Pakistan's spinelessness betrays bad leadership

[Junaids]

I must admit, I'm really pleased to see Pakistan bumbling around at 110-8 after Australia made 556-9 declared.

This has exposed two things that have been obvious for some time.

Firstly, while Pakistan's geriatrics (Azhar Ali, Fawad Alam and Nauman Ali) produce the goods on favourable pitches, they also fail far more frequently than is acceptable for any international cricketer, let alone one who could have been replaced (Saud Shakeel, Zafar Gohar, et al).

Secondly, they don't do what geriatric cricketers are supposed to do anyway. Geriatric cricketers are supposed to lead from the front, showing everyone why they were winning matches for their country 10 years ago and saving matches for their country 5 years ago.

But these three have the personality of a piece of soggy tissue paper. They show no sign of sticking around or standing up to the opposition. They are weak in their body language and show no leadership qualities whatsoever.

There have been two run outs in the space of 28 overs as panic has set in, with no sign of anybody shepherding the team to safety. Babar Azam is batting quite well, but he is providing no leadership to the men at the other end.

Pakistan needs to do two things.

It needs to dump its failing geriatrics, and it needs a captain with leadership qualities.

 

[Major]

Here you go, junaid has got the oppurtunity to bash the likes of nauman and azhar while not talking about abdullah shafiq. And to add to that he wants zafar gohar to come and replace.

If 6 top batsmen of pakistan failed, there is no proof that saud shahkeel would had done better.

 

[shamaan]

Here you go, junaid has got the oppurtunity to bash the likes of nauman and azhar while not talking about abdullah shafiq. And to add to that he wants zafar gohar to come and replace.

If 6 top batsmen of pakistan failed, there is no proof that saud shahkeel would had done better.

Abdullah got ran out Azhar got caught behind thiers a big difference.

 

[Kianig89]

There is no fighter in this team Like Javed Inzi like Sarfraz all of them play for personal milestones
First thing first kick imam parrshi out of this team

 

[James]

As England learned under Chris Silverwood, defensive cricket leads to a lot of lost Test matches.

 

[Saj]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you don't replace the likes of Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq easily.

We simply do not have players of that quality in the current line-up.

We have too many passengers, guys who are timid and rely on others to preform, rather than leaders who can take the bull by the horns.

 

[Kianig89]

Sadly can't see any better player than this current lot waiting outside alot of talented players wasted themselves such as Haris Sohail Umar Akmal

 

[Amjid Javed]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you don't replace the likes of Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq easily.

We simply do not have players of that quality in the current line-up.

We have too many passengers, guys who are timid and rely on others to preform, rather than leaders who can take the bull by the horns.

Next in line to replace these two were Asad and Azhar. Asad finally got dumped, Azhar has been no better but is still persisted with.

no one has a pair of balls to make tough calls and groom then next possible main stays to the middle order.

 

[Savak]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you don't replace the likes of Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq easily.

We simply do not have players of that quality in the current line-up.

We have too many passengers, guys who are timid and rely on others to preform, rather than leaders who can take the bull by the horns.

Its been 5 years since they retired. You cant live in the past. Going by this logic, we havent replaced the likes of Miandad, Inzamam, Yousaf either.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

As England learned under Chris Silverwood, defensive cricket leads to a lot of lost Test matches.

This was not defensive cricket.

This was mentally losing a test series from before it even started.

Pakistan have, so far, played pathetic 7 days of test cricket.

It is truly unprecedented in Cricket's long history.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Its been 5 years since they retired. You cant live in the past. Going by this logic, we havent replaced the likes of Miandad, Inzamam, Yousaf either.

Yes we did replace Miandad malik with Anwar and inzi they were replaced by moyo and younis khan, moyo was replaced by misbah. We have always had 1 or 2 batsmen step up to the plate.

now we have Azhar "score one good inns a series" Ali as a so called pakistani legend because hes reaching 100 test even though since 2017 his performances have been a shambles.

 

[Kroll]

Its been 5 years since they retired. You cant live in the past. Going by this logic, we havent replaced the likes of Miandad, Inzamam, Yousaf either.

True, the onus is on others to step up and for the PCB to develop and nurture them. But professionalism doesn't exist in the corrupt Pakistan cricket hierarchy.

 

[Cric1234]

True, the onus is on others to step up and for the PCB to develop and nurture them. But professionalism doesn't exist in the corrupt Pakistan cricket hierarchy.

They selected the wrong batsmen ten years ago Umar Akmal and Fawad were better batsmen than Shafiq and Malik they still are but somehow were overlooked.

Now there’s little chance of Haider being selected Saud hasn’t played one test few others will not be selected it’s all confusing as to who selects the batsmen and what they look for strike rates under 50 seem to be the main criteria.

 

[Kroll]

They selected the wrong batsmen ten years ago Umar Akmal and Fawad were better batsmen than Shafiq and Malik they still are but somehow were overlooked.

Now there’s little chance of Haider being selected Saud hasn’t played one test few others will not be selected it’s all confusing as to who selects the batsmen and what they look for strike rates under 50 seem to be the main criteria.

Yeah, the whole thing is messed up. I thought after the ouster of Misbah, the recovery process would begin.
[MENTION=36958]Energy[/MENTION] pointed out we like to favour aged 35+ players and those 21 and under so the team is very imbalanced with little middle ground.

So you have to wonder why have players not been phased in at the right time and all the passengers phased out? So frustrating to see.

But no, the likes of Fawad Alam are brought in at the twilight of their careers! And Musa and Naseem the teenagers were thrown into a very hard Test series.