Pakistan vs England: Why is T20 cricket Pakistan's favorite format?

Pakistan vs England: Why is T20 cricket Pakistan's favorite format?

Pakistan cricket team will now face England in the T20 series after losing the Test series to England.

All three matches in the three-match series will be played at Manchester's Old Trafford ground.

The first match of the T20 series against England will be played on August 28, the second on August 30 and the third on September 1.

Misbah-ul-Haq, the head coach and chief selector of the Pakistani cricket team, has already announced a 17-member squad for the T20 series, the majority of which are non-Test players.

Why T20 is Pakistan's favorite format?

Former captain of Pakistan cricket team Rameez Raja while talking to BBC Urdu says that T20 is Pakistan's favorite format for more than one reason.

"One is that this format gives the player instant fame. Our T20 culture is set. Our club cricket is usually base overs and it is easy to organize this format at every level.

"It takes a lot of hard work to organize and maintain the quality of four-day cricket," he said. In addition, the mood of the fans has now become T20. Most importantly, the Pakistan Super League played a very important role in this regard. Now players want to make money by playing T20 and people want to see this format.

Regarding the recent performance of the Pakistani team, Rameez Raja says that it is not easy to get good results against the top teams as mistakes are made against these big teams.

Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. The Pakistani team has a very good record in T20, it also became the world number one team, but when it faced resistance from good teams, it lost matches.

Rameez Raja thinks it is very important to play with good teams to test yourself.

He says that two or three new players like Khushdil Shah and Haider Ali have come in the Pakistani team, they should get a chance. Now a new team needs to be formed.

"If there was no talent in the country, it would make sense for you to keep feeding the old players, but if you don't experiment with new players in the T20s, you will be left behind," he said. Choose talent and give it a chance because if you don't give it a chance in T20 then where will you give it?

Rameez Raja says that it is possible to hold a series against good teams. It is a short series that can easily be held at home or in a rival team's country.

Former Pakistan cricket captain and wicket keeper Rashid Latif says that one of the main reasons for Pakistan's success in the T20 International has been that we have good spinners.

We made good use of Emad Wasim, Shadab Khan and Mohammad Hafeez, they are not easy bowlers. Apart from them, Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz were also part of the bowling attack. The batting kept changing but captain Sarfraz relied on spinners.

"Now that Babar Azam is the captain, we have to see how he takes advantage of his spinners' abilities because the Pakistani team has always benefited from spinners," he said.