It’s just been announced that Pakistan will play five ODIs and a Twenty20 against Australia in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Can somebody ask Cricket Australia about what Sri Lanka are currently doing in Pakistan?
A Test series will follow sometime this year although PCB Chairman has already hinted at the fact that it will not take place in Pakistan by suggesting England as a replacement venue. They may as well just book it now.
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Pakistan will be going in with the same squad for the second Test in Lahore on Sunday. Though they have put reserves on stand by, it will be difficult to see how they would be pushing for a place especially among the batting line up as you would have had to have been devoid of talent to have batted poorly enough to be dropped on the Karachi track. Read the rest of this entry »
Wasim Akram has said that Younis Khan should have had a say in the preparation of the pitch in Karachi which saw four 150+ scores made on it. I suppose the fact that Pakistan had not played a Test for quite some time has drawn extra attention to the pitch we saw in Karachi but it raises the question of how much say a home team should have in the preparation of a pitch.
Yes, home advantage is fair but how far should this go?…far enough to spoil a Test match? Should the home fans and other conditions (apart from the pitch) be home advantage enough?
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Karachi’s pitch may have killed the match but it has rejuvenated Younis Khan. His triple hundred will always be diminished by this docile track despite the pressure of chasing down a total of over 600. It shouldn’t be. Much more illustrious Pakistan teams and batsmen have crumbled on as friendly surfaces. The pressure of the situation has been too great and their strength of character too weak. Indeed, which other Pakistan batsman has threatened to score a century?
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Eagle eyed viewers can’t have helped noticed the stickers on the back of Younis Khan’s bat in the current Test match being played in Karachi. Those residing the U.K, in particular London, would have made the connection between the “Hammer” writing and the image of the crossed hammers on Younis Khan’s bat and the name and logo of West Ham United football Club.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board has introduced a daily lottery to attract spectators. The next marketing strategy might be to pay people to attend? If that didn’t work, the PCB would have to admit it has a team that nobody wants to watch. The best marketing strategy, without doubt, is to have a successful and exciting cricket team. Younis Khan’s new team may be some way from either of those labels but this is just the beginning.
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On a classically placid pitch, one has to ask if the curators went too far in trying to prepare a pitch to counter the threat of Murali and Mendis that they’ve made their own bowlers suffer. Yet this type of pitch is nothing new though as any Pakistan fast bowler will tell you. Again and again we hear of captains and coaches speak of our pace attack as being our main weapon yet again and again they are given dead pitches to bowl on.
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After a year of impatient waiting, Pakistan’s cricketers return to Test cricket at a venue that has robbed them of more matches than any other. Taking on a variable Sri Lankan team would have been challenge enough but Pakistan’s selectors and captain have added to the task by conjuring an inexperienced team from their immediate disagreements.
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