2022 for Pakistan

Sorry state of affairs for Pakistan Cricket Team during the year, because all of our emphasis was on T20I, because this was the year for World T20 World Cup Event, but apart from ODI cricket, Pakistan's figures have been dismal and bears no excuses for something lame.

Although unlike previous years, Pakistan got quality cricket this time around but quality cricket taught us where exactly we stand, we as blind followers of Pakistan Cricket forgot that our team requires backing up during their grey times, because the way England team hampered us in our own conditions, is a hit on the back for us, and such is the case when I was reviewing the statistics starting from the end of 2021, when WI completed their T20 leg in Pakistan, this is where I initiated the statistics from, and sorry to say furthermore in my own terms, this is a blessing in disguise, where our faults were exposed by the mother nature and hence now it was our responsibility to overcome those drawbacks just like England Cricket Team did to their cricketing setup, although I remember during 2015 CWC, things were on the improvement for England Cricket Team, but they had an emphasis for further improvement or like we say in Managerial Terms, KAIZEN, which means Continuous Improvement, which is the main bone of contention for overall Pakistan Cricket, i.e., lack of continuity, because the policies laid down by Ramiz Raja and Co. have been bulldozed rapidly so that Ramiz Raja's personal belongings at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore are still with PCB, instead if those things are personal belongings of RR, these things should have had been accommodated to RR, because there are some moral ethics regarded to handling off personal items, instead current corrupted PCB have been showing off how much they are shameless when it comes to moral ethical norms. #EnoughSaid 
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3 - Nil on the cards against Pakistan

This is a shame that Pakistan is definitely on the verge of losing this series; that too a 3 - nil scorecard against the hosts, 

WHY Pakistan lost the series so miserably?

Pakistan lost on the strategical point of view, because Pakistan didn't go on the surprise package, furthermore if PAKISTAN was to be applying a surprise package, there should have been dictating their own terms, but instead it was other way round, where we were unprepared and underprepared, when it came to strategic management and preparation of wickets during this series, because this is the same thing which was exploited especially during the Rawalpindi Test, which was cascaded down to Multan and then to Karachi, because everyone was criticizing the wicket to that extent, that instead of we playing on our own terms, we gave the platter to the visitors, 

We lost on the strategic management terms, and helped England grooming their Future Legends instead

I personally wished, just like during the 2 Ws era, where every player was accompanied by their substitutes just like our قارین with us, because while having a ڈرپوک strategy, we have been exposed ڈرپوک just because we do afraid to experiment, I fear we are gonna expose Abrar as well, just because we do not have courage to look for alternative players like Sarfraz Ahmed, and etc., because we do not want same players to be playing again-and-again and continuously, where our players' have been playing in an era, where cricket analysts are being paid to analyze our cricketers, and tomorrow is supposed to be the last day of this series, where I am expecting England clinching this series 3-Nil just because Pakistan forgot to trust their bench-strength.

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Pakistani strategic management

What is strategic management?

Strategic Management is supposed to be Strategic management is the management of how to implement an organization’s (when it comes to achieve a particular outcome) in order to allocate resources to achieve its particular goals and objectives.

Strategic management involves setting objectives, analyzing the competitive environment, analyzing the internal organization, evaluating strategies, and ensuring that management rolls out the strategies across the organization.

Strategic management is divided into several schools of thought. A prescriptive approach to strategic management outlines how strategies should be developed, while a descriptive approach focuses on how strategies should be put into practice. These schools differ on whether strategies are developed through an analytic process, in which all threats and opportunities are accounted for, or are more like general guiding principles to be applied.

This blogpost if going to be boring for the majority but things need to be addressed

Because while I was going through yesterday's game which was a final of World T20 event penultimate game, Pakistan lost the game even before the first ball was bowled of the final, just because I am trying to elaborate SM with respect to a common layman, because I love studying strategies but not exactly a professional, so whatever I am going to elaborate here is from the point of view of a common person, hence it is requested to kindly provide feedback but do not tit-for-tat criticism just for the sake of criticizing.

Why I said, Pakistan lost the game even before the tournament initiated?

Predictable stages

I am not a professional, just an enthusiast and hence when someone as naive as me could understand this thing that you're being predictable off whatever you're tend to do, and similarly opponent team knew what Pakistan team is going to implement, hence when your future steps are as clear as daylight, how can we create a WHAT IF situation in the minds of the opponent?

Forgetting to test newer players

Excessive utilization of our A players in an era where strategic management and video analysis are a common norm, hence why instead of seeking attention for media grabbing, they must have rotated their options when they were playing series against England because against England; we gave 280 overs chance to analyze our cricketers, and we gave them chance, as instead of exposing our cricketers for each and every single game.

