Pakistan in Champions Trophy 2025

 

I wasnt disappointed by Pakistan's performance in the champions trophy as good luck deserted Pakistan in this tournament. I am saying this because Pakistan lost Saim Ayub and Fakhar Zaman both key hitters and clean strikers of the ball as openers. With our opening combination disturbed how can you expect Pakistan to come up with big totals in this tournament. 

Not to forget this was the same team which defeated mighty teams like Australia and South Africa in their own home conditions. On those conditions our bowling won us the matches. Sadly against New zealand and to a lesser degree against India our bowling flopped completely.  If we had restricted New Zealand to a score of less than 300 runs who knows there might have been less pressure on our batting and we might have won against them. Against India both our batting and bowling failed. Against india i agree we were totally outplayed.

In the end what I would like to say is that no drastic changes are needed in the team and In Sha Allah this current Pakistan cricket team will bounce back.

Pakistan vs india Champions Trophy 2025

 

Pakistan face India in the Champions Trophy match in Dubai on Sunday. My gut feeling is that Pakistan will bounce back against India and they might beat india to reach the semi finals of the tournament. i am saying this because Pakistan always raise their game whenever they face India and their intensity level increases.

For this to happen pakistan will need to drastically improve their bowling and the Pakistani batsmen will need to improve their strike rates. Among the Pakistani batsmen only Khushdil Shah and Salman Ali agha played with iimpressive strike rates. Babar azam will need to play a selfless innings and increase his strike rate.

In the end what I would like to say is that if our bowling can restrict India to a total of below 300 runs then I would say Pakistan will be favourites to win against the mighty and favourites India.

Final of the tri-nation series 2025

New Zealand won the trinations series in Pakistan by defeating Pakistan in the final of the Cup also featuring South Africa. New Zealand were by far the best team in the tournament and thoroughly deserved to win the tournament.  Pakistan have been outclassed by New Zealand in this tournament and signs are not good for Pakistan in the upcoming Champions trophy. 

Pakistan are sure to lose against New Zealand in the tournament opener on 19th February in Champions trophy judging their performance in the Tri nation series. In recent times India also start as favourites against Pakistan so thing arent looking good for Pakistan's prospects in the Champions Trophy.

In the end what i would like to say is that if Pakistani batsmen played with sense of urgency and score 40-50 runs more against New Zealand in the Final they would have won the title for sure.

Pakistan tri - nation series 2025 1st match

 

The first match between Pakistan and New Zealand in the tri-nation series was a one sided affair. New Zealand crushed Pakistan by 78 runs in this match and I have no hope from Pakistan to perform well in the rest of the tournament. 

The way our bowling performed against New Zealand batsmen give me little hope that Pakistan will perform well in the Champions Trophy as well as in the Champion's Trophy the matches will be played on similar flat pitches. Our batting is dearly missing Saim Ayub with Babar Azam at his worst possible form of his life. Only Fakhar Zaman gives me a little bit of hope.

In the end what I would like to say is that we need to improve our bowling on these flat pitches in Pakistan and UAE.

Pakistan Tri-nation series 2025

 

Pakistan trination series begins in February 2025 featuring Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa. Both New Zealand and South Africa will provide tough opposition to the Pakistan cricket team and Pakistan will find it tough beating both the opposition. 

The flat pitches in Pakistan will negate their bowling and their batting seldom scores in the excess of 300 runs which is essential on these type of pitches. But its gonna be interesting how Pakistan's bowling performs on these pitches as the bowling was mainly the reason why Pakistan have won three ODI series in a  row that  is against Australia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. 

In the end what I would like to say is that this tournament will prove a catalyst to upcoming Champions Trophy later on starting on 19th February.

Pakistan vs West Indies 2nd test 2025

 

Pakistan lost this test match by 120 runs and hence the 2 match test series has tied by 1-1 scoreline. Pakistan should have won this test match too when they had West Indies first at 38 for 7 then at 54 for 8 which included Noman Ali's hat trick. But they let West Indies get to a total at 163 runs which proved vital in the end and made a huge difference to the result in the end.

After tailor making spinning tracks in this second test also Pakistani batsmen failed themselves infact West Indies batsmen batted better than Pakistani batsmen in this test match having scored a respectable score of 242 runs in their sceond innings. This shows that the toss plays a vital role in these conditions with the team batting first having a great advantage. 

In the end what I would like to say is that Shan Masood has a made a habit of tailenders scoring runs heavily under his captaincy. First against Banagladesh when Bangladesh recovered from having been at 26 for 6 at one stage then against South Africa with South Africa winning the test match against Pakistan at Centurion having them at 99 for 8 only for the tailenders to score the winning runs. Lastly in this test match when Shan Masood didnt go for the kill after having West Indies at 38 for 7 at one stage. Shan Masood should reverse this trend if Pakistan are to do well in the 2025-2027 World Test Championship Cycle.

Pakistan vs West Indies 1st test 2025

 

 

Pakistan won the first test against West Indies by 127 runs which wasnt surprising as Pakistan on these kind of pitches are invincible at home. Sajid Khan and Noman Ali are deadly exponents and experts of spin in these conditions at home. Sajid Khan in particular is almost unplayable on these pitches which turn square right from day one of the test and especially the soil and turf of Multan suits these kind of pitches.

On the otherhand Pakistan's batting was poor throughout the test match with only the partnership of 141 runs between Saud Shakeel and Muhammad Rizwan impressing me. If that partnership was broken a lot earlier Pakistan might have found themselves in trouble in this test match.

In the end what i would like to say is that Pakistan shouldnt take West Indies lightly and become complacent. If they dont become complacent they should be able to whitewash West Indies 2-0 in this test series played at home.