Nikema
February 16, 2012, 12:41am
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Re: 2nd ODI: England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Wed 15 Feb, 2012
GoldenAsif:
Nasser Hussain is spot on. His following comment pretty much sums up our batting approach in ODIs and supports what I’ve said in post #204
Pakistan cannot expect the likes of Afridi & Umar Akmal to score 60+ runs every time in the last 10 overs. The top order has got to be more aggressive while middle order must learn to take singles & doubles."
**This is why we are ranked #6 in ODIs. Before it was Afridi & Razzaq, now it is Afridi & Umar Akmal. The top order & middle order have got to start scoring at a faster pace.
Here is why top order and middle orders are not taking responsibility with following experiences behind them.
Farhat Debut: Jan 2001 International cricket experience about 11 years
Why are you so sure that a senior player is only option to stablize the inning?
Its because of this **fear cultures **that the seniors have developed over last few years, they have successfully made their fans believe that chances of losing is bigger when they are NOT around …which is not 100% accurate.
But the result is that, that fear trickles down into the system so bad that we are not letting juniors (who play without any fear of defeat) get a chance to play in pressure cooker situations (on frequent basis) to get experience and improve as cricketers, because those seniors (mostly) fold under pressure situations and come out and say “See if we can fold under pressure with all or our experience in international cricket then how bad it would have been with juniors, so that why keep playing us and not them”.
Above is not super complicated to understand and thats what Aussies/SA/Eng cricket teams/management and their fans have successfully understood and not Pakistani team/management and fans.