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.
Good observation and suggestions.
ReplyDeleteHope the organisers pay heed to it.