Negligence in creation of immediate backups for current A team players

This is another aspect I found it amusing that we are supposed to be running a professional cricket team without an option of B team players, or in professional language, avoiding contingency plans, where B team is my term for backup in lieu of current main team i.e., the A team players, 

Advantage for creating backup

One advantage is we are going to avoid monotony where we experienced during this year's T20 World Cup, where Pakistan cricket team didn't take account of the fact that while playing with fear factor of getting defeated, they exposed their main bench, although during the 7 T20I series against England at home, we could definitely test newer players, which could have opened doors for newer options, for which we paid the price while everyone worked on how to cater our batters.

Rotation management

Rotating players professionally is something also sans in current Pakistani confinement. because we are afraid to test our newer batters, one advantage is securing main players, furthermore it would have definitely created a newer breed of cricketers which might have created less stress on the current playing cricketers.

Keeping aces as cognitive

This is another aspect, where especially in case of Pakistan, Shahzaib Hasan and Fakhar Zaman have been two aspects, where for the time being, we got a trump card, for which we could have had utilized because they were not exposed, because yesterday too we could have had worked on the aspect where we could have given rest to Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan, because we are responsible for letting them exposed and while getting exposed, we have been ridiculing them and even discussing options for newer skippers, which is pathetic helm of affairs.

Focusing on the final outcome

We require to align our final outcome with respect to the monthly assignments, i.e., we need to plan how we are going to enter alongside creating ample number of backups to the world cup which is 50 overs Cricket World Cup which is in India, how we are planning to move towards that world cup, for which we require to stage strategic pitstops.

Performance management 

Performance management or performance analysis is something sans in current Pakistani setup for which I am also in favor for, because performance analysis-based assessment requirement is the need of the time.

Performance based analysis

There should be ranking based analysis on the performances, because in that regard, there would be competition in cricketers within the pool which is going to be beneficial for the team itself.

Management requires Courageous Decisions

This is the main aspect which requires implementation of proper domestic circuit matches, because I personally find it amusing that our بابے management have been afraid of being defeated in bilateral series, but instead forget the thought that their (visiting teams' video analysts) analyze our aces and in big tournaments like WT20 and CWC, they exploit our strengths as weaknesses, hence the management have to look out of the boxes and have to look more into bigger picture and strategically utilize our players and own them instead of utilizing them like a toilet roll.

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While going through to the post-match programs of our sports channels

Pakistan have lost the final against England by 5 wickets, statistics mislead, today I learnt this lesson, because lost by 5 wickets doesn't give an impression what exactly is going on, because the way we exposed ourselves.

Exposed???

Yes! I mean it, because like in my previous post I mentioned, we had predictable strategy on how we are going to move within the match just because our marketing team exposed our strategies, and became predictable at times, but another thing which I noted that our management was afraid of being defeated, if you are afraid of being defeated, you must have had got alternative of current fraternity of players playing so that players do not have comfort level that they are steady, if they have pressure that someone is at their expense; so they must have taken responsibility.

Captaincy discussion on sporting channels

This is ridiculous helm of affairs as we are talking about Pakistan Cricket, what kind of message are we conveying Internationally? We are exposing that we as Pakistanis are impulsive individuals, Babar Azam is not perfect, I agree. but whose responsibility is it to furnish him?

Captaincy is not a problem, where is the responsibility of the management and those who're on the helm of affairs of making and creation of strategies? Have we made sure that whatever mashups we did today, what guarantee that these things won't be repeated? Furthermore, I am not in favor of changing skippers, instead I have been saying not to bring Sarfaraz back but at least support the current captain, because now whole team management is responsible for giving open hands to skipper, not everyone is street-smart, so when you had someone (Sarfaraz) who was street-smart, why was he sacked instead of backing him up? He was also not perfect, but this is the responsibility of management to get rid of these issues, so have we made them accountable for their actions?

Grass-root mindset upgradation required

This is sad helm of affairs, as whatever the facilities and conditions we get on international arena, is not available in domestic games, ESPNcricinfo not even cover premier Pakistan List A tournament (Quaid-e-Azam Trophy) live, this is why because our management doesn't invest in domestic, other countries earn through their domestic games whereas our domestic games have been سفید ہاتھی with no intention of creating it as an earning body.

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Congratulations in advance to England

After West Indies, England is going to be the second team which won more than 1 T20 World cup event, as till now only West Indies have been the only team which won 2 events.

Congratulations England

But the issue was planning, England planned all of this from the game they lost against Ireland, but what strategy did Pakistan incorporated when they were down and out? It should always be planning problem otherwise there is no shortage of the manpower, I was always emphasizing on not exposing your main team so regularly, but like I mentioned in one of my previous posts, we as nation have been impulsive, and hence didn't have ethical and moral courage to test their B Side and avoid exposing your A side, that's why I am not complaining why Pakistan didn't play up to the mark just because i. England also came for competition, ii. we exposed our aces at the right time.

the Right Time?

