Pakistan's painstaking efforts to emulate Multan in Rawalpindi

There can be nothing more terrible for a cricket team than to lose sense of what it stands for. Pakistan, for the last three years, have been found wandering as they searched for their identity or a template that perfectly married the conditions and the resources for them to win at home. The seismic changes brought in by the humiliating loss in the first Multan Test pushed Pakistan to a template and after it resulted in an elusive Test win at home, they now seem hell-bent on sticking to it.

After Pakistan's first win in a Test at home in three years and eight months, Shan Masood highlighted the need to understand the idiosyncrasies of each venue so he can line-up bowling attacks - according to the demands of the venue they are playing at -