KARACHI: Pakistan team and management must go for a serious soul searching if they wanted to revive their fortunes in the Cricket World Cup, former captain Wasim Bari said on Monday.
"The way clueless Pakistan team played against India and West Indies it looked they played without heart and soul," he told APP in an interview here.
However, he warned, if Pakistan team did not amended their attitude and came up with a powerful show against Zimbabwe it can end their World Cup campaign in Brisbane on March 1.
Pakistan team must come up with three big wins Zimbabwe, Ireland and United Arab Emirates to stay in run for a place in the quarterfinals.
He said Pakistan's ex-coach Dav Whatmore, who is now heading Zimbabwe team coaching staff, would be looking fully exploiting our team's weaknesses.
"Pakistan is placed at bottom of 7-team group "B" behind even UAE with. An extra-ordinary comeback is needed to create chances for last eight round," former Pakistan gloveman, said.
Wasim Bari said two embarrassing defeats against India and West Indies of Misbah-ul-Haq's team jolted the nation and their millions of supporter across the globe.
He expressed his dismay for lack of tactics, strategy, planning which let the team down.
"We all failed to understand whats going on with the team in Australia and New Zealand and what are problems with the players as they failing time and again," he remarked.
He called upon veteran batsman Younis Khan to voluntarily rest from a couple of games in the interest of the team.
"Younis is a patriotic player set an example like out of form Misbah dropped him in the series against Australia," he commented.
He stressed the need for including specialist wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed in the team. Sarfraz should also be used as an opener to solve its opening problem," he added.
Wasim Bari, who played back to back World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979 also favored inclusion of paceman Rahat Ali in the next game to strengthen the bowling.
"We must have five specialist bowlers and our pacemen must bowled with in the channel," he suggested.
Responding to a question, he said like always there are lots of rumours and allegation going on. "This always happened when team losses without a fight.
He said Pakistan is facing problem at the top order. "If our top order failed to deliver against Zimbabwe, it can be huge disaster.
"Big innings are needed from a couple of batsmen and plus 300 scores to challenge Zimbabwe," he said.
Wasim Bari also expressed his surprise that Shahid Afridi failed to take a single wicket in his 17 over of the first two games.
"Afridi is a wicket-taking bowler.But he failed to impress in first two matches," he said.
"Without raising the standard in all three departments like batting, bowling and fielding there little chances for the team," he maintained.
"No team can win after conceding 116 runs in last ten overs, dropping half a dozen chances and slipping to four wickets for one run," he recalled.
He opined that only a huge transformation in attitude, courage and fearless, Pakistan team staged a comeback.
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