POTW : AliMurtaza

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A good facts based explanation about the issues that could explain Pakistan's very below-par performances at home is the reason this week's POTW is awarded to below post.

Congratulations [MENTION=137486]AliMurtaza[/MENTION]

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...n-s-abysmal-home-Test-record-in-last-22-years

For me, a strong test team should not lose at home. Yes, the true measure of a test team should be gauged by their overseas performances but that has to come after building a fortress at home.

Pak and India have lost 15 and 14 home test series in total respectively (excluding India's defeat to England before 1947 and including Pak's UAE record). Go a little deep and you will find that before 1990, Pak and India had lost 4 and 11 home test series respectively. Granted, India got test status before Pakistan and a lot more high profile teams visited them in the 50s and 60s compared to Pakistan but this shows on a high level that Pakistan were a difficult place to tour before 1990. After 1990, Pakistan and India have lost 11 and 3 home test series respectively. While India is the most difficult place to win since the 1990s, followed by Aus, South Africa, and England in that order, Pakistan's 11 home test series losses are only less to Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and West Indies in the same period (excluding Bangladesh and Zimbabwe).

So, Pak has lost 11 home test series since the 1990 against these countries (Pak's 4 home test series losses before 1990 are against England, Australia, New Zealand, and West Indies)

- Australia: 2 test series (1998 and 2002)
- South Africa: 2 test series (1997 and 2007)
- Sri Lanka: 3 test series (1995, 1999, and 2017)
- England: 1 test series (2000)
- New Zealand: 1 test series (2018)
- India: 1 test series (2003)
- Zimbabwe: 1 test series (1998)

Out of these 11 home test series, I strongly feel that 7 home test series were handed on platter to the opposition. Aus (1998 and 2002), India (2003), and South Africa (2007) beat us comprehensively and deserved to win. However, on the remaining 7 occasions, Pak should have either won or drawn the test series.

Please look at the scoreboards and discuss whether you agree with my conclusion

3 home test series losses against Sri Lanka

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-sri-lanka-2017/engine/series/60621.html

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-sri-lanka-2017/engine/series/60685.html

http://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/18036/pak-v-sl-tests-2017-18


1 home test series loss to South Africa in 1997

http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-pakistan-2013/engine/series/60649.html


1 home test series loss to England in 2000

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2016/engine/series/60695.html


1 home test series loss to New Zealand

http://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/18876/pak-v-nz-test-2018-19


1 home test series loss to Zimbabwe

http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe-v-pakistan-2015-16/engine/series/60668.html


I have watched all Pak's test series since the 1995 and happy to discuss each one of these 7 losses in more detail in this thread. However, similar to last 2 losses against New Zealand and Sri Lanka in the last 2 years, the remaining 5 series were lost by Pakistan, not won by the opposition.

 

[Abdullah719]

Congrats! Good post.

 

[Swashbuckler]

Congratulations!

 

[hadi123]

Really good post. Obviously I can't say much on the series a long time ago but agree with your points on recent series losses at home.

 

[Harshu814]

Well not that i disagree but but ! There is nothing like pak lost ,opposition didnt win, its just psychology you know!

Facts-
When one says thier team threw wickets! How and why they threw wickets? Coz bowler bowled particular delivery there,field had aleready created pressure ,may be bowelr put alot of pressure through previous spells that batsmen predictated certain line length or swing but got out to normal delivery bowled ,since it had none he expected and gor decieved !! Yes spectators say what a peach of delivery he got put to !! Yes he should not have but it cant be helped as i explained in above lines.

Here is how this general psychology works,

Taking case of india v pak fans(on general speculation of results)
-when pakistan loses a wicket ,pak fans says he thre his wicket (99%),excluding1% of unplayables which many appreciate,
But opposition fans say thier bowler took the wicket,

Here batsman didnt wanted to get out ,bowler wanted a wicket ,he bowled a delivery and batsman got out its as simple as that and latter fans has right observation

But when an indian wicket fells ,pak fans says oh yeh they cant play v hazelwood,stark etc (they dont have class) but indian fans be like batsmen threw wickets.

Why wouldnt it will be orherway? Coz that how it works
- when our batsmen get out we take it as they threw thier wicket not thay bowlers deswrved wicket ,we observe they didnt play shot well not thay bowler somehow decieved batsman. While its always true batsaman played it wrong but its also true bowler bowled for it to be played like that

Overall story is
- each and every country's fans when they loose belive they could have won and its thier batsmen who lost or bowlers who didnt bowl well but when thier team defeats same team they believe thier teams completly destroyed oppostion ,it wasnt them that gave match to thier team they rightfully won.
Yeh i know its funny but thats how it works.
Not just pak each an every nation fan does this

So dont tell us how pak lost opposition didnt win it

They won it and pak lost thats the actual truth