My question is Why can't we prepare pitches like the ones used against South Africa in 2021, and against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh around that time? Those pitches had a bit of everything for everyone. Rawalpindi was the spiciest Test pitch in the country back then, and Pakistan's pacers took 18 South African wickets there. So why can't we prepare them now? What's the real obstacle here?
I remember that after the South Africa win, when Ramiz became the new chairman, his first priority was bringing drop-in pitches to Pakistan. He named it as one of his four key initiatives. At the time, plenty of people on X warned it wouldn't work, because drop-in pitches are so hard to prepare in Pakistan.
And how that turned out was a disaster. The drop-in plan was put on hold because of the cost. Meanwhile, Rawalpindi produced just 14 wickets in five days against Australia in 2022, earned a "below average" rating from the ICC, and Ramiz admitted it had been flattened partly to blunt Australia's attack. By the end of that year, he was calling Pakistan's pitches "embarrassing".
So the soil didn't change. We made those pitches before. Right now, why can't we restore what we had? That's my question. Please tell me.
@2595_giri@YrrrFahad_ You can't justify the dropped catches with pitch conditions, there were 7mm grass on the pitch on first day, it's the subcontinent conditions
Australia - No bilateral cricket with Afghanistan.
England - No bilateral cricket with Afghanistan.
Pakistan - No bilateral cricket with Afghanistan.
Scotland - No bilateral cricket with Afghanistan.
FOUR COUNTRIES, ONE STANCE - NO BILATERAL CRICKET WITH AFGHANISTAN.
wait a minute 😳 “not a single middle order batter has scored a century in this period (last two years)” surely that can’t be true. mein toh kab se sunn raha hoon ke salman ali agha and mohammed rizwan have been carrying this batting lineup?
@YaseenUSM_Offl@MazherArshad Loday to har jagah Abu ka khilaaf bhonknai aa jata hai, mf you're the dumbest person I've ever seen on Twitter, jiska poora Twitter hi aik bandai Kai against bhonknai pai chalta hai
I was in the press conference When Virat said this and our journalists were the one praising him for being honest and when Babar Said same thing Our journalists are crying over... Our double standards