CHANGE MUST TAKE PLACE / WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEW STRUCTURE OF PCB?

Antumul_alona · March 22, 2007, 5:13pm

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^ You and me and the whole lot of KK fans...
Ya Allah madad...

cricketplaya · March 22, 2007, 5:47pm

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Why not? Don't the players say Bismillah before anything and everything? What's wrong in taking advice from the ones who are closer to Allah?

gravity_killz · March 22, 2007, 6:30pm

Re: The much needed overhauling of Pakistan Cricket

smooth_guy:

The much needed overhauling

Since the moronic PCB head has resigned and the lazy Inzimam has seen the mirror at last. This is the time to do the much needed overhauling. We have missed the opportunity back in 1996, then again in 2003. This is the right time to get everything straight. General Tauqeer Zia had the golden chance, full power and money to launch the over hauling. But again, everyone is busy filling their pockets and get their bhanjay-bhateejay selected.

A. Make a successful business and administration personality for the top job who has passion and love for the game as well. That should be the first priority. I suggest well known cricket commentator **Chishti Mujahid **as he is well suited for this kind of mega project. Once things are under-control and introduce new constitution of the board and remove the patron-in-chief’s PUKH for good.

B. Launch a technical committee in which hire a team of professional cricketers who will not only be advisors to the chief on pure cricketing matters, but also design, monitor, do selections and administer the NCA, U15, U17, U19 and grass root level cricket in Pakistan. Hire coaches for these programs which will do professional coaching in each region of the country on minors. Then each of the U teams will have senior coaches to polish the youth who are sent from junior levels. We are looking around 20 people in this regards. Our openers and Watta bowling problems can only be rectify this way, when we have good ex players working with kidz from age 13 to 19. Also pitch curators should be under this technical team. Each region must have alteast 6 bouncy pitches. Atleast two for the U15. Assign Goals on half-yearly basis for all coaches and get their results evaluated by the technical committee. A KPMG (type of) consultant should be hired to help both technical and administration team define processes and goals and enforce transparency.

C. Hire a professional marketing team and an administration team (get rid of gannday andday right away) who are extremely professional and know how to do business on international level.

D. Hire an educated very well organized and well spoken Team Manager who can discipline all players.

E. All players from U17 and above must pass ‘rules of cricket’ exams which should be on 2 levels. Basic and advance.

F. Players selected in Pakistan A team must pass these exams, attend professional courses on inter-personal skills (not necessarily English language, but to be presentable as flag bearer for the country), doping and man management and leadership for Captains/Vice-captains.

When you have money and fine cricketing brains in the country, use them in the best way to rectify the long time problems this country has faced in last one decade.

As for the current team do the following as part of overhauling.

Now get rid of Akmal, Nazir, Rana, Shabbir and Azhar.

Throw Bari out of the window, LITTERALLY!!!

Keep Razzaq, Afridi, Akhtar, Hafeez and Kaneria on watch list. Bring Abdul Rehman and Mansoor Amjad so Kaneria and others come out of the comfort zone.

Modz can you please make this sticky. All future proposals can be posted here in this thread. Thanks.

good post! :k:

counterpoint · March 22, 2007, 6:41pm

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How do u know who is closer to Allah? Koi wahee aiyee hai? Only person in this entire episode closer to Allah is the late Bob Woolmer......

cricketplaya · March 22, 2007, 6:56pm

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I was talking about the Ulema.

counterpoint · March 22, 2007, 7:02pm

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So was I...how do u know who is closer to Allah? Is there a register or website where we can go and see who is closer and by how much? And is there a statsguru which can give us details of their relative performance?

cricketplaya · March 22, 2007, 7:13pm

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There is no such thing but there is outter and inner appearance of a person which tells you how close they are to Allah. The perfect example was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Antumul_alona · March 22, 2007, 7:20pm

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Counterpoint and CricketPlaya,
Can you please get back to the REAL discussion of the thread?
Thank you.

Lucid_Chaotic · March 22, 2007, 7:31pm

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all of us armchair critics here can prolly come up with our proposed governance structure for PCB to consider

Antumul_alona · March 22, 2007, 7:35pm

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^ The real dilema is...
Our arm chairs reasoning might be better than the mujra mood decisions our elite is used to taking, however neither can cause a positive change.

acrobi123 · March 23, 2007, 5:50am

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Salam all,
IMO I dont see much of change to occur in the team with some exceptions, (Hafeez, Nazir and Rana [maybe Rao]) whoever comes in place of PCB chief will take the matter to heart (regardless how he is appointed); will draw a constitution and fine tune the domestic structure.

Imran Khan opinion will play a critical role in the new selection of the team; induction of fresh blood but more obvious choices are; Yasir Hameed, Salman Butt( he did well in domestic circuit as well), Shoaib Malik will take Inzi's slot (living to the expectation will be a tough ask).

Antumul_alona · March 27, 2007, 1:31pm

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Naseem Ashraf meets with Imran and seeks advice..
From Jang Urdu service

arshad5 · March 27, 2007, 1:45pm

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Antumul_alona:

Change must now take place at the helm of cricket in Pakistan. full stop. Some serious changes in our cricket setup must be made, and Mr. Musharaf needs to set up a real board, not an adhoc one, Like Ramiz as Chairman and no more bureaucaratic lalloos in the system. If the current traumatic events don't spur these changes, nothing will.

