PSL 2023: Will Pakistan hear Azam Khan's knock?
If Azam Khan has the flexibility in his wrists to make a 150km/h ball disappear into the gaps beyond the long-on boundary with a magical flick, what should anyone be concerned about his weight?
Some time ago, when Moin Khan entered Azam Khan's room one day, he was shocked to see the wall of the room where Azam had pasted all the derogatory titles by which he had been called. When Moin wanted to know the reason for this extreme step, Azam replied that he was gaining new courage from all these taunts.
In the same interview given to Cricinfo, fast bowler Susanda Magala also revealed that even in South African cricket culture, fitness is only defined as running fast. If the selection for the national team is made only by the lightning speed and a certain type of body structure, then how can one change one's constitution.
Although Virat Kohli's fitness routine and fat levels should serve as a guide for athletes around the world, it should be noted that every athlete has a different constitution based on their genetic predispositions and sometimes even the best diet planning is influenced by genetic predispositions. It piles up. In such a case, will it be appropriate to push cricket towards physical discrimination after getting out of racial and gender discrimination?
Cricket in every era has initially resisted change and has not been generous in accepting new concepts and innovations until such time as change becomes a necessity of the game. Azam Khan, Susanda Magala, Raheem Cornwall and Lizelle Lee are also raising serious questions about the fitness standards set in the new era of cricket.
Fitness trainers can rightly argue that if the muscle load on Azam Khan's structure was reduced by a few kilos along with the same cricketing skills, he could have scored 140 runs instead of 97 balls in 42 balls. The same strike rate as Azam Khan's in yesterday's innings is not being sought at number five for three years.
For a time, style was considered an important selection criterion in addition to technique, but then Steve Smith left the style debate behind. By giving batsmen like Peter Handscomb a chance, it was decided that if a player can score runs without dazzling the fans, then why add style?
Pakistan, however, remained stuck in the same debate and it took a decade to accept the reality when Misbah-ul-Haq finally gave Fawad Alam a chance to play for Pakistan again. However, if this fact had been accepted at the time of Misbah's retirement, Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq would not have had to justify his good intentions while retiring.
When taunts started raining on Azam Khan from all directions and uncles like Aqib Javed also called his physical structure against the principles of cricket, he tried to give a salutary answer to the critics with his performance. And the effort was brilliant.
Cricket is no one's legacy but if it is in one's blood and he is skilled in its full expression, bringing family identity and physical structure to the center can be a red tape feat, sport, and athlete. There can be no justice.
If Azam Khan's accuracy behind the wickets and batting skills are not less than international competitive standards, then he must get equal opportunities in selection as well. If Unconsolidated Undrained (UU) test and fat level remain the only criteria for selection, then Pakistan cricket will once again lag behind the world because even Rohit Sharma cannot succeed in the UU test.
Taking bowlers like Odin Smith, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, and Mohammad Nawaz so easily makes it sad that now Azam Khan has made the taunts of brother-in-law his strength and once again change is at the door of Pakistan cricket. are knocking.
Will PCB hear this knock in time this time?
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