Need to do more: Basit Ali unconvinced by Pakistan

THE SPECIALIST: Yasir was once again West Indies’ destroyer-in-chief as he ran by their center and reduce order. PHOTO: AFPTHE SPECIALIST: Yasir was once again West Indies’ destroyer-in-chief as he ran by their center and reduce order. PHOTO: AFP

THE SPECIALIST: Yasir was once again West Indies’ destroyer-in-chief as he ran by their center and reduce order. PHOTO: AFP

KARACHI: There were many positives to take divided from a second Test between West Indies and Pakistan in Bridgetown yet former Test batsman Basit Ali stays unconvinced by Misbahul Haq’s charges, perfectionist some-more opposite a group like a West Indies.

Yasir Shah once again showed because he is arguably a world’s many mortal batsman in a second innings, withdrawal a West Indian batsmen clueless once a round started to hold and turn.

Basit, however, feels Yasir was creation a round even before he ran by a West Indian center and reduce order.

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“Yasir was bowling good right from a start yet was incompetent to take wickets during a start,” he said. “However, it is concerning that a bowlers need to wait for a conditions to spin enlightened before they are means to take wickets. The same emanate is faced by a batsmen, who are incompetent to measure large when they play in unknown conditions.”

The 46-year-old feels a group is struggling due to a miss of good pitches to use on via a year. “The players are not a ones to censure for this though,” he added. “The pitches in Pakistan are not adult to a compulsory standards, so a players always have problem bettering given they can't get adequate use behind home.”

The introduction of 18-year-old leg-spinner Shadab Khan lifted eyebrows from several quarters, with many desiring that his entrance has come too early. That valid to be a box as Shadab struggled to compare Yasir’s impact, even when a representation started to offer turn.

“Shadab has some-more varieties in his arsenal than Yasir does, yet he is a bit immature,” pronounced Basit. “He shouldn’t been enclosed in a group this early. Yes he has achieved good in other formats yet in a longest format, a batsmen have a lot of options during their disposal.”

Basit would have favourite another immature spinner, also detected in a Pakistan Super League, to have played instead of Shadab. “[Left-arm spinner] Muhammad Asghar should have been enclosed in a second Test,” he said. “Asghar has some-more knowledge and is some-more mature than Shadab, who still needs to work out how to use his variations in an effective demeanour in a longer formats.”

The pacers, however, did not greatfully Basit notwithstanding bowling good in patches. “The representation was gainful for gait bowling as a round stayed slow,” he said. “Both of Pakistan’s pacers, Mohammad Abbas and Muhammad Amir, bowled good yet did not uncover a compulsory coherence to difficulty a batsmen regularly.”

The outspoken Basit also felt a visitors should be holding a diversion some-more to their opposition. “Pakistan were too slow, with both bat and ball, and never unequivocally put a West Indian side underneath a cosh, generally with a bat in a initial innings. If wickets are descending afterwards approbation we need to connect yet during slightest we can stagger a strike when doing so,” he added. “Yasir did good to hint a mini fall yet a bowlers struggled early on and that was worrying.”

 

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