“I would,” Masood said, when immediately asked if he wanted to see the ball spin in the third Test. “I don’t know if I’ve seen it change in Rawalpindi. That’s another issue. You want a team that can win anywhere… We want to get 20 wickets wherever we play, and we want to back that up with the bat.
“I don’t think there will be autumn in Pakistan. There is a summer that turns into a frosty period, so we are still hoping that the sun can play in their section and that the wicket is also on the drier side… The fielders Ya “They are there. They are functioning on a test-match tone and we will try to develop a suitable test ground where each team can select 20 wickets.”
Masood spoke before the first Test about his desire for Pakistan to play on pitches that would bring their seamers into play, but the decision to rest Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah from the last two Tests suggests that is unlikely to be achieved. a green-top. England coach McCullum predicted the surface will be “the antithesis of the fairway seamer” for the decider.
“I don’t really think,” McCullum said. “That’s one of the most admirable aspects of playing cricket around the world, right? You get challenged in numerous states and residential groups need to have home advantages. I love that about the game. We mentioned from the beginning that we will try to evolve towards any state we face.
“We were very realistic about how difficult this challenge would be and that we might face some extreme conditions at some point. Winning the first Test probably sped up that process, but we have no complaints so far. We were outplayed in this game. We’ll see what Rawalpindi offers us and we will try to adapt accordingly.”
Masood said Pakistan’s challenge is to find ways to get 20 wickets at each and every home ground. “I don’t think we can adopt a strategy where we say, ‘Oh, we have to have a rotating wicket everywhere,'” he mentioned. “You have to know the characteristics of your terrain and your soil to be a good test team… It’s not an overnight process.”
England’s defeat by 152 runs in the second Test in Multan was their fifth defeat of seven in the subcontinent this generation, following their 4-1 defeat in Bharat. With spinners playing an important role in all five evaluations, McCullum was once asked if he felt his side had been found out on spin pitches.
“Maybe. I don’t know,” he mentioned. “If we had won the toss and then gotten a few more runs, would the result have been different? I don’t know. It’s hard to make that assessment. But I know these guys play very well with spin. Yes, we’ve been beaten several times. times, but we weren’t the only team that went to India and got beaten by India in spinning conditions.
“And right here they gave us a nice, perfect document. [in Pakistan]. Even that Test tournament we won in Bharat, it was one of the last ones from the spinner states. I don’t know: we’ll find out. I probably don’t care if it rotates within the then. “I think they’ve given us artillery with the intention of dealing with it, but we’ll find out.”
McCullum also defended his aggressive approach with the bat during the second Test. “We realized in this test tournament that many grounds fell into the hands of the society that was trying to gain a foothold there. It was those who were willing to be brave enough to brush, reverse sweep, put the opposition under power, who “I was actually willing to score runs and in a low-scoring game, those runs proved valuable.”