Yes, because stupidly we have ample time to media managers of their teams to study our players, and just imagine from Asia Cup, almost an unchanged team has been played, because we are afraid of defeat but forgot that there is a lot of difference between losing the game and game being lost, and what I am trying to utter, is the second part, where we had lost the game before even bowling in the event, 

This is not a short-term cosmetic solution

Instead, we require to incorporate the same into our domestic circuit, as during the current season of World T20 event, we all have seen the importance of data and data management in Australian grounds, similarly, when the broadcaster have such amount of data related to our cricketers. than imagine how much of the data backend management would have, so while comparing them with us, we have been naive in comparison.

50 runs off 40 balls remaining

While I have been writing on two screens simultaneously, one my laptop screen, second preceding big screen behind my laptop screen airing match, and Naseem Shah is about to finish his spell than 2 overs of Afridi, 2 of Rauf and rest of the two overs from Wasim, hence commentators are saying even stevens, but I am continuing with my saying that Pakistan lost the game on tactical grounds.

When you're so eager to show off and expose your aces on wrong moment

Because England enjoying the idiot-ness from Pakistan, already yesterday I was viewing my social media feed, a YouTube video came into my view, where Pakistan was shown not giving ample respect to retiring cricketers, apart from Misbah and Younus Khan, similarly I would like to continue from there, we do not know how to patronage available resource.

28 off 24... game over...

Congratulations to Team England, you really played the game of chess in the game of cricket, but at least we have the finalist.

What is now for Pakistan?

Pakistan needs to work on their bench-strength and media management, because already we have seen the importance of data, and we sold our assets to them, although well played Pakistan but whatever the result we created, we all have to be held responsible for this impulsive behavior.

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May the best team wins today

I personally feel people need to be sensible enough, tomorrow if result goes topsy turvy for Pakistan, still this is the team, which gave us hope from nowhere, this is something may might not be important for some, but for me, it is a memory lane, when I'd be sitting with my grandchildren, I'd tell them I was there when Pakistan cricket team was down and out and even I had lost hope and then Pakistan fought back and played the final of 2022 T20 WC, But I was proud of my team because it gave us hope. If Pakistan wins, then I don't know how much I am going to react, but I am calming myself down because the way England convincingly win against India, it is highly possible it'd not be an easy peasy for Pakistan. But keeping good hopes alive and want my team to win. Amen...

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Chand Raat of the final

Chand Raat is supposed to be the night before the big day, usually associated with Ramadan and Eid but this time round it is the case with Pakistan's inclusion into WT20 event, 

A big but

As within 2 months' time, England have already played Pakistan 7 times, and tomorrow's encounter is going to be the 8th time, furthermore English players also participate in Pakistan's PSL and similarly Pakistani players in Vitality blast, so both teams are no alien to each other.

Hence

Playing it safe, I would rather give onus to England although I want Pakistan to win, as in this political debacle in Pakistan, we require something good and positive from our cricket team, furthermore I must confess again, I am not in favor of making each and every one of the youth as useless to be politician, because the mode our media is in, either they have been doing publicity stunt otherwise too many news reports to distract the reality.

Coming back to the cricket

Let the best team wins, although mind is saying England but from the heart point of view, it is Pakistan, hence I am going to play safe and let the best team win, because it is even difficult for me to have hard heart to go against Pakistan, but it is going to be a tough game, although we had won comprehensively against the Kiwis, but this is a different ball game.

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HBL PSL 2023 Updates

Karachi Kings have traded their captain Babar Azam to Peshawar Zalmi to get Haider Ali and Shoaib Malik for the upcoming season of the Pakistan Super League. Quetta Gladiators were also interested in Babar but couldn't close the deal.

At the moment, Babar is the only player in Platinum category for Zalmi, who also got the first pick in the supplementary round of the draft in exchange. Similarly, Haider is currently Kings' only player in Platinum category, while Malik joins Imad Wasim and Mohammad Amir in Diamond.

Full list of retained players:

Islamabad United: 

1. Shadab Khan (Platinum). 
2. Asif Ali (Brand Ambassador) and 
3. Mohammad Wasim (Diamond). 
4. Azam Khan, 
5. Faheem Ashraf and 
6. Hasan Ali (Gold). 
7. Colin Munro and 
8. Paul Stirling (Silver).

Karachi Kings: 

1. Haider Ali (Platinum). 
2. Imad Wasim, 
3. Mohammad Amir and 
4. Shoaib Malik (Diamond). 
5. Aamir Yamin, 
6. Mir Hamza and 
7. Sharjeel Khan (Silver). 
8. Qasim Akram (Emerging)

Lahore Qalandars: 

1. Shaheen Shah Afridi and 
2. Rashid Khan (Platinum). 
3. Haris Rauf (Brand Ambassador) and 
4. David Wiese (Diamond). 
5. Abdullah Shafique (Gold). 
6. Kamran Ghulam and 
7. Harry Brook (Silver). 
8. Zaman Khan (Emerging).

