Pitches in Pakistan

After watching two tedious matches in Karachi and Peshawar on dead low pitches I am surprised to say the least at the life in the Multan pitch. Bounce and seam movement for the pace bowlers…I thought we couldn’t produce these sort of pitches in Pakistan? What’s the secret…and is there any chance we can have these sort of pitches around the rest of the country? It makes the game much more interesting and great to see.

I agree with you that we must have more wickets similar to the one at Multan.

Until past few years, Peshawar was known as a real good sporting test wicket. Goodness knows why its playing so poorly now.

Karachi's track has been slow but always produced good test matches. Pakistan enjoys a spectacular record on this ground. However the wicket standard is getting poorer by each test.

Maybe the slow pitches are prepared to protect our batsmen ?

^ thats what the board's mentality is,,,,
what they dont realize is,,,, if they build good bouncy fast pitches everywhere in pak,, then the batsmen all around the country would be playing on them and ofcourse the bowlers would get better bowling on them too...
and this would help them very much on the international tours...
gone are the days of qadir wen he would bamboozle the rest of the world with his magic... we should now rely on our quickies and build fast pitches,, and it would for sure train our batsmen to handle pace n bounce too.

Multan's wicket has traditionally been conducive to fast bowlers. I remember Dennis Lillee regretting on his decision not to play a match in Multan in the famous 1979-80 tour when he declared that he should be buried on the Faisalabad track.

Secondly, some wickets, by nature are not fast and they can't be made fast be simply leaving grass on them. In his tenure, Imran Khan made a sincere effort to make fast wickets in Pakistan but that was not possible due to some technical reasons.

Whatever life the wickets have is quickly drained off because of excessive cricket been played on them. I am not what sort of effort can PCB do to prevent this and make wickets more lively. Anyway, this is not an attempt to defend them. There has to be some element of planning and management to make this happen.

That’s really a good one :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

Mabe then the track has some life in it :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

I think preparing pitches with bounce and some sideaway movement due grass on it should help to gain the level of the game … Since AUS has some similarities to Pak regarding warm weather so how is possible for them to prepare good tracks … Pakistan should have it’s own version of the WACA pitch …

AUS playing the game at this level has also something to do with the tracks they play on … this helps them to compete all over the world …

Time for PAK to try and copy it

Pitches take a lot of dedicated preparation and climate not-withstanding, I think that Pakistan probably doesn't spend or have the funds to give it as much attention as other countries do. Why that's the situation when cricket is such a popular game in Pak I'm not sure, but it probably has something to do with the way the game is set up there. All the test matches are playing to near empty stadiums so looks like a failure to attract spectators also points to lack of infra-structure.

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