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have to agree with you on this one Jolie.....cannot believe I am agreeing with this girl!!!.
Fantastique. We just need to turn this good deed into a die hard habit now. :D
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but that goes back to the same point that I am trying to make for last 31 hours 42 min and 30 seconds that fine, we know we have a weak batting and we know we crunch under pressure but can we do something abt it..
and yes there is no one easy quick solution but one factor that I see terribly missing in Pak cricket recently is presence of some kind of mature thought leadership in the dressing room....in WC 92, IK/Javed Miandad presence made a huge difference.....even if IK was half dead, his presence alone was a boost for the team in that WC
ganguly with dravid and laxman turned it around..Fleming with C. carins and one other guy did really well for NZ..Naser Hussain with Alex Stewart and Michael Vaughan is a brilliant example...Arjuna with Arvinda and Gru Sinha is another brillinat brilliant example
and in all these teams flashy super-stars were some other players but the core quartet made the strategic difference
And after inzi , we are lacking that aspect...and now it is a complete disaster abd after misbah..you guys will see the impact. Talent alone will do nothing...keep kicking these old players (s0me shd be kicked)and keep bringing the new players but you are missing the leadership big time..we did a horrible job in transitioning in last 5 years...
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I feel we are not producing great cricketing minds is largely because of the fact we are not producing players who love and enjoy cricket in the true sense of the word! Yes, this is right, at the end of the day, this is all about cricket, yet one fails see the passion, respect and dedication to the game that was a defining factor behind shaping the careers of many great players of the past. Forget about the team, it's like these players can't even be bothered to express themselves as individuals. The confidence, the self belief and even the selfish desire to play for the sake of protecting personal reputation is missing. The likes of Malik, Kamran Akmal etc are a perfect example of this.
It's only when these players will genuinely and wholeheartedly love and respect the great game of cricket, only then they'll develop an interest to learn more about the game. They'll learn to pay attention to details, learn about how things work, what are the rules, how and when those rules work. And when you learn about the rules, it becomes easier to break them, to shape them, to twist them, to turn them to suit your aims and goals. You know, we need confident, inquisitive, adventurous minds in the squad. We need players who genuinely love, love, love playing cricket, the way likes of Ponting & Co did. Tragically, Pakistani players visibly look and act so uninspired, they're so bloody boring (and short) that I cannot bring myself to develop a crush on any of those fellas. What a shame, innit?
