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Modern day batting culture and Pakistan

Shabraz

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What we are lacking in our as a batting unit, when we compare our batting style wid modern great teams like England, India, NZ, Australia and even S. Africa to some extent. It's the fearlessness and uninhibited aggressive approach in thier batting. When u hv a look at them to see how they adopted in to it!? U ll find different variables in thier system which enabled thier transition in modernarity of current play.
1. In my view first thing these countries did, is thier coaching idea, I think modern coaches inculcate and inspire this style of play while we hv overly emphasized culture of SEEDHA BAT technique, which embeds a defensive mind set in players when they are in phase of learning. U can hv good test players by this coaching staff but u can't hv players who can hv aptitude of having shorter format acumen.
2. Second thing which relates this context is modern teams work on players Pschological capacity building. While we are totally ignorant of of this crucial aspect of game which is as important as having skill and potential of game.
3. Third thing, we as passionate fans, create over hype abt the budding players whenever we see a glimpse of talent. We would want these youngsters to fast track wid out making them prove thier talent by consistent performances and earn thier call at highest level ( so many exempls in Pak). Modern teams invest on players who r identified as having potential by giving them ample time to learn in domestic setups.
4. Another thing which modern teams do is personality assessment of players before they being given national call ups, traits of team sprit, dynamism, leadership etc are being judged to forsee the potential of success. In current team we had players who play for averages and individual performances.
5. Often our selections are so immature, we need to assess a plsyers potential both situations and statistic wise.
Pakistan has to have these things of modernarity cover up to succeed and survive.
 
How have we gone from trying to open with the likes of Imran Nazir, Afridi, and Razzaq, to then thinking having both Rizwan and Babar in your T20I top 3 is a good idea, in 2021.
 
Total inability by Imam, Abdullah, Rizwan, Babar, Saud and Salman to consistently play the cut, pull, hook shot against the pacers.

The Aussie pacers know this which is why they consistently pepper our players which short pitched stuff on the body, outside the off stump knowing full well none of these players will punish them for it.

Pakistan in the future needs to groom players for these tours who are good cutters, pullers, hookers of the ball.

Ijaz Ahmed had a great record in Australia for a reason.
 
Caught the last few dismissals. Brutally bounced out. They have to learn to take on short ball. That is Australia's last go to weapon if their channel bowling doesn't work. Either you take on with bat or let it hit on the body.
 
no one learns to play the short ball 100 first class matches and 10 years into a professional career. even steve waugh put the shot away when he realised he wasn't good at pulling.

you either have the reflexes and muscle memory to have the quick footwork to properly deal with pacey short stuff or you dont.

the only pak batsmen ive seen who could deal with the short stuff were ijaz ahmed and azhar Mahmood, and that's cos they tended to camp on the back foot naturally.

the best you can do is work on your shot selection, or non-selection. as long as pitches in domestic bounce barely waist high pak batsmen will always be dear in the headlights on bouncy tracks.
 
Problem is coaching this type of thing or going with players that are naturally good cutters/pullers is very risky.

It requires more aggression which can leave egg on your face when they get out for single figures trying to go hard at deliveries but can also bring a huge reward when they're in full flow and toying with bowlers.

When you consider that with the fact of not playing many tests per year, this kind of risk/reward approach is something the setup will stay averse to. Best hope is that one of the new guys between now and the next aus tour can come with a naturally good back foot game.
 
There was only one player from Pakistan who was even more elegant playing shots on the back foot rather than playing it on front foot and he was Muhammad Hafeez.

I have never seen a player who plays the back foot puch better than hafeez.
 
Saeed Anwar had a great footwork and Shoaib Malik too had been good in playing shots on back foot.
 
Problem is most of them shows just a glimpse of talent and gets faded away with in few years. Reason is not working on developing their skills and raising their game to next level. Lack of gaining enough experience from domestic cricket is also a reason as they are directly exposed to international cricket without having a proper 3-4 successfull seasons in domestics.
 
We have great modern day batsmen…..

Rotting in the domestics because they can hit Chuckas in Australia and that’s against the constitution of aesthetic Pakistan fans
 
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Problem is most of them shows just a glimpse of talent and gets faded away with in few years. Reason is not working on developing their skills and raising their game to next level. Lack of gaining enough experience from domestic cricket is also a reason as they are directly exposed to international cricket without having a proper 3-4 successfull seasons in domestics.
When you reach the international level then it's all about mental toughness which our batters never develop. It's something to do with our culture. We don't like taking responsibility and always depend on a higher force.
 
Pakistan's middle order and lower order are quite okay but team need to catch up with the openers because in world cricket openers have been getting so aggressive these days which provide early momentum but here in pakistan we are still playing cricket of 80's
 
Pakistan's middle order and lower order are quite okay but team need to catch up with the openers because in world cricket openers have been getting so aggressive these days which provide early momentum but here in pakistan we are still playing cricket of 80's
Usman Khawaja — Tests 5177 runs at an average of 47 and a SR of 48.
Not sure all openers need to bat like there is a fire on ….
its a game that can last five days not 40 overs
 
Usman Khawaja — Tests 5177 runs at an average of 47 and a SR of 48.
Not sure all openers need to bat like there is a fire on ….
its a game that can last five days not 40 overs
It's not only about Test cricket. If you talk about Usman Khawaja at least he consumes many balls but guaranteed that he will score runs but here in the Pakistan team they start slowly and even after settling in they throw their wicket. So isn't it better to try for some quick runs instead of wasting deliveries and getting out in the end?
 
Hitman alone has hit more sizes then the entire Pakistan Champions trophy squad.

 
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