How should Pakistan have approached batting on such grassy conditions?

[Moiza]

Our usual approach where we play out the initial overs and when the ball stops moving then we score seems useless here because as we saw yesterday and commentators mentioned it too that the ball condition will hardly deteriorate throughout the day hence it only gets harder to score.

The question is how do you play in such conditions? Since the ball will do its thing all day so should we be scoring from ball 1 or should we keep with our old approach?

 

[KingKhanWC]

There is no easy way of batting on greentops esp against bowlers who can swing the ball at a decent pace. Sami Aslam was very good, playing the ball late in his defence and leaving the ball exceptionally well.

Usually waiting for the bowlers to become inpatient and then putting away the bad balls is the way to go.

 

[Bilal7]

If you don't have a Amla, Kallis type of player in your team the best thing you can do is win the toss and bowl first. Rank-turners and green-mambas heavily favor the teams eho win the toss.

 

[Varun]

The pitch sounds borderline doctored.

Not the first time New Zealand have done it.

 

[Kianig89]

Rule 1 Don't fish
Rule 2 back your ability
Rule 3 No aimless blocking

 

[shah_1]

Don't block too much

On such pitch you will get many wicket taking deliveries

 

[Suleiman]

If we won the toss it would've been closer, but it came down to few things which I'm afraid you can't really change short term:

1) Limited senior batsmen= Letting Southee build maiden after maiden and burying yourself under pressure.
2) Hit and miss pace attack= letting jobber batsmen like Grandhomme and Wagner score free runs.
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3) Weak tail= We have bigger issues, but just look at NZ's lower order contribution compared to ours.

To those who were saying this is our best chance to destroy Aussies, think again and apologize to brother [MENTION=132373]Convict[/MENTION].