Heavy work to be done!

Will test cricket in Pakistan survive?

After a pathetic performance in the first innings of the test match with the bat by Pakistanis, they’re starting to show some form in the second innings while chasing a mammoth 440 to win in two days time, with already 114-1 with Salman Butt playing on 58 and Azhar Ali the debutant playing on 28.

I am as my previous articles state that not very optimistic regarding a positive result in favour of Pakistan but still they should capitalize it by learning how to stay on the wicket! Every team in current test playing lot knows how to minus Pakistan. Sorry to say but no test century has been scored by any Pakistani since Imran Farhat’s 117* v New Zealand @ Napier on 11 Dec 2009. Do our players know how to stay on the wicket? Do they know the importance of staying on the wicket with limiting your shot play important in test matches? I don’t think else if they had, (the management, board and the cricketers), we may not have loose the Galle test, the Sydney Test and some pathetic performance by our Seniors in the test opener played at the Lords, you can give some space to juniors as they’re alien to these conditions and hearing and learning about some place is another thing and to experience is anything, other than Salman Butt, did the two seniors Afridi or Kamran Akmal justified themselves? The stage at which Afridi arrived if he had stayed on the wicket and supported Butt than we might have had a little deficit compared to a mammoth 105 overall lead.

Now as the elders say time wasted cannot be recovered but can be compensated by means of sensible batting in the second innings as there’s a lot of time but you have to keep the wickets save till the last day! Else I think if Pakistan accept the result in favour of Aussies than the limited test interest in Pakistan would also be blown away.