Bowlers’ graveyards: Pakistan’s placid pitches under fresh fire

It is a “perennial problem,” former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram told AFP. “For years it has been the same old story. Very rarely we used to get green and lively pitches in the 1990s and had to bowl long spell for wickets.” Rashid Latif, a former Pakistan captain who has studied pitch preparation, said there was no need for the pitches to be curated so overwhelmingly in the batsmen’s favour.”We can prepare good pitches but our mindset is negative,” Latif told AFP. “There was good grass on the Multan pitch but it was shaved off, I don’t know on whose wishes.” Former spinner and…