Ridiculous Schedule-Woolmer Reacts
So finally we lost the 3rd test by 5 wickets as well as the series by 2-1. Credit goes to Kallis and Prince who played wonderful 5th wicket partnership eased the victory for Proteas. Apart from Pakistani defeat, I must say that entire series was interesting and Pakistanis did fight back.
When Woolmer was asked about the defeat, he plainly blamed to hectic schedule of Pakistani cricket team and he does say right when I saw tired Asif was being asked to continue his spell and that young kid did try his best and produced amazing econ rate that is 2.04, on other hand Danish Kaneria also did amazing spell @1.85 runs/Over. According to Cricinfo, Woolmer reacts:
“The current schedules are ridiculous,” he said. “You are already seeing players like Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini who are exhausted and today Asif was an example. Fatigue leads to injuries. It’s a proven equation. If you have too much fatigue, your back goes or you twinge a hamstring or get a stress fracture.
“Cricket has to look at it. As a coach I have to manage these things. We’ve got Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar and Shabbir Ahmed sitting at home. Somewhere along the line the commercial aspects and the physical aspects of looking after players have to be revisited.”
Is he not true? What I personally think that we did make a mistake that we used only one genuine spinner in entire series and kept relying on our fast bowlers who ultimately got injured. Sami,Gul,Shoaib,Asif and Nazir; four fast bowlers in a squad doesn’t make sense specially when you don’t have any backup. We should have used another spinner like Rahman but we kept relying on Kaneria and tried to use him as a Trump Card. Kaneria did try his best but it was lame to expect too much from him. How could you expect some amazing results from Hafeez who is not a genuine spinner? Asim Kamal was once again sent back without sending him in the field though he could be used in place of Imran Farhat or Hafeez because he’s more solid test player than other two.
Let’s see how things go in ODI series. Guys like Afridi,Imran Nazir are being sent to South Africa. I hope they would justify their selection though PCB didn’t give any reason about their selection.
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