Suggested Eleven for Adelaide Test..!

Suggested eleven for the Adelaide Test in Batting Order:

1. Shan Masood 

2. Abid Ali

3. Babar Azam

4. Asad Shafiq

5. Rizwan 

6. Azhar Ali (since he is out of form he must bat lower down the order to have any justification to remain in the team)

7.   Yaser Shah

8.   Shaheen Shah Afridi

9.   Muhammad Abbas

10. Naseem Shah

11.  Musa Khan

This series is being played under Test matches championship arrangement and the latest standing of Test teams on points is as below:

1. India                    360 (Rest of the team’s combined points total is 292)

2. Australia               116

3. NZ                          60

4. SL                           60

5. England                  56

6. Pakistan                   0

7. West Indies              0

8. BD                            0

9. SA                            0

Under the circumstances Pakistani team is in a do or die situation, as it must win the Adelaide Test to draw the series to get 60 points.

As such, we should break the tradition of playing with six regular batsmen and a wicker keeper and four regular bowlers.

We must play the Adelaide Test in a changed/aggressive/positive frame of mind, with five regular bowlers in the team, to attack in an all out manner,  to get 20 Australian wickets in the match. Otherwise, also with six regular batsmen and an accomplished keeper batsman, we lost the Brisbane Test with a huge margin of an innings and five runs. So, this time, why not put an extra emphasis on twice getting out the Australians in the second Test, with five regular bowlers in our team. 

As far as batting is concerned, if six recognised batsmen can’t put up a decent score, playing seventh batsmen is no guarantee/recipe for putting up a winning total. As an Army plans in war, any offensive needs extra troops to boost chances of overwhelming the enemy.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

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Lahore.