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home country. Mathematicians must hate it when the rest of us non-mathematicians
think we are being clever in saying things like the whole is greater - or less -
than the sum of its parts. How can the total ever be less than the sum of the
numbers adding up to it? This is not philosophy; this is maths. Two plus two has
to be four. It can be nothing else, not more or less.So it is with the greatest
respect to all mathematicians that this line is wheeled out again, this time in
application to this Pakistan pace attack - of which the whole currently feels
distinctly less than what it should be given the sum of its individual parts.No
doubt skeptics might join mathematicians in arguing that actually, the attack
equals exactly the sum of its constituents; that this, the first day of Brisbane
and Australia near enough 300 for just three, is how good any combination of
Mohammad Amir, Rahat Ali, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Khan and Imran Khan can ever be.But
how? At least in theory it looks like an excess of riches unlike any Pakistan
have been able to call upon in recent times. Remember, after all, those fun days
about a decade ago when the prospect of some combination of Mohammad Asif,
Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Shahid Nazir, Shabbir Ahmed and
(we might as well throw him in) Mohammad Sami generated enough drool to turn a
crater into an ocean? And yet, somehow, no potent attack from that could ever
really turn out together, and certainly not for long enough for it to
matter.Some just werent as good as was thought; there were drugs and there were
injuries; there were dodgy actions and bad haircuts; there were fights and bans;
and there was Asif, a force not ever knowingly tamed by anyone, batsmen,
friends, lovers or administrators.So it must be a blessing right now that they
can at least pick from the five pace options they have every Test they play. And
it should be a blessing that together the quintet cover so many bases. A bit of
swing in the air? No worries, Sohail will touch you up a little. Need a bit of
nasty? Please, Wahab. Something cute and reliable, maybe for those UAE pitches?
Thanks Rahat. Maybe a back-of-a-length, into-the-wind toiler when everyone else
pulls a sickie? Ladies and gentlemen - the Imran Khan who isnt that one. And the
cherry on top of this, the glue that holds them together, that
once-in-a-generation star? Welcome back Amir.And yet, on days like today, and on
a number of them through the tours of England and New Zealand, these options
have either not seemed enough, or that there are more bases to cover than
Pakistan thought. In part it is because a four-man attack with negligible
part-time options is always going to be thin in modern cricket. Over in India,
two sides are currently playing what seems to be the future, with five, six,
even seven options in any one innings.With just four, the whole operation is
fragile. In England that was at its most acute with Sohail around, lookinng as
if he had just one spell in which to make it count in an entire Test.
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off briefly in Brisbane, the Test may as well have been over, Pakistan already
floored. The big outfields, the heat, the crowds and often the surfaces -
Australia is ruthless in stretching thin attacks to the point of tearing them
up. Without an allrounder they can do little about that, except fret and
complain that they havent spent the last few years trying to develop one.They
have not always known which permutation of the five suits their purposes, or the
surface, best. Rotation is a reality and Pakistan have played on a variety of
pitches this year, but seven changes to their pace bowling combination in ten
Tests - no matter the divergence in conditions - suggests they are not sure what
works. The three in Brisbane are the three who played the first Test at Lords
this summer and then, as now, it isnt obvious that it is the right three. Rahat,
in particular, has struggled in the opening innings of the three series he has
played away from home this year - and with limited resources, one misfiring
bowler is fatal. Even accounting for the left-handers in Australias line-up,
might Imran not have been a sturdier option?In one sense, Pakistan are still
adjusting to the return of Amir. They had made peace with what resources they
had in his absence. Junaid Khan had skipped out of his shadow. Imran emerged.
Mohammad Irfan briefly looked like he could have a Test career. Wahab found his
calling. Instead, Amir waltzed back into the side once his ban ended and the men
who had been holding fort either faded away, like Junaid, or began missing out,
like Imran, Wahab and Rahat, who have all sat out Tests because Amir has already
assumed the status of an automatic selection.Is it time then, even as early as
the first skirmishes of this series, for some reassessment? That Wahab is a
deliverer of good-to-great spells rather than being a good-to-great bowler and
that Rahat is a slow learner? And as for Amir, maybe the swing-friendly summer
of 2010 and what followed swelled in our heads the memories of how good he
really was.Maybe the maths is right, that this attack is only as good as its
numbers, which arent great. After all, at various points in England and New
Zealand, they have collectively squandered helpful conditions.Or, as they did
today, they have bowled well enough intermittently but bowled boundary balls
often enough to create no pressure, deflecting it instead on Yasir Shah and
earning the mistrust of their captain. The depth of that was damning enough in
Misbah-ul-Haq not using two fast bowlers in tandem from the 11th over of the
innings until the second new ball, as if he was trying to hide one on the first
day of a series in a country where there is no place to hide.
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