Test Pitches in Pakistan - Watch

[Titan24]

Test cricket returned to Pakistan after 10 years in 2019. Pitches that were dished out for Srilanka, Bangladesh and South Africa were pretty well made with good cricket on display for viewers.

- In the first match vs Srilanka, Pakistan went with 4 man pace attack in Pindi (Pure pacers). Rain came and match was drawn but the wicket was really good.

- 2nd match in Karachi vs Srilanka witnessed seamers taking 24 wickets with scores of 191, 271, 555 and 212.

- Vs BD in Pindi scores were 223, 445, 168 with seamers taking 20 wickets out of 30.

- Vs SA in Karachi the scores were 220, 378, 245, 90/3 with pacers taking 13 wickets

- Vs SA in Pindi the scores were 272, 201, 298, 274 with seamers taking 23 wickets

There was quality cricket on offer with a good contest between bat and the bowl generally.

Since the tour of Aus and then Eng, NZ (Till now) respectively the pitches have been flat as road, not sure if its the fear of their pacers pitches have been ordinary with nothing much in it for bowlers other then sometimes bit of spin and reverse.

Based upon the last 2 series and the first test vs NZ these have been possibly the worst test wickets going around in the world cricket currently. Something that definitely needs looking into. Its not like Pak is getting some sort of home advantage and is winning matches, rather the opposite.

 

[Unbiased-Fan]

PCB should stop producing such unsporting disgraceful pitches. Seems like their sole purpose to make these roads is to boost Azam's batting average.
Feeling bad for quality bowler like Hamza who is making his comeback but has to bowl on these roads*

 

[Buffet]

Test cricket returned to Pakistan after 10 years in 2019. Pitches that were dished out for Srilanka, Bangladesh and South Africa were pretty well made with good cricket on display for viewers.

- In the first match vs Srilanka, Pakistan went with 4 man pace attack in Pindi (Pure pacers). Rain came and match was drawn but the wicket was really good.

- 2nd match in Karachi vs Srilanka witnessed seamers taking 24 wickets with scores of 191, 271, 555 and 212.

- Vs BD in Pindi scores were 223, 445, 168 with seamers taking 20 wickets out of 30.

- Vs SA in Karachi the scores were 220, 378, 245, 90/3 with pacers taking 13 wickets

- Vs SA in Pindi the scores were 272, 201, 298, 274 with seamers taking 23 wickets

There was quality cricket on offer with a good contest between bat and the bowl generally.

Since the tour of Aus and then Eng, NZ (Till now) respectively the pitches have been flat as road, not sure if its the fear of their pacers pitches have been ordinary with nothing much in it for bowlers other then sometimes bit of spin and reverse.

Based upon the last 2 series and the first test vs NZ these have been possibly the worst test wickets going around in the world cricket currently. Something that definitely needs looking into. Its not like Pak is getting some sort of home advantage and is winning matches, rather the opposite.

Any tours of Zim, Srilanka, WI etc happening in near future? Pitches may be result oriented against those oppositions.

 

[mastermind_quad]

Any tours of Zim, Srilanka, WI etc happening in near future? Pitches may be result oriented against those oppositions.

yes, good catch. Pakistan produces flat wickets for tough opponents to negate them because both spin and pacer-friendly wickets will have a negative impact on Pakistan's batting and may lose more matches against top teams.
But they are forgetting this way their batsmen will never be able to compete against top teams.

 

[MenInG]

Question really is why are we preparing such pitches? No one wants to take responsibility

Some talk about soil issues, some talk about incompetent groundsman - What is the reality?

 

[Savak]

Question really is why are we preparing such pitches? No one wants to take responsibility

Some talk about soil issues, some talk about incompetent groundsman - What is the reality?

Ramiz all talk but utterly incompetent defensive Raja.

There was no problem with the pitches prepared by Ehsan Mani and Wasim Khan from 2019 to 2021.

 

[Ashmal]

yes, good catch. Pakistan produces flat wickets for tough opponents to negate them because both spin and pacer-friendly wickets will have a negative impact on Pakistan's batting and may lose more matches against top teams.
But they are forgetting this way their batsmen will never be able to compete against top teams.

