(Asghar Ali Mubarak)
Pakistan cricket team and English team started practice in Rawalpindi. The third and last test of the series between Pakistan and England will start from Thursday. Rawalpindi administration has made ideal arrangements for the last test. On the orders of CPO Syed Khalid Hamdani, the officers and personnel of Rawalpindi police are performing special teams, pickets and patrol squad alert duties, 99 special pickets have been installed in the cricket stadium and its surroundings, CCTV on the route of the cricket teams. Monitoring will be done by cameras, all senior officers will check and brief the officers and men on duty point-wise, fans will be able to enter the stadium after complete checking through the designated cricket route, elite force, dolphin force in the cricket stadium and its surroundings. And special teams of the district police will perform patrol duties, more than 4000 officers and personnel of Rawalpindi police will perform security duties, the district administration has completed foolproof security arrangements for the Pakistan England cricket test match, walk-through gates, c. CTV cameras, establishment of NADRA verification counter at the entry gate and elimination of road encroachments. Presidential level security is being provided to English players. More than 350 traffic police officers have also been deployed while the area around Pindi Stadium will be closed for security purposes. A control room has been established in Shahbaz Sharif Sports Gymnasium to monitor the arrangements. A coordinated plan has been made for traffic flow. Bomb disposal squad of civil defense will be present in the stadium during the match. During the match, there will be continuous power supply and first aid ambulance and fire brigade vehicles will be present at the stadium. 60 RWMC officials will be on duty to clean the cricket stadium. On the day of the racket, a large number of members of the English media were seen busy in the media center, including the famous English captain Mike Atherton, who is also a cricket expert. An unpleasant incident with local journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak at the press conference of a 1996 World Cup match was highlighted in the media. The process of preparing the pitch for the deciding test of the series between Pakistan and England has started at Pindi Stadium
An attempt will be made to make the pitch suitable for the spinners for the Pindi test, fans and heaters are being used to teach the pitch, 3, 3 heaters are placed on both sides, heat is being conveyed to the pitch through fans in front of the heaters.
In the series of 3 test matches between Pakistan and England, England defeated Pakistan by 47 runs in the first test and in the second match, Pakistan defeated England by 152 runs.
While announcing the team for the third Test match of the series against Pakistan in Rawalpindi, England has made two changes in the team and announced to field with three spinners. England have made two changes to the team that lost in the last match where Gus Atkinson and spinner Rehan Ahmed have been replaced by fast bowlers Braden Carse and Matthew Potts. England have decided to field with three spinners, this time Rehan Ahmed will be there to support Shoaib Bashir and Jack Leach. Rehan made his debut in the Karachi Test against Pakistan two years ago and was instrumental in his team’s match win and series clean sweep with 5 wickets for 48 runs. He played three Tests against India, but since February, he could not make a place in the England team again
England have really taken a big risk by announcing three spinners as only skipper Ben Stokes will be there to support Gus Atkinson in the fast bowling and if the wicket doesn’t turn much then this decision could be heavy for England.
It should be noted that this is the same field on which the England team scored 657 runs in only 101 overs on the tour of Pakistan two years ago and won the match. will be Ben Stokes (captain), Zac Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Gus Atkinson, Rehan Ahmed, Jack Leach and Shoaib Bashir.
The vice-captain of the national team and middle order batsman Saud Shakeel has said that the morale of the team is quite good, victory is very important to create the atmosphere of the team and we will try to repeat the strategy of the last match. Take, if we are benefiting from the spin wicket against them, then we will try to play similar cricket. We will also try to create a favorable wicket for the spinners in the third Test match against England in Rawalpindi. Talking to the media in Rawalpindi, he said that the way we got success in the second match, we will try to have a similar wicket and it will be favorable for us, thanks to which we will try to win the match.
He said that there is a difference between the weather of Multan and Rawalpindi, Multan is a bit hotter than Rawalpindi and in Pindi we have seen that it is helpful for fast bowlers and it also has bounce. Keeping in mind the groundsmen are preparing the wicket with heaters and fans. He said that the pitch makes a difference due to the weather, but it seems that there will be spin on this wicket.
