Misbahs_tuktuk
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- Mar 2, 2016
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Before I begin I want to note this is a knee jerk reaction to Pakistan and its cricket team. I have had a night to sleep on this and I still woke up like I need to rant and get this off my chest.
Let's begin with the match against India. After the bowlers did extremely well restricting India to 119 our pathetic clown batsmen could even chase that down. I understand it's a bowlers ***** but you had non of the pressure. was it something like 50 needed off the last at with 6-7 wickets?
This wasn't a high level of cricket needed, just singles and twos and hit atleast a boundary every other over would have done it. I am giving the likes of Usman Khan a chance he's a bit new to the team but his dismissal sums it up. Lazy shot, poor technique and throwing your wicket away when you are in complete control.
I don't want to go too much into Rizwan as he is one of two players in the team who has ability to bat, played a stupid shot at the worst time to the worst bowler. He had to be there till the end. It's like they're playing "who can be the most stupid player?" I also think its down to fitness, more tired you get, the lazier your shot selection and thinking process goes
The ones I have issue with are , Imad, Iftikhar , Shadow and Fakher.
How on earth did not a single one of these clowns manage to play a decent innings. All threw their wicket away. Fakher I understand is there to speed up the game but he has no sense what so ever. Wait for the bad ball, if you're coming down the track and the bowler balls it short does he not have the sense to pull out of any aggressive shot?
Imad is a TTF. An absolute joke bowler and offers nothing in batting. should never play for Pakistan again. Same with Shadab, offers nothing in bowling and nothing in batting, it should be his last tournament. Ifthikar , I don't understand how you get to that level of cricket and struggle with full tosses so much. It's clear to see he has a doctored birth certificate and his age his showing. Does have the reflexes or even ability .
I am not expecting the above to be world class players, If they were just competent players they would have got the target with ease.
Babar, on the field as a captain he isn't too bad, when batting his lack of aggression is poor, but the worst thing about him is him selecting his friends and the fans and people of Pakistan having to suffer because of him nepotism. He was not good enough to captain a few months ago, was stripped, then handed it back. Does the PCB have no standards or shame? not only that the player they gave the captaincy to for one month is still in the team. How is he supposed to react?!
Bowlers did well, but Harris Rauf still needs to go, he just doesn't have the mental capacity to bowl smart , to his field. He did well so il let him slide but he isn't good enough.
I feel sorry for Naseem Shah, showed in two balls that boundaries can be hit, just need agreed and fearless cricket, playing shots with the ball , not trying to play across the line or something stupid. he was fantastic with the ball too. He left the field crying, the guy cares, unlike these other morons who probably are slicing cake as we speak.
Ok India game rant aside, now to the PCB. How on earth has it come to the point where the we have 7 selectors and the team is still picked on politics and nepotism?! The PCB don't want to do well, they are a very good mirror of where the county actually is as a whole and it's sad to see. We are a joke. Why is that wasteman Wahab Riaz with them?! when does the selector go on tour with the team. what is his purpose there?! worth nothing he was on who accepted the jacket of money in the news of the world sting in the UK. I have forgotten , these guys are pathetic and corrupt. Nothing will change until the likes of him are kicked out. Living off one FAILED spell in a WC. Honestly do people not have shame. Didn't even manage to take a wicket in that Australia game. The cake cutting, the meet and greets, the eating out in restaurants during a big WC tournament . It's a joke, when the rest of the cricket game is getting more competitive our lot are making the nation look like a joke. They're paid in the top 95% of the country and can't even follow a simple diet or think to stay away from meet and greets to focus on a WC
Im going to sign off with this, I could talk and talk and talk. We could disect tactics, squad selections, what could be done differently, at domestic and international level. But the truth of the matter is, ive been following Pakistan cricket since the 90s. We have had ups and downs, more downs than ups. But I never once felt so disconnect and ashamed of the players. I always felt it was a lack of ability, of course we had clowns and nepotism and politics in the past. But it was never this bad. They still carried themselves with character, Younis Khan averaging good scores. Akram and younis in the 90s. Mohammed Yousaf, even Umar Gul in the noughties in t20.
Even with the hate misbah gets ( and I totally get it ) we managed to skittle England out and get number one in test. With the likes of Abdul rehman as a left arm spinner.
The PCB have created an absolute trash PSL league, as there even been one properly successful player from the PSL who has played at international level and we can call a top 3 batsmen or bowler?
What I'm trying to say is this team is so pathetic , from top down that I struggle to even care. Im done with them. If Canada and Ireland win I won't be shocked. It's not hyperbole we are shifting towards an associate team. The likes of Afghanistan will over take us and its all well deserved.
Congratulations Pakistan Cricket, you've done the one thing you were holding on to for about 2 decades, the unpredictable team where even in the lowest of depths could pull something out of the bag are not even that any more. Predictable , lazy, arrogant and a poor excuse for a test playing nation with the money that they bring in.
