Is South Africa's rotation of players policy, the way to go for PCT or should they try another model?

[The Bald Eagle]

Rotation of players is important not only to afford key players much needed rest but also to try new talents and groom them for the future. In recent years, we have heard lot of fanfare regarding Australian and Indian players' rotation policy but infact the best one factually has been the rotation of players policy of New Zealand and South Africa.

Unlike other teams, Saffers and Kiwis do a lot of experimentation. Infact, Saffers received a lot of stick from cricket pundits for sending a bunch of newbies in Test tour to New Zealand in 2023-25 WTC cycle but in the end they prove the world wrong by winning the WTC 2025 by continuing with same policy.

The best part of Saffers rotation of players policy is non dependency factor. Hardly, they will burden a particular player with captaincy in all formats. Infact, many a time format captain won't ever be a regular face in the same format. So should PCT employ this policy too at a time when we have become hostages to same old faces running their career through PR campaign instead of performances.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Guys please add the best rotational policy for PCT, and does Saffers model best suited for us or should we try model from another board.

 

[Savak]

Pakistan's Cricket System and Media, Fans will never allow for these rotation policies. It took 3 defeats against India, Series loss against Bangladesh for the fans to demand the reinclusion of Babar and Rizwan in the T-20 team

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Pakistan's Cricket System and Media, Fans will never allow for these rotation policies. It took 3 defeats against India, Series loss against Bangladesh for the fans to demand the reinclusion of Babar and Rizwan in the T-20 team

These policies always keep big players in check when they know better bench options are available and they could actually replace them too owing to frequent chances for these lads.

 

[charlie007]

You can barely field 11 decent players for a match and you want rotation? Rotation would make sense if Pakistan were regularly beating mid and low tier teams, or somewhat occasionally beating top tier teams, which is obviously not the case. You will lose even that minuscule probability to qualify for knockouts if you begin to rotate.

 

[sweep_shot]

I think there has to be a balance between rotating main players and making them playing all games.

You don't want to lose all games. At the same time, you also need to test out bench players.

A balance is key.

 

[ads101]

Bowling rotation experimentation no issue.

Batting experimentation is a problem. It doesn’t allow batsmen to get settled. Experimenting around the order is dumb too and results in loss of form.

Playing youngsters by resting main players leads to them just competing amongst themselves. It’s even more pressure. It’s like a last chance saloon to prove your worth before the main guys come back.

Every upcoming batsmen should have got the treatment Saim got. Long run at a settled position. It’s such a shame the rest didn’t get it.

It would actually argue that if players are less talented than Saim they need more help to perform. Not less.

Anyone who has truly excelled in domestic should get a comfortable run at a settled position. Whether we rate them talent or not.

Kamran, imam, saud should all be given long runs at settled positions in tests. Even Abdullah I don’t mind sticking with him despite issues, he did do well in domestic.

In t20s, Usman, Farhan, Hasan Nawaz should get long settled runs. Usman outperformed everyone in PSL. Whether he looks bad or not he deserves it. Saim did too but he has had such a long run now you could argue he’s already been given one. I don’t care if Usman fails. People don’t realise how few batsmen in PSL from Pakistan actually dominate. With average and sr. If you’ve done that you deserve your chance no questions.

Odis are tricky as we don’t have a higher quality tournament like PSL. Probably best to mix a combination of international performance in tests or t20s first and a decent domestic record.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Pakistan has no rotation policy because these people do not believe in preparing the future stars.