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Zippergate, ball-tampering, whatever the crime, it doesn't explain 99 all out. Pakistan won the toss. It was a straightforward task to close out the Test series, wasn't it? It's what the coach expected. Dale Steyn struggled to be fit for the match. Imran Tahir had struggled to take any international wickets. Advantage Pakistan? Seemingly so, but that first innings of the match became a disaster; so great a failure that Dav Whatmore expressed his displeasure at the performance of his batsmen in the middle of the Test. Now Pakistan have crumbled with victory imminent in the first one-day international. The basics of shot selection, playing straight, and managing a simple run chase evaporated into the Sharjah night. I can't remember a time since the xxxxs, when Pakistan were weakened by Kerry Packer, that the batsmen have seemed so vulnerable. It isn't even Pakistan's habitual crime of being unpredictable. A depressing inevitability surrounds the batting performances, so much so that the achievements of the first Test were an utter surprise, albeit a pleasant one. The prime responsibility lies with the top order, we know, where Azhar Ali's loss of form adds to the dilemma of the openers. But the top-order issue cannot alone explain Pakistan's woes. The middle order lacks depth. The main wicketkeepers are some of the weakest at batting in international cricket. Let's not start on their keeping. A nation of allrounders has exhausted its pipeline. The lower order barely know which end of a bat to hold. Only the captain, Misbah-ul Haq, is able to bat with any consistency. But for Misbah and the skills of the country's bowlers, Pakistan would be at the bottom of every pile.One particular weakness is batting first in an international match. How often do Pakistan dominate a Test match from the first innings, particularly when they bat first? Batting first in a Test match is an opportunity to seize the initiative. The better teams expect to post big totals and apply pressure. But Pakistan rarely do. Yes, Pakistan's defeat in Sharjah came from a run chase, but let's take this measure of how a team performs in the first innings of an international match as a proxy for the ability of its batsmen. To investigate, I looked up a illuminating statistic. Since the damaging England tour of xxxx, Pakistan's average score when batting first in a Test match is 261. To put that into perspective, South Africa's average score when batting first during the same period is 382, the best of any Test team. Indeed, Pakistan's record is the worst of all. Even Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are better.Misbah's response has been to dig in, to fight and grind out a rearguard. But there is only so much one man can do Pakistan's record in one-day internationals in this period is little better. When batting first since that England series in xxxx, Pakistan average 223. South Africa, by contrast, average 268, which is the best, above India with 265. Pakistan do better than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, but that's it.Using this statistic as a measure of batting performance, Pakistan have declined sharply since xxxx, both in Test matches and one-day internationals, when compared with their own performances before xxxx and against other countries since xxxx. What this means is that Pakistan's whole batting order is failing to respond to the challenge of batting first in an international match. When the top order lets the team down, as it usually does, the middle order struggles to take the initiative, and the tailenders do little to defy their opponents. In general, teams that score heavily in the first innings of an international match tend to be more successful.These failings in the first innings, when batting conditions are traditionally at their best, are destroying the confidence of Pakistan's batsmen, so much so that a hospitable track becomes a minefield, a friendly attack becomes endowed with devilment, and an easy run chase becomes impossibleThe solutions for Pakistan aren't obvious. The alternatives are unready, thanks, as Misbah-ul-Haq rightly points out, to an inadequate domestic circuit. The four young openers across both formats will require time to establish themselves. At No. 3, it's clear that Azhar Ali should be rested from Test cricket, but it's less clear who can replace him. Perhaps Asad Shafiq can step up in both formats? Even if that solves one problem, Pakistan still seek depth in their middle order, wicketkeepers who can bat, a bowling allrounder, and generally more tenacity from their lower-order batsmen. But both Test and one-day squads struggle for opportunities and fixtures to allow replacements to be tested and establish themselves.Misbah's response has been to dig in, to fight and grind out a rearguard. But there is only so much one man can do. He needs help. Given the failings of domestic cricket, Pakistan should consider bucking the trend in international selection of choosing different squads