I hope Dale Steyn leaves some deep psychological scars on Pakistan (not only the batsmen, but the bowlers, selectors, ... chaiwala, all). Remember watching in 'Fire in Babylon' that when the WI toured Australia in '75, they were not only whitewashed 6-0, but Lillee and Thomson were toying with their batsmen, Viv Richards saying that some of them even genuinely feared for their health. The WI did have fast bowlers, Roberts and a Holding on debut who used to cry at racist remarks, but they were not the WI bowlers we heard all about - all intimidating the batsmen with pacy bouncers and trying to break the ribs and jaws. That changed happen after the disastrous tour, in order to 'serve them cold what we were offered'.
I'm always supporting the team, but I hope that Dale Steyn looks like a butcher who faces XI little chickens and asks himself at which unfortunate little soul throws his axe this time.
It should enact a thought process in the whole country and launch a MASSIVE PCB talent hunt - don't get me wrong, I don't expect the WI attack of the 70s, but ONE genuine (GENUINELY) fast bowler, who MIGHT be erratic even if you learn your line and length later on (unless you pull out a Sami) but will put fear into the pads of the batsmen... we already have skilled trundlers anyway, many of them actually (Ehsan Adil on board actually is a good prospect), but these PCB talent hunts should come up with some star material... I mean, I read from time to time that they've found a 6'4'' 16 years old pacer from Panjgur in Balochistan and the same for Kohat in KPK ; that's the isolated areas where we should look at, but contrarily to the precedent 'finds', hire PROFESSIONAL coaches and MONITOR them, POLISH their talent, put them through U15s/U19s then introduce them smoothly into FC cricket.
I'm sure we can at least find ONE fast bowler when Zahid was saying that (nearly) ALL FC teams had FEW of them in the 90s (and that's the words of perhaps the fastest of 'em, ever)! Back then they didn't even find the place in the national squad and now we have peoples feeling nirvana through Gul's -140 lollipops with no seam, no swing, garbage line and length, nothing of a Test bowler... and supposedly the 'leader of our bowling attack'. Ffs, shame for our legacy.
Have high hopes for some U19 kids right now though...
Pak's bowling will be always good. Its their batting that sucks outside subcontinent. Show me a Pak batsman who did will in conditions like Aus, England and in SA over the years? None. Even Inzi had just 30+ avg on bouncy wickets I think.
That's why he's God, not only doing it, but sustaining it at +50 average all that time.
