Re: Javed Miandad - GEO TV
I downloaded the brand new episode (or at least the last one that was posted), and unfortunately, I did not find any discussion regarding the technology-enhancement, or the specialist (bowling) coaches that Rock_Express Bhai has mentioned in the initial post. I believe that version exists in one of the previous episodes. I will dig that up very soon, hopefully.
While viewing the latest continuation in this series, here are my set of related comments -
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Javed was dead straight on the money regarding the huge and typical usual occurence of the growth of problems we have been having in recent times, with the invariable decisions being made on virtually daily basis in re-shuffling the opening combination to bits and pieces. Damaging the spirits of the team, such a behavior should come to a complete halt as soon as possible. We definitely cannot afford to live with this dilemma during next year’s World Cup. The truth is, since Inzamam is largely incapable of handling and managing the decisions by himself, it should be now up to the coach and the team management to have their final say on this issue, and persist with a pair of decent openers while providing them with uninterrupted chances so they can further improve their style and technique as well as be able to read each other’s minds more clearly. Shoaib Malik should be thrown out of this equation. Imran Farhat and Salman Butt is the most probable opening combination that we have come across in recent times, with Yasir Hameed being in the secondary position. One of these two pairs should be kept with, and tested for the time being.
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I would like to disagree with Javed on his separate distinction that he questioned as to whether or not the team is united and the possibility of chances of all team members playing under a separate identity and diverse role (as independents). I do like to believe, with the shape that our team structure has been in, in recent times, it is very much holding it’s own as a team, regardless of a few inconsistencies in almost every corner, as we touch more on this issue in the next few bullet points.
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Absolutely agree on his statement regarding the “unpredictability” stance of our current position. If we don’t have a first-hand clue and strategy on how to set the field placings for a particular batsmen let alone having a tough time to decide the conflict of batting orders and positions, it would be next to impossible to predict our “up-coming” strategies for the World Cup, which is in a direct relation to this inconsistency mentioned just above.
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Javed was inclining on raising his voice against Inzamam and suggesting that there should be at least one reasonable voice from the top selection committee (the management) on the day-to-day happenings on the field, and questions should be asked on how the specific circumstances have been dealt with, the tactics of the captain if they feel he is making the wrong choice of decisions. But once again, here in this case, there is very little concern from the above brass (an accountable individual(s)) who are now solely in business of making money, money and more money, (and transfering their gigantic amount of checks to those Habib Bank branches in Pakistan) regardless of a simple thinking of how to induct the correct strategies, and most importantly, how to straighten the mind of a captain.
On another note, how convenient it was for Syed Yahya Hussaini to ask one of the callers (Faisal from Karachi, if I am remember right): “Faisal, yeh batayey gaa kay kiya aap jaldee mein hain?” Very rude, to say the least. Whichever is the case, you are the host of a program possibly watched by thousands if not millions (if they can ever catch that break), and quite simply, Yahya should not have thrown that statement out in a disrespectful and bitter manner, among his other antics, which have been pointed out, in every inch of a detail.
Sidhu from India (with his Ganga Nadee and Khait Bajraa stories), and Yahya from Pakistan. Then we have the likes of Waheed Khan trying to take the place at the top of this list. Rest is best left unsaid.
All in all, I do realize that the team is united and everybody is under one shady pine tree and all that fancy wholesome stuff, but how in God’s forsaken earth are we going to open our minds and let the light shine through? Let me rephrase my sentence; how, and when, will Inzamam realize the fact that his captaincy is absolutely disgusting to watch, say the least (yes, I am being very blunt here), the decisions that he takes and keeps up with lack consistency and very little we have seen the results make their way through the use of campaign that Inzamam has deviced on-the-field, all because of a defensive approach and laid-back attitude of one man where the entire team suffers, and where the result is solely dependent on the heroic knocks of either the batters, the self-confidence of wicket-taking ability and keeping their line and length and straight by the bowlers in their department, or (in a rare circumstances), fielding is above par in very extreme situations, but very hesitantly, I rarely recall an incident where we have gained an upper hand on the opposition and grab them by their throats.
As I indicated previously:
- " Regarding Inzamam being a part of Imran squad back in '92…Fourteen (14) years have gone by; fourteen long and hard years, and look what we are thriving against. Just glance at where we are standing right now, and smell the sand on the ground. Fourteen years of witnessing aggressive captains taking charge from all aspects of modern cricket, and here we have this one soul still playing from that era, who has survived for so long and who hasn’t learnt a thing. If the longitude of the timeline mentioned above is constant (which it is) and fails to budge from it’s pre-historic days, I fail to see how is Inzamam going to start pulling his feet together in less than one year, with World Cup dangling from the ceiling."
