Pakistan is heading towards a new bilateral series here in the upcoming months ahead and Bangladesh is the next test they would be in. Its good to state that, once the two nations were the same nation under one flag before 1971.
Now, they are separated, but the bond stays strong for the origin they possess together.
In cricket, Pakistan is a superpower but for once the cricketing might they had now they used to be fading those ability due to many things that happened in between the events took place backstage. I am as a person a big fan of cricket, although I missed a few of big occasions of cricket and that's a far away facts.
Yet, really some of the events and matches I covered, I came to know about the in's and out's of the truths and where cricket playing nations expectations and drawbacks are. In the last sporting blog, I wrote about the cricketing story that some of you seemed to like as a reader. Thanks for the opinion.
But back on the context, the ODI series that Pakistan will play overseas bear a great impact on how they will be performing on the following matches. As I said, their prime sport is cricket and the whole nation quite historically deserves a lot from their position. Being a superpower doesn’t mean that, the other nations will respect the opponent in th turf, but modern sport is a different case.
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Pakistan had that power and Charisma when Waseem Akram and Shoaib had their prime in bowling and the whole world used to respect their stance and the spells.Yet, when I look from the outside, I think of that,it is quite unfortunate that they lost their glamour and most luckily the capacity to perform well even in times when they need to gear up and move ahead.
To be able to thrive or retain the position in the global stage or international cricket, one team needs to look at the nationanational team and the pipeline players to nourish and train them well under the guidance of a coach that would teach them how to be successful . I don’t think Pakistan team lacked any of the support, traditionally ; but maybe some of other factors - that I said the backstage events are doing great harm and laying impact on the screen.
But there are the reverse instances and phenomenons in the world too.
I mean, just look at to Afghanistan team and how they fought back and consistently quite remarkably improved gradually. That really deserves a thumbs up and appreciation.
They were geographically and politically struck by military attacks by the west and then the country seemed to be occupied or year's time, quite exactly for decades. The ruling class of their territory had nearly direct ban on the cricket and great restrictions of not playing in the international arena's.
But they were tough and promising a nation, despite having the hurdles and the political pressure, they kept on playing in overseas conditions, got a stadium as a contract from the Indian authority and quite successively moved to a position where they were confronting big nations of the cricket.
Initially Afghanistan didn’t have anything and merely no such good position in the T20 ranking, but they developed quite somehow and struggled against all odds and due to determination and courage, could become successful in solving the mysteries of luck and emerged as a great nation.
If you are to compare between the two nations, you would see that - they both were from different position ; one team slipped from their glorious position and the other bounced from the bottom to the top. That’s what called as a gift of determination and luck.
My message would be for any team if they need to succeed in their life, they must have to be positive and try to perform well and have a great knowledge on to be competitive in the international arena. That is full stop for success.