistakes in the future.” On the other hand, coach Misbah-ul-Haq said that this kind of performance cannot be defended in any way but at the same time he lost the victories against South Africa and said that ‘everything is not bad’ While it is also a bitter truth that the Corona virus attacks the England team, they set up another team and our situation is that we are still unable to find a solution to our middle order problems.
Speaking of the T20 series, in the first T20 where the team scored 232 runs, there was hope that the batting line is alive and the victory of the match also gave hope, but in the second match when the Pakistan team chased more than 200 runs If I had to, the hands and feet of the same live batting line began to feel swollen.Vice-captain Shadab Khan said after the match that if Pakistan had to chase 170 runs, the result would have been different. It is also a fact that if you look only at Liam Livingston’s batting in the first match, you know what a serious effort in pursuit of a long score looks like. Now, if you give this decade, you can hear ‘they used their home conditions well’.Speaking of conditions, in the third match, the fort was opened that Pakistan team plays spinners well, English bowlers used the conditions conducive to spin in Old Trafford better than expected. Although the Pakistani spinners bowled well in response, the question arose as to what would happen to our batting on the UAE’s spin-friendly wickets in the World Cup preparations that have been going on for the last two years.We remember how we had to get out of the Asia Cup in 2018 after losing to India and Bangladesh in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, our home grounds. We will also remember how difficult it was to win the match against Afghanistan.
Even after the defeat in the T20 series, coach Misbah-ul-Haq’s reaction was the same. We are preparing for the World Cup, our middle order needs to be performed, the results have not been in our favor but we have learned a lot and so on and so forth.After the defeat in England, now the Pakistan team has reached to conquer the fort of West Indies. We will be taught to look beyond the back again, a lot of competition hype is being created.
Creating hype and profile players is a good practice, but the bride is the one who drinks the hype and social media content that works only when the performance on the field is good. A car has a thousand advantages, but if it can’t run, it will be called useless.The West Indies, who recently defeated Australia in the T20 series and are fully prepared for the World Cup, are going through an “eternal evolutionary process”.Only time will tell what the performance of Pakistan team will be but hopefully in case of victory our celebration will be such that it will help us to forget all our defeats and all shortcomings and if we lose then the same formal phrase, not all bad Yes, we are learning, the World Cup is our goal, we have learned a lot from mistakes and so on and so forth.