Multan Sultans: 

1. Mohammad Rizwan (Platinum). 
2. Khushdil Shah, 
3. Rilee Rossouw and 
4. Shan Masood (Diamond). 
5. Shahnawaz Dahani (Brand Ambassador) and 
6. Tim David (Gold). 
7. Abbas Afridi and 
8. Ihsanullah (Emerging).

Peshawar Zalmi: 

1. Babar Azam (Platinum). 
2. Sherfane Rutherford and 
3. Wahab Riaz (Diamond). 
4. Mohammad Haris (Gold). 
5. Aamir Jamal (Brand Ambassador), 
6. Salman Irshad and 
7. Tom-Kohler Cadmore (Silver).

Quetta Gladiators: 

1. Mohammad Nawaz (Platinum). 
2. Iftikhar Ahmed and 
3. Jason Roy (Diamond). 
4. Mohammad Hasnain and 
5. Sarfaraz Ahmed (Gold). 
6. Naveen-ul-Haq, 
7. Umar Akmal (Mentor) and 
8. Will Smeed (Silver)

 

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Windies syndrome on Kiwis

This is something off the grid, but the fact is I am good team like New Zealand is also going on the path of Windies players, where they are having trouble in retaining players for central contract, as Coach Gary Stead expects New Zealand's playing resources to be put under further pressure by the expanding franchise T20 scene, as the selectors get set to address the immediate future of Trent Boult now that he does not hold a central contract after stepping away from it in early August.

Kiwi players' not giving patronage to National Duty

Boult has deals in the BBL and ILT20 during December and January when New Zealand will be touring Pakistan. Boult's decision to opt out of a central contract was followed by Colin de Grandhomme announcing his international retirement after taking a BBL contract just weeks later. Then, come September, even Jimmy Neesham declined an NZC contract to instead honour overseas league commitments

At Least We should give due respect to our cricketers

This is a reality as we have an attitude of گھر کی مرغی دال برابر our cricketers and the management have been dedicated, while allowing them for foreign leagues but also trying to avoid خلیفہ گیری but sorry to say, with response to the impulsive nature of our people. we are not seeing matters in the same context because our focus has been out of focus,

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Seems like 1992 in 2022

I usually don't like matchups, but the fact is there have been similarities between that era and current one, apart from that this time England might cross the line this time, because being Pakistani cricket supporter, we are totally ignoring the fact that England have also came to take this trophy to London, just like Pakistan wants this trophy to roam on the streets of Karachi, Lahore and elsewhere.

My prediction

Someone might call me devil's advocate, but I personally feel, this is going to be a hard-fought game, which if PAKISTAN wins, will be something I would love to cherish, but right now, the form England is right now, I will have to give my onus to England, but from the core of my heart, I want Pakistan to win.

More bigger things equally important as the Final going to be played on Sunday

In the wake of last month's successful staging of seven T20Is in Karachi and Lahore, there is no suggestion at this stage that the tour is under direct threat. It is understood that the ECB - which attracted criticism for its abrupt cancellation of last year's goodwill visit to the country - is keen to allow the situation to stabilize before any decisions have to be made.

Nevertheless, supporters of Imran's political party, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI), are expected to resume their "long march" towards the capital later this week, as they continue their demands for a general election, meaning they are likely to pass through Rawalpindi towards the third week of November.

That date is likely to overlap with England's anticipated arrival from their training camp in Dubai on November 26-27, with the first Test at Rawalpindi - England's first in the country since 2005 - set to begin on December 1. England are due to play two subsequent Tests, in Multan from December 9-13 and Karachi from December 17-21.

Dickason, who heads up the security firm ESI Risk, is expected to leave for Pakistan later this week, after he has overseen the arrival of England's ODI players ahead of their three-match series against Australia next week. His previous involvement with the England squad includes the 2016 tour of Bangladesh, which took place in the wake of a terrorist attack in the capital, Dhaka.

"We have the best security officer in the world in Reg Dickason trying to find out information for us," Stokes added. "Whatever Reg says, the players and the ECB will listen because he knows exactly what he is doing."

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Impulsive nature of our people

Right now, when I am typing these lines, I have been scrolling on my social media, and while I was going through their tweets and retweets, I found an unusual aspect where on 27th October, people were making fun, (I was also saying that they do not deserve to be in the finals) but never I trolled them, instead I am still adamant on whatever I said I should be held responsible for it, but the topsy turvy ride I encountered while analyzing the tweets, exposed an aspect that being commoners, we do not have that understanding of how things actually happen, 

While someone be reading these lines

They are going to surely say اس کو تو بہت کچھ پتا ہے or something similar on the lines, but this narcissists temperament should not be tolerated nor promoted like the way WE ACTUALLY DID to our boys, these are our boys, they require to be tolerated and similarly required to be taunted, but trolling, mental torturing them, is something totally unethical and during a tour, such things shouldn't be promoted, because it is not about some Asad, Amjad, Kaleem but it is about Pakistan, is that the way we want to give language to aliens/foreigners to make fun of not an individual instead of Pakistan?

Why are we like that?

