Pakistan has the best Cricket squad after 2 Decades. Pak Vs Englang T20 Series 2020
Currently Pakistan Team is touring England and now playing T20 Series. The aquad selected for it, is looking like the best selected group of players after late 90s and early 20s.
Previously it was seen when team was having few allrounders like waseem akram, shahid afridi, Abdurrazaq, Azhar mahmood. These alrounders was making a good combination with good batsmen like Saeed Anwer ,Muhammad Yousuf and Inzamaulhaq in batting while Saqlain Mushtaq and Shoaib Akhtar in bowling.
Now Baber Azam is having 6 Genuine Fast Bowlers in The squad which a captain can dream for.
All teams strive to have pacers to attack the opposition. And after struggle, team find 1 or 2 good pacers from the country.
6 Pacers
The current Pakistani team is having half of a dozen pacers like Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Amir, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Muhammad Hasnain and Haris Rauf. All of these bowlers can bowl upto 90 MPH and Wahab Riaz is capable of touching 93/94 +....
5 Spinners
If We see, This team is having 5 Spinners and all are regular bowlers as none of them is a stock player.
If Shadab khan is considered a specialist sniper then We cant say Muhammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik ,Imad Wasim as stock bowlers but they actually are regular bowlers. This is something else that Shoaib Maliok is not used fequently in recent years as a bowler. The 5th spinner is Iftikhar Ahmad who also bowls off spin regularly in domestic circuit and is available in the team.
A Set of All Rounders
Any team having few all rounders looks a better side and this team is having 5 All rounders
All f above mentioned spinners are actually All rounders and isn't it a blessing that all bowlers selected in final eleven are batsmen too. This makes the final eleven more vibrant that captain has variety of bowling options along with the regular bowlers.
So What else a Captain needs here? Just play good and win after this much variety in the squad.
This squad is the most balanced squad on paper no doubt according to the book and requirements of cricket. Now it is upto players to perform good and justify their place.