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00:00Hello and welcome to Sports Room. I am your host, Najeeb Ul-Hasnain.
00:17Moment of truth. For the final contest, Pakistan's team is preparing for Pindi.
00:22The plan is to make the pitch spin-friendly.
00:25To talk about this, I have sports correspondent Shahid Hashmi
00:29and former fast bowler Abdul Rauf. Shahid sahib, let's start with you.
00:32Shahid sahib, you have reached Pindi. You have seen the pitch.
00:35Up close and personal, tell me how does it look?
00:38Can we expect a spin-friendly pitch in Pindi?
00:43We have tried. All the selectors of Pakistan, selection committee, curator, Tony Hemmings,
00:51Shaftan, Shahan Masood, all of them were coming.
00:56There were two big fans from the industrial side.
00:59Yesterday, there was a heater too.
01:01So, we are trying to dry it.
01:03In Pindi, I saw the scorecard of the trophy.
01:08There were good spinners.
01:10In one match, Abdullah Safi, left-arm spinner, he bowled out.
01:13Zahid Mehmood bowled out well.
01:16Noman Ali bowled out.
01:18Ali Usman is a left-arm spinner.
01:21Two seasons ago, he was a top wicket taker.
01:23In the last season, he bowled out on this pitch.
01:25He has also bowled out in fast bowlers.
01:27So, Pindi's pitch is famous.
01:30It helps in batting and fast bowlers.
01:33Let's see what comes out.
01:35Yes, what comes out is a good question.
01:38Rauf is with us. Let's try to get to know Rauf.
01:42Rauf, tell me, we have to make this plan that we have to be on our strength.
01:47Our strength is that we trap the teams coming from outside with spinners.
01:52What do you think?
01:54I think the difference will be that if you go against Bangladesh or Sri Lanka,
02:00if you go against them with spinners, they also play spinners equally well.
02:05Yes.
02:06But there is a definite disadvantage for the South African team,
02:10or the Western Indian team, or the Australian or English team.
02:14They have a definite disadvantage.
02:16But if you talk about Pindi's pitch,
02:19the problem is that it will be different from Multan's pitch.
02:23Because you played a second test match on the same pitch.
02:26And if you make a batting surface or a bowling paradise surface,
02:31when there is a fourth or fifth day test match,
02:34there is a spike and Rauf gets a break.
02:39And the ball stays up and down.
02:41But in Pindi, it won't be like that because you have a fresh pitch.
02:45And the weather...
02:47I think it's the end of October.
02:51So, the weather in the northern areas is a bit moist.
02:55So, I think Zahid Mehmood will replace Pakistan with a fast bowler in Rawalpindi.
03:01Yes, that's right. It's on the cards.
03:03That's what I've heard. Mr. Shahid will tell us more about it.
03:06Mr. Shahid, you mentioned Zahid Mehmood.
03:08He has also won trophies here.
03:10But it will be difficult for him to win trophies in a match
03:13because it is said that Mir Hamza will get a chance to replace him.
03:17It seems so. It will be either Mir Hamza or Muhammad Ali.
03:21Both of them were bowling very well on the net today.
03:24Muhammad Ali bowled very well on the net.
03:27Jaishan Gillaspi was also watching him.
03:29So, a fast bowler has to come.
03:31When you give so many spinners...
03:33Salman Agha is also your spinner.
03:35Noman Ali and Sajid bowled so well that Zahid didn't get a chance.
03:40He only got 6 overs in the first league.
03:42And in the second league, Noman and Sajid Khan bowled unchanged.
03:47So, there was no need.
03:49When you give so many spinners, it happens that you under bowl them.
03:53So, it seems that a fast bowler will replace Zahid Mehmood.
03:57And if Zahid Mehmood pitches on the first day...
04:01The most important thing is that you win the toss.
04:03Whoever wins the toss will get a good advantage.
04:06Absolutely right.
04:07Rauf, when Shahid Bhai spoke about winning the toss...
04:11The question is...
04:12That day, Stokes clearly said that...
04:16If Pakistan had done all the planning and lost the toss...
04:20It would have looked very silly.
04:21Do you agree with this?
04:23No, I think a little.
04:25Because I was playing cricket till now.
04:27And I played a match here in Lahore yesterday.
04:30So, there are a lot of heating conditions here.
04:33And it was very difficult for us to play cricket here yesterday.
04:36And we played two matches in England.
04:38We played a match in Multan.
04:39And it was a sheer weather.
