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Improve your cricket or stay home: Chappell suggests Pakistan

Former Australian cricketer Ian Chappell lashed out at Pakistani team and suggested improve your cricket or stay home.

Barring the first Test at Gabba, Pakistan struggled in all departments of the game against Kangaroos where they were thrashed in the next two matches.

Criticizing Pakistan for their inability to play competitive cricket in the series the 73-year-old said that Cricket Australia must stop inviting Pakistan for tournaments unless they improve their performance.

“Pakistan have now lost 12 Test matches on the trot in Australia, and somebody’s got to give them a kick up the bum. Cricket Australia have got to start saying ‘listen if things don’t improve we will stop with the invites’,” Chappell, who feels Pakistan’s poor fielding at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was a sign of things to come in the rest of the series.

“You can’t continue to [play poor] cricket. You can’t bowl poorly, have conservative field placings and field sloppily and expect to play decent cricket in Australia,” he added.

Chappell was also extremely critical of Misbah’s captaincy.

“A lot of their struggles were because they had no leadership. There was no inspiration from Misbah, so things have got to change in Pakistan.”

Australia crashed Pakistan by 220 runs in the third Test, handing them their 12th consecutive Test loss in Australia.