You can’t - I can explain the reason scientifically, but I guess we’ll have to wait till PCB tries that in future for a proof.
This rain has has just allowed an excuse to PCB for saving their face, otherwise you could have seen the mockery of gamesmanship here. This is the 3rd millennium- no one gives a damn middle finger about sportsmanship. In a Test where you know that max you can get 330-350 overs and absolutely no space to extend play - whichever side is slightly behind will adopt unfair tactics to waste time. I can recall one Test in early 1990s vs WIN (Lahore) - they were in strong position at start of 4th innings, so they bowled abound 23 overs in 90+ minutes.... next day Imran & Masud Anwar (?) put a resistance and at one point it got a bit too close - WIN bowled 19 overs in almost two hours until umpires offered light - that’s in 90s, now you’ll see players faking injury to bring ambulances and some how take the game to 4:20pm.....
Look, I sound oxymoron because I can see few things. Being a Bangladeshi, living in Toronto, two months back when I came to know that SRL will travel to PAK and play two Tests there - my first post was : why Rawalpindi in December? This is science, you don’t need to be a genius to figure it out if you know the game. Few years back, I saw another stupendous stupidity from PCB - they brought Tea earlier, so that “... jayada se jayada cricket achhi roshni ke wakt may khela jaye ....”. Such an idiotic plan, when you need 6 hours + 30 minutes day light and, you have maximum 5 hours available.
There are only two solutions here - first one is to develop at least three-four southern venues - Karachi (2), Hyderabad (Don’t know why Niaz stadium didn’t host Cricket these days, Javed’s 280* was scored there), and one at Gwadar may be. Then, you can start Test matches at 9 am even in December and extend play till 4:30pm for full 90 overs. Northern venues can be compensated with games in their better day light time - August-Sep, Mar-May (I know about heat in PAK, which is another Bull Sh!t excuse - they are playing at Perth right now at 48C ground temperature).
Second one is to reschedule domestic Callander - white ball cricket doesn’t need day light, PSL can be arranged between Nov-Dec and that’s actually better for PCB - the more distant PSL is from IPL, the better. This will open the best period of cricket in PAK - Feb - May. They can arrange few LO domestic tournaments between Sep- Oct, then the grand show between Nov-Dec, a week’s break and by mid January start the FC season for 4/5 month’s uninterrupted cricket. And, this’ll help PAK players participating in domestic FC more as well - other all important mega events like BPL, BBL, Qatar League, UAE League, Afghan Leagues ... still haven’t invaded that small window between Feb- May, from the fear of IPL; but it’s not touching PAK players as they are not welcomed to IPL.
There is a 3rd solution as well, and I dare to say which has brought PAK cricket to this minnow level after 7 decades of glory (though I am sure [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] won’t agree with me here) - make wickets such that 300 overs are enough for a direct result in four innings game. Unfortunately, that’s where the problem started - those wickets make Awais Zia more valuable than Babar Azam (a blind slogged 65 is match winner there, instead of trying to build an innings over 6 hours - when you’ll hardly survive more than two hours) ....and Kashif Bhatti or Sadaf Khan more potent than Mo Asif (you can check their domestic stats). I suggests, better don’t go to that route.
I sincerely hope Wasim Khan is reading my disgusted rant, written at 3:30 am.
