Sunday 25 July 2021

Pakistan's tour of England 2021

 Although Pakistan won just one twenty20 match in their entire tour of England. I would not call this tour a disastrous one because it wasnt a win less tour. This can be judged by the fact that Sri Lanka had a disastrous tour of England before England playing Pakistan as Sri Lanka failed to win not even a single match.

Having said that Pakistan was facing England's second string side in the ODI's and Pakistan should have won atleast the ODI series. In the Twenty20 series England played their full strength team so it was reasonable to expect England to win the Twenty20 series.

 Pakistan's batting let them down in their first two ODI's and when finally their batting put up an mammoth total of 331 runs on board their bowling let them down. Pakistan's middle order has been under performing for quite a while now and whenever Pakistan's top order fails it is expected Pakistan cricket team will surely lose. I would suggest Pakistan to play both Sarfraz Ahmed and Muhammad Rizwan with Muhammad Rizwan playing as a batsman and Sarfraz Ahmed playing as a middle order batsman and also as a wicketkeeper. Bringing in Sarfraz Ahmed as a batsman will bring stability to Pakistan's middle order. I would also suggest to bring Muhammad Amir and Wahab Riaz back into the team to bolster our bowling attack.

Our Twenty20 team's performance was okay but I would suggest to bring Shoaib Malik in place of probably the misfiring Sohaib Maqsood and also bring Muhammad Amir and Wahab Riaz back into Twenty20 team as well. With these changes Pakistan will achieve the required results expected of them and the team will return victorious once again.

Thursday 1 July 2021

Pakistan s top three bowlers of all time

 My choice for Pakistan's top three bowlers of all time are:

1) Wasim Akram

2) Waqar Younis

3) Imran Khan

1) Wasim Akram: I rate Wasim Akram as the best Pakistani bowler of all time. Wasim Akram with 502 ODI wickets is the best Pakistani bowler of all time. Of all Pakistani bowlers Wasim Akram had the best variety and variation in his bowling. Wasim Akram could swing the new as well as old ball. He can reverse swing the ball and can bowl both inswing, outswing, leg cutters, off cutters and had a deadly bouncer too. Wasim Akram not only had extreme fast pace but he also had a very good slower ball. Wasim Akram not only had a terrific ODI career but also had a wonderful test career as well. To top it all he was a handy batsmen too coming at no.8 in batting order making him an all rounder of great repute.

2) Waqar Younis: I  rate Waqar Younis as the second best Pakistani bowler of all time. Waqar Younis could reverse swing the old ball at extreme pace. Waqar Younis was known for his toe crushing yorkers. Waqar Younis was known to get the middle order and tail ender batsmen out while Wasim Akram was known as getting top order batsmen out regularly. Waqar Younis had an extremely awkward and great bouncer too.

3) Imran Khan: I rate Imran Khan as the third best Pakistani bowler of all time. It was Imran Khan who taught reverse swing to both Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis and was their mentor. It was Sarfraz Nawaz who taught Imran Khan reverse swing and also how to swing the ball at high pace. Imran Khan was an extremely capable all rounder and was equally dangerous and capable with both bat and ball.