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Pakistan’s home advantage plan involves concocting a spinner’s paradise from day one, but Rawalpindi’s curator has been known to get it spectacularly wrong before.
Ben Stokes, the talismanic all-rounder captain, has carved a legacy of game-winning brilliance, but as a batsman in Asia, that bravado seems to shrink.…
Pakistan cricket is the perfect metaphor for overnight chaos managed by a carousel of committees.
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A very Pakistani solution to deal with Bazball: Press the panic button
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A very Pakistani solution to deal with Bazball: Press the panic button
The divergent paths of Kontas and JFM raise some serious concerns. How long can cricket be governed by “nanny boards”? While player welfare is important, we’re in a competitive capitalist landscape where cricket feels like a division of labor. Soon, players will be drawn to the instant allure of T20 and franchise cricket, leaving the noble long format behind.
Playing in franchise leagues offers players more freedom and control over their careers, while domestic and international cricket come with increasing oversight from boards that often seem authoritarian. Players face a tough choice: do they want to chase the financial rewards of T20 like Tim David, or commit to the traditional values of Test cricket like Fawad Alam and reap no rewards?
To ensure Test cricket thrives, it needs to become more glamorous and appealing. The prestige and honor associated with the whites should be reimagined in the public eye. While there’s no wrong format of cricket, there’s definitely a right one, rooted in the pride of representing one’s country in the spirit of the game as it was meant to be played.
Ultimately, it’s the honor of the nation and the control of your life by a cricket board on one hand, and the glamorous, adventurous life of a sell sword on the other. Capitalism will always encourage the sell sword. If we want Test cricket to endure, we need to balance these evolving interests and elevate the longer format to its rightful place in the sport.
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