ISLAMABAD – Former Australian captain and two-time World Cup winner RickyPonting criticized Pakistan’s bowling attack and labeling it as ‘worsebowling attack on our shores in a long time.’
Pakistan’s bowling failed to make an impact for the second game in a rowdespite Mohammad Abbas replacing Imran Khan, and Mohammad Musa coming inplace of Naseem Shah.
Ponting said that touring Australia is always a difficult task but Pakistandid not help its cause by having such an inexperienced bowling attack.
Pakistan had operated with 6 bowlers in the first innings of the 2nd Testmatch – Shaheen Afridi, Muhammad Musa, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Abbas, IftikharAhmed, and Azhar Ali – who bowled a total of 127 overs in the Test butmanaged just 3 wickets – all going to Shaheen.
Talking to cricket.com.au, Ponting said:
They [Pakistan’s bowlers] have been poor … their bowling attack is terriblereally for a Test attack. I’m not sure I have seen a worse bowling attackon our shores in a long time.
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Ponting further criticized Pakistan’s selection committee for droppingNaseem Shah for Musa Khan, who remained unimpressive as he bowled 20 oversand conceded 114 runs without any success.
I still can’t understand why the 16-year-old hasn’t played this game,Naseem. And they go with another guy (Musa) who has played sevenfirst-class games and just doesn’t look to be a Test match bowler.
He further added:
They haven’t got much cattle. And when you haven’t got much cattle againsta batting line-up as hungry as ours, and in our conditions, and a team thatis really trying to prove themselves back on the world stage, then I thinkPakistan have just been caught in a perfect storm.
