Karachi: Former gamers reckon that neither Pakistan nor Zimbabwe achieved something from the current Test collection between them and urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to schedule matches towards stronger groups.
Former captain Ramiz Raja termed Pakistan’s comfy 2-0 clean sweep towards Zimbabwe as a poor commercial for Test cricket and suggested the African nation to simply concentrate on enjoying white ball cricket.
“Such one-sided matches are a joke and it will force fans to watch other sports, instead,” Raja stated on his Youtube channel. “Some people are of the opinion that when a weak team plays a strong one, you need to focus on what you learn from it rather than the outcome of the match.”
“You learn from the stronger team’s process and the way it adapts to the changing situation of a game. But I don’t think Zimbabwe learned anything from this series because they were continuously dominated by Pakistan,” he stated.
Similarly one other former captain, Rashid Latif additionally termed the collection as a mismatch.
“What is the purpose of such a series? It is good that Pakistan has got to play Test matches but in future the PCB must look at scheduling matches against stronger teams. We must not be afraid to match up against them,” Latif stated.
The former wicket-keeper batsman felt that as a substitute of going to Zimbabwe for a Test collection, Pakistan would have been higher off asking South Africa to schedule one Test towards them. He additionally felt that Pakistan wanted to play Tests towards groups like New Zealand, England, South Africa and Australia.
“When we face England, Australia and New Zealand, increase the Test matches because people want to see those two teams play. Don”t worry about winning and losing matches. We are already not playing against India and there are only five or six other teams that we should play,” he stated.
The PCB Chairman, Ehsan Mani on Monday congratulated the lads’s cricket staff on their sixth consecutive collection win and Babar Azam, who has grow to be the primary Pakistan captain to win his opening 4 Tests.
Pakistan defeated South Africa in Tests and T20Is at residence earlier this 12 months after which gained the T20I and ODI collection within the return collection earlier than wrapping up the African safari with T20I and Test collection wins in Harare.
The PCB showcased all of the pink and white balls collection collectively to congratulate the nationwide staff.
Ehsan Mani additionally thanked the gamers and help employees for enduring the powerful and demanding Covid-19 protocols to satisfy their Future Tours Programme commitments that ensured the followers remained related with the game.
Former Test batsman, head coach and chief selector, Mohsin Khan additionally questioned the necessity to have fun the current collection wins in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
“Unless we honestly review the strengths and weaknesses of our team we cannot improve. Zimbabwe was no match for us but what is worrying is we still lost a T20 match to them.”
“South Africa were without six or seven of their main players in the white ball series yet we lost matches to them also. That is something we need to look at closely. I don”t think we gained anything from winning the test series against Zimbabwe,” Khan stated.
