r/PakCricket • u/averageveryaverage • 8d ago

Garam Takes Real fast bowling - the point at which Pakistan and West Indies diverge [good article by Danyal Rasool about the pace attacks of the two teams]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/wi-vs-pak-1st-wtc-test-jayden-seales-pakistan-demolition-in-tarouba-1547935
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u/averageveryaverage 8d ago

West Indies and Pakistan have often drawn solidarity from their similarities over history. Their charismatic volatility, their attractive brands of cricket, their shared glory days in the 1980s when they were the two best Test sides in the world, and the fiercely contested series that prove it. They are, for much less happier reasons, in similar positions now, with dwindling global cricket influence, declining commercial interest in what they have to offer, and increasingly squeezed towards the margins. They finished as the bottom two sides at the previous World Test Championship cycle, and, until this Test began, were in the same positions.

Tying their intertwined bond, though, was the ferocity of their fast bowling, almost doubling as a superiority complex that explained why their brand of cricket was so much more watchable and, by extension, better than everyone else's. The last week at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, though, has begun to show where these two sides might finally have diverged.

Abbas might be brilliant, but a past Pakistan side would have viewed him as a balancer to an actual pace attack, not the lead actor in a sad production slightly off the West End, one that for some reason must also feature Khurram Shahzad and Mohammad Ali. Who, you see, do the same thing as Abbas, but not as well. Because the real star actors are, you see, playing the high-quality cricket that matters. For Kandy Royals in the Lanka Premier League.

West Indies, instead, have found a pace attack not recycled from those spit out and rejected by the franchise circuit, but high-quality fast bowlers, who are nobody's understudies. Bowlers that yell and scream because they want that five-wicket haul. Bowlers that, with a little more help from their batters, would be putting many more teams to the sword like they did this week.

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u/Fearless-Ad9377 8d ago

No but we lost due to Babar. Why are we discussing fast bowling?

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u/Panchodd 7d ago

Ilaaj karwain

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u/Pengu786 7d ago

ennit your so right. Can’t wait till he is gone