Ramiz had said, "heads will roll", but one rolled without any PCB intervention. Woolmer is gone. Inzi is retired. We will probably sink against ZIM again.... I am almost at the point of giving up this sport completely. Cricket has become too competitive to keep believing that kids from the street will be able to win championships against these almost "factory" made teams.

When evolution fails revolution must take place!

Antumul_alona · April 5, 2007, 12:18pm

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From the current developments, there seems to be no real change headed PCB's way. The same old Cheemi DNA is chairman and with the news about YoYo wanting total control, in all likely hood PCB will appoint a "dummy" coach to merely fill the slot on paper. Either that or play one on YoYo and appoint Mr. Politics Miandad to keep the 2 engaged among them selves. Plus, President Musharaf like cricket as a distraction from his own mischief. So he will let the Karachi ppl feel good with Miandad being the coach and pressurizing the selection committee to get his nephew in to the team.

Drama continues ..PCB style.

Zabardast · April 5, 2007, 5:27pm

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At least for 2 years…try cricket without any board…and see the results… :k:

Antumul_alona · April 5, 2007, 5:40pm

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^ Can't unfortunately...ICC rules....

Zabardast · April 5, 2007, 6:11pm

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^^ Okay…then limit the board’s activities to international cricket relationships…board should stay out as far as the team’s performance is concerened…just leave it to the coach and the captain/VC… :k:

Antumul_alona · April 10, 2007, 4:52pm

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More dramay baazi…
First they say the next coach will be a Pakistani. Then now they are saying they are open to a foreign coach again.!!! wow…lolz at PCB tamasha…
article talks about Aaqib Javed and Younis’s captaincy together…

**PCB not ruling out foreigner as next coach **](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/289890.html)
Osman Samiuddin](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/289890.html)
April 10, 2007
Former Pakistan fast bowler and Under-19 coach Aaqib Javed is Imran Khan and Nasim Ashraf’s preferred choice for national coach

A fortnight after the Pakistan Cricket Board publicly said it was highly likely that the next national coach would be a local, Cricinfo has learnt that a decision has been reached in principle to not exclude foreign names from a shortlist of four or five potential candidates.
Officially, Naseem Ashraf, chairman of the board, reiterated today his earlier statement that the PCB would not take any hasty decisions over the appointment of a captain, coach and selection committee. He was speaking after the latest meeting of the PCB’s ad-hoc committee at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.
“We don’t want to take any decisions in haste,” Ashraf told reporters after the meeting. “We have discussed many issues, including the captaincy, a new coach and the selection committee but no decision has been taken just yet.”
However, it emerged that the biggest surprise from the four-hour meeting was the discussions over a new coach. Ashraf, in his press conference a fortnight ago, had said it was highly likely that the next coach would be a local but the board now seems to appreciate the fact that it may have to widen its search.
Aaqib Javed and Mansoor Rana, who have both coached Pakistan U-19 teams to World Cup glory, were discussed as choices; Aaqib, who has expressed his interest in the job and has the support of Imran Khan, is also the preferred choice of the chairman.
Beyond that, as one official pointed out, the choice is scarce and “the parameter of the search has to be broadened. In principle we have taken a decision to look at a cross-section of 4-5 names which will not preclude foreigners.”
At a similar meeting before the World Cup and Woolmer’s death, the committee had also decided to look for a foreign coach and John Wright, the former India coach, was among the names mentioned. Board officials communicated with him during the Champions Trophy in India last year, though nothing concrete has emerged from it.
Several names were also discussed with regard to the captaincy. Younis Khan, as expected, remains the front-runner - though, as some officials now privately concede, he himself remains reluctant to take over. “There is also a concern,” said an official, “that he has too excitable a temperament as a leader.”

Younis, who is due to leave for England shortly to begin his stint with Yorkshire, is, however, understood to be the chairman’s choice. Shoaib Malik, tipped regularly by Bob Woolmer as a future captain, is also said to be in the running, while the names of Salman Butt - currently out of national favour - and even Abdul Razzaq also came up alongside that of Mohammad Yousuf.
Ashraf also said that the identity of the new selection committee would be unveiled before the next ad-hoc committee meeting on May 7. Pakistan’s next selectors will be the first, fully-paid professionals in the country’s history and, though three names have been identified, they will not be announced immediately.
Among the favourites for the post of chief selector is Salahuddin Mulla Ahmed, former Test opener and many-time national selector. But Aamir Sohail, one-time radical, fire-breathing chief selector, has also been discussed alongside former internationals such as Shoaib Mohammad, Salim Jaffer and Naushad Ali.
No other decision is expected till the next meeting. “The spadework begins now,” one official pointed out. Pakistan’s next international assignment is also likely to be in May, a potential series of ODIs against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi. Thereafter, a charity game or two apart and a Twenty20 knockabout in September, they have ample time till South Africa arrive in October for a major tour to take the big decisions.
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of Cricinfo
© Cricinfo

smooth_guy · April 10, 2007, 5:14pm

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I love the recommendations in the following article. Check it out.

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/pakspin/archives/2007/04/coach_and_captain_ten_matters.php

Antumul_alona · April 11, 2007, 1:13pm

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Drama is continuing with almost every major news service reporting YoYo's hesitations and PCB's dilema to appoint a captain. The latest is that PCB is thinking of appointing a captain on a series to series basis. A move I believe would prove really a waste for them.
They want to infect their own adhocism into the cricket team as well.