This is not going to be a usual copy-pasted material for how year 2021 gone for Pakistan Cricket, instead would try to place my own point of views which I felt was the case.
Overall year for Pakistan Cricket!
If i got to the point without any delay, it might look "good" for Pakistan Cricket, but the fact is and important fact which short-shortsightedness, we might be ignoring that majority of games we played during the year were T20Is, no offense to this format, but Pakistan yet to be tested thoroughly in testing formats like Test Matches and ODI's, because like elders have rightly said, that sometimes statistics doesn't replicate how and under which circumstances those statistics were generated.
If my point of view is concerned
I found this year was not good for Pakistan, because if we go through the statistics as per winning-losing-no_result formula as criteria, things might be looking really good, or as per our news media, but being a Pakistani, I am not finding it good for Pakistan Cricket, because match practice Pakistan is getting is only limited to T20I and shortest format competition, instead when it comes to more tougher competition like ODI's and Test Matches, Pakistan lacked match practice.
When it comes to format-only-statistics
Test Matches
When it comes to test match cricket, statistics only proving information which at front looks awesome being a Pakistani, but on the larger scale, during the span of 365 days in a calendar year, Pakistan only managed to play 9 games only, which means roughly 45 days out of 365 days, which gives a miserable 12.33 score meaning, 12.33 percent Pakistan managed to play, and out of that 12.33 percentage, Pakistan won 77.78 percentage of those games, no offense to the opponents as being Pakistanis, we want good, competitive cricket with our opponents, but sadly this was the tale of the year for Pakistan that which ever team visited Pakistan, sent a depleted Pakistani team, although the same were highly competitive when Pakistan had an away tour in their own backyards, but when they toured Pakistan, it was like Pakistan was playing against minnows, which didn't provide good taste in mouth being a Pakistani Cricket Fan, which is a double standard (I might not be looking like a blind cricket fan), but whenever a depleted team tours Pakistan, I remember this clip of Ian Chappell of not allowing Pakistan to tour Australia.
ODI's
Sadly, as per this statistics I reconfirmed and verified several times, because initially when I fetched the said data, I couldn't believe Pakistan only managed to play 6 ODIs during a span of 365 days which makes the tally 1.64% of the games during the year and that too only in foreign land, and none of the ODI games were staged on Pakistani soil, which is a shame, as this is a slap on Pakistani authority, media managers and PR agencies who couldn't manage to stage more home ODI games, where Pakistan only managed to win 2 out of 6 games (33.33%), which means Pakistan lost 4 out of 6 games (66.67%) which clearly put weights on to my point that Pakistan lacks match practice for competing in lengthy formats vice-versa T20I format.
T20Is
The T20 statistics for Pakistan looks populated but still six of these games were played in World T20 played in the Middle East, but because of excessive T20 games, Pakistan lost tough in Test Matches and ODI's, as Pakistan forgot to play long formats just because of heavy dosage of T20Is, but still the matches Pakistan lost during the year were against Aussies, England, Proteas and Zimbabwe, and total matches lost during the said period were 6, where the lost against Aussies were the latest when Pakistan lost the WT20 semi final against them in Dubai, whereas against England, the mentioned two losses were in England after Pakistan won the first game against the host, lost remaining two games, whereas Proteas games lost were divided between one loss in Pakistan and another in South Africa, and lastly the single loss against Zimbabwe was in Harare when Pakistan toured Zimbabwe, and out of 3 games a single game was won by the hosts, but as of again, Chappell comes again, and this time I totally agree with him because too many cooks spoil the meal, and here too many T20I's spoiling (should I rephrase spoiled) the essence of cricket itself, which is not good for the game.
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