World Test Championship cricket is coming to Pakistan next week. Can you believe it? PSL and bilateral T20I series and ODI series against lower ranked sides or under strength teams is one thing, but to have Test Cricket back is something else all together. And it is not just any bilateral Test series, but a Test series where sixty World Test Championship points are available to win in the Test Matches at Rawalpindi and Karachi starting next week as Azhar Ali’s men look to work their way up the points table and give them the best possible chance of making an appearance in the World Test Championship final in June 2021.
It is terrific news for Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq above everyone else who have played so much Test Cricket since debuting in 2010 and played the most Test Matches by Pakistan cricketers without ever playing in front of their home supporters. But that will be changing next week for them with Sri Lanka in town. But to do battle with the red ball this time around.
After playing 12 home Test series in the UAE, 1 home Test series in England and 1 home Test series in New Zealand since the incident in Lahore in March 2009 – Sri Lanka’s decision to play the Tests in Pakistan is welcomed by the cricketing world.
Full marks to Wasim Khan and the Sri Lankan cricket board in making this happen. The idea of postponing the Test Matches and playing the limited overs matches first in the hope of convincing them to play the Tests later has worked out for them, despite Pakistan’s Test team being undercooked for the Tests in Australia by the postponement of the Tests against Sri Lanka.
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