While making our own people be UNDER our influence? Otherwise, WE ourselves are still under influence from گوری چمڑی but question still remains, why ridicule our own people? Have you forgotten the moral ethics our ELDERS used to teach us?

Qudrat ka Nizam!!!

Another hot topic, currently trending on the Twitter media, is Qudrat ka Nizam, man! this should be the height of maximus trolling, means whatever the thing we can justify; has the license to be trolled, where are we heading to? What are our entertainment arenas? Is trolling only entertainment for us? This is a shame...

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Pakistan into the finals...

Right now, when I am writing these lines, 4:52 pm in evening at Karachi, and Pakistan have qualified for the final of world T20 2022, now it is up to the team's contesting tomorrow at Adelaide, that it'd be either India or England whom Pakistan would be contesting at Melbourne.

Pakistan has nothing to lose from here

This is a reality for Pakistan cricket team, even if Pakistan loses against the finalist, Pakistan was not even expected to go this far but this is a reality that now Pakistan has surpassed Kiwis and would be waiting for their opponents amid tomorrow's game, but even if we saw Pakistan's برا وقت during the game, we should remember one thing that one team wins and similarly one has to lose and hence we can be on the wrong side of the bed, although being a Pakistani, I'd like boys in green to lift the same fate like Younus Khan & Co. did in 2009.

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Just before the Semi-final 1 between New Zealand and Pakistan

Right now, when I am typing these lines, it is 9th November, Allama Iqbal holiday in Pakistan, and we are going to witness a cliffhanger game between the finalists of previous series i.e., New Zealand tri nation series, viz., NZ and Pakistan are locking horns with each other in two hours' time.

One team topped the group, the other barely made it, just like it was three decades ago

There are parallels. They may not mean anything, but they're there, if you're the kind of cricket fan who looks for them. And if you're a Pakistan fan, you're always looking for parallels to 1992, as there have been similarities in between, decades ago during 1992 and scenario now, but as a matter of fact, we should not get relaxed and treat it as a game, 

Form guide

As per current form guide and the hiccups attitude of Pakistan Cricket Team, three wins on the trot is something raising eyebrows, if PAKISTAN wins todays' match, I wish I would be proven wrong as I want it to win but realistically speaking, and as per my internal gut feeling, (again, I want my gut feeling wrong), things might go South for Pakistan, furthermor, both teams' are coming off a win hence today's match might be heartbreaking for one team, where I am placing my onus on NZ (again, I want myself to be wrong).

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As predicted - Group 1 consists of...

Right now, while I am typing these lines, the final lineup from Group-1 is finalized, which as per statistics and NRR standings, New Zealand is the Group-1 first team whereas England is the Group1 second team, whereas tomorrow is the turn of Group-2 where at once within a single day, two teams tomorrow by this time will be finalized who'd be playing New Zealand and England respectively during semifinals.

Prospects for Pakistan

I personally do not want Pakistan to go on as the current خلیفہ گیری culture in current Pakistan outfit should not be tolerated, because already our society has deteriorated the ethical and moral norms within the society, which is not my concern because on an international medium like BLOGGER, we shouldn't plagiarize Pakistan on international arena, but this thing should not be tolerated being Muslims, 

When it comes to Pakistan's situation, Pakistan is more likely to have the same fate as Australia where SL and ENG were playing but Australia lost, similar is the aspect for Pakistan where India and Zimbabwe would be playing for Pakistan to either qualify for semifinals, otherwise back home, but like we say in Urdu اس طرح گر گر کر کھیلنے کے بجائے واپس ہی آجاؤ as country's respect and dignity matters, although if while playing like that, even if we win, we shouldn't be tolerating this خیلفہ گیری within the team, because everybody was cheering for current outfit just because the دیدہ دلیری they had shown till the semifinal against Australia, people even praised them, this is the culture we should promote instead of showing off the world that we are playing while being afraid of the team we're playing with.

Winning and losing are the two side of the game being played

This is the main thing we should remember that whenever two teams play, one has to win and similarly other has to be on the other side of the win, but the intent being shown is something be exuberating instead of cowardly portraying the brand of Pakistan Cricket on International arena.

Personally feel, India and South Africa

If there won't something like a Zimbabwe-Pakistan game, I personally feel India and South Africa are supposed to be the two teams qualifying for the semifinal berth, although being a Pakistani boy, I would still be cheering for Pakistan, but because the way Pakistan have performed, I should not blindly support the boys in green, although I am cheering for team Pakistan but realistically Pakistan has a mild chance, as currently while I am writing these lines, all of the Group-2 teams have played 4/5 games each, hence while India would be playing Zimbabwe, and if according to the expectations, India wins, than India will score 8 points, otherwise if Zimbabwe wins, it'd give Zimbabwe something to cheer about but would also stuck India on 6 points, when it'd require Pakistan to win game against Bangladesh, because already Pakistan's NRR is superior than India's therefore this is the only circumstances Pakistan can qualify, means in order to Pakistan to qualify, it is needed to be acting like Australia who were watching England v SL game, which is something I personally don't like being a Pakistan cricket fan.

