My solution is that If you wish to be a competitive team, one that can actually compete on the big stages and not be a joke 24/7, then you need to revamp the entire culture.
The reason pakistan succeeded in 2017 is because for once Misbah left and no pcb chairman intervened. The whole squad was revamped and the culture of winning was promoted.
Fakhar replaced shehzad
Azhar Ali adopted a more aggressive approach at opening
Hafeez slotted from opening to no 4 and adopted a more aggressive approach
Babar was the new kid on the block at no 3
Malik and haris sohail picked up no 5 and adopted a more aggressive modern day approach
Imad wasim was the new allrounder in the block
Amir returned and hasan Ali was the better bowler on the block
^^ Not only was the squad completly new from what pakistan was use to under Misbah or Azhar but the culture of being aggressive was promoted and both sarfi, Mickey amd even azhar, Hafeez and Malik did a good job promoting aggressive cricket and being good role models for youngsters to play aggressive cricket.
However when you brought Misbah back and had him make changes you went back to the dark era because Misbah is incapable of having a modern approach to whiteball cricket, he went out of his way to collapse the team as long as his buddies + Babar could work.
This champions cup is a waste of time because your mentors like misbah and waqar are outdated and theirs no intent, Besides kamran ghulam and Abdul samad their isnt a single batter willing to attack and butcher the bowling. Australia vs England yesterday, not a single batter who scored > 30 batted at an sr lower then 100 for both sides meanwhile in pakistan it's common to see scores of 32 of 50 etc etc.
You want a solid solution?
Get rid of everything, Get rid of Naqvi's, these shan masood daddies, these inzimam's, these misbah's or waqar's, and get rid of the entire current crop of players besides Fakhar whos the only one willing to play modern cricket. Get an entire new team from under 19 and promote a culture of aggressive cricket, one which encourages aggression under the mentorship of Gary or any worldclass coach and forbid these guys from ever interacting with Misbah or this lot.
If a domestic tournament is hosted, make it clear that no one will be selected until and unless their Strike rates for odi are over a 100 and for t20 are over 140.
This lot will take a thrashing but Afghanistan played the long game and it worked after a decade of bashing, they got use to the bowling of big sides.
You need a massive refresh like in 2017, where you virtually got rid of everyone and Ahmed shehzad was the last remnant of the dark days that you finally disposed on the semi's.
To fix a team you need an entire team culture, one which tells you to play attacking cricket. Right now the culture is to emulate Babar and rizwan who both came from the tutelage of misbah and were coached on captaincy and modern era whoteball by him and obviously misbah has no clue about whiteball cricket and has collapsed the t20 and odi side on 2 occasions now one as captain and the other as coach.
( No chance in Any formats)
