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
