Goldman Sachs: Pakistan’s economy could reach $2.1 trillion by 2050

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Goldman Sachs: Pakistan’s economy could reach $2.1 trillion by 2050

@Doppleganger

Where would Bangladesh be like $5 trillion? They export products worth $30 billion while** we are at $10 billion still?** Same thing in cricket where our batting is in a time warp and ‘heroes’ like Imran
SUGGEST that test cricket would improve ODI batting.

Not to be the party pooper, but even the govt has accepted that pakistan is around 4% GDP growth instead of the darnomics of 5%. The less said about Zardari years the better.

We need 6-7% growth to comfortably provided for the rapid increase in population. I’d say that we reduce our population growth, but a small percent of a bigger population would still be millions of new people each year!

Yes we should at least be doing better than Bangladesh but I don’t know where you got that $10 billion figure from! Pak exports were $30.4 billion in 2013-14 (BD exports were worth $30.1 billion and $31.19 billion in 2013-14 & 2014-15 respectively).

Economy of Pakistan

And although this is not a cricket forum what IK probably meant was that you need batsmen with good technique and temperament in ODIs as well. Limited overs cricket is not just about hitting 4s and 6s unless you are a fan of ‘2 boundaries then out’ type of players (Afridi, Imran Nazir etc.). Even now the middle overs of an ODI are all about consolidation and building an innings (and teams that lose their way here often struggle to post a competitive total) and you need batsmen with sound technique and temperament to do that. Hence many top test batsmen also excel in the limited overs format. The reverse is not necessarily true.

Test cricket tests all three T’s - Talent, Technique and temperament
ODIs essentially test technique and talent (& temperament to some extent)
T20Is essentially test talent only