Apologies for the long post.
Let's begin with the match against India. After the bowlers did extremely well restricting India to 119 our pathetic clown batsmen could even chase that down. I understand it's a bowlers ***** but you had non of the pressure. was it something like 50 needed off the last at with 6-7 wickets?
This wasn't a high level of cricket needed, just singles and twos and hit atleast a boundary every other over would have done it. I am giving the likes of Usman Khan a chance he's a bit new to the team but his dismissal sums it up. Lazy shot, poor technique and throwing your wicket away when you are in complete control.
I don't want to go too much into Rizwan as he is one of two players in the team who has ability to bat, played a stupid shot at the worst time to the worst bowler. He had to be there till the end. It's like they're playing "who can be the most stupid player?" I also think its down to fitness, more tired you get, the lazier your shot selection and thinking process goes
The ones I have issue with are , Imad, Iftikhar , Shadow and Fakher.
How on earth did not a single one of these clowns manage to play a decent innings. All threw their wicket away. Fakher I understand is there to speed up the game but he has no sense what so ever. Wait for the bad ball, if you're coming down the track and the bowler balls it short does he not have the sense to pull out of any aggressive shot?
Imad is a TTF. An absolute joke bowler and offers nothing in batting. should never play for Pakistan again. Same with Shadab, offers nothing in bowling and nothing in batting, it should be his last tournament. Ifthikar , I don't understand how you get to that level of cricket and struggle with full tosses so much. It's clear to see he has a doctored birth certificate and his age his showing. Does have the reflexes or even ability .
I am not expecting the above to be world class players, If they were just competent players they would have got the target with ease.
Babar, on the field as a captain he isn't too bad, when batting his lack of aggression is poor, but the worst thing about him is him selecting his friends and the fans and people of Pakistan having to suffer because of him nepotism. He was not good enough to captain a few months ago, was stripped, then handed it back. Does the PCB have no standards or shame? not only that the player they gave the captaincy to for one month is still in the team. How is he supposed to react?!
Bowlers did well, but Harris Rauf still needs to go, he just doesn't have the mental capacity to bowl smart , to his field. He did well so il let him slide but he isn't good enough.
I feel sorry for Naseem Shah, showed in two balls that boundaries can be hit, just need agreed and fearless cricket, playing shots with the ball , not trying to play across the line or something stupid. he was fantastic with the ball too. He left the field crying, the guy cares, unlike these other morons who probably are slicing cake as we speak.
Ok India game rant aside, now to the PCB. How on earth has it come to the point where the we have 7 selectors and the team is still picked on politics and nepotism?! The PCB don't want to do well, they are a very good mirror of where the county actually is as a whole and it's sad to see. We are a joke. Why is that wasteman Wahab Riaz with them?! when does the selector go on tour with the team. what is his purpose there?! worth nothing he was on who accepted the jacket of money in the news of the world sting in the UK. I have forgotten , these guys are pathetic and corrupt. Nothing will change until the likes of him are kicked out. Living off one FAILED spell in a WC. Honestly do people not have shame. Didn't even manage to take a wicket in that Australia game. The cake cutting, the meet and greets, the eating out in restaurants during a big WC tournament . It's a joke, when the rest of the cricket game is getting more competitive our lot are making the nation look like a joke. They're paid in the top 95% of the country and can't even follow a simple diet or think to stay away from meet and greets to focus on a WC
Im going to sign off with this, I could talk and talk and talk. We could disect tactics, squad selections, what could be done differently, at domestic and international level. But the truth of the matter is, ive been following Pakistan cricket since the 90s. We have had ups and downs, more downs than ups. But I never once felt so disconnect and ashamed of the players. I always felt it was a lack of ability, of course we had clowns and nepotism and politics in the past. But it was never this bad. They still carried themselves with character, Younis Khan averaging good scores. Akram and younis in the 90s. Mohammed Yousaf, even Umar Gul in the noughties in t20.
Even with the hate misbah gets ( and I totally get it ) we managed to skittle England out and get number one in test. With the likes of Abdul rehman as a left arm spinner.
The PCB have created an absolute trash PSL league, as there even been one properly successful player from the PSL who has played at international level and we can call a top 3 batsmen or bowler?
What I'm trying to say is this team is so pathetic , from top down that I struggle to even care. Im done with them. If Canada and Ireland win I won't be shocked. It's not hyperbole we are shifting towards an associate team. The likes of Afghanistan will over take us and its all well deserved.
Congratulations Pakistan Cricket, you've done the one thing you were holding on to for about 2 decades, the unpredictable team where even in the lowest of depths could pull something out of the bag are not even that any more. Predictable , lazy, arrogant and a poor excuse for a test playing nation with the money that they bring in.
Apologies for the long post.
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