After watching the recent test series and especially this one day game I had a few issues with the Pakistani team and was hoping to discuss them.
1. How come New Zealand were able to swing the new ball, whereas the Pakistani bowlers failed (despite Tanveer having a decent seam). Was it because of the nature of the pitch or because they are simply incompetent. The recent batch of Pakistani players have the mentality that reverse swing is the only skill that a bowler needs and so they don't pay attention to their seam position (Gul, Wahab) and so are only good at the death.
2. I have noticed that the main reason why Pakistani batsmen collapse is because they can't play the moving ball. This was the problem they had when facing Anderson in England and now Southee in New Zealand. In that case how is the new ball supposed to be played. A commentator mentioned that the batsmen need to get behind the ball so that they don't edge it to the slip or keeper. Is this true or are their any other factors involved. If it is true then why can't these morons learn to improve their positions when playing the new ball. Is it really that difficult to learn?
3. Another problem I had with some of the Pakistani players was that they can't rotate the strike (Azhar Ali, Misbah, Shafiq). Again how should they improve on this, do they need a batting coach or at this level they should already know how to get the singles and twos. Younis was the only one who was rotating the strike throughout his time at the crease.
4. What is the point of having Waqar as a coach when he can't teach the players how to swing the new ball despite being one of the greats (Gul has been in the team for so long and still he hasn't learnt how to do this yet). Wahab could be a very dangerous bowler if he could swing the ball into the right handers. It seems Waqar hasn't taught him this trick yet.
At the moment that's all that I can think of right now, but I hope someone is able to reply on some of these issues. Thanks
