After England introduced their enjoying eleven two days forward of the beginning of first Take a look at towards Pakistan in Multan, former batsman Basit Ali suggested dwelling crew’s skipper, Shan Masood, on the right way to counter rival crew’s techniques and reply bravely like India captain, Rohit Sharma.
“Shan Masood saab, counter-attack kar dena chahiye tha aapko (it is best to have counter-attacked),” mentioned Basit, telling Masood that he too ought to have introduced the Pakistan enjoying eleven upfront.
“It is nonetheless not late, do it within the morning (Sunday) after assessing the pitch,” he mentioned, earlier than including a little bit of sarcasm. “What’s going to occur at most? A mistake, so what! Errors occurred towards Bangladesh as nicely. The one who counter-attacks, wins.”
The primary Take a look at of the three-match collection begins in Multan on October 7. Earlier than this collection, Pakistan had been whitewashed at dwelling by Bangladesh 0-2.
Basit then drew comparability with Rohit, citing the Indian captain’s courageous choices within the second Take a look at towards Bangladesh in Kanpur. Regardless of rain washing out two days, India went on to win by counter-attacking of their first innings and declaring nicely in time to maintain the sport alive.
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India ultimately received by seven wickets to comb the collection 2-0 and strengthen their grip on high of the World Take a look at Championship standings.
“Agar aap chahte hain ki Rohit Sharma ke jaise bahadur banein kaptaani mei, to faisle karein (if you wish to be courageous like Rohit in captaincy, then make choices). In the event you take courageous calls, then solely you’ll win,” mentioned Basit.
The 53-year-old Basit threw within the names of some extra Indian icons whereas stressing on the purpose that the Pakistan captain should flip the gamers he has at his disposal into winners.
“You do not have a Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, (Ravindra Jadeja) or ‘Growth Growth’ Bumrah. So increase the arrogance stage of these you have got with you. Inform them ‘you’re my match-winner’. Easy principle,” Basit concluded.