Pakistan’s domestic test cricket in shambles; some advice for PCB
Like almost every former British colony, Pakistan is also a cricket playing and loving nation where this sport seems to be a part of everybody’s life. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s national cricket team won the 1992 World Cup, besides emerging victorious in several other world class cricket tournaments. This cricketing nation is also the producer of a number of extraordinarily talented bowlers, batsmen, and fielders.
Most of the cricket playing countries are backed by a very strong first-class or in simple words the domestic cricket structure. The highest form of first-class cricket is the test cricket, also referred to as the longer version of the game. Test matches are to be played for 5 consecutive days, with everyday consisting of a 90-over bowling span of 3 sessions. These sessions are officially known as the morning, after launch or before tea and lastly the after tea sessions. The last playing time period is the longest in this format. Test cricket started with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and England during 1876-77 in an Australian season. Later eight other teams also achieved the test status. Pakistan is part of the test cricket fraternity since 1952 and is currently ranked as 7th in the world’s top 10 test cricket teams.
The Pakistani national side is currently playing the English series and is being tested and pushed by the best. However, it is failing to negate the brutal English bowling attack; the visitors have gone through embarrassing defeats in this series. The problems faced by the Pakistani side presently are largely attributed to the lack of domestic test cricket infrastructure. The best teams in this format, namely http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 have a very good channeled and professional domestic test cricket set up. They have proper practice pitches along with the latest cricket related technology that is also being used at the international level. Unlike the ODIs or T20s, this longer format of the game requires a lot more patience, technique, stamina, and nerves.
Pakistan’s domestic cricket standard is quite poor. It is no better than street cricket, where no one monitors the game. Cheating is a common practice among the domestic players; bowlers temper the ball, enabling them to take 7 to 8 wickets per inning. On the other hand, the batsmen also are able to score centuries after centuries on dead pitches. All this has affected the game for Pakistan at the international level and its national team has mostly lost its image.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) needs to come up with a comprehensive plan to boost up the domestic test cricket scene. It should ensure that the test cricket at domestic level be played with the same standards as it is played at the international level. Similarly, proper practice pitches should be made available to the domestic players along with that particular kind of umpires who can’t be bought off by any team. Once the PCB looks into such affairs, only then the level of test cricket would improve for Pakistan both at the national and international levels.
Pakistan’s rival and neighbor; India has one of the top test cricket team in the world. Both countries share the same cricketing history, culture, and heritage, but despite that India being at the top shows if right steps are taken domestically, they ensure a better national test side.
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