Titan24
Senior Test Player
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- Oct 19, 2016
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Yes before criticizing hear me out first.
Reality is every team goes into a tournament to win it and Pakistan's performance was the worst among all the teams in terms of playing upto the potential. Even Hong Kong's established really big opening stand against India and played out of their skin.
But, other reality is Asia Cup is a tournument which holds no importance in world cricket and is not something team prepare for two years earlier so that they can win it. Even the world's best batsman Virat Kohli opted out of it so that he can rest for more important things coming up.
Again nothing to take away from any team who is in the final or played well but above paragraph is also a reality.
So how is it a blessing in disguise? We know the Asian cricket team cultures where a win hides everything and everyone in the management and selection relaxes down when a team performs well.
Indian team has been a top side for quite sometime in terms of consistency and they have arguably the best top 3 with closest competitor being England's top 3. But in this Indian team, it is the weakest middle order I have seen play for India since I started watching cricket. A past shadow of Dhoni, a Dinesh Karthik who is almost at the end of his career with nothing to flaunt and pretty mediocre avg or anything, a pretty mediocre Rayddu who has SR in 70s etc.
Kohli will come in but after him the batting looks really thin and these few wins and reaching the finals might mask that to an extent. Ideally Shubman Gill and Pant should have been developed in the last year or so. This is something which is gonna trouble India big time in the world cup next year.
For Bangladesh, their top order except Tamim is pretty weak and they dont have any quality all rounder (Ideally pace bowling all rounder) except Shakib. Ideally they would need a pace bowling all rounder in Eng other wise the tail becomes too long.
Srilanka is lacking in every department and needs big sorting out.
Pakistan has not reached the final, they might have if someone have clicked but that wouldnt have eliminated the issues in the team and would just have masked them.
This exit from asia cup would make team management and selection think about certain tactics and selections which they never would have if we would have gone to the final.
There is some hard work to be done to eliminate the issues of Pakistani team and this exit is a blessing in disguise and would make the people at the helm of affairs to notice this and realize what is lacking.
Change in mindset, approach and attitude in the need of the hour and middle order requires strengthening. Ideally these so called all rounders should have been developed against the Zimb series by playing them up the order but now its too late I guess. However, there are still certain things which can be done to improve this scenario.
Again I would say the team has potential, just needs proper selection, planning and right approach.
Reality is every team goes into a tournament to win it and Pakistan's performance was the worst among all the teams in terms of playing upto the potential. Even Hong Kong's established really big opening stand against India and played out of their skin.
But, other reality is Asia Cup is a tournument which holds no importance in world cricket and is not something team prepare for two years earlier so that they can win it. Even the world's best batsman Virat Kohli opted out of it so that he can rest for more important things coming up.
Again nothing to take away from any team who is in the final or played well but above paragraph is also a reality.
So how is it a blessing in disguise? We know the Asian cricket team cultures where a win hides everything and everyone in the management and selection relaxes down when a team performs well.
Indian team has been a top side for quite sometime in terms of consistency and they have arguably the best top 3 with closest competitor being England's top 3. But in this Indian team, it is the weakest middle order I have seen play for India since I started watching cricket. A past shadow of Dhoni, a Dinesh Karthik who is almost at the end of his career with nothing to flaunt and pretty mediocre avg or anything, a pretty mediocre Rayddu who has SR in 70s etc.
Kohli will come in but after him the batting looks really thin and these few wins and reaching the finals might mask that to an extent. Ideally Shubman Gill and Pant should have been developed in the last year or so. This is something which is gonna trouble India big time in the world cup next year.
For Bangladesh, their top order except Tamim is pretty weak and they dont have any quality all rounder (Ideally pace bowling all rounder) except Shakib. Ideally they would need a pace bowling all rounder in Eng other wise the tail becomes too long.
Srilanka is lacking in every department and needs big sorting out.
Pakistan has not reached the final, they might have if someone have clicked but that wouldnt have eliminated the issues in the team and would just have masked them.
This exit from asia cup would make team management and selection think about certain tactics and selections which they never would have if we would have gone to the final.
There is some hard work to be done to eliminate the issues of Pakistani team and this exit is a blessing in disguise and would make the people at the helm of affairs to notice this and realize what is lacking.
Change in mindset, approach and attitude in the need of the hour and middle order requires strengthening. Ideally these so called all rounders should have been developed against the Zimb series by playing them up the order but now its too late I guess. However, there are still certain things which can be done to improve this scenario.
Again I would say the team has potential, just needs proper selection, planning and right approach.
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Just saying. Hope you managed to get the right combo before WC.
