Q says I am biased. Not because I wrote something fiery, but I laughed off Butt(whatever that means)’s comments in the media since he took over. Now which board chief in his first conference would have the guts to call the chief coach of the national Team as useless and of no utility. This kind of comments are either given to the incumbent in a one on one session or in a private feedback through mail or phone. But to say it openly is ludicrous. Wont it affect the morale of the already beleaguered Pakistan team ? If the captaincy issue and lack of cricket were not enough, now they have one more issue to deal with – Butt-ology.
Don’t know what hit Q, but isn’t Pakistan cricket on its deathbed ? Nothing seems to be going their way. They haven’t played a test match this year. Played a host to BD and Zim and won 11 ODIs on trot. Record is a record, no doubt even if it is against minnows. Pakistan and SL are the teams that love minnow hunting. Isnt it ? Muralitharan loves to get heapful of wickets against BD and not surprisingly, the next Test series they play is against BD. They don’t want to play against England to prefer IPL, but they want for sure to play against BD. Reason : easy victories, more batting and bowling records. And more rants from MJ.
Coming back to Pakistan, the ex-players have already opened a slew of charges against the coach and its all selfish interests that drives this criticism. Miandad who has had failed as a coach not once, but 3 times, wants to be the coach once again. Aamir Sohail is being tipped to be the next selector in charge. Salahuddin whoever has resigned as chief selector because Butt(again with a pinch of salt) modified his team without notifying chief selector and later got a dent in his ego. PCB has failed to convince white (not black or brown) Test playing nations to tour Pakistan amidst growing fear of terror attacks. Champions trophy was snatched from Pakistan and then PCB cried like a sissy baby who looses his chocolate to a bully. They threatened to sue CA for refusal to tour Pak but tour India on grounds of security. They even compared Delhi blasts to the situation in Pakistan of course before the Marriott bombings. And then the security talks vanished. Pak happily moved its home series to Dubai. And now Buttsab says ECB is ready to offer its venues for Pak cricket. Laughable isn’t it.
Q then says Pakistan has 2-2 record against India, so if Pakistan is a minnow then what is India. If he says India is a minnow, then I should very well give away cricket blogging. Just 24 hours ago India beat Australia by 320 runs and for 6th time in this decade, something which other test team can just dream of. When did Pakistan last beat Australia in a Test ? Good 14 years back in a home series, thanks to some shoddy wicket keeping by Healy and helpful home umpires. Since then they have lost 10 Tests in row to Australia both neutral and away. When did they last beat a significant Test country ? England in 2006. They lost 0-3 to England in England, even SL beat them in Pakistan. Since then Pakistan has just plunged to crisis. Dope crisis, indiscipline, death of its coach in the world cup. Yup the world cup debacle was there when they lost to an associate country and then they had Inzy as the skipper.
If this facts are biased, then well let me accept I am biased. Dude, can you change this facts ? Can you give me one reason why a cricket observer wont give any chance to Pakistan in the next Test series they play? So far they haven’t faced any whitewash from India, but they would soon. 3 more months. Unless Pakistan doesn’t take some steps to revive its team, a 3-0 result is in offing. And certainly Butt’s comments as good as Amar Singh or Lalu Prasad Yadav wont help boosting the morale of the people whose performance on the field matters.