What is next for Pakistan?

Tomorrow after completion of Bangladesh clash with Pakistan, it'd be either Pakistan be playing New Zealand in the semis otherwise it's next encounter would be against England in test match cricket, where Pakistan would be hosting England for the test match series starting from the first test match staged at Rawalpindi, second test match to be played at Multan between 9th December to 13th December, and finally third and penultimate test match to be played at Karachi during 17th December to 21st December, similarly just after completion of England series, small test match series between Kiwis be played respectively in Karachi and Multan during the new years' eve, where first test match to be played between 27th December to 31st December 2022 and second test match to be staged between 4th January 2023 to 8th January 2023 following with a Karachi-centric ODI series where 11, 13, and 15 January 2023 games be played between the opponents.

Afterwards, New Zealand is going to make another trip to Pakistan, for T20 games which is also going to be mostly staged in Karachi which will start from 13, 15, 16, 19 April where all of these games are going to be staged in Karachi, whereas last T20 game is to be played on 23rd April in GSL, after completion of T20 series, from 26th April 2023, first 26th April and second ODI 28th April is to be played at GSL, starting from the third ODI at Rawalpindi on Labor Day i.e. 1st May, 4th May and 7th May, but I personally feel it is going to be a hard fight series after watching recently concluded T20I series against England, as I am personally feeling Pakistan won't have that courage to play with their strength and weaknesses like we utter in management studies known as SWOT analysis, sorry to say, the management at PCB, don't have courage to analyze their strengths and weaknesses, otherwise other teams while traveling to our region, analyze their strengths and weakness in order to cater their challenges they are supposed to be facing while touring Pakistan.

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As far as Statistics concerned, if I name two teams from each group, New Zealand and England from Group 1, and South Africa and India from Group 2, while leaving Pakistan team, just because of their inability to convert singles into doubles in regular intervals

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Qualification for the semi finals

South Africa's five-wicket win against India takes them a lot closer to a semi-final spot, while at the same time jeopardising the qualifying chances of Pakistan. Here's a look at how the teams are shaping up with six matches to go in Group 2.

Proteas

Played: 3 Points scored: 5 NRR: 2.772 Matches remaining: 2 Matches with: PAKISTAN and Netherlands They have been in contention for easily passing for the semi final stage without any hiccup, as they are in healthy NRR, furthermore they have sufficient group points in their tally.

India

Played: 3 Points scored: 4 NRR: 0.844 Matches remaining: 2 Matches with: Bangladesh and Zimbabwe They are currently the 2nd best team from this group to be qualifying for the semi-final berth.

Bangladesh

Played: 3 Points scored: 3 NRR: -1.533 Matches remaining: 2 Matches with: India and PAKISTAN They are also in contention where if any major upset occurs, they might have a chance to enter the semi-final seat.

Pakistan

Played: 3 Points scored: 2 NRR: 0.765 Matches remaining: 2 Matches with: South Africa and Bangladesh Pakistan is the only country in this group who have only an outside chance, where we are still dependant on winning and losing of other countries and with response to them, we are dependant on their results, because of which being a sportsman, I don't want Pakistan to go forward with such distressed performance, instead give chance to other countries who're performing and well deserved.

Zimbabwe

Played: 3 Points scored: 3 NRR: -0.050 Matches remaining: 2 Matches with: Netherlands and India Zimbabwe need to win both their remaining matches to stay in the hunt. If they beat Netherlands and lose to India, they will end up with only five points, which will almost certainly not be enough.

The Netherlands

Played: 3
Points scored: 0
NRR: -1.984
Matches remaining: 2
Matches with: Zimbabwe and South Africa With zero points from three games, Netherlands are out of the tournament.

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I won't be surprised if ...

Many of my Indian colleagues are going to laugh at it, but the kind of performance we had during the T20 World Cup currently being staged in Australia, Pakistan team does not deserves a place in the Semi-final tally.

Why I am saying that

Just about the end of 2021 T20 world cup, which was exactly a year ago, we knew that the next world cup is going to be staged at Australia, so was our management sleeping that time? Instead of taking sensible decisions like making them practice on fast and bouncy tracks with working on your weakness, which is short pitch delivery, which was even noticed during the first encounter of both arch-rivals i.e., Pakistan and India in recently concluded Asia Cup, so didn't it ring something in the heads of so-called management?

I might be looking like an angry bird but...

I am normal right now, and IF Pakistan didn't go to the next stage, I won't be surprised, because I am not going to support the ongoing خلیفہ گیری within the team, because at the end of the day, the team is known by the name PAKISTAN, and such pathetic performance imposed on the name of PAKISTAN is something for a patriot like me and many more, doesn't like to associate with.