But these pitches haven't saved them from losing, should've learnt their lesson by now

 

[Sunny_majoka]

A 75 years of rich cricketing history and still Pcb can't produce a good test wicket, can't imagine

 

[Marooned]

Question really is why are we preparing such pitches? No one wants to take responsibility

Some talk about soil issues, some talk about incompetent groundsman - What is the reality?

It's pretty clear it's a deliberate strategy. An idiotic one at that.

As the op states, we had really good pitches with help for seamers vs SL, BD and SA.

We should always focus on pace bowling as our strength. That's where our strength lies. That's where most of our young talent lies. They need helpful pitches at this inexperienced stage of their career not these monstrosities in the name of cricket pitches.

 

[jnaveen1980]

You wouldn't want to see such pitches even in domestic. Bone dry with no grass. Bowlers are at the mercy of batsmen making mistakes.

 

[greatest]

Throughout Pakistan cricket history, Test pitches have mostly been dead with the occasional green top and turner, but this year PCB has broken all records in preparing the flattest of roads. With this approach PCB has now made sure that Test Cricket is and will be buried forever in Pakistan.

Just imagine...why would a bowler want to toil hard and sweat bowling all these overs with no reward when he can easily make millions bowling only 4 overs in a T20 league or international where his main priority is to stop the flow of runs. For the batters there is no recognition of scoring hundred in high scoring dull matches. Imam ul Haq is hardly a world recognized batter despite scoring hundreds on flat tracks. Better to have a career in the shorter format than Tests.

And why would the public show any interest in a Test match when there is no competition between the two teams and most importantly no competition between the bat and the ball.

Hosting Australia and England at home on good pitches was the perfect opportunity to spark an interest especially in the younger generation towards Test Cricket, to aspire them to become future Test cricketers but thanks to the these dead pitches we will now remain a mediocre cricket nation.

 

[shah_1]

Throughout Pakistan cricket history, Test pitches have mostly been dead with the occasional green top and turner, but this year PCB has broken all records in preparing the flattest of roads. With this approach PCB has now made sure that Test Cricket is and will be buried forever in Pakistan.

Just imagine...why would a bowler want to toil hard and sweat bowling all these overs with no reward when he can easily make millions bowling only 4 overs in a T20 league or international where his main priority is to stop the flow of runs. For the batters there is no recognition of scoring hundred in high scoring dull matches. Imam ul Haq is hardly a world recognized batter despite scoring hundreds on flat tracks. Better to have a career in the shorter format than Tests.

And why would the public show any interest in a Test match when there is no competition between the two teams and most importantly no competition between the bat and the ball.

Hosting Australia and England at home on good pitches was the perfect opportunity to spark an interest especially in the younger generation towards Test Cricket, to aspire them to become future Test cricketers but thanks to the these dead pitches we will now remain a mediocre cricket nation.

What a wonderful post bhai

Echoed my thoughts. Test cricket will truly be dead soon in Pakistan if the trends remain the same. Even if the pitches were flat in pervious era, there was no such thing as T20 cricket. The cricketers and audience had no other options. Nowadays people have other options.

 

[SamNJ]

Babar averages 80 in Pakistan and less than 40 away. PCB is killing fast bowling in tests in Pakistan for Babar's average.

 

[shah_1]

Babar averages 80 in Pakistan and less than 40 away. PCB is killing fast bowling in tests in Pakistan for Babar's average.

Babar is obsessed with rankinig and stat padding so your point makes sense .

 

[Kianig89]

But but but we are a phaast bowling nation

 

[Bewal Express]

Babar is obsessed with rankinig and stat padding so your point makes sense .

I don't think it's Babar. Otherwise the new guys would have cone in and said let's have a supporting wicket. We can't produce supporting wickets anymore( they were never that sporty)

 

[shah_1]

I don't think it's Babar. Otherwise the new guys would have cone in and said let's have a supporting wicket. We can't produce supporting wickets anymore( they were never that sporty)

A pitch takes time, it can't be made in two to 3 days. You need to watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2019/20 match highlights again. The pitch had green cover on it, 15 wickets were taken by fast bowlers in the first two day, Pakistan bowled out for 191, and Sri Lanka 271, then it got flatter a bit. It had a lot for the fast bowlers in the first two days.

Bhai shave all the grass, dry the pitch as much as they can then there will nothing for fast bowlers. I'm not saying that pitches will be bowling paradise, but to see the new ball not seaming at all is a disaster. The grass was deliberately shaved because the team was scared of Anderson, Southee, Robbinson with the new ball.

