Will Fakhar Zaman be included in middle order in the next matches?
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00:00 that what is our game plan and does our B plan exist or not?
00:05 No, it exists. There are plans, but execution of the plans is not possible.
00:09 You make plans A, B, C, everything.
00:11 There is team management, team meeting, captain tells, captain talks.
00:15 And the way Fakhar was rested today, or you can say dropped,
00:19 this too was a big decision after a lot of thinking.
00:22 And Fakhar was also included in this, Fakhar's input was also included.
00:25 And you don't get surprised
00:27 that if Abdullah Shafiq makes a run here,
00:30 then you can see Fakhar in the middle order at 4 or 5 numbers.
00:34 This has also been said in team management.
00:36 So, everyone has plans. The real thing is execution.
00:39 You win the toss. If you don't execute well,
00:41 the decision of the toss is proved wrong.
00:43 If you execute well, the decision of the toss is proved right.
00:46 This is the same pitch that Pakistan made in the Netherlands match.
00:49 Pakistan made 286.
00:53 So, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will have to try to stop at fewer runs.
00:56 - Stop it. - I would like to ask Shahid.
00:59 - Yes, of course. - Shahid said that at 4, 5, 6...
01:02 - You can send Fakhar. - So,
01:04 at 4, it's Rizwan.
01:06 At 5, it's Saur.
01:08 - At 6, it's Iftikhar. - Iftikhar.
01:10 - It will be difficult. - They will see this somewhere.
01:12 - You have to try out. - Fakhar, come.
01:14 - You have to do something. - You have to bowl too.
01:17 Fakhar, in T20 World Cup...
01:19 This can happen when Rizwan goes to the open, as Kamran said.
01:25 - Then it can be a problem. - He can bowl in T20 World Cup.
01:28 - This is a Pakistani team, not a club team. - Exactly.
01:32 If he is not performing, he can bowl at this number.
01:34 If he is not performing, he can bowl at the top.
01:36 - Is this a World Cup? - The problem is
01:38 - when you don't do anything out of the box. - No, no.
01:42 - You have to think out of the box. - From the beginning.
01:45 - This is not a preparation. - This is not a preparation.
01:48 If you had thought of this from the beginning,
01:50 you would have managed the workload of 4-5 fast bowlers.
01:53 You would have charged your players equally.
01:55 - We don't have a system. - We sent Osama Mir to the top.
01:58 We would have sent a few passengers to the top.
02:02 - Azhar was also in this discussion. - If we had thought of this from the beginning,
02:05 Sarfaz and Shahan would have been in the team.
02:07 - We had thought of this from the beginning. - We didn't plan this.
02:09 Azhar, it has been a long time
02:12 that we didn't have any special planning for this event.
02:15 I would like to ask you the same thing I asked Shahid.
02:19 Why can't we see our plan if it's already there?
02:23 Like we are bowling right now.
02:25 Plan A is that Shahin will take the wicket in the start.
02:29 What will happen if he doesn't?
02:31 The spinners are not able to move in between.
02:33 What do we see in this?
02:34 The question you asked can be the whole program.
02:38 I mean...
02:40 - The answer to one question is very long. - Yes.
02:45 Because, if you see,
02:47 we have some responsibility as a nation.
02:50 If we lose a series, we start the bombardment.
02:54 - True. - Our captain, coach...
02:56 I am also a captain.
02:58 So, it felt like a sword was hanging on every series.
03:02 - Exactly. - So, we can't think of the future.
03:04 We are thinking of winning that series.
03:07 I will give you an example of a series.
03:08 We played against Afghanistan in the PSL performance.
03:11 We lost that series, but personally,
03:15 losing and winning is a part of cricket.
03:17 But when you send a new team, losing doesn't matter.
03:21 I was very happy that we should test new players
03:24 in T20 and 50 overs.
03:28 So that when the main events come, the World Cups,
03:31 we have players in the back-up.
03:34 If you are playing to win every series,
03:37 which you should play to win,
03:38 but if you are trying new players,
03:41 or if you send a new captain for a tour,
03:44 your pressure from the captain goes down.
03:47 You can see your vision.
03:48 We are thinking of the future.
03:50 - We should support that. - Absolutely.
03:52 I tweeted that I am happy that we are not losing.
03:58 At least we will get one or two players from this series.
04:00 So that if we get an injury in fast bowling, we get a player.
04:04 If we get an injury in spin, we get a player.
04:06 We get a batter.
04:08 I think we are lacking here.
04:10 Secondly, our spinners,
04:14 they have played 50 overs of this game.
04:16 - That's right. - In the last six months.
04:18 They haven't played anything.
04:19 They don't have the idea of bowling long.
04:21 They are playing T20 cricket.
04:23 When the fifth fielder comes in,
04:25 your boundary ball gets exposed.
04:27 It doesn't get exposed in T20.
04:29 The fifth fielder is behind for the boundary.
04:32 I think we didn't think of this.
04:33 We have played leagues, which we should play, no doubt.
04:37 But our management should have known
04:40 that the World Cup is coming up.
04:42 Our players are playing 10 overs, not spinners.
04:45 You can see our spin bowling attack right now.
04:48 Potential-wise, no doubt, they are very good.
04:51 But their bowling right now is all-under bowling.
04:54 It doesn't feel like we have a match-winner bowler in the middle.
04:59 That's not happening.
05:00 Do you need to change that or improve their performance?
05:04 Absolutely right. Basit, this is a valid point.
05:07 And as he said, as a nation, we need to be patient.
05:12 People would start talking about
05:14 how we made Babar sit, and he lost the series.
05:17 It's not about making him sit,
05:18 it's about testing your bench and your youngsters.