Why Pakistani team lost the T20 match vs the England on 5 May 2019?

1. We played 38 dot balls in comparison with the English team’s 32 dot balls, meaning thereby that our team played one excess dot ball over; and in a T20 match, it’s a huge error or deficiency, which is a sure recipe for defeat.

2. Our team management showed a clear bias in favour of Imam ul Haq (Test match category player) who, as expected, miserably failed as an opener (he was looking very jittery).

Dropping Abid Ali proved that we lost the match even before it started. This type of attitude of our Head Coach and Captain is unacceptable, and still there is time for the PCB to intervene and change the Head Coach and Captain, who, by not coming for batting, himself proved that he was a load/dead weight for the team.

3. Today our fielding was was giving the look of a club team, playing an international match.

4. Our bowlers just got three wickets and really looked an ordinary unit, which is bound to be thrashed for over 400 runs in ODI matches vs the English team and in the World Cup. As such, Muhammad Nawaz or Omar Khan, Haris Rauf and Musa Khan needs immediate induction in the team, rather than PCB officially allowing the chief selector to watch from the dressing room, his nephew sinking our team to the abyss, with his Test match style batting in the ODI matches.

5. Still there was time to immediately induct the following high potential power hitters, which our team needs most urgently, specially, for chasing scores above 400.

– Muhammad Rizwan in place of Sarfaraz Ahmad and Babar Azam should be made the captain.

– Ehsan Ali in place of M Hafeez who has crossed shelf life.

– Suhail Akhtar in place of Imam ul Haq who is a Test match player and has no place in ODI matches.

– Zeeshan Ashraf in place of Shoaib Malik who seems to have been sent back to appear in a commercial advertisement.

Today’s T20 match was an eye opener and is clear writing on the wall, in bold words that PCB, it’s Selectors and the team management has apparently failed to select our World Cup team on merit, under the formula of horses for courses.