Was South African tour a blunder?
So we lost again [the series], no need to mention that it was an embarrassing experience.
Today when I was watching pathetic performance by Pakistanis, I was just thinking that whether they should be blamed for such an offensive cricket tour or PCB? The reason I am asking this question that this was the last tour of Pakistan before World Cup which would be held in West Indies where wickets are entirely different than South African Wickets.
Pakistan had been performing very well in year 2005 and 2006 where they won series not in home grounds but abroad as well. This is the same Pakistani team who defeated against West Indies in West Indies. The same company defeated England in home ground and India in India. Do you find any common factor? If you ask me then I would definitely say the nature of pitches in Pakistan or South Asia and West Indies which is almost identical.
Were PCB schedule setters drunk at the time of setting schedule that they had NO idea about difference between South African and West Indies pitches? Maybe some moron chamcha official would have tried to make a funny or should I say Ignorant statement to justify the tour by saying that West Indians look like Africans [black] therefore it wouldn’t matter whether we practice in West Indies or South Africa.
On the other hand, other two good south Asian cricket teams are playing on South Asian pitches and this series would help both teams to get adjusted on West Indian pitches. Australia, well no comments, they are true professionals. England is looking very good and the way they defeated Australia in Commonwealth series is superb. South Africa is already feeling cool by defeating a 3rd Rank test team in both ODIs and Test matches. West Indies and New Zealand are not weaker teams and they can surprise us at any stage. India just won the match and they would be feeling much better now. Even Bangladesh have defeated Zimbabwe
If this tour was all about practice then current defeat has already screwed their morale and it would now take time to get adjusted on West Indies pitches since they were playing on bouncy tracks and naturally they would repeat same mistakes in early matches which they did in last South African tour.
IMO, Pakistan’s current tour of South Africa was not only irrelevant but costly as well since we have NO fit fast bowler at the moment. Our wicket keeper was already not doing well but thanks to our ancient Parchi System that he has been reselected and Zulqarnain has been ignored. I already mentioned here that we should not start comparing Pakistani team with Australian team. As Inzy says “Boyz did very well”, Offcourse, our boys have done very well and more than our expectations. What PCB should have done that either they had given them rest before World cup, if not then they could arrange an inter cities tournament on Pakistani pitches which could also help them to find new and relevant talent for important World cup tour but when bureaucracy plays a lead role in a system then we can’t expect something good from that system.
Let’s hope for some miracle otherwise I have no idea about our survival. I have doubt that we might not even qualify for quarter finals but I would watch matches for Cricket rather for Pakistani team and I am desperately waiting to see teams like SA, AUS and ENG in action.
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