for different formats. Why not select essentially the same core squad of players for Test and one-day international cricket? An international cricketer of sufficient class will be able to succeed in both formats. "A" tours and T20 cricket can be then used to blood new talent. Selecting different squads for different formats is just a fashion. There is no evidence to support it. I think this is a good recommendation. Specialist teams per format are a bit of a myth - good test players should be able to translate down. England continues to pick absolute nobodies for ODI and T20 spots, calling them things like "T20 specialists" who have grown up on the game, but they always look out of their dept. Given the number of times Pakistan get bowled out in less than 50 overs, having a test mentality brought in would be better. Let's get Azhar into the ODI team and help him regain his form. Sad to say it, but Afridi needs to go. Why we're not picking Junaid for ODIs consistently is beyond me. We could have had South Africa out for 120 with him in instead of Wahab.Pakistan's batting is in a state of crisis and measures should be taken both short term and long term. Short term - arrange more A team tours to Eng, SA and Aus for the young batsmen. Here's another radical idea - get some of these young batsmen to sign up with a season of County Cricket. Even if it is at PCB's expense. Rather spend money on this than 900 employees.Long term - of course make the domestic setup more competitive which everyone goes round and round making the right noises but nothing meaningful ever takes place.People who say that jamshed shouldn't be given a chance r ones who doesn't understand cricket properly.he's someone whose got the potential in him.he's got the technique,shots n temperament for the big stage.when low profile batsmen like hafeez n azhar Ali r given such a lot of chance why not jamahed with talent.when u find a potential player it's in the hands of the administration to groom them.jamshed obviously is going through a bad patch like any other player.if the administration had the brain they should have taken him to the Zimbabwe tour to let him regain the form The major issue is selection. There are enough players with 50+ average in first class like Fawad Alam, Shoaib Maqsood, Zain Abbas to name a few but who gets the chance to be in the team: Umer Amin. This guy has an average of 38 in first class.I also don't think that the current batting order is proper for the type of batting line up we have. With a fragile batting line up, we can't afford two inconsistent all rounders (Afridi and Hafeez). If one of them was as consistent as Jacque Kallis or Shane Watson (being all rounders), it would have been different. 1) Shahzad 2) Jamshed 3) Umer Akmal 4) Misbah 5) Asad Shafiq 6) Shoaib Maqsood 7) Afridi 8) Tanvir 9) Ajmal 10) Junaid 11) Irfan Shoaib Maqsood can do also bowl - he is a good leg spinner. Shoaib and Afridi can strike big at 6 and 7 if everything clicks upfront. If our top order struggles then Misbah and Shafiq can handle it.I am baffled by your criticism of Asad Shafiq. Regarding his average in ODIs, I would advise you to look at how badly he has been used rather his ODi career has been intentionally damaged by playing him just one or two matches in a series and has been dropped even after performing well. In his short ODi career he has played at almost all the top order numbers. He is the most technically gifted player in current setup and if you go by averages half of your team does not deserve to be in the playing XI Please do constructive criticism and leave bias out while analyzing players performances Posted by Hassan Rafique Mir on (October 31, xxxx, 20:10 GMT) Asad Shafiq in both formats ?? Are you serioes ? He has an average of 27 and strike rate less than 70 in ODI. He is trusted with in the Test matches an that is where he should bat He is really lucky to get a chance in this current SA series since he did not perform in the Zin series and I am happy that team management and selectors stuck in with him but he is batting at a very safe number where most teams are batting either an allrounder or the keeper. I think he should only stick to Tests and bat higher up to be tested. Wicketkeeper in ODI is thankfully not a problem anymore but I do believe that Pakistan should try out Mohammad Rizwan too but Umar Akaml should be in the team in any case as he is the only world class batsman in this side with an average of almost 40 and strike rate of 85. As far as the ODI goes, I put the blame on Afridi more than anyone else. With less than 15 runs to get and million overs left, all he needed was to push the ball around and Pak would have been home comfortable. What did he instead? I think Azhar Ali should be discarded, for he is so slow to get off the blocks in any situation, that the opposition gets on top straight away. It is also time to look beyond Younis Khan. I was a fan of him for years, but I think he is very inconsistent these days to go along with very poor strike rate. And, please