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Cricket: times they are a-changin’
- Updated: January 15, 2017
In a streets of Bihar, a immature child with prolonged hair called Mahendra Singh Dhoni is apropos awfully famous for his ability to strike a tennis ball. In Pretoria, a dark spare Abraham Benjamin de Villiers chooses cricket over rugby, golf, tennis and hockey. In a tiny Dunedin backyard, scruffy-haired Brendon Barrie McCullum is personification cricket with his elder brother. Change is in a air, unbeknownst to those who, thousands of miles away, lay in a intemperate domicile of a PCB in Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. Fearless, ardent and aggressive, a contingent would chaperon in a new era; an epoch of large bats, large hits, and outrageous scores. When Dhoni strike that winning 6 in a 2011 World Cup, a cricketing universe knew it was time to change. Same, when De Villiers crushed a hundred off 31 balls and when McCullum dumbfounded in a 2015 World Cup.
Scores of 250 unexpected became inadequate. In came group in a ilk of a contingent who altered a game. Attack became a best form of defence. Pakistan, though, refused to change their realistic ways; adhering to a attempted and tested process that had supposing them with so most success in a 90s. Sometimes it is formidable to let go, generally when a republic continues to live on a memories of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. In doing so, Pakistan have authorised a rest of a cricketing universe to outgrow them. A group that once prided itself on fickle and tender talent is now plain though unspectacular. All since we refused to pierce on and clung onto a vestige and buried a heads in a sand. Coach Mickey Arthur has pronounced time and again, in no capricious terms, that Pakistan have to change. Yet aged habits die hard, and it will now be a prolonged and unpleasant process; one that Arthur has been incompetent to kickstart notwithstanding being during a helm for some-more than 9 months now. It is transparent that Pakistan contingency now learn to travel again before they can fly. But learn they must, before it is too late.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 16th, 2017.
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