Aaqib Javed defends spin-friendly pitches in Pakistan

“I’ve been proceeding a lot, and radical are commenting connected wherever our Test cricket is heading,” said Aqib told reporters successful the property conference.

“If we had taken these decisions earlier, past we would person been successful the contention for the World Test Championship final.”

Pakistan is No. 8 conscionable up of last-place West Indies successful the WTC standings with Australia and South Africa already into this June’s last astatine Lord’s.

“The regularisation of trial cricket is to triumph astatine home. If you triumph astatine location and you triumph 2-3 tests away, you go a beardown campaigner for the final.”

Aaqib Javed besides cited the illustration of South Africa, wherever they mislaid 0-2 connected seaming surfaces.

“We played successful South Africa and didn’t tract a spinner determination owed to the conditions. Similarly, pitches successful Australia and England favour gait bowlers,” helium said.

“Every state prepares pitches according to their vantage to triumph matches. I don’t recognize the occupation with spin-friendly wickets.

“If gait bowlers instrumentality wickets, radical accidental cricket is progressing, but if spinners instrumentality wickets, they accidental cricket is going backwards. I don’t recognize this.”

Pakistan mislaid 2-0 to Bangladesh astatine location and past trailed 1-0 against England earlier Javed took implicit the transportation preparations, drying retired the 22-yard pitches successful Multan and Rawalpindi with the assistance of industrial-sized fans and patio heaters.

The engineered pitches favored the location spinners arsenic Pakistan recorded a 2-1 bid triumph against England and followed it with different convincing triumph against the West Indies.

“We deliberation we tin hole these pitches successful each halfway of Pakistan, and it should beryllium arsenic hard to bushed Pakistan present arsenic it is to bushed Australia oregon South Africa away,” Javed said. “People should cognize if they’re going to Pakistan, they volition person to bash thing bonzer to bushed Pakistan.”