04:41You can call it hot weather.
04:42Temperature was around 40 degrees.
04:45I think that's why the team is struggling.
04:48Because their body language is down.
04:51When Salman came in the car's air cover...
04:54He dropped two straight catches.
04:57So, he felt that his body language was shattered.
05:01And he couldn't adjust to it.
05:03So, I think this was a little problem.
05:05There wasn't much difference in the toss.
05:07Because if Salman had come in...
05:08He would have dropped all the catches.
05:10So, there wouldn't have been a difficult target for England.
05:13Because they had already lost the toss.
05:16So, I think the basic strong point of England's batting line...
05:20Our bowlers were successful in putting the dust in it.
05:23That's why we caught them.
05:26Otherwise, the English bowling attack...
05:28In which fast bowlers and spinners come...
05:30It's not that fast.
05:32You can't depend on it.
05:33It's not a very strong bowling attack.
05:35Because it doesn't have any mark word.
05:37It doesn't have any enthusiasm.
05:38After Anderson retired...
05:40There's no one who can bowl in the sub-continent.
05:43So, I don't think it's that strong.
05:45It's their batting.
05:46Their actual power is their batting.
05:47That's right.
05:48Mr. Shahid, I have a question.
05:50When you know that you can trap foreign teams...
05:54Especially teams like England, New Zealand, South Africa...
05:58You can trap them on the spin.
06:00So, why haven't we been applying this for so many years?
06:04Today, an article is going viral in many places...
06:08In which the former chairman Rameez Raja...
06:11Put this responsibility on Babur Azam...
06:12That the team is made by the captain's will.
06:15The pitches against Australia and England...
06:17That was the demand of the captain.
06:19He runs according to that.
06:20So, do you agree with this?
06:22First of all, I am surprised...
06:24That Rameez Raja is now blaming Babur Azam.
06:27In his time, Rameez Raja gave Babur Azam a lot of power.
06:30Many people used to say that this power is wrong.
06:33But Rameez must have thought that...
06:35He is the captain.
06:36He has to fight.
06:37He has to take the army to the ground.
06:39He has to fight the team.
06:40That's why he was given so much power.
06:42And then he played a semifinal in a P20 tournament.
06:46He played a final in a P20 tournament.
06:48It's okay that a lot of luck favored Pakistan.
06:51That's why Pakistan went so far.
06:54But...
06:55It's possible that he didn't take this responsibility.
06:58In fact, he thought that he should trust the captain.
07:02Saqlain Mushtaq was also a coach.
07:04Saqlain Mushtaq also had a similar strategy.
07:06He used to stay behind Babur Azam.
07:09And Babur Azam used to lead.
07:11And he is also famous in his team selection.
07:15Mohammad Waseem, who was the chief selector...
07:17He used to get angry with 1-8 players.
07:19So, Babur Azam had a lot of power.
07:21But we definitely lost our home advantage.
07:24We were fastballing against some teams.
07:26And against some teams, we had to win with spinners.
07:30But Sajid and Nauman told us that...
07:32This is our winning recipe against these teams.
07:36And if we had tried...
07:38You knew that you had to play two tests in Multan.
07:41So, during the first test...
07:42You used to play a 4-day match or a trial match.
07:45And then you used to play on the same pitch.
07:46This was your wisdom.
07:47This was our wisdom.
07:48And we used it after the first test.
07:51Absolutely right.
07:52Rauf, tell me something.
07:54If the captain is a batter...
07:56And he insists that...
07:58He wants a pitch with runs.
08:00This is unfair.
08:01How should this be handled?
08:07Rauf, can you hear me?
08:09Yes, I can hear you.
08:10Can you hear me?
08:11Yes, I can hear you.
08:13This is a very important question.
08:15And it is very important to understand this.
08:17Because the pitch they made...
08:20Last time, England came to Pakistan.
08:23And they outclassed Pakistan on a road pitch.
08:26You can't say that it was a bowling-friendly pitch.
08:30Or a batsman-friendly pitch.
08:32They prepared the pitch for spinners.
08:35It was a completely dry pitch.
08:37And England scored a big score on it.
08:40And they took a chance...
08:42And Pakistan's batting couldn't survive.
08:45And when they went to Mulkahan...
08:48They made a spin-pitch there too.
08:50You must remember that Rauf...
08:52Outscored 7 or 8 runs in his debut match.
08:54And even before that...
08:56When South Africans came to Pakistan...
08:59The pitch they made in Karachi...
