Re: Pakistan vs India at Birmingham ICC Champions Trophy 4th June 2017
Absolutely true. As I said above, Inzi and co. effectively picked a test side for a limited overs tournament barring Babar Azam.
I hope we lose the remaining two group games as well. Then perhaps, just perhaps heads will roll within PCB. Yes we don’t have many exciting batsmen right now but the fact that they didn’t select a single big hitter in the CT squad is hard to fathom. You don’t just select test players in every format or pick players on the basis of seniority or age. This sense of entitlement needs to be done away with. Not every batsman is Kohli or Miandad. I know it is difficult sometimes because of our culture (of bhaijan, a curse really) but it is high time that the selectors picked the right players for the right format. If that means selecting three completely different teams then so be it.
Batting first would have made no difference imo with the current batting
And dot ball specialists Shehzad and Hafeez once again lived up to their reputation..
A crushing defeat