I think the massive overreaction after defeats hurts us more than it helps. We know what our weaknesses are - primarily lack of wicket taking spin options. For all the talk this tournament about our batting, our batting ranked middle of the pack in almost all metrics but our bowling massively let us down - our bowler's economy was the second worst in the entire tournament.
We need overall better workload management to ensure our bowlers are healthy as Rauf, Shaheen Shah, and Naseem all racked up injuries of varying degrees in the lead up to the tournament and we need to invest in genuine wicket taking spin options. And if we can't find genuine wicket taking options then we need actual defensive spin bowling options for the middle over to choke up runs. Our lead spinner in India can never be Shadab Khan who is a T20 bowler at best and nowadays seems far more interested in his batting. Jarrod Kimber actually has a great video about Shadab Khan. He was a better ODI bowler early on in his career and his action and bowling has badly regressed since and now he's reduced to a T20 bowler. It's these kind of moments that we should be paying Shadab to get away from league cricket and spend some time with a biomechanics expert and bowling coach to see if we can fix his action and consistency. If not, then he should only be playing T20 cricket for us.
On the other hand though, 2027 World Cup will be on pitches that spinners will be useless anyway. We have good batting record on those pitches - check our recent series to South Africa. More than anything, we need to keep our fast bowling healthy and prepare a bench of fast bowlers in case something comes up. Also, we probably need to invest in a couple of very explosive batsmen to have around our accumulators for those flat pitches.
This overreaction is caused by our fans and our teams who think they are bigger then they actually are.
Not everyone is an analyst or has educated insight. Their many fans who are casuals who live the sport and want nothing more then to watch their team, they rely on everything that a player tells them, and it is the players duty to honor the support that their fans give them.
When you have chacha saying their is no
Doubt that we are the no 1 team, and babar after no 1 rank making a celebration video for a historic moment fans will get excited.
However when this team fails and fans overreact it is the fault of the team for exciting and disappointing their fans. No one is disappointed by sa, or NZ or aus or anyone because they know where their team stands, and it's because SENA is realsitc and honest with their fans and form genuine connections, not delusional cloud 9 realities.
Name me one instance where Williamson or Kohli or rohit has said, their is no doubt I am no 1 in the world or I'm the no 1 team and made bcci yt videos?
The overreaction is justified. Pakistan team let their fans down not via their performance but via the false reality that they painted, even after losing games making akshay kumar videos enticing fans that some sort of miracle comeback would happen.
Pakiatan should have been humble, Aram sei uae mei kehlo so that A string sides will come as main players clearly don't wanna play in Pakistan, and Select players based of domestic amd not your nonsense agency.
@Sher Khan And I discussed a pakistani fast bowler who averages 18 in economy in domestic and psl and was a genuine wicket tsker and he's young. In the same tournament hasan Ali, Waseem Jr all these players played and didn't achieve anything remotely close to what he did. So why wasn't he selected and given a go?
What about saim ayub? The whole inexperienced excuse when Abdullah has 200x less list A experience? Abdullah was in the squad cause babar like his technique lol, it was a dosti yaari culture.
Fans have every right to be disappointed especially when the media is still lying to the fans by saying India is cheating or the team they selected was the best they could have sent when it's clearly not true.
