Pakistan Team Management Should Realize Their Mistakes

Pakistan team’s defeat against Sri Lanka revealed many secrets.  The weak middle order، captain’s lack of form and the players not realizing their responsibility all showed today.  The Pakistan team management and national selection committee already knew very well that the middle order batsmen especially Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah cannot play spin bowling but they were still included in the Asia Cup squad.  Added to this, Fakhar Zaman, who has played all his cricket as an opener, now also has to bat in the middle order after the success of the opening pair of Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan and it is also known that Fakhar Zaman’s ability to play spin bowling is also good not so how will your team win big tournaments when you have so many players in your middle order who don’t have any sense of responsibility.  How did the Pakistan team reach to finals of the Asia Cup? If we talk about the first match, the Pakistan team lost against India. The first 12 overs were difficult in the match against Hong Kong, but after the mistakes of the weak opponent,  We got an opportunity to beat them easily, then if we talk about the Super Four match against India, the Indian team also gave us chances and especially the way Muhammad Nawaz came and played at number four, made the match easy for Pakistan or after that if we talk about the match against Afghanistan, the national team’s batting line didn’t show any sense of responsibility and because of Naseem Shah’s two sixes in the last two balls, Pakistan won otherwise the national team might not even reach the final of the Asia Cup because we were already on our knees in the previous Super Four match against Sri Lanka.  Apart from the selection of the Pakistan team, the captaincy of the national captain Babar Azam was also disappointed in this tournament.  In today’s big final, when Pakistan’s fast bowlers were doing well and we got things under control by picking 5 Srilankan wickets for just 58 runs, it was a big mistake to give three overs to part-time bowler Iftikhar Ahmed instead of using Haris Rauf or Naseem Shah for one more over and tried to take the wicket of a batsman like Rajapaksa, maybe things would have been different for Pakistan. Due to these small mistakes, Pakistan faced difficulties many times in this tournament, but today’s defeat revealed many secrets of the Pakistan team.  The management does not have much time as the England team is coming very soon to play seven T20 matches in Pakistan, after which the national team has to play a tri-nation series in New Zealand and after that, the Pakistan team has to participate in the World Cup.  The Management Selection Committee will have to sit together and take major decisions.