3 Challenges Pakistan Cricket Team Will Have To Overcome During Their Tour to England

It is always a challenge for the Pakistan cricket team to tour England owing to numerous reasons. Here is a look 3 reasons why Pakistan’s tour to England that is now only a few weeks away will be no different from some of their previous tours and hence, will offer challenges that the men in green must overcome to go up the ladder in the ICC Test rankings.

An Inexperienced Captain

Pakistan’s captain has been exceptional in his role in the shorter formats of the game. However, he is yet to come up with something significant as a skipper in the test format. Moreover, his last Test series as captain was a complete disaster even though it was played in UAE and despite the fact that Pakistan only had a struggling Sri Lankan team to deal with.

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Sarfaraz Ahmed will have to be on his best game during the English Summer as yet another disaster might as well put his Test captaincy in jeopardy.

An Unsettled Test Team

Pakistan last played against the Englishmen in 2016. With both Misbah and Younis still playing, the series turned out to be an extremely exciting affair and ended in a two all draw. However, this time around Pakistan is in the rebuilding process. Particularly, with regard to the batting numbers important decisions are yet to be made.

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Pakistan’s batting historically struggles in English conditions anyway and with at least half the batting line looking to consolidate their position in the playing eleven, Pakistan for sure will need to show a lot of character to make the series their own.

Media Pressure Especially After the Australian Ball Tampering Episode

The Australian ball tampering scandal and the exemplary punishments from the concerned board that have followed are frankly, a bad news for Pakistani bowlers who have a long history of getting away with similar controversies.

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There is no doubt that the hostile English media would be on the watch out to catch a Pakistani bowler tampering with the ball. Thus, Pakistan will have to be on the top of their behavior in order to avoid a blunder that has the potential of disturbing the entire dressing room and too in a manner where they are forcefully denied availability of key players both during and after the tour.