Mudassar - appointed director of NCA

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PCB appoints Mudassar Nazar as director NCA

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday appointed former Test opener Mudassar Nazar as the director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA).

Chairman PCB Shaharyar M Khan, after a meeting of the PCB Ad-hoc Committee, announced this at a news conference, here on Friday. Abbas Zaidi, Director Media was also present at the occasion. The PCB chief said names of Intikhab Alam, Mushtaq Muhammad and Jalal-ud-din were considered for the director’s appointment at the NCA, adding that the Ad-hoc Committee gave its nod in favour of Mudassar.

Mudassar, 50, played 76 Tests and 122 One-day Internationals (ODIs) from 1976 to 1989. “He is the best choice among the lot and we believe he’ll be doing his best to groom the talent at an early stage,” said Shaharyar, adding that the terms and conditions and duration of Mudassar’s contract would be announced in a few days’ time.

He said the meeting also recommended that along with the NCA the regional academies should also become functional as soon as possible.

Shaharyar said the meeting did not discuss appointing manager of the Pakistan team for the forthcoming tour of England.

Answering to a question, he said, “The meeting did not discuss the appointment of a paid selection committee.”

He said the Ad-hoc Committee, in its meeting, appealed to the government for getting the control of cricket stadiums at Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar so that the matches of the 2011 World Cup could be staged at these venues. “A lot of effort is needed to upgrade the existing infrastructure in terms of increasing capacity in the stadiums besides adding facilities including laying of new pitches and installation of replay screens,” he said.

The PCB chairman said they want to install replay screens as early as possible and that they will be importing the equipment from suitable countries.

He said it was noted that there was less sponsorship for regional teams in first-class cricket because the matches were not shown on TV and that is why the business houses were less interested in sponsoring the regional teams. “Keeping in view the situation the Committee recommended that a feasibility report for setting up a cricket channel by the PCB should be prepared by mid of July,” he said.

Answering a question, he said with its own TV channel, the PCB would be able to get the sponsorships for all types of cricket activities at grass roots level.

Shaharyar said the fitness and training camp for the build-up of the Pakistan team for the tour of England would comprise two phases. The first phase which will be conditioning of players will commence in the last week of this month followed by a camp from June 9-22.

He said at the next meeting the Ad-hoc Committee would also invite national team’s coach, Bob Woolmer, chairman selection committee Wasim Bari and captain Inzamam-ul-Haq to discuss strategy approved by the PCB patron and related issues for the World Cup.

Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=5101

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After advertising sometime back for various coaching posts at the NCA and setting a high criteria for the potential candidates - the PCB has finally made a decision to appoint Mudassar Nazar as the director of NCA