Has Australia "go too soft" on India during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2018-19 at home? That's what Michael Clarke believes, and in the IPL, where players around the world make big money, Tim Paine's youngsters are "too scared" to find Virat Kohli and partner, where the visitors won 2-1.
"Everyone knows how powerful India in the financial aspect of the game, whether in international/bilateral interactions or/and at the IPL," Michael Clark said in the Big Sports Breakfast radio program. "So, I think, Australian cricket, and probably every other team, went the opposite in a short time - in fact, they missed out on India, because they were afraid to dismiss Kohli or intimidate Indian players. They had to go and play with them - in April.”
"And they wanted to ... If Kohli is captain in the IPL, Rohit Sharma is the captain in the IPL, you know, list the ten players, they bid these Aussies to join their IPL team. So the player is like, 'Well, I'm not going to strangle Kohli, I want him to pick me up at the [Royal Challengers] Bangalore, so that I can know, in my six weeks, a million Americans (Dollars). There was a sense where Australia had gone through this small phase of our cricket, had it become too soft or not as rigid. We're accustomed to watching."
The victory was historic for the team India as they became the first Asian team to win a Test series in Australia. For Australia, the loss came at the back of the 2018 ball-tampering scandal that forced Cricket Australia to ban Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, and take an inside look at their team's culture. As a result, Tim Paine and co. were under pressured to do their best against India.
According to Michael Clark, there was also a cricketing reason for not "smashing" the Australia. Virat Kohli, whom he rated as one of the top batsmen to play with or against. "I think some players think it's over, maybe they try and play this big shot in a state of aggression or frustration," Clark said. "But yes, I do realize that Kohli is one of those players you don't say much to, and he only hopes that he will fall asleep a little at the beginning of his innings and make a mistake."
Pakistan's concern
As it is written above, in the cricketing world, India is financially the power house, and therefore it is influenced while Pakistani players play against Indians.
Till 2005
Pakistan used to show vigor against their rival-next-border and arch-rivals, just watch the innings Pakistanis played against them in their own backyard. But within a year, the body language of both the teams were literally swapped, which literally means Pakistanis when usually face their arch rivals, now face them as if they are not their arch rivals instead arch nemesis.
Pakistani players not part of IPL
This is a reality that apart from the inaugural season of the IPL, Pakistani players are not part of any of the IPL till than. Than as above mentioned, where Australians have incentives for IPL contracts, why Pakistan is diluting its natural vigor?
The Vigor!
The vigor is something we as Pakistani fans would definitely would want, but the way under pressured Pakistani team has been playing against the Indians since 2006 is something suspicious because otherwise Pakistan team plays normally and well under a certain plan, but whenever they face their eastern neighbour, they play haphazard, and except the final of the #CT2017, they have not been able to overcome the goosebumps, which is pretty suspicious because of the sudden change in their natural flair.
Maybe is it because of a back-end-diplomacy?
Because previously when we were not dependent on their sponsorship contracts amid our cricket board's back office concerns, because of which post 2006, the natural vigor we experienced off our Pakistani Cricket team has been deteriorating and hence it has reduced the bowling qualities of our bowlers, because now we have a 150 KPH+ bowler namely Hasnain, and we are celebrating that we have got another Shoaib Akhtar sort bowler, otherwise Pakistan was a country where there was a backup to every bowler, but now we have one bowler only who can continuously bowl 150 KPH.
This exposes the priorities of upper management
This clearly exposes the fact that the priorities of our management and think tank have been diluted upon being the leader instead of following, because there is a saying that a leader is made by the team it being followed (anonymous). So our current PCB management doesn't have its priorities in taking aggressive approach in thrashing the monopoly of India, because of which we are devoid of watching those natural flair and talents like we used to watch till 2004, afterwards I personally have seen a consistency in all the teams without their natural flairs, which we have been void of watching.
Otherwise
Pakistan cricket board can easily take initiative but there is criminal silence upon that aspect, even if I place myself into their shoes, bringing home games to Pakistan could be one of priorities but answer me one thing, back-end management USUALLY lays down multiple plans and even if a certain plan is difficult to initiate, they place a blue print/plan along with a separate team just like BCCI did, and made a particular team, which lays a plan (the vision) on how we are going to achieve our vision (the mission), The PCB has and had to take this step on which they are not willing to invest on this long term plan, again country is in tertiary priority, which is a shame.
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