World T20 2016 | India v Pakistan | 19th March 2016

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Re: World T20 2016 | India v Pakistan | 19th March 2016

@Jolie

I listen to Miandad’s clips posted on my TL and his approach is, stay on the wicket for as long as you can, and then go ballistic towards the end. This whole 80s game plan for modern T20 game is based on the assumption, that if you play enough dot balls for the 10 overs, somehow in the last 10 overs the oppositions will start throwing lollipops at you so are able to score 100 runs off 60 balls. It doesn’t work like this in modern cricket.

Yes this strategy works to recover from a batting collapse, but this shouldn’t be your main game plan. Openers should be encouraged to play their natural game, give you a good start in quick overs.

When you listen to the greats, the “old is gold” saying really gets tested.

I do agree with imran that taking wickets is key, but he himself was saying that sloppy fielding is ‘ok’ in the past as long as you take wickets. Doesn’t fielding help you get those wickets and also put pressure on the opposing side? The other one was a gem that pakistani cricketers need more test cricket to play better in ODIs; I think Misbah internalized that saying with his ‘tuk tuk’ approach. At least with miandad, the guy could hit a six after ‘tuk tuk’ but misbah wasn’t even able to do that.

You need city teams (lahore, karachi, peshawar etc) that could be fed in from college / university cricket teams. You need a proper club system and sethi type people need to be sent packing to their yellow rags. I see a fat chance of that happening, so expect the same 'ole to continue. \

At least, I am not that emotionally invested in the pakistani team so I don’t feel that dejected if they play unprofessionally unlike 10 years ago.