The situation worsened when Pakistan was knocked out of the T20 World Cup last week after defeats by the United States and India. Their expectations of going further in the tournament rested on Ireland and the USA if Ireland would defeat the USA. But rain in Lauderhill soon crushed those expectations as no play meant the USA moved to the Super Eight stage with just a single-point lead.
Early Termination and Adverse Climate
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The team failed to post challenging totals or take early wickets, and Pakistan was knocked out of the T20 World Cup, despite the conditions that prevailed during their games. The team had a rather poor performance in the tournament. The best performance was seen in their last group match against Ireland, where they won by a very close margin of three wickets while chasing a target of 107 runs.
It has been found in this edition of the World Cup that most of the matches have been low-scoring, especially in Group A, which has seen slow wickets in the USA, more conducive to bowlers. Out of all the wicket types preferred by bowlers, the New York surface remains one such wicket on which the maximum run chased by India was only 111, thus making it tough for batsmen to score.
Shehzad’s Candid Critique Of Pakistan Team
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In one of the chat shows Pakistani batter Ahmed Shehzad was asked about the propriety of the team being criticized on the ground, especially in the face of ‘tough balls’. Shehzad remained unlashing and stated that Pakistan’s problems are not only their current tournament problems.
“If you rewind the time, there was the Zimbabwe series where you guys lost, then the South Africa series where they lost to the Netherlands, and then they came to the finals. You go back to the Asia Cup, where you lost to Sri Lanka. Suppose you use the mirror and look back at the last three months of cricket, where you lost to Afghanistan, then Zimbabwe, Ireland, and now America.
You could not even chase 120 against India.” Shehzad said to GEO News
Accountability and Preparedness
He continued to remind his fellow internationals, saying it was unallowable for international cricketers to give one’s best out in the field and make excuses when things do not happen as predicted. Hear what a fifth-grader has to say about school: ‘We get paid for it. ’ Hence, I will have no reason to complain if I match the team for four to five years.
You should be ready for any weather that you get, and you are an independent cricketer playing for the internationals. This is the kind of message Africa necessarily must hear and understand: ‘Get to know how you should overcome conditions and defeat your opponents to capture the trophy for your country,’ he concluded.
This fact is well illustrated by Shehzad’s comments, as these represent the systemic problems within the Pakistan cricket team that need to be addressed. The team needs to prepare better, and it should be ready for any weather or pitch conditions.
Even as it stands, the chances are high that, because they failed to progress to the tournament’s later stages, the team will now have to focus on correcting these concerns that have taken so long to be pointed out to enable better performances in the future.
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