give a rest to Nasir Jamshed. He has been a consistent failure of late.Posted by Arijit_in_TO on (October 31, xxxx, 17:20 GMT) I like Amit_13's idea about going 'all in' on the bowling. It would take some skillful captaincy --someone like a Mark Taylor, Mike Brearley or Imran Khan-- to pull it off but in a nutshell I don't believe that batsmen could withstand 6 world class Pakistani bowlers going full tilt (with appropriate field placements, of course) at them during a test match. The current crop of batsmen have not shown the application to play test cricket. FWIW, I think the criticism of Misbah ul Haq is pretty harsh but I say that from the perspective of a bystander. Posted by Amit_13 on (October 31, xxxx, 16:16 GMT) Given their alienation by the international cricket community, playing more A team tours with better teams or playing the Associate nations would be an option. It hurts me to say this but Pakistan should consider stepping down to preserve their batting and to get more games in. They are sadly not a hard draw anymore. And given the conditions back home, no team will go there for a long long time. Misbah, for all his herculean efforts, is 40 and fit... but he is as disposable as the cricket administration in the country. If he goes, they might have to go the other way and start picking 6 bowlers or more to give the batsmen a chance. That might be another interesting prospect... atleast for test cricket. I have never known a Pak bowling attack the opposition have taken lightly. In world cricket, they are the only country who could boast a world class 4 pack of pace bowlers and an equally competent spin twins. As it happens, most people miss the very obvious that is in the front of their eyes. The problem with pakistani cricket team is that it lacks leadership. Misbah---though a great batsman---is a terrible leader. He does not have the fire in him to lead a team of men as a captain. He has no personality. He is calm under all circumstances---whereas you need someone who has FIRE in him to come out aswinging---to rip the players another a'hole---. Pakistan teams leads an alpha male to lead its players. The job of a leader / captain is to get his players to do their chosen tasks as individuals and as a team at the same time. Misbah has a SOB STORY for every failure---it is about time that pakistan keep Misbah in the batting line up and find a fire brand to take charge. In pakistan's case---Misbah is doing his job in batting---rest of the 5 batsmen are failing---so I would rather have a captain who might fail at batting but lead 5 of his batsmen to perform---. When South Africa lost the first Test of their series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, they were in danger of losing their first overseas series since July-August xxxx, when Sri Lanka beat them 2-0. (Even that series would have ended 1-1 if Sri Lanka hadn't squeezed out a one-wicket win in the second Test by chasing down a target of 352.) As it turned out, though, South Africa kept their magnificent overseas record intact by winning in Dubai and levelling the series 1-1, the 12th successive overseas series that they either won or drew. Their record when playing away from home has been the stand-out aspect of South Africa's cricket over the last six years, and the one stat that's earned them the respect of all teams and critics. It's also differentiated them from the two previous No.1s, India and England, who rose to that position largely on the basis of home wins. During these six years, South Africa have actually achieved a much better winning ratio overseas (16 wins, 5 defeats, ratio 3.20) than at home (17 wins, 7 defeats, ratio 2.42). In 12 overseas series during this period, South Africa have won eight and drawn four. The modern cricket schedule has also meant several short series, with little time to acclimatise, but they've coped fairly well with that too: out of five two-Test series, they have won two and drawn three. When given the opportunity to play longer series, South Africa have done even better, winning six out of seven which have consisted of three or more Tests. And the only series against one of the lesser sides was a 2-0 rout of Bangladesh in xxxx.A comparison with other teams during this period indicates how far ahead of the pack South Africa are. While they have a 16-5 win-loss record, the next best is England's 11-11. Pakistan and Australia have win-loss ratios of more than 0.7 as well. When tours to Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are excluded, South Africa are still clear leaders with a ratio of 2.80 (14 wins, 5 defeats), with England slipping to 0.81. Pakistan slip even further, as four of their 14 wins (and one defeat) came on tours to these countries.South Africa's batting and bowling have both been pretty solid on these tours, but while a few other teams - Pakistan, Australia and England - have achieved similar bowling stats on tours, no other side has matched South Africa's batting prowess.
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