Yeah that's fine but the analogy has gone haywire. Parking a bus is a defensive step in football to come away with a draw or nick a goal if the opportunity arises. Using one's home condition isn't a defensive approach (rather it's an attacking one), something most teams do and one Misbah was vouching for after the defeat to the West Indies.
Asian teams have been struggling for years to cope up with the overseas conditions and hence their poor record in Australia and South Africa. Remember Pakistan 49 all out at Johannesburg or India and Sri Lanka struggling with lateral movement and getting skittled for low scores in England. There is a reason why no asian team has won a series in Australia and South Africa. When Asian teams struggle to cope up with the pace of South African tracks or bounce of Australian tracks (although they have mellowed down a bit off late), the techniques of visiting batsmen come under the radar and become heavily scrutinised by experts. Most often the teams get blown away for a paltry total in the first innings on the first 2 days and thereafter it's only a case of finishing formalities. The Asian teams struggle to make a comeback thereafter in the match when they concede such a huge lead in the first dig.
But for some reason, the Asian fans have an inferiority complex and apologist attitude towards their own teams taking advantage of their home conditions. Apparently all the sub continental wickets should be flat for the first 3 days to give a nice and cozy welcome to the touring batsmen and should only start to turn in the last 2 days. If a ball starts turning on the first or second day, all hell breaks loose and the wicket is deemed poor. Why should asian and non asian batsmen be held to different standards. Shouldn't the faulty techniques of the visiting (or even the batsmen of the home team for that matter) against the turning ball be crticised?
I'm all for home teams taking advantage of their home conditions. There should be some diversity in tracks around the world. Earlier the English wickets used to assist swing, Australian and South African wickets pace and bounce, West Indian wickets pace, Asian wickets spin. Now since the conditions all over the world have got flatter (especially in LOIs), everyone wants every wicket to have the same template and start throwing a tantrum as soon as there is a sign of swing or turn. I don't mind greentops and square turners as long as the bounce is consistent. I didn't like the Nagpur wicket, I thought the bounce was very inconsistent on that wicket. But when people start whining about all tracks at the slightest sign of turn, it becomes a bit tiresome.
