Historically Pakistan cricket had great garrison of talents and the flare to play the game at its best, thus converging with the best of the time at Pakistan’s own independence period since 1947 in no time.
Why was it that India and Pakistan being the same chip of the Old block almost achieved different results in a very short span of time?
I guess it was the aggression that put two teams apart from each other. We are blessed with this induction at DNA level to have it in our blood to play ‘Attacking’ cricket.
It did matter and statistics so far speak for themselves.
Both Kapil Dev and Imran Khan had that aggression and charisma to carry the W-Cup for their respective countries which they did.
Both these Gentlemen came from a back ground where its taught from your crib to be a young cub that must wear a ‘tiger’ skin as a toy. Symbolically inducing some tiger instincts in ones blood line. Thus the phrase "mera Shayr bacha’
If you pick a game, any game of Pakistan cricket and analyze it to reveal the layers of success and not surprising one would see the thing that stands out are the ‘Attack ‘ instincts.
That has been the main propeller of Pakistan cricket and its winning streak & the turning point.
But why was it so? When at the same time Hindustan had a good bunch of players but Played for different results?
I guess the logic lies in the following debate. Read on,
Pakistan never followed the footsteps of its former masters the’ English’ way of playing the game. It adopted its own logic and philosophy to shun the image of Slave & Masters, by secretly admiring the way its former masters tamed the foul mouth Aussies to heel and cry mercy.
The ‘Beamers’ the ‘Bouncers’ and the bowling that is aimed at the batsman rib cage are the inventions of the English but the Australians mastered the craft.
Two teams in the world who were instantly interested to adopt this lethal weapon of Venom loaded armor of Pace Bowling were the Australians and the Pakistanis.
They did well by not only adopting it, but by further developing it into an instant ‘Art ‘ of pace bowling that commonly invade our pitches from time to time, and from region to region. This was the period when the ‘Red Cherry’ grew wings.
Many famous names can go here, but that would be irrelevant to the thread topic.
The trio dominated the 60’s and the 70’s when the W-Ind with SA & SL. Joined in
And by the Mid 80’s the ‘Pace Bowling’ was here to stay and never looked back.
ICC with its MCC masters at Lords was quick to introduce the restrictions on ‘Short ball’ and Bouncer rule. That was clearly inducted to save the ‘Gora heads ‘ from their own invention cum loose cannon.
ODI theory further boosted the idea of using it as a quick fire projectile to shake the bat up, break it loose and let the spinners swallow the weak pray if not already eaten.
By then the ‘Ideal Theory’ of a win was clear enough for the pickings. Those who adopted the ‘Attack’ theory made headways into the record books.
Those who adopted a casual approach to the ‘Test’ matches and the so-called 2+3 days boring test cricket with a days rest in the middle made the game boring, slow and a chocker event achieving zeros.
Be it the ‘Test’ Cricket or the ODI, Pakistan never adopted the ‘Chocking’ tactics to the game. Indian were quite into it and played the game as if sipping tea in the lazy late after noon Indian sun.
However by the late 80’s the trend was turning via Prabhakar and Kapil
Compare to Pakistan’s handful of speedsters and medium pacers were still a shade shy off.
This was the period when the games started to go to the wire. But still Pakistan never had to work hard to beat the Indians. It was effortless and with out pain.
The ‘Attacking’ game theory is perhaps the actual game philosophy the inventor never thought would one day take over this ‘Gentleman’s game away from the afternoon teas and biscuits, Casual dash to the ‘dressing room’ in the middle of a play. Or the ever famous after game Pub bash where the looser would toast to the Winners and live happily ever after until the next Test.
Cricket is a game of Bat & Ball there are more refinements done to it than any other sport you care to name here.
The tactics are more inclined towards ‘Attack’ than ‘Defense’.
When you win the toss ‘ you decide to ‘Bat’ or ‘Field’ this would relate to the idea of
Bat = Attack and score as many runs without loosing many wickets on day one.
Field= Attack through my Pace Battery, open cracks into the opponents line of defense force them into a defensive posture and go for the ‘Final Kill’
Pakistan needs to adopt the ‘attack tactics’ once again. Combine the heroics of Bat & Ball to produce a quench for thirsty Tiger’s instinct.
Die trying, than begging for an easy death. The results would be the one that you are so use to.
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