09:01Which was outscored by Hasan Ali...
09:03That was also a spin-balling pitch.
09:05But our spinners couldn't perform there.
09:07In which one ball was coming from above...
09:10And the other ball was coming from Karachi.
09:13And I think it wasn't a good pitch.
09:15And it was specially made for spin-ballers.
09:18So Pakistan kept making spin-ballers-friendly pitches.
09:22There wasn't much difference in the pitch.
09:24The difference in Mulkahan's pitch is...
09:26It has never happened before in cricket history.
09:28And it will never happen again.
09:30If you go anywhere in the world...
09:32You won't get to play two test matches on one pitch.
09:34Nor will any country give you two matches.
09:37So this was a different situation.
09:40And the other factor was the weather.
09:42In which England's team was completely trapped.
09:45And Pakistan...
09:47The weather didn't change in the last test match and this one.
09:50The only thing that changed was that the ball was spinning.
09:54No, no, the weather...
09:56The sheer hot weather...
09:58If you give any English team in hot weather...
10:01At 45-46 degrees...
10:03It will be very difficult there.
10:05And adjusting to the circumstances and the weather...
10:08Their body language...
10:10If you take the idea of a team's body language...
10:13You can see it in their fielding.
10:15When they started dropping catches...
10:17It meant that their body language was getting shattered.
10:20And it wasn't complex enough for them to use the weather...
10:23And give their 100% in it.
10:25Absolutely right.
10:26What do you think about this team?
10:29Are we capable of defeating England in the series?
10:33Because the expectation increases a lot.
10:35A few years ago...
10:37Shaiqeen didn't even think of winning in cricket in Pakistan.
10:41He thought that this is how it will go.
10:44And with just one match, the expectation has increased...
10:46That we can win the series.
10:47What do you think?
10:48Absolutely right.
10:49Take your chances.
10:51Grab your chances.
10:52Give a little luck.
10:54Like you were saying the other day...
10:56Higher the risk, higher the reward.
10:58It's the same thing.
11:00There's an old saying...
11:02The harder they come to you...
11:04The harder they fall.
11:06All out.
11:08They have a famous song like this.
11:10When England comes hard...
11:12You also come hard.
11:13You also take risks.
11:14Luck supports you.
11:15Then you win.
11:16You have to do the same thing here.
11:18And Rahul, let's say a little more temperature.
11:20It wasn't 40-45 degrees.
11:22It was 36-38 degrees.
11:24And after the second half of the match...
11:28The temperature wasn't that high.
11:30Jamie Smith is a little tall.
11:34He's 6'2".
11:35So he got caught easily.
11:38And Root wasn't ready either.
11:40And both those catches were crucial.
11:43Like Rahul said, if it was 125-150...
11:45England would have easily achieved the target.
11:48They saw it was 297.
11:50We'll have to go 8.
11:52They took a sweep shot.
11:53They played such attacking cricket.
11:55And all their former cricketers...
11:56Jay Boycott, Michael Horne...
11:58All of them are saying the same thing.
11:59Nasser Hussain's England...
12:00They didn't learn to play defensively at all.
12:02It's the same baseball absurdity.
12:04Which doesn't work on spin tracks.
12:06It doesn't work.
12:07Rahul, the same question to you.
12:08Pakistan's chances according to you.
12:10And what do you think should be done?
12:12Look, I think...
12:14When you go from three to equals...
12:17In the final decisive test match...
12:19There is an equal chance.
12:21And when you're playing in front of your home crowd...
12:25I think there is a lot of interest in it.
12:28Not just for the Pakistan team...
12:29But for the entire population of Pakistan.
12:31And the interest of the people will develop...
12:34When you start winning.
12:36You need a momentum.
12:37Because Pakistan hasn't won a big event in a long time.
12:40Hasn't won a big series.
12:41That's why people's interest in it...
12:43Wasn't so much.
12:44Now after winning one test...
12:46People have started taking interest in it again.
12:48Like you see...
12:49Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal in the Olympics for Pakistan.
12:52So people don't have much idea about Javelin.
12:54But despite that...
12:55There is a hype in Pakistan.
12:57And people have started following him.
13:00So I think it's a golden opportunity for Pakistan...
13:03To take Pakistan's cricket to the top.
13:05And I think this test is very important for Pakistan.
13:08Thank you very much Abdul Rauf and Shahid Hashmi...
13:11For being with us and sharing your opinions.
13:15We'll take a break here.
13:16Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.