Re: South Africa vs. Pakistan - 2nd Test - 19-23 Jan at Port Elizabeth
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Trying to prove that bowlers win you Test matches and batsmen only save them is a bit like trying to prove whether the chicken or the egg came first. Both are essentially self-defeating arguments.
But if you look at the away record of Pakistan, a country where fast bowling is inked in as the secondary occupation on most national identity cards, then you might be deluded into thinking you're onto something. Of the subcontinent sides, their performance is far and away the best; **this was their 44th Test win abroad, exactly a quarter of all their away Tests. Sri Lanka and India, countries where penetrative bowling attacks have been rare, have won 15 and 27 respectively and, as a proportion, far less than Pakistan. **
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Amazing, we have won only quarter of all tests played abroad. We need some serious batting coaching and pacey wickets on U15/19 levels. Immediately.
Also that India and SL are trailing way behind us on winning record abroad.