Although the Pakistani team is quite unpredictable on the field, one thing is certain with them. When they lose, all hell breaks loose, and almost everyone has advice or two for the struggling team. But now genuine advice seems to have come their way, after they lost the first Australia vs Pakistan Test in Perth by 360 runs.
In the first innings of the match, the hosts went on to score 487, courtesy of poor lengths bowled by the Pakistani bowlers. They kept banging the ball short, as the Aussie batsmen made merry. David Warner also went on to score his 26th Test ton. After the match, legendary Wasim Akram told Fox Sports, “Australia is a different ballgame. The Kookaburra ball after 15 overs, it doesn’t do anything. They want you to bowl short. They get the hang of the bounce. They can pull well. They can hook well. I think my advice to all the Pakistani bowlers is that length is the key.”
“The minute you get the length right, that’s where you trouble the batters, not with the short balls. Don’t get excited by the bounce here at the Optus Cricket Ground,” he added.
He went on to say that in Australia it is common for visiting teams to miss their length, and they end up bowling short, which should not be the case. “Sometimes opposition teams come to Australia and they pitch one or two up and get driven back down the ground, then they get off that length. Whereas if you look at our bowlers, they try and consistently hit that length, and they want you to (it) straight past them. I don’t think I scored one run down the ground today, and that’s when you know you’ve got them off their length. I just don’t think they bowled enough balls in the right area to make us play,” he added.
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