Pakistan’s bumper cricket season has started in a very disappointing way, the Bangladeshi team, which the Pakistani management might have considered as ‘halwa’, showed such a batting performance that everyone was stunned, called the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium ‘different’. Pacers sweated on the starting pitch, but the dream of taking 20 wickets in the entire match was fulfilled, instead, the rival team lost 10 wickets in one innings. There is an old saying that ‘Kwa chala hans ki chaal apni bhi bhol gaya’, perhaps the same thing is happening with Pakistan, in an attempt to adopt the conditions of others, their home advantage was also wasted.
Tony Hemming was hired as the Chief Curator to prepare the pitches, the grass was left on the Rawalpindi Stadium pitch for the first Test, it was already said that it would be suitable for the batters but the Pakistan team management, the new head coach Jason Gillespie. And captain Shan Masood was quite confident that the pace battery would destroy the weak Bangladeshi batting line-up, even claiming that the Pakistani attack was capable of taking all 20 wickets of the rival team in the match. The first innings was also declared at 6 wickets and 448 runs, Muhammad Rizwan’s double century was not even waited for, while such opportunities are rarely available.
The management hoped that the Bangladesh team would not be able to score as much as they did even after playing 2 innings, but it happened exactly the opposite. The 7 tested bowlers had crossed the psychological threshold of 5.500 while controlling the rival team.
Regardless of the outcome of this match, the fact cannot be denied that the first 4 days of play proved to be the complete opposite of Pakistan’s expectations. Will be. The Pakistan team has to play a total of 9 Test matches in this season, 7 of them are scheduled at home grounds. If the first match is a draw, the valuable championship points will be shared with Bangladesh. will
Pakistan needs victories to rise above the sixth place, the second test against Bangladesh is also scheduled in Rawalpindi, in October the English team has to visit Pakistan for 3 test matches, in their last tour also they were in Pakistan 3- A clean sweep victory was won by 0, in such a situation, one cannot make the mistake of assuming success against him as well, South Africa will have the most difficult tour of 2 Test matches and the same number of Test matches against West Indies.
Even if failures are avoided, fruitless matches will not lead to progress in the Test Championship. If the final is to be played, then Pakistan has to win all the matches at all costs, while also waiting for the results of other teams. After the humiliating defeat in the T20 World Cup, to calm the anger of the fans, there were rumors that new players would be given a chance in the home Test series from Bangladesh, but except for the injured Amir Jamal, all the first-choice players were selected.
Before the ongoing test against Bangladesh, Pakistan played 8 matches in their country in 3 years and did not win even one, failed in 4 while avoiding defeat in the remaining 4 with a draw. Similarly, during the last 3 years, Pacers have also failed to show perfection in their country. In Salman Agha, the team management shows the characteristics of a specialist batter, specialist spinner and specialist all-rounder, but he is not in any of these three areas. Have not been able to prove their skills.
Pakistan will have to make itself strong again, first of all it should be understood that home conditions are not a bad thing, if they are bad, then Australia will change its fast and bouncy conditions to slow and dead pitches with Asian countries. But why not play matches, instead of changing conditions you need players who can perform in all conditions or select a team depending on the conditions. Bring in foreign curators but also tell them to work on their strengths and not try to make pitches like Australia and England, otherwise it will be like the crow has forgotten his own tricks.
