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The whole infrastructure is so corrupted that they will eventually become the worst cricket-playing team in the world. The current losing streak shows why these guys cannot come up. They send the same guys, and they lose to small teams.
It might be corruption or nepotism and the lack of scouting young talents is evident.
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They fucked up all the legacy and it's not restricted to seam but every department. Same draught is going on in batting department and spin bowling. Le dekar they produced one fine batter babar azam but he also got his life sucked off by team politics and captaincy musical chairs. Few had potential but same story.
Now all they left with is nostalgia.
While I was growing up, Saeed Anwar was always feared along with Inzamam-ul-Haq. Before that, Javed Miandad, Hanif Mohammad, and Zaheer Abbas were the greatest batsmen Pakistan had ever produced, and in later years, they had Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan. Those are the best batsmen they had, according to me.
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When we are talking about the lagacy of seamers then Pak stands in the second spot after the deadly windies of 80s.
West Indies had some of the best bowlers during that era. Think about Colin Croft, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, and Andy Roberts; later, Malcolm Marshall joined them. They targeted your body and head, and there is a history behind why they started doing that. Simply because Australia had terrorized them with Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, Clive Lloyd scouted the entire chain of Caribbean islands and built this pace attack for revenge. Later, they included Courtney Walsh, Patrick Patterson, and Curtly Ambrose.
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Pak attack was good but i believe it'd be a blasphemy to compare em with windies. People don't even compare Aussie peak attack with vintage windies attack.
Like I mentioned above, the West Indies fast bowlers were far ahead, and Clive Lloyd built the team around those players to extract revenge from their previous tour of Australia, where they had faced Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson. The stakes were really high, and it was an actual war-like scenario.
Many Test match rules were changed because the play became so brutal. These included over-rate penalties, on-side fielding restrictions, and bouncer limits. This happened because Australia started getting a taste of their own medicine; their batsmen were left with injuries and broken ribs, after having previously terrorized the West Indies with Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson.
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Yeah, this 80s attack was lethal but mostly it was home dominance and particularly against India. Other than that, in terms of domination not much to show for, if we are talking about test cricket. They had incredible W/L ratio in test in this period tho.
OTOH, windies were freak and bullied everyone. Australia showed this domination in different era but still below windies.
When it comes to pure fast bowling, it is always the West Indies. Australia, with Glenn McGrath, Damien Fleming, Michael Kasprowicz, Craig McDermott, and Shane Warne, had a really great bowling combination. Later with the inclusion of Brett Lee, this attack completely dominated everyone.
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Imran Khan was a top class all rounder of Pak and he was not any pacer , he was a proper bowler, proper batter and good captain of all time and in his captaincy Pak won the 1992 World cup .
No doubt about the leadership skills of Imran Khan and the best they had.
Waqar Akram had excellent pace and he was introduced by Imran Khan who had judging skills which was no common in any leader and Wasim Akram was a street bowler and Imran Khan gave him chance to become a star .
Wasim Akram had line and length best and everyone aware of Pak legends and Pak produced top quality bowlers. Aussies have their own legends, we know the Brett lee who was known for his pace but I Know Shoaib Akhtar who had its era and he injured many players and he produces terror in the whole world by his personality.
There is a small correction here. Imran Khan did not give Wasim Akram the chance but mentored him after getting into the team. It was Javed Miandad, who was the Pakistan captain, who gave Wasim Akram the opportunity when he faced him in the nets. Wasim was just a school kid, and Miandad went to the selectors and fast-tracked his career directly from having no first-class cricket experience to playing international cricket.
PS: Wasim Akram himself said this in a podcast called '
Stick to Cricket,' featuring Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan, David 'Bumble' Lloyd, and Phil Tufnell. It is a good podcast for cricket fans to feel the nostalgia.
