Pakistan cricket team received a warm welcome when they arrived from India after a defeat from India in the semi final of cricket world cup 2011. Later on Pakistan team received prizes from Chief Minister of Punjab and Sindh. They have also receive a reception from Prime Minster of Pakistan and PM has announced 1 million rupees for each player. This is the first time in history of Pakistan that any team lost in world cup receiving such welcome from this nation. The reason is that no one expected team to reach semi final and team led by Shahid Khan Afridi played some superb cricket breaking the winning streak of former World Champions Australia, beating Sirilanka in their pool match and in quarter outclassed west Indies.
My point is that the attitude of this nation has changed but will the performance of Team Pakistan change?
After 1999 World Cup this team is not changed a bit, in last 12 years we have struggled for finding a right opening combination, we have been dropping important catches at important stages which has really cost us many times, our batting always been unpredictable in last decade we have struggled in batting, and when our batting performs our bowling let us down that day, we have lost many matches which we were supposed to win at half way stage. When I see last 12 years of Pakistan cricket I am amazed that we have not changed or we haven’t tried to improve our self. I hope after the change in attitude of Pakistani nation, Pakistani cricket team will also try to improve themselves and will not repeat the mistakes which they are doing for a decade
Written by :- Abdullah Suleman
