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World Cup: Deprived of teamwork, team spirit, poor captaincy, Pakistan team sank
Asghar Ali Mubarak
Lack of team work, lack of team spirit, poor captaincy in the World Cup, Pakistani team drowned, Team work, lack of team spirit, poor captaincy, the hope of the Pakistani team in the World Cup is an illusion.
Pakistan’s defeat against Afghanistan is not an upset, but the prediction of the reasons for Pakistan’s possible defeat. Wasim Akram, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Moin Khan and other cricket experts are doing the same thing now.
You must watch the YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAiYKsF5qHI with anchor Shaukat Pracha on AAJ Aaj TV live program Rorobo and guess how numb the Pakistan Cricket Board officials are. Those who neither have the honor of Pakistan nor do they care about the sentiments of the nation.
Pakistan cricket has been disgraced and disgraced by the fights of Babar Azam and other players. Batting in the match against Babar Azam was initially playing at a decent pace but once again the pace of scoring slowed as he reached the score of 30 and Babar Azam who started with a strike rate of around 100 scored a half-century off 69 balls. But completed.
Babar Azam’s captaincy has been criticized for a long time, but Babar Azam’s learning journey seems to have reversed itself over time. Babar Azam is third among the captains who batted poorly in the World Cup.
In the mega event, questions have been raised about the leadership, batting and decisions of the national team captain Babar Azam, in the first 4 matches of the World Cup as a captain, Babar Azam did not turn out to be good at all. Pakistan captain could score only 83 runs during four matches in the tournament,
in which 50 runs were scored against traditional rivals India, 18 runs were scored against Australia, 10 runs were scored against Sri Lanka and only 5 runs were scored against a weak team like Netherlands.Babar Azam’s captaincy has been criticized for a long time, but Babar Azam’s learning journey seems to have reversed itself over time.
Some things which are understood by ordinary spectators sitting outside are not understood by Babar Azam despite eight years of international experience.
More worryingly, Mohammad Rizwan and Shadab Khan seem to be equally involved in the strange decisions taken in difficult times.
I have written before that no player was held accountable for Pakistan team’s poor performance in the Asia Cup matches
Planning has not been seen at all in the way Pakistan has played the game so far.
Readers will remember that the third match of Asia Cup was played between Pakistan and India which was inconclusive due to rain. But the first innings of this match was completed in which the Indian team batted and scored 266 runs. Pakistan’s fast bowlers dominated the innings,
with Shaheen, Naseem and Haris picking up ten wickets and restricting India to a decent total despite poor fielding, mediocre captaincy and ineffective spin bowling. There were talks of Pakistani fast bowlers everywhere,
not only Pakistani cricket fans but also cricket experts were calling the attack consisting of these three as the best attack in the world. A few days passed and the Pakistani team had a match against India.
In this match, the Pakistani team faced a big defeat. The fast bowlers were beaten a lot and also Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah were unfit. Haris Rauf came back but Naseem Shah was left out of the World Cup squad.
After this match against India, the Pakistani team has lost to Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup, both the World Cup warm-up matches and now three out of the first five matches. Shaheen Afridi, who was a terror to the opposition in his first spell, now seems to be hitting the boundaries everywhere. Haris Rauf, who used to take wickets, now seems to be flying off the pitch. are giving
Against Australia, Warner pitched the ball in the air, but Osama Mir was unable to catch it despite coming down, and then Warner combined with Marsh to wash all the Pakistani bowlers well, but against Afghanistan, the bowlers’ wicket. It was expected that Pakistan’s fielding would be a lot of trouble,
there was also a fear that the Pakistani spinners would bat badly, there was also a fear that the batting approach of the Pakistani team was years old compared to all the other teams. But maybe no one had the idea that Pakistani fast bowlers would fail miserably.
Along with conceding nearly three and a half hundred runs against Sri Lanka and Australia, there was no effort to defend the target against India and Afghanistan. The matter is not limited only to fast bowlers, concerns related to spinners are also getting fulfilled.
Along with Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan, Usama Mir also considers it mandatory to throw two or three good balls in the over as well as full tosses or boundary balls and if somehow these bowlers do two or three good overs, then something like this is done in the fielding. That all the pressure on the opposing team ends in a moment.
Pakistan team’s planning and Babar’s captaincy against Afghanistan was poor, this can only be gauged from the fact that Afghanistan needed 72 runs in 12 overs and the ball was reverse swinging, Babar Azam bowled Haris from one end. When Rauf and others bowled to Shaheen Afridi,
the cricket commentators were mentioning that the match could be decided here. Pakistan team can come back in the match with the reverse swing of Shaheen and Haris. Pakistan’s fast bowlers have disappointed in the previous matches and in this innings so far,
but the cricket commentators seemed to be right that if the Pakistani team had any chance, it could have been through Shaheen and Haris.
Shaheen and Haris bowled one over each and the commentator as well as the fans were surprised when Shadab Khan came to bowl the next over. But Babar Azam had just planned to surprise everyone more and that was done by bowling Usama Mir.
Hopes of better performance in the matches of the World Cup from the Pakistani team devoid of team work and team spirit were unrealistic.