Poor team selection led to Pakistan’s ODI loss: former players – Cricket News Update
Former Pakistani players are convinced that the recent poor performances of the national squad, which suffered an appalling 0-4 loss to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in their ODI series, is a result of poor team selection.
While the Men in Green managed a successful 3-0 whitewash of the visitors in the Test series, they failed to bring the same energy and momentum to the pitch for the ODI bouts, and suffered resounding losses.
“The slump was the result of bad team selection,” said former Pakistan batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mudassar-Nazar-c77867. “(…) These players are good enough to win matches but need to be played in the right combination.”
Nazar added that there was a need to analyze, rather than simply criticising the poor performances of the side.
Former leg-spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Qadir-c41605, was also convinced that the team had been unable to pick the right combination of players required to be successful in particular conditions they faced in Dubai.
He further observed that Misbah-ul-Haq’s side was slow in transferring their focus from Tests to ODIs successfully, arguing on the grounds that while the spin attack had been effective during the longer format of the game, the pitches for the one-day series
had a fair amount of bounce, and that is where the pacers should have been brought out in full force.
"I think Pakistan failed to take full advantage of the pitches for the one-dayers; we never changed our focus from the Tests to the ODIs as we kept on expecting spinners to play a key role," he said.
These sentiments were shared by former spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Iqbal-Qasim-c76980.
"There was lack of consistency in the selection, sometimes they played with four spinners and just one seamer which affected their performance," he observed.
The greats of the game were also convinced that the time had come for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 to have different teams for ODIs, T20Is, and Test matches respectively.
Qasim suggested that the selectors needed to assign specific players for each type of format, and Qadir shared a similar viewpoint, saying there was a pressing need for specialised teams for each form of the game.
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