Fault is on planning and management of planning

This is something I can continue conversating on and on, but the matter of fact is this department is of management to analyze the situation and communicate the same to the team whenever possible, furthermore, don't wanna be mentioning this as already things have been difficult for our current captain but Babar Azam has to step up and instead of recording videos for PEPSI and Pakistan Cricket Board Media Cell, he should work on his street smartness, because captain's strategy shouldn't be that much of a predictable aspect for opponent team, which is sans in Babar Azam's case.

I am not saying

I am not saying to get rid of Babar Azam, but at least groom and two other players who can be best alternative for Babar Azam, similarly creating backup is also an aspect related to the management side, I don't know why whole of your management staff is busy incorporating themselves into media things, I know this is the era of media attention, but I personally feel, don't be so much of an attention seeker, because not only you but like a KARMA, 10 more people are going to be inspired off this media attention thing, and then a ripple effect would be seen in some years' time.

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World T20 - India v Pakistan game

Right now, while I am typing, it is 6.45 pm in evening at Karachi, and some hours ago, India v Pakistan game just finished, with India winning against us, I am not here to explain the match summary, but instead I would like to dissect the match, what actually went wrong after the Required Run Rate i.e. RRR was touching a 17 required runs per over mark.

A subtle disclaimer: this is not beating around the bush

I have to mention this disclaimer at first, just because of the tiktok fraternity freely available on the social media platform, will start to bash me, because this is what they are good in, for which personally I can't understand, why they are being promoted and marketed like they are being right now, can't we understand the chain reaction it is going to generate to our society? OK I understand, I am around 35 so not much of impact on me, but the second generation after mine, is definitely going to be impacted by this syndrome, which should be highlighted by our elders, for which I would rather say that our elders who are elder than me as well, when I utter this thing to them, they casually start saying, اس کے دودھ کے دانت نہیں ٹوٹے ہیں، باتیں سن لو اس کی،  this is what I have to hear whenever I try highlighting this issue, that's why I am utilizing my blog medium to highlight the same.

Coming back to the cricket

Cricket was played with good spirit and within good omen, with last few games these two nations played, Pakistan won 2 out of 3 games in last three games starting from 2021 World T20 event, 

A reality check!

Right now when I am noting these lines down, there have been a باسی news that India is not coming to Pakistan for contesting Asia Cup encounters, citing political games, but I personally feel, this is how they are safeguarding their cricketers from the trauma they used to get while they used to play with Pakistan on the regular basis, I personally remember 1999 tri-nation series in India, where Pakistan bolted down Indians in their own backyards, so for that thing, they distant themselves from Pakistan cricketers and created their own utopian bubble, I am using the term utopian bubble because even when you seed a plant, it requires sometime to flourish, afterwards they enjoy its shade, similar is the case where they went into cognition with Pakistan, whereas Pakistan during that time period, was in the state of private TV channels coming rapidly just like lady birds during rainy and moisty season, otherwise India utilized their time, not only creating a proper cricket team captained by Sourav Ganguly, later precedented by MS Dhoni, but also created a Media Policy on what kind of news are they gonna release, otherwise Media on our side of the border acted as a مست ہاتھی who do not have moral etiquettes of what to release, and how to release and how it impacts our country on the whole, keeping in mind at that time, India didn't had media rights, for one series they used to air up with Channel 9, than Ten Sports, NEO Sports and than the list goes on, but they worked on the script created a script and then worked on it, means they had a continuum, they conducted a SWOT analysis of their overall structure, whereas R&D in our part of the world is still new thing, everybody is busy creating TikTok's and bashing one another to show their authority, this is inferiority complex within the society I have been observing since I was 21 years old, whereas now I am going to blow my 35th birthday candle in coming months, but keeping long story short, this is due to a plan because of which they are in cognition with Pakistan and other countries', 

How does it mean, it is because of this history lesson?

Just imagine, the way Indians used to get afraid of us, they actually thought about their younger generations, and that's why they placed their players into cognition, where their contracted players are not allowed to participate in other country's cricket leagues, because they are in tandem with a certain plan which they have been busy implementing right now when I am typing these lines.

Pakistan does require a proper media management and R&D

Pakistan Cricket Board media management team has to work hard because it is a hard work to make sure which news is to be released and which is not, and not only that, there should be a continuum whether Ramiz Raja goes and someone else comes, but these policies should be intact.

Why am I emphasizing so much on media management?

I am emphasizing so much on media management, as such kind of news get released into mainstream media, which gives the impression that whole of the nation is like that, although گنتی کے کچھ لوگوں کی وجہ سے پوری قوم بدنام ہوتی ہے there should be a uniform media team associated with the PCB to get hold of affairs on their own.

About today's game!

FIRST have a look at Pakistan's batting performance.

