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PCB must pull up the TV broadcaster of the ongoing Pakistan vs Zimbabwe cricket series; M/s Ten Sports, for immediately improving their extremely dud quality of telecast, by attending to the following deficiencies for the remaining 2 ODI matches:

1. Telecast is hazy and not looking sharp and crystal clear like the HD and Ultra HD telecast, which is already available with
Ten Sports HD channel.

2. These days showing of bowling speed is a must, but this essential item is missing in the Ten Sports telecast of our ongoing, all important series.

3. Also the distance of a sixer shot, must be shown as part of the graphics.

4. Overall graphics and the LBW mat are of very poor quality, giving minimum information and needs improvement in comparison with other sports channels.

5. Like other sports TV broadcasters, ball direction, bounce, spin revolutions must also be shown to the viewers in the graphics.

6. The standard of commentary also needs huge improvement.

7. Now a days, spider cam and umpires cam is also very common, which should also be available for the current series.

8. Last but not the least, the size of boundaries all around the pitch, must also be informed during the start of the commentary, preferably during the telecast of the pitch report, as was done during recently played matches telecasted from Bangladesh.

Congratulations Pakistan on winning the 1st ODI from almost a B team of Zimbabwe, who are playing without the services of 6 star players (as informed to Javed Miandad by Alister Campbell) who were in their World Cup team, where an ordinary looking West Indian team beat us by a massive margin of 150 runs.
Also congratulations to Zimbabwe for putting up a good fight and piling up a score of 334 runs, which is their highest EVER ODI score vs any Test playing nation.
No shame for the B team of Zimbabwe who just lost by 41 runs, while chasing a mountain like score of 375 runs.
As such, for Zimbabwe’s B team, getting their highest ever ODI score of 334 against a Test playing nation, is really something to sing about.
Zimbabwe got defeated but were never disgraced.
We played Shoaib Malik as a bowler (as stated by Haroon Rashid) and gave him only 4 overs for 33 runs. He was so expensive that he conceded @ of 8.25 runs per over and got 1 wicket.
Our so called 90 MPH bowler M. Sami, was also so much expensive that he was only given 7 overs in which he gave 63 runs at 9 runs per over.
Sami become the most expensive bowler of Pak team. In one over he was hit for 22 runs, which included 3 sixes and 1 four.
So much for the PCB’s policy of moving forward by inducting players in the T20 and ODI teams, who can’t even be selected for the B team of any Test playing nation.

“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.”

— John Wayne