Pakistan cricket team The International Cricket Council Champions (ICC) Trophy is out of 2025 after losing their first 2 matches. Pakistan lost both matches against New Zealand and India. Now that Pakistan is out of the tournament, it is time to look at the flaws that have led us to this kind of humiliation. These big defeats did not come out of the box, rather than they were on the paper because with the announcement of the squad, the trouble began. Cricket experts criticized the rationality behind the election in a very early stages and indicated that it would cost us.
Squad selection:
All of this started with the selecting only one opener Fakir Zaman in the squad, which is not fit. Pakistan left both openers who opened the last two series against South Africa and Australia. The administration ordered Babar Azam and placed it in the opening site. While Sam Ayub was injured during a Test match against South Africa. Abdullah Shafaq, who stepped into the ODI against Sri Lanka in the World Cup in the World Cup last year, was left for a bad performance. However, he had a good Australian series, where he scored 113 runs in 3 innings, with an average of 56.50. In South Africa, he came out in the early some matches because the situation was not suitable for openers. However, it was a proven skill that could have been used in these situations. Former Pakistani captain Mohammad Hafiz also criticized the board’s decision not to select Abdullah Shafaq. He reiterated that Abdullah was a proven skill that must be chosen.
Fakhar Zaman, though, was injured in the first match of the Champions Trophy campaign against New Zealand while diving to stop the ball. He did not return to the field for the rest of the innings. However, despite being injured, the administration asked him to bat at number 4. He came to bat in pain from a rotating leg. He was ousted from the tournament because of the decision to send him a send.
As an opener, the suppressed middle order has already been weakened before promoting Babar Azam. However, it was never a place of relief to bat in ODIs, thus failing.
Wonderful entries:
In addition, the amazing entries of the squad were happy Shah and Fahim Ashraf. Both were a proven failure, yet they were being added to the squad. Fahim Ashraf took only 26 ODIs in 34 innings and scored 1220 runs in his career. He too was out of the team for some time. On the other hand, Khush Dale played 15 matches in the ODI career and with the highest number of 32 and 69, who was recently losing against New Zealand in the first match of the CT2025. Before his election in the squad, he had zero in half a century. 12 ODIs.
Understand the terms:
Although being a host, the Pakistan cricket team should have considered the situation the best, they were poor in making a decision. Although according to the requirements of the terms, each other nation chose to choose more and more special spinners, our selectors decided to go with a full -fledged bowling battery in a dry condition. Only Abrar Ahmed was selected as a suitable spinner in the squad.
The Sufyan -based bowler, who had been with the team for some time and played a 1 ODI against South Africa by taking 4 wickets, was left in such a situation. He also played 9 T20S for taking 16 wickets in recent days. Shadab Khan, on the other hand, who is a gun fielder and always brings energy into the game, was also domestic as well but has not been selected.
Imam Up Haq was also removed in 73 matches despite the ODI average 48, and it was increased only after Fakir’s injury.
Team Plan and Collection of Team:
There was a shortage of Pakistan Team Plan. He looked very traditional and conservative in his point of view.
In both matches, he initially exempted the trick of giving both overs. Rather, they used a conservative view and went with a new ball with Shaheen and Nasim. Head coach’s plans can be questioned here as it was the reason for winning a home Test match against England and the West Indies. However, he used the spinners there, however, he forgot to launch in the ICC event.
The combination of team There was another major problem that led to our tournament. Saud Shakeel, who scored 408 in 16 innings, brought an average of 27 27 innings out of the box to the squad. He was not playing ODI cricket since 2023. However, he changed Kamram Ghulam who was previously in projects. The disqualification was disturbing in the administration’s plan and ruined the entire batting order. Babar was asked to open what he had never done in ODIs before.
In addition, Pakistan chose four fast bowlers and a fast bowling allowance. Mohammad Hassanin and Fahim Ashraf were not given a chance in two matches. However, if the spinners were selected in this place, it would give the squad strength.
Batting:
Now if we talk about batting, the concept of not taking risks and playing a safe price. In both matches, the Pakistan cricket team played a hell Dowers. He played 147 dot balls against India in the innings of 241.
However, 161 dot balls against New Zealand chasing 321 targets. In both innings, no batsman claimed responsibility, the batting line failed completely.
Bowling:
The Pakistan Peace Battery, which was considered to be the power to expose as the biggest weakness. Shaheen Shah Afridi gave 74 in 8 overs and took two wickets against India. Harsh Rauf gave 52 in 7 overs and wickets. Earlier, both Shaheen and Harris had also become expensive against New Zealand, who gave 68 and 83 runs in 10 overs respectively. However, with only one special spinner Abrar and two parts of the timer Salman Ali Agha and Khushil, they took only 3 wickets in two matches.
To conclude, poor decisions faced losses. The entire administration, head coach, captain is responsible. Pakistan exposed to all three departments.