 

[Bewal Express]

A pitch takes time, it can't be made in two to 3 days. You need to watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2019/20 match highlights again. The pitch had green cover on it, 15 wickets were taken by fast bowlers in the first two day, Pakistan bowled out for 191, and Sri Lanka 271, then it got flatter a bit. It had a lot for the fast bowlers in the first two days.

Bhai shave all the grass, dry the pitch as much as they can then there will nothing for fast bowlers. I'm not saying that pitches will be bowling paradise, but to see the new ball not seaming at all is a disaster. The grass was deliberately shaved because the team was scared of Anderson, Southee, Robbinson with the new ball.

Not PK ones. They are roads and all they do is to shave off the grass. Sethi and Afridi could have made a decision not to shave off the grass, but the mentality that drives our cricket is deeply embedded in all these guys.

 

[shah_1]

Not PK ones. They are roads and all they do is to shave off the grass. Sethi and Afridi could have made a decision not to shave off the grass, but the mentality that drives our cricket is deeply embedded in all these guys.

Wait for Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka to come to Pakistan. You will see plenty of grass on the pitch

 

[Bewal Express]

Wait for Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka to come to Pakistan. You will see plenty of grass on the pitch

Which is my point. They are scared to lose to the top teams and produce dead wickets. It's thinking that is beyond Babars pay grade. And the more they run from contest, the more our players lose confidence. RR promised much on positive cricket but ultimately produced awful wickets and these guys will be the same unless we lose and then they will leave grass on the wicket

 

[Markhor]

Throughout Pakistan cricket history, Test pitches have mostly been dead with the occasional green top and turner, but this year PCB has broken all records in preparing the flattest of roads. With this approach PCB has now made sure that Test Cricket is and will be buried forever in Pakistan.

Just imagine...why would a bowler want to toil hard and sweat bowling all these overs with no reward when he can easily make millions bowling only 4 overs in a T20 league or international where his main priority is to stop the flow of runs. For the batters there is no recognition of scoring hundred in high scoring dull matches. Imam ul Haq is hardly a world recognized batter despite scoring hundreds on flat tracks. Better to have a career in the shorter format than Tests.

And why would the public show any interest in a Test match when there is no competition between the two teams and most importantly no competition between the bat and the ball.

Hosting Australia and England at home on good pitches was the perfect opportunity to spark an interest especially in the younger generation towards Test Cricket, to aspire them to become future Test cricketers but thanks to the these dead pitches we will now remain a mediocre cricket nation.

POTW. It's heartbreaking that the goodwill for these historic, highly anticipated tours have been totally frittered away due to pathetic pitches and equally pathetic Pakistani performances.

It's made for a terrible advertisement for Test cricket.

Babar averages 80 in Pakistan and less than 40 away. PCB is killing fast bowling in tests in Pakistan for Babar's average.

Exactly. Babar puts his personal milestones and stats over the needs of the team. We already have a weak bowling attack, at least give them a chance to take 20 wickets with more sporting conditions.

He refused to budge from his opening spot in T20s. He refuses to listen to input from coaches. PCB need to sack him ASAP.

 

[Saj]

Well so far it looks like another flat track in Karachi.

Pacers and spinners all struggling.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Well so far it looks like another flat track in Karachi.

Pacers and spinners all struggling.

Tourist batsmen filling their boots as usual, while our batsmen will gift wrap their wickets later on.

 

[IAJ]

I am glad I am not watching this and only following the scorecard every now and then hoping for a new wicket has fallen, but so war only 1 lol.

Since the second Test was changed to Karachi in the 11th hour I am not surprised we still see a flat wicket like the first Test. If they were going to do something it should have been done in first Test already. Flat pitches, batsmen scoring runs for fun, who wants to watch this? People are not dumb wasting money on this.

 

[Saj]

Well it's taking a little bit of turn.

The wickets NZ have lost today haven't really been down to the pitch, rather some good and accurate bowling.

 

[Ahmed216]

Well it's taking a little bit of turn.

The wickets NZ have lost today haven't really been down to the pitch, rather some good and accurate bowling.

More pace and carry in this pitch. Providing a bit of balance between bat and ball