I don’t know what the make of the following. but sounds to me like Miandad is being kept on because 1) he has one year on his contract left and 2) there are no other candidates.
these kind of stalemates and compromised decisions have never served Pak cricket well. Shahryar Khan will have to make some tough decisions very soon on the positions of the coach, captain etc. why delay them? lets have the solution now regardless of how painful it is. PCB walay tau rebuilding, rebuilding kartay rehtain hain, par team tau kabhi banee naheen hamari. :disgust:
**Coach Miandad gets Shaharyar’s assurance on completion of contract **
KARACHI: One day after being learning he would continue as Pakistan coach for the next one year, Javed Miandad held a detailed meeting with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan on Wednesday in Lahore.
After a brief meeting with the Chief Executive Rameez Raja, Miandad met with Shaharyar and their meeting lasted for about 90 minutes at the Gaddafi Stadium. “It was a good meeting in which I made my position very clear to the Chairman. He assured me that the Board had never given any impression that they were planning to remove me as coach,” the former Test captain said from Lahore. “The Chairman said the media had interpreted a lot of things in their own way but the Board had no intention of cancelling my two-year contract,” Mianded said.
Miandad had on Tuesday lashed out at the Board saying he would rethink his position as coach. “I am hurt and upset at the way the Board has created uncertainty and put a question mark on my integrity and credibility as coach. I am not jumping with joy because the board now says that they will allow me to complete my two years coaching contract. I will now have to think about my future plans,” Miandad had said.
But after meeting Shaharyar he said he was satisfied with the way the meeting had proceeded but one could sense from his voice that the former Test captain normally a very chirpy character, was a bit down. “I laid out my grievances before the Chairman and made my views about the team very clear to him. I told him what to expect in our coming international assignments if some strong decisions were not taken about the team. And he agreed with what I had to say,” Miandad said.
However sources close to Miandad said he was uncertain if the meeting had served any purpose and would produce any results since it was difficult to decipher what Shaharyar, a former career diplomat, was exactly thinking.
Shaharyar on Tuesday also said that Haroon Rasheed would be given another year’s contract as manager as he had done his job satisfactory. But sources in the Board said until recently when Pakistan was planning to play in a One-day series against Sri Lanka in Malaysia, the Chairman was thinking on the lines of appointing a bureaucrat, Abu Shamim Arif as manager.
Miandad said he was more concerned with the preparations for the team’s next international assignment, the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.
“I have told the Chairman that we need to start preparations early and if some of the main players are not available due to their commitments in county cricket, we should give the back up players a chance without having any reservations or fear,” Miandad explained.
Shaharyar later said in a television interview that the Board had no problems with Miandad and he would continue as coach. But sources said Shaharyar had told Miandad in the meeting that instead of voicing his grievances in the press he should have spoken about them to him directly as it was not a good sign for team officials and players to be giving hard statements in the press.
Chief selector Wasim Bari when contacted, said the selectors had not done any preparations for the Asia Cup as yet as the tournament was still two months away.
, miandad is not a coach, write him off,we don’t need an awami coach, 