Reason behind loss ??

Pakistan now has officially lost the series by losing this match. We can blame the defensive captaincy and our worst fielding efforts but this is not it. Pakistan cricket management has done some blunders in those matters which were critical for Pakistan performance.

In the recent past, Pakistan test team was No 1 !! For the short period of time but they were. Its just because Pakistan has played most of its matches in UAE and that was the main reason behind our wins but our ODI team was as worst as it is now.

We can point many things which are currently going wrong like domestic cricket structure maybe to some extent lack of talent and fitness but in past, It was the same domestic structure which produced Wasim Akram, Waqar Younus, Javed Miandad, Inzamam -ul- Haq and so on. I think this is not the worry for us. We have talent !! If we go back when Misbah-ul-Haq was captain of Pakistan's ODI team then it all started. He chooses the style of defensive captaincy and in my opinion on that era, cricket was changing from a defensive approach to aggression. 300 was more frequently made by teams and chased by. But we carry on like that and Misbah-Ul-Haq left the team on 7th. Yes, we were 7th ranked ODI team when Misbah-Ul-Haq left the captaincy.

Then with the discussion of Misbah-ul-Haq Cricket board made the decision to make Azhar Ali the captain of ODI team remember he was not the permanent member of the team. His 1st series against Bangladesh was the total disaster and Pakistan lost the series for the 1st time against Bangladesh in cricket history. Azhar ali continued as captain and won series against Srilanka in Srilanka which was a good win but Kumar Sangakkara & Mahela Jayawardene both were retired but a win is win. He continued and Pakistan managed to lose yet another series against England all hands down. Record Score of 444 made against Pakistan sloppy bowling and yes totally defensive captaincy and Pakistan lost that series. WestIndies series was the 3-0 win for Pakistan but Westindies team was playing with there half strength. Some of the players were injured and some of them were out of the team because of their board issues. And now this Australian tour ends for Pakistan if we talk about series. Pakistan lost the test series 3-0 and ODI series is still in progress but 3-1 is enough as far as series is a concern.

To summarise this article the need for time is to change the command of the team to some different and aggressive player because cricket is changing fast. For that Sarfaraz Ahmed is the only option for Pakistan as he is currently leading Pakistan cricket team in T20 as well.