After being hammered at the hands of England in the first Test of the series, wherein Pakistan were bashed all around for the visitors to score a mammoth 823/7, there seemed to be a particular pathway that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was hell-bent on pursuing. First, they took a call to play the next test on the very same pitch that was used for the first game. The match was tampered with so much so that the Rawalpindi track was leveled to be conductive to spinners right from the start of the game. Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar was one of those sections of people who didn't like the strategy taken by PCB and called out the governing body for what he believed in. Also Read | BCCI Displays Indian Squad for Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 “When you don’t put the right people in the right jobs and you put the wrong mindset on the wrong jobs, this is exactly what happens,” stated a disgruntled Shoaib while speaking on BBC. In fact, the erstwhile stalwart of Pakistani pace bowling also noted that the issue mentioned above was something that had been a constant point of difference between the management and him since his playing days. “The division you’re seeing did not happen overnight. It happened two decades ago. I often complained to my captains, 'why are you making dead pitches?' What do we do from here? We either take a selfish approach, make a spinning track, to win games. Or we save the game (Test cricket). I would rather see us save the game,” voiced Akhtar emphatically. Notably, all the wickets of the Englishmen to fall since the beginning of the second Test till stumps on the second day of the one ongoing match have been courtesy of the spinners. This statistic alone speaks volumes on the point that Akhtar has stressed on.