This is a shame that Pakistan didn't plan about a Go South Scenario when Babar and Rizwan both getting out cheaply, this is the main job of management instead of giving interviews on the TV channels every now and then, this is their responsibility to create a back-up of each and every cricketer who's currently serving the national side, because when such kind of scenario was in during the period when Pakistan had its own WILLS Cup, every cricketer had its backup, because of which Pakistan cricket exhilarated, but when such exercise was ceased, we have been noting down that after Azhar Mehmood and Abdul Razzaq, we are still in search of a finisher who can chip-in whenever needed in middle order, some might say, we have Shadab and Nawaz, but my query to them, do we have a backup of them? Have we placed an emphasis on creating a backup in the longer run? That's why we actually suffered because when in one over i.e., over number 12, when Iftikhar scored 21, this was the high time how to maneuver the strike and accelerate instead of getting out the next over, because when you had scored a 50, you have consumed ample number of deliveries and hence it is your responsibility to finish the game, because the particular over I am talking about, Pakistan run rate got 7.58, if wickets had not fallen at that time, in next few overs in must have had increased till 8 runs per over mark which might have increased the scoring when Shaheen's onslaught period, so importance of finishers is of high importance just like a player has to play the anchor role where whole of the innings revolves around.

When it comes to India's innings, after Pakistan getting wickets of both openers and opening of middle order, the partnership between Hardik and Virat got some stability into the tormenting done by Pakistani pacers, but personally I felt, Pakistani bowlers lacked game awareness, except Haris Rauf, none of the bowlers had their game awareness button switched off, we all like Haris Rauf, but do we have the answer on why we love HR? It is because he has a game awareness AI system installed in him, because of which unlike other Pakistani bowlers, he's still a hard bowler to hit sixes.

Some regional politics

Being Pakistani and not to talk about regional politics, especially during the period when we have been living in a 5th gen warfare time period, this is typical way of exploiting the whole nation, especially when our government is unable to defend the whole nation internationally. Enough Said, otherwise ....

Current standings after Pakistan India Game

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After the completion of Super-12 lineup

Right now, when I am writing these lines, the final lineup for the super has been finalized, which are as follows, 

Group of death which is Group 1, personally I feel is the 
most difficult of the groups, and hard to decide the Semi-
Final standings

Something I am feeling awkward is West Indies is not present in this lineup, which is sad for the cricket game itself, but the group Pakistan is comprises of all dark horses, means one odd game, might cost Pakistan a position in the semi finals.

Seems an easy group but this group is more trickier as this
group comprises of majorly dark horses.

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Pakistan's middle order woes goes on to World T20I event

Thank God, Pakistan ain't playing the qualifiers unlike current Asian Champion Sri Lanka and West Indies have been playing, because the kind of form associates teams like Namibia, Netherlands, UAE and Zimbabwe (although I know it is being harsh to call them associate team, but their cognition from international cricket has made me call them an associate team) have been showing resilience and hence they might be the dark horses for the teams like Pakistan, India Bangladesh, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand etc.

Up-till now

West Indies and Sri Lanka have lost their games against Scotland and Namibia, and that too on the very first day of the qualifiers, which exhibit the amount of competition we are going to see as the tournament goes on.

One thing

Monotony of final outcome of the game
is not good for the game itself

Australians have done one thing good for sure, which was sans in Middle East conditions, that winning the toss and bowling means you have won the match, this thing doesn't applicable on the Australian turf, instead it is all about statistics because I was watching pitch analysis of Samuel Badree and Ian Bishop, and they were right on the mark, so this tournament is going to proceed under data analysis and statistics instead of winning the toss and bowl means you win the match.

Pakistan v England warmup game

Off late both teams have been playing a lot with each other, which includes 7 T20I games between the two, which was won by the English 4 games to 3, but this time Pakistan did experiment courageous decision of playing with many of the players rested, because I also have been saying, this is high time to test your bench strength, because while I was watching National T20 tournament final between KP and Sindh, and the way Sindh dominated the chase is the determination I'd like to see in the National Side because winning and losing is parts and parcel of the game, but how you execute your A-game is what matters the most.

Australia during CWC 1992

We all remember 1992 CWC due to Pakistan winning, but one thing we all forget, how Aussies emerged from that time to 2003, 2007 and 2015 Champions on the roll, just because they invested in research and development, and the science cum statistics they incorporated into the game of cricket, due to which they are ruling the game, as they have gained a momentum and consistency into their game.

My expectations from Pakistan team this WT20I Cup 2022

If they win, it'd be great but I am expecting them to reach the second round, i.e., the semi-final; but if they win, it'd be icing on the cake for team Babar Azam aka. BA and co. furthermore after West Indies, Pakistan is going to be the second team which won more than one World T20I Cup.

My prediction

This tournament unlike UAE edition, is wide open; and can be anyone's game but Australia, NZ, South Africa, England and India have more chances to win, because they have momentum with them, but we must look after teams which between the tournament gains momentum, just like Sri Lanka during recently concluded Asia Cup 2022, when none gave them a chance, they gained momentum, and cruised with the Asia Cup, similarly these teams have more chances but again look for the momentum teams going to take during the tournament.

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