Pakistan’s second-Check win over England in Multan ‘can’t be the template’, says Nasser Hussain | Cricket Information

Sky Sports activities’ Nasser Hussain known as on Pakistan to have a look at how they put together their pitches, saying their second-Check win over England on a used floor “cannot be the template”.

Pakistan levelled the three-match sequence in opposition to England with a convincing 152-run win in Multan, on a pitch that had already been used for the sequence opener, a recreation by which the vacationers triumphed by an innings after scoring 823.

The flat pitch lastly supplied help to the bowlers within the second Check, and notably Pakistan’s spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan, who shared all 20 England wickets.

“This cannot be the template for future cricket in Pakistan, to keep playing on the same surface,” mentioned Hussain. “They need to look at their surfaces.

“However, in the event that they discover a profitable method, keep it up. Follow this squad, persist with these two spinners, persist with the batting line-up, persist with the selectors and the captain.

“Go to Rawalpindi [for the third Test] and attempt to put together the identical type of pitch, one which turns.

“Pakistan cricket, and I reckon Test cricket, needed this week more than last week. It was much, much more watchable.”

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Rawalpindi pitch for third Check the ‘flattest of tracks’

Wanting forward of the third Check in Rawalpindi – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket from 5.30am, Thursday (first ball, 6am) – the early indications are that will probably be one other flat pitch favouring the batters.

Pakistan haven’t gained of their final 4 Exams there, together with famously shedding to England within the opening Check of their 2022 tour, a match by which Ben Stokes’ aspect blasted 506 runs on the opening day’s play.

Pakistan additionally misplaced back-to-back Exams to Bangladesh in August, the primary of these seeing 1,013 mixed first-innings runs scored for a lack of 16 wickets.

“It has been the flattest of flat tracks that you can imagine,” former Pakistan ladies’s worldwide, Urooj Mumtaz mentioned.

“They tried to grow a little bit of grass on it [for the Bangladesh Tests], but it was still very, very flat and it did not provide the seam movement they had hoped for – albeit, the Pakistan bowlers did not bowl that well and didn’t use conditions particularly well.

“I do not know the way a lot it should flip, as a result of it hasn’t within the latest previous.”

No matter what pitch they’re in the end offered with in Rawalpindi, it’s seemingly Pakistan will play an additional seamer instead of leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood, who solely bowled six overs within the second Check.

Aamer Jamal was the one tempo possibility of their assault, with Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah dropped for the second match of the sequence in favour of a aspect containing 4 front-line spinners and 7 in complete.

“Some will say the fact they’ve won will justify their team selection but I don’t agree with that at all,” Hussain mentioned. “You still need a balanced side.

“I do not need everybody to stroll out this floor going, ‘proper, that is it, we have solved it’, as a result of you could not have the ability to replicate these circumstances.

“How do they continue the progress of these two spinners that bowled so beautifully here? How do they provide pitches for Naseem and Shaheen? This country has produced some great fast bowlers, so don’t just say, ‘we’re going to go with spin now’.

“They began with inexperienced pitches in opposition to Bangladesh, now we’re enjoying on spinning pitches. And that may be a drawback with Pakistan cricket… after they do lose, then they modify the captain, they modify the coach, change the selectors, the chairman, they modify the pitches.

“And in the same way as don’t get too low when you’re losing, don’t get too up when you’re winning. Try to work out, how do we improve from this position?”

Masood praises debutant Kamran after ‘horrid’ criticism

Babar Azam was one other notable omission from the Pakistan staff for the second Check, with the previous captain ignored after a run with out a Check fifty relationship again to December 2022.

Kamran Ghulam got here in and struck a century on debut, with captain Shan Masood vital of the noise across the choice after the staff’s series-levelling win.

“I read some things that were horrid, even before he played his first Test match, so I can’t even imagine the pressure that someone can be under,” Masood mentioned.

“It’s never easy when you’re replacing one of the best batters in the world.

“However we had been all behind him and from the get-go, he appeared like he belonged. To get that century, that is particular.”

The Pakistan skipper added: “You must applaud the group. They have been hungry.

“Three years and 11 months [without a home Test win], that creates hunger. You can’t doubt the effort of the boys, can’t doubt the commitment.

“Will probably be particular for everybody, as a result of it has come after some robust occasions.”

First Check: Multan – October 7-11 – England gained by an innings and 47 runs

Second Check: Multan – October 15-19 – Pakistan gained by 152 runs

Third Check: Rawalpindi – October 24-28

Watch the third and closing Check between Pakistan and England stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Important Occasion from 5.30am forward of the primary ball at 6am on Thursday, October 24 as the perimeters head to Rawalpindi.