Never Solid Opening Duo

Never So Solid Duo

An opening duo in any format of the cricket match is one of the key to success. If you look at a recent past domaince of teams one can easily point out their reason of success. Langer-Hayden, Sir Cook-Straus, Sehwag-Gambhir and Smith and Amla.

For Pakistan now its been an issue for more then a decade to find a suitable opening duo many come and go like Taufeeq, Yasir, I.Farhat, K.Manzoor and A.Shehzad when they debut they performed well but as soon as opposition point out their weakness then they never return from shell.

In modern test cricket strike rate also matters unfortunately Pakistan team is playing with same test strategy of 90's and early 20's.

In last year both the openers Shan and Abid both see of the new ball face almost half session and when its their time to move the score board they just throw away their wickets and thats where the pressure on middle order piles. Shan debut way back in 2013 has now played 25 test matches and averages just 29.31 and earned a Pair on the recently concluded 2 test match between NZ and Pakistan.

Such a shame an opening duo doing like this eating up deliveries and then giving it away as their only job is to see of the new red cherry or to survive some overs like night watchman.

As a cricketing fan of Pakistan team one can only hope that PCB and NCA both planned out something and give Pakistan a a solid opening duo for test matches but looking at current structure and the managements performance it is very unlikely that this problem is going to solve soon in Pakistan.