Shan Masood makes no excuses for Pakistan’s inexcusable performances towards Bangladesh

“Within the batting division, and no longer simply on this sequence, we want to enhance in the second one innings,” Masood stated. “We generally tend to cave in rather often. We did neatly in each and every first innings, dropping each tosses when there used to be climate round. We scored 448 and declared, after which 274, and once we lowered them to 26 for six, that used to be a mirrored image of the pitch. That used to be the pitch we batted on and scored 274. We began neatly with ball and bat, however over 4 or 5 days, you wish to have to be mentally tricky all over to make it depend.”

Masood praised Bangladesh’s “self-discipline”, and stated their Take a look at revel in demonstrated the price of normal red-ball cricket.

“Bangladesh have two gamers who’ve performed 70-90 Checks (Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahman), and Litton [Das] and Mehidy [Hasan Miraz] have performed with regards to 40. We’d like the similar stage of red-ball publicity. Take a look at cricket is without equal layout of the sport. You want revel in. It is obtrusive we’d like extra Take a look at and red-ball cricket. No matter layout you play is the layout for which you can produce gamers. You’ll be able to’t play extra T20 cricket and get Take a look at gamers. You’ll be able to’t get ready for science after which sit down a maths examination. If you are being examined for maths, you learn about maths. To play red-ball cricket, you will have to play red-ball cricket.

“We need to recognize the opposition and Bangladesh’s self-discipline used to be awesome to ours in each Checks. We need to have a look at ourselves and the forms of errors we made this sequence, and we made lots. Take a look at cricket, on the subject of health, whether or not psychological or bodily, lasts for 4 or 5 days. What we have now proven this sequence is that is one thing we want to paintings on.”

With extra Take a look at cricket arising, Pakistan’s gamers have just about no road to arrange by means of taking part in red-ball cricket. Maximum of this squad will play the 50-over model of the newly created Champions Cup from September 12 to 29, prior to launching nearly right away right into a three-Take a look at sequence at house towards England. With the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, Pakistan’s premier top quality match, coinciding with that sequence, the issues of restricted red-ball cricket are not going to be alleviated quickly.

The problem of participant health has continuously weighed on Masood and the staff control, with Pakistan attributing to it a few of their extra contentious variety selections. Masood stated remaining week that the additional seamer at the price of a spinner for the primary Take a look at used to be to distribute the workload extra frivolously amongst 4 tempo bowlers. For the second one Take a look at, each main rapid bowlers Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah had been rested, and Pakistan’s three-pronged tempo assault used to be significantly bereft of tempo compared to Bangladesh’s.

Masood admitted Pakistan may had been higher served no longer resting the duo jointly. “We stored Naseem within the 12, as a result of we may have needed to play 4 rapid bowlers, which we can have finished taking into consideration the weight this climate may put at the bowlers. However we selected to move with Mir Hamza for the left-arm perspective we had been lacking with Shaheen so a large number of concept went into it. By no means simple resting your two premier bowlers.

“If I may do it once more, possibly we’d have cut up Naseem and Shaheen between the 2 Checks. You must be honest to them. Shaheen has performed a large number of cricket within the remaining two years. Naseem has simply come again from damage; his remaining Take a look at used to be towards New Zealand in Karachi. You must have a look at the full well being of gamers; we have now plenty of cricket arising and you have got to take a look at the entire image.”

Masood has been in Pakistan cricket lengthy sufficient to understand its directors and selectors don’t seem to be identified for endurance; his staccato occupation – 35 Checks in 11 years – exemplifies this. Appointed simply 5 Checks in the past, he might nonetheless be a brand new captain, however he is aware of he wasn’t the most obvious selection on the time, and is taking part in to turn out his position within the aspect up to his management credentials. Having develop into the primary Pakistan captain to lose his first 5 Checks, and averaging 28.60 in ten innings, he understands how briefly the partitions can shut in.

“It’s not that i am anxious for my task safety,” he stated. “I took this task to make the adjustments we consider will assist this staff. If I consider this staff can move in a definite path, although my private failure takes Pakistan to that path, I will be able to be content material. Alternatively a lot time I am getting I’m going to be glad about and do my easiest.”

These days, Pakistan have the worst of each worlds, with neither Masood nor his staff ready to search out effects that provide respiring house. After the following house sequence towards England, Pakistan trip to South Africa, and they’re recently 8th out of 9 within the International Take a look at Championship desk.

Masood drew hope from the positions Pakistan were given themselves into, pointing to 4 of the 5 Checks performed underneath his captaincy. “If you happen to do one thing excellent as soon as, it is an encouraging signal, and then you definitely try to repeat it. We took time to regulate in Perth, however after that, in Melbourne, Sydney, each Pindi Checks, the sport used to be in our fingers after which we let move of it. That is one thing we need to paintings on.

“From encouraging indicators, it is becoming one thing we aren’t excellent at and want to enhance. While you again an opposition right into a nook, you wish to have to be medical in placing that aspect away. Whether or not it is Australia or Bangladesh, the solution as to what errors we are making is identical.”