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South Africa clean sweep pakistan 3-0 in tests

In Pakistan shorter format has always been popular , and long format of game only succeeded when we played lagr scale tours

5 tests , 5 ODI series in 80's , with 2-3 Practice 2-3 day matches , to get familiar with grounds and bounce


Playing only in UAE has been counter productive
 
https://indianexpress.com/article/s...-3rd-day-4-test-live-score-streaming-5537528/

"Pakistan vs South Africa 3rd Test Day 4 highlights: South Africa win by 107 runs, sweep series 3-0
Pakistan vs South Africa 3rd Test Day 4 highlights: Starting the day at 153/3, Pakistan kept on losing wickets at regular intervals and they were bowled out in the first session of the day."

My observations -
The pak players seemed quite happy after the thrashing. Some were smiling and body language was of another day at the office.
Always look forward to the pakistan captain's interview after the match.
Haha.

Yes you are right. They are not into winning and it looks thats ok for them. As Ntini in commentary said Pak players just playing for their positions in playing eleven.

More than technical, Test cricket is a mind game. Imran Khan with nobodies in Pakistan cricket won games from hopeless positions. Pakistan under Sarfaraz loses from position of victory! Just like First Test against NZ. They were like 143 for 5 chasing 174 yet lost by 3 runs!!!

The mind is not in winning. Its just another day at the office. So what if we dont win. Are we in for next Test!? This is a very worrying aspect.

When team game becomes a selfish game, its time to write its obituary. Pakistan might still have good players but leadership is completely lacking and when leadership in Test cant gel the individuals together, the individuals play selfish. To them, there is no purpose in unity.

Sarfaraz is not a leader who can leade by example. Like Misbah was a leader. He took ownership. He took responsibility.

Whereas Sarfaraz criticized bowlers after losing second Test. Its bowlers which gave Pakistan opportunities. Its batsmen who squandered them. Was it bowlers who squandered second innings opportunity from 101-3 to 190 all out? If bowlers are bowling 2.5 days in a 3.5 day Test match, they will definitely lose steam and vigor. So batters including Sarfaraz need to do a better job and not just lose their wicket playing extremely stupid shot like Sarfaraz does.
 
Yes you are right. They are not into winning and it looks thats ok for them. As Ntini in commentary said Pak players just playing for their positions in playing eleven.

More than technical, Test cricket is a mind game. Imran Khan with nobodies in Pakistan cricket won games from hopeless positions. Pakistan under Sarfaraz loses from position of victory! Just like First Test against NZ. They were like 143 for 5 chasing 174 yet lost by 3 runs!!!

The mind is not in winning. Its just another day at the office. So what if we dont win. Are we in for next Test!? This is a very worrying aspect.

When team game becomes a selfish game, its time to write its obituary. Pakistan might still have good players but leadership is completely lacking and when leadership in Test cant gel the individuals together, the individuals play selfish. To them, there is no purpose in unity.

Sarfaraz is not a leader who can leade by example. Like Misbah was a leader. He took ownership. He took responsibility.

Whereas Sarfaraz criticized bowlers after losing second Test. Its bowlers which gave Pakistan opportunities. Its batsmen who squandered them. Was it bowlers who squandered second innings opportunity from 101-3 to 190 all out? If bowlers are bowling 2.5 days in a 3.5 day Test match, they will definitely lose steam and vigor. So batters including Sarfaraz need to do a better job and not just lose their wicket playing extremely stupid shot like Sarfaraz does.

bowlers did their job , batsmen disappointed.
 
Every time Sarfaraz reached 50, he gave his wicket away with an extremely cheap dismissal. What does that tell you? Its not in him to win. By the time batsman has reached 50, he would not want to give his wicket away. As a captain you would like to convert that 50 into a big score. Just like Misbah or Younas would do.

This is not acceptable. No excuse is. You are in it to win. Not to lose 3-0. If you cant do it, do something different. Be honest to your job. Sarfaraz through his fitness does not lok like a disciplinarian. Look at Kohli now and Imran Khan when he was a player. These leaders like Kohli and Imran adopted a strong discipline regime for themselves. So then they become leaders. Look at Misbah. How fit he was at 42. Fitness tells a lot about a player.
 
Probleum is asad shafiq he dont make runs when needed most he only performs at loosing cause take a look to his career not a single test match man of the match award he won its time to higlight this menace

Get rid of pathetic azher ali time to give charge to new blood in test there are far better technical batsman than these
 

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