Former New Zealand cricketer Simon Doull, who’s presently doing commentary within the ongoing Test sequence between New Zealand and Pakistan, has slammed the pitches used at National Stadium in Karachi.
Notably, Pakistan’s file within the longest format has lately deteriorated as they haven’t received a single match at residence within the final two Test sequence, the place flat tracks had been supplied in most video games. No marvel the followers and specialists have proven their disappointment with the way in which pitches have been enjoying, the place bowlers have acquired little to no assist.
It has additionally broken the Pakistan workforce’s observe file as they misplaced back-to-back sequence within the World Test Championship (WTC) calendar from Australia and England to get out of the race to qualify for the WTC remaining. Even within the ongoing sequence, Pakistan are struggling in opposition to Tim Southee’s New Zealand.
Following the draw within the first Karachi Test, the second sport additionally appears to be like to be going alongside the identical traces, because the pitch appears to be behaving like a street on Day 4. Expectedly so, Doull known as out the Karachi pitch and requested dwell on air if such tracks had been demanded by captain Babar Azam himself, who was trying to enhance his numbers within the Test format.
“Where does that directive come from? Does that come from Babar, who wants to bat on a road and improve his own stats? Does it come from above him?,” Doull mentioned.
“Where do these directives come from? Do they come from Babar Azam? Does he want to play on these roads to improve his own stats,” Simon Doull lashes out on the character of pitches in Pakistan. #PAKvNZ pic.twitter.com/EhvSxeQaor
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The 53-year-old steered that the bottom employees must be given the liberty to do their job, and other people within the greater ranks ought to keep away. Doull reckoned that one couldn’t anticipate bowlers to assist their aspect on tracks like these which don’t have anything to supply for bowlers.
“Let the ground staff do their job properly. The people above, the hierarchy, have just got to leave their noses out of it. It offers nothing. There is no grass on it. There is no seam movement, and there is no carry. You are picking a guy like Mir Hamza, who has a terrific first-class record. You pick guys who perform well at that level, but they come and bowl on this road. You can’t expect them to do the same job that they’re doing at the first-class level if you’re going to produce these types of surfaces,” mentioned Doull while talking on the Pitch Side present.