FTP's are planned well in advance, unfortunately are hands are tied there.
The biggest issue for me is Mickey Arthur's reactiveness as a coach, he is all talk about playing an aggressive modern brand of cricket but he keeps sticking with players like Azhar Ali, Imam ul Haq, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Harris Sohail i.e. players who start of their innings at an avg SR of 60-70 and if they are lucky to stay at the end they can raise their SR to 80-90 at best. Whereas most top teams now have batsmen who operate on average at a SR of 90 and then accelerate at 100-120 and have 2-3 players who can blast the ball from ball one.
The alarming thing for me is the bowling strategy. Everyone knows that these wickets are unsupportive for pacers and getting wickets on these pitches is going to be tough especially against a batting powerhouse like India but the bowlers are still blindly running in aggressively trying to strive for wickets without any plan and giving away boundaries and runs for free. Contrast this to Bumrah and Bhuvenshwar who don't give a damn about picking up early wickets but bowl wicket to wicket, bowl to their fields and have full confidence that the dot balls, poor run rate will force the batsmen to take suicidal risks and give their wickets away in the process. I guess it also helps that they know their batting line up is so good that they can chase most totals with relative ease and therefore they do not panic or wilt whenever they do bowl a few bad overs.
Pakistan simply needs to change its strategy for the modern game played today. What worked in the 90's will not work in 2018. We have seen and observed this for the last 10 years but our players and team management still do not learn and apply the lessons from their continous defeats to India in the last 10 plus years.
