Pakistan vs New Zealand: Confused batting line-up in illusions, Sami Chaudhry's column

 

When the strategy is only one-sided and the concepts are not completely clear in the minds, it does not take long to turn the daily conditions into illusions and then these illusions create tragedies by overriding all abilities and skills.It will be a surprise if Pakistan's batting line-up collapses in front of spin. But if the snipers are also part-timers like Michael Bracewell, the collapse is no less than a tragedy. Here, Pakistan's batting line seemed mired in illusions, chasing tragedies.When Ramiz Raja pitched the idea of ​​this tree-series to the Kiwi Cricket Board, he had in mind the preparations for the World Cup in Tasmanian conditions. Then who would have thought that the pitch of Christchurch will also behave like the pitch of Abu Dhabi and all this practice of preparing for the World Cup will be in vain.The scoring rate in the five matches played so far in this series is in no way commensurate with the conditions that the teams will face during the World Cup. In such a situation, it will be completely useless to interpret this series as preparation for the World Cup.Yes, this pitch had the traditional Christchurch bounce and neither was the ball coming to the bat. Although Babar Azam did not realize this while deciding at the time of the toss,

Williamson knew the mood of this wicket very quickly and brought the spinners into the attack right at the beginning of the power play.Mitchell Santner made life difficult for the Pakistani batsmen as soon as he returned from leave. Reading the minds of the batsmen, he adopted such a line and length that only fueled doubts and illusions. There was not much turn in the wicket but the lack of bounce and the drift of the spinners left even a single player like Babar Azam helpless.Perhaps these illusions had the effect that Babar Azam's captaincy was also forgotten in the general understanding and where Williamson created a practical picture of the Pakistani innings not going anywhere thanks to 13 overs of spin, Babar Azam in the power play did not go anywhere. Also avoided trying the sniper.Why was this precaution taken? No plausible explanation for this has yet come out because right now this dressing room is lost in the same sense of loss that for the first time in the history of T20 on Kiwi soil, the record of ending an entire innings without hitting a six is ​​their fate. went.