Pakistan are currently witnessing what can clearly be called a severe test slump. There’s a loss of form. Then there’s a critical loss of form but then there’s that time where you have address things urgently, for the loss of form becomes that tense and untenable. And maybe the correct word to describe how their Test team is playing is untenable.

After losing the first test of the current red ball series being played England at Headingley in Leeds by an innings, they also just recently lost the battle at Lord’s. Not that it was a ferocious battle of any kind.

As a matter of fact the margin of defeat that they suffered was 194 runs. This would mark Joe Root’s second successive Test win in his second stint as the captain of a side that’s along the big 3 in the international game.  

But the most recent defeat in international Test match cricket is down to crisis in batting form where not even their present day captain, Babar Azam, no slouch with the bat, is able to arrest the downslide of the team.

Furthermore, just hours ago their regular white ball coach, Mike Hesson was rushed to England so that he could be able to contribute something to the depleting fortunes of a team clearly on the wan as far as red ball cricket is concerned.

That’s right; a coach of a white ball format being rushed to address the criticality of the situation of red ball team.

But forget all of that. Think of what’s hurting the visiting Pakistan side at the moment. Their latest defeat in Test cricket marks tha team’s 18th loss in SENA countries. This clearly means they’ve now lost 18 test matches here it comes to playing in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and England. What’ll become of them in the imminent future, one wonders?