Lack of strategic management
Right now, while I am writing these lines, it has been 24 hours since Pakistan lost its humiliating lost against Afghanistan, but as I am listening to Indian TV channel, I have to agree with their points, because yesterday I especially watched initial overs of Afghanistan's innings, but the intent I was expecting off Pakistan team, was nowhere to be seen,
Too gullible
This is another low, where Pakistani players have looked too gullible, because unlike 1999 Asian Test Championship where Shoaib Akhtar marked an entry into International Cricket just before ICC Cricket World Cup 1999 where Pakistan Cricket Team was actually finalist, and were dominating force during the whole span of Cricket World Cup, before disseminating to Australia in the final.
But the fact is, unlike previous ICC events, this time round, Pakistan Cricket Team didn't impress me with their aggression, I am not saying doing گالم گلوچ or otherwise do something on the scale of Afghani players do with Pakistani players, but I am talking about Pakistani aggression and intent which WE ARE USED TO and I personally have been of that generation, who grow up while watching Muhammad Zahid's, Shoaib Akhtar's Muhammad Amir, Abdul Razzaq etc.
Lack of competitive aggression from Pakistan
PCB not doing sincerity to Pakistan as a brand
PCB also known as Pakistan Cricket Board, doesn't take responsibility in taking ownership for its players, because as mentioned by Moin Khan during his analysis on Pakistani fielding efforts, his exact terms were "they looked lethargic", and he supported his argument by mentioning exposing your weaknesses to the world, by playing the same lot of players even against with the likes of Nepal (no disrespect to them), but I also have to accept, that while playing against such teams, we usually test our bench strength, but instead it was a final nail on the coffin where I actually saw Naseem Shah showing off signs of proper subtle injury which he was carrying from long,
Although, one might say, Babar Azam is to be blamed, but honestly speaking, isn't it equally responsibility of the PCB as institution to take responsibility for its players; who are supposed to be assets/inventory for PCB, such pathetic way PCB misused its own inventory?
BCCI might be in competition with PCB, but just see how BCCI took ownership of its players, and saved Shami for the best, for its ace game against the Kiwis, and in contrast, how we misused Naseem Shah, abusing Shaheen and shattered the confidence for Haris Rauf, not everybody could be as stubborn character like Shoaib Akhtar, is it possible Haris Rauf's confidence be returning any time soon? Why couldn't even IF BABAR AZAM was SUPPOSEDLY "IF" (a big if) was insisting on his friends, where was the authority power of PCB? Who is back up lineup from current lot of cricketers who're representing the country right now? As per Indian Media, Saim Ayub and Azam Khan were two names I heard, but how much international cricket playing exposure did he got? He was not even made part of Asian games, which was recently completed, so how come we be sure without exposure of international challenges, how could we be assured, he is well suited for achieving Pakistan's motives?
Furthermore, selecting Pakistan's ODI team on the basis of PSL and T20I experiences, is something which is baffling me, because just like right now I am watching South Africa and Bangladesh game, where Bangladesh definitely lost the game, but in pursuit of NRR strike, Mahmudullah is still holding the fort for Bangladesh because Bangladesh is still looking less amount of degradation into NRR scale, because they are chasing a target of 383 whereas right now Bangladesh is 222/8 in 45 overs, so teams have been playing with multiple aspects, which were aligned with their cricket boards, but instead here in case of Pakistan and Pakistan Cricket Board, they have not aligned their motives with country comes first aspect.
Political influence over PCB
When it comes to PCB and change in regime in Pakistan dated April 2022, I have seen three chairmen for PCB, during the time of regime change, it was Ramiz Raja, afterwards it was Najam Sethi, and currently it is Zaka Ashraf, who have only political will, no cricketing interests, for which Pakistan Cricket is degrading for sure.
Selfish cricket from Pakistan Cricket Team
While analyzing yesterday's game, lack of intent, unlike Bangladesh, who reduced the deficit to 149 runs which is the margin South Africa have won this match, but Bangladesh needs to be appreciated for playing with minds.
Taking back aspect from Indian game, where Kiwis counter threat of Yadav, they counter-attack him, such kind of intent was not shown by Pakistan,
Hungry for Rankings
Ranking have been main point of contention when it comes to Pakistan, although I am not gonna start discussion how Pakistan earned number 1 position, but right now New Zealand is one of the top team of this cricket world cup, but how many Kiwi players are in the rankings, but on the contrary their country is on the high, which is not the case for Pakistan.
Country comes first over nepotism and friendship.
This is something I have to take account, because while I have been mentioning "inferiority complex" where everybody is in complex of being replaced, this is something we should be ashamed because we lag collaboration aspect, we are in complex of being replaced,
Reputation of Pakistan spoilt because of this friendship saga
How Indians and foreign media have been making fun of Pakistan, which is something made me taking a break from social media, because I have been a supporter for Pakistan Cricket, but on the contrary, now they have dissipated just because they facilitated friendships over Pakistan Cricket, which is a shame, because now is not the case of downgrading me, as it is not about me, but it is about the country-comes-first approach, کیا ہم نے اس اپروچ کے ساتھ کھلواڑ نہیں کیا ہے؟؟؟
Social media behavior
Behavior of Pakistani social media "roasters" have been pathetic, because while you're having a mass medium like social media, but you have been running agenda-based coverage, instead of taking responsibility for representing the country, have the represented the country which is beneficial to the country? We are yet to require accountability for who is to represent the country and who is not?
Social media have been acting as "Pablo Escobar" for Pakistan Cricket, because they are acting as attention-seeking-personality, as Wasim Akram clearly said "نام بن جائے گا", while he was irate watching trends on Twitter trends.
Pakistan would be playing against Australia in their own backyards, is Pakistan GOING TO COMPETE Australia in Australia?
Looking on to the future, Pakistan is going to Australia, where the first test match is going to be played at Optus stadium, Perth, are we able to cope the challenge there? With these bowling figure, how can or how could be cope that particular challenge? Have we enough prepared for the same?
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