Pakistan won the Pakistan vs australia one day series

Four factors were crucial in Pakistan vs Australia one day series. The biggest one is the change of captain. It has been proven that a captain with a positive aggressive approach can transform a team’s performance.

Mohammad Rizwan has done the same. It is not felt that the whole last year this team was playing very bad white ball and kept losing continuously. He also faced defeat in the World Cup. Mohammad Rizwan captained very well, leading from the front. Even in batting, he tried to stay on the wicket and score runs, but his captaincy made the biggest difference. Timely bowling changes, good field placement, using your bowlers well and uniting the team.

Only last year, when Babar Azam was removed from the captaincy after losing the World Cup, Mohammad Rizwan should have been made the captain. Making Shaheen Shah Afridi the captain was a mistake. He was made a pre-mature captain, it created grouping in the team, chaos and many problems.

White ball

Now it seems that the problem of captaincy in white ball cricket is solved, Mohammad Rizwan should be supported and made captain permanently for a long time, at least for a year or two.
Another major factor is team play. Last year Pakistan lost the World Cup in West Indies and America, not a single team was playing in it. It seemed like there were two or three different factions playing and at times it felt like they were playing to defeat each other. The goal is not to win but to defeat the other faction.

This time there is no faction in the team playing unitedly Rizwan Babar Shaheen Haris all connected with each other playing with complete harmony and this has been a very important factor. proved to be the deciding factor.
Some credit must also be given to the cricket board. He broke the player power and supported the new captain and the team. However, one has to accept this, whether one likes it or not. The Cricket Board management made serious mistakes in the beginning, forming a weak selection committee, giving wide authority to Wahab Riaz. This selection committee did not select a good team for the World Cup. Brought back Amir and Imad Wasim to the team but did not create a proper rapport with captain Babar before bringing them in.

Gary Kirsten report

The team going into the World Cup was not balanced, Gary Kirsten was then the coach, he reports that groupings were evident in the team. All these experiments failed, Pakistan’s performance in the World Cup was very disappointing.
It is to the credit of the Cricket Board that instead of holding on to their wrong decisions, they corrected their mistakes and made a Right Person for the Right Job policy. It was a good decision to bring Aqib Javed and Azhar Ali in the selection team. When Aqib Javed was given the option, he made a spin track and defeated a strong team like England.

A well-balanced team was also formed for the Australia tour. Mohammad Hasnain was brought back into the team for the domestic performance. Abdullah Shafiq and Saeem Ayub were trusted. Kamran Ghulam also got a chance. Irfan Niazi was retain while some new players were also include.

Importat factor

The third important factor behind Pakistan’s extraordinary win is that the players also changed themselves, performed well and tried to make their place. In fact, he realiz that if he does not perform now, he will be kick out of the team. He cannot stay in the team based on past performance alone. This is a lesson that the cricket board and team management should have imparted to the players long ago. Dropping Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah from the second Test against England was a very important and big decision. He told that no player power will work anymore. He who will play well, is the only place.

Shaheen Shah Afridi seems to have learned this well, Haris Rauf learned this and other players also felt the need to rethink their performances. Fakhrzaman should get an annual contract, he should join the team, Phardam is essential in the Champions Trophy plan, but the drastic action taken on Fakhr’s critical tweet, however, shows that there is no sacred cow in the team anymore, no super. No player.

Discipline

Whoever violates the discipline will pay the price. An added advantage was that the absence of Fakhr gave full opportunity to Abdullah Shafiq and Saeem and they tried to make a place by applying their talents. It is not uncommon for Pakistani openers to give a good long stand on the bouncy and difficult pitches of Adelaide and Perth. Saeem Ayub also played big shots in the last two matches after being set, hitting brilliant sixes. Abdullah Shafiq also played well, his form has come back to some extent. I am also confident in Babra Azam’s short innings. Babar could not play a long innings due to low target, but in Adelaide and Perth, Babar opened the winning shot with great glory. It is hope that Babar will get a chance to play more in the T20 series.

Shaheen Shah Afridi’s bowling

One of the major highlights of this series is the return of some of Pakistan’s key players. Watching Shaheen Shah Afridi’s bowling was a very interesting and enjoyable experience. Guess if a great bowler like Wasim Akram is watching the bowling of Shaheen Shah Afridi, he is happily telling the commentary how Shaheen has learned to make a good in-swinger as well as a very good outswing.

The same seam is bringing the ball in very well in position and troubling the opposition batsmen by getting the ball out in the same manner. Before that, Shaheen Shah’s ball was coming in well, but he was not able to make a good outswing, by the way, Shaheen’s new ball was not coming in for some time. Watching Shaheen Shah bowl in Perth today was a wonderful experience. He bowled very well with the new ball, unfortunately fell short of wickets in that spell, though a couple of wickets in the end made up for it.

Australian pitches

Haris Rauf and Hasnain have special experience of bowling on Australian pitches. Harris has played a lot of matches in Big Bash, Hasnain has also played a lot of matches.
Both of them attuned themselves to the Australian pitches and bowled very good lengths. It was very important, the length at which Harris Roof was bowling, in the Perth match, in the Adelaide match, he was amazing and very effective.
I have a habit of opening the Cricinfo app while watching matches on TV, there are many interesting comments and comments in the commentary. In today’s match, most of the Australians and some Indians etc. were repeatedly writing that this is Australia’s A team, Pakistan’s victory is not special and there is more luck factor in it, etc.
All these are useless and weightless things. The fact is that Pakistan performed much better than the Australian team in this series. In fact, the Pakistani team had won the first match in a way.

Second ODI

Such a good defense for such a close score is rare. In the second ODI, Australia played a strong team, almost the same squads that won the World Cup. Stevesmith, Labuchin, Ingalls, Maxwell etc. are major players. All of them were bowl out for a small score. While it is noteworthy that on the same fast grassy pitch, well-know and experience bowlers like Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood were crush by the Pakistani openers. Gave a century plus stand and barely fell a wicket. That was the worst defeat.

Pakistan’s performance in today’s match in Perth was also exceptional, no matter who was in the competition. Today, if Marsh and Travis were heads, then they too would have been confuse by the balls of Shaheen Naseem and Haris. Pakistani pacers gave better performance than Australian bowling attack.

It is a regular embarrassment for Australia that our middle order was not require to play in two of the three matches of the series. It should be keep in mind that the Pakistani team arrived in Australia after playing test matches on soft bouncy pitches, without even playing a warm-up match. Still, to adapt yourself to the condition so quickly and then outclass the world champion is impressive.
However, if Cummins, Starc, Smith etc. do not play in the third ODI, then the fault lies with the Australian Cricket Board. In fact, they took the Pakistani team easy. They became victims of arrogance and pride. The Australian board will think that they will win both ODIs against Pakistan and win the series and then it won’t matter if some of their experienced players don’t play in the last ODI. It would be unimaginable that Pakistan would win the series after 22 years after winning the second and third ODIs.

Congratulations

However, Pakistan has won the ODI series brilliantly. Congratulations to the entire nation on this victory. It should be hope that inshallah the Pakistani team will win the T20 series with the same glory.