Pakistan's batsmen happy to regularly expose the tailenders...

[Confucius]

In the fourth innings of the first and penultimate test I saw our batsman happy to take a single and regularly expose the tail.

Babar was a culprit today (taking singles of the first over when Bilal and Yasir were partners!!), wonder if this chap sees anything past his personal milestones or is even aware of the score/situation. That said I think the real reason is more unsettling: perhaps him and the other batsmen don't want to take on the responsibility and then be seen to fail.. hope I'm wrong though as that is not a team mentality.

Sarfaraz another one. Although I feel his restlessness when patience is needed is a function of his poor defence; something Misbah with all his flaws had and could rely on to tough it out.

It seems such on obvious thing to shield the tail when trying to grind out a result. Thoughts?

 

[Wahid1234]

Babar is a mental midget and a very selfish player. He will never make as a great bstamen and just plays for himself rather than play for the team.

 

[badsha001]

Lol you guys just realized that today...?

 

[Confucius]

Lol you guys just realized that today...?

Most of us have been aware for quite some time, the point was to open up a discussion to explore the reasons why...

 

[Shandarchowka]

Instead of blaming the batsmen, why not ask Yasir to work on his defense? Let Hasan know that there is an option of scoring in singles and not just slog everything into the orbit? Teach basics to Shaheen? So one expects Babar to bat for himself and also on behalf of so called tailenders. Why not give Babar double contract instead of paying anything to these tailenders?

 

[Confucius]

Agree your point.

Picture this: Its 137-7, Bilal is out Yasir strolling in, you need to survive 24 overs to squeak out a draw. Surely Babar ought to be thinking "I don't care if Yasir has been dead batting pakorai at dinner as well as superb deliveries in nets, I am shielding him as much as possible".

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

I think it has to do with the fact that most of our bats have an issue finding gaps regularly so they just take the best opportunity even if there are 3-4 balls left.

Sarfraz in general doesn't believe in the concept as we have seen in the past.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Babar is a mental midget and a very selfish player. He will never make as a great bstamen and just plays for himself rather than play for the team.

He tried to do that today but got himself out trying to find that one run. Happened to Sarfraz as well the other day.

Our batsmen have issues in finding gaps making it difficult for them to shield the tail as much as possible. So they would rather have them facing 3 balls than 6 balls.

 

[Confucius]

Excellent observation, Babar did try and launch it in desperation on the penultimate ball of the over instead of backing himself to find the gap along the ground.

 

[Zaz]

U expect Barbar to be shielding number 8 and 9? They should be good enough to bat responsibly and according to the match situation If they can’t they have no business batting that high up

It’s the managements fault for picking a useless tail which doesn’t know which end of the bat to hold