The Pakistan cricket team’s struggles between the wickets have continued in their drawn T20 International against England at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium in the UAE in the early hours of Tuesday morning (AEDT).
Their poor work between the wickets was first highlighted in Game 3 of their one-day international series on November 17, during which they suffered a batting collapse, losing three wickets to run-outs.
The criticism was again brought into focus in Game 1 of the T20 series on November 27 when Sohaib Maqsood and Umar Akmal found themselves racing each other to the same end.
After dominating the Test series between the two countries throughout October, Pakistan struggled to gain any momentum against England in both forms of limited-overs cricket, losing the four-game ODI series 3-1 and the three-game T20 series 2-0.
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Ronan O'Connell
Expert
David Willey gave Ahmed Shezhad a furious send off in this match. Haven't heard much about that.
Stephen Martin
Guest
They didn't draw the game, they lost on a Super Over. 3 from 6 balls, who would have thought it.
dan ced
Guest
I think they need to nominate a run calling leader and he calls no matter the end he is at... might lose them a few quick singles, but should stop them looking like dicks.
Nate
Guest
Hardly a rarity is right, but this is 5 terrible runouts in 3 games, including batsmen ending up the same end a couple of times. While not a rarity it is far from this common. As I said, not saying anything dodgy has happened here but unfortunately with recent history those questions will be asked.
Tony Tea
Guest
Perhaps you could read Pakistani dodginess into the runouts, but two batsmen ending up at the same end is hardly a rarity.
Nate
Guest
Not saying there is anything suss here but it really does make you wonder. Too many dodgy runouts in too short a space of time and whenever something like that happens with this Pakistan team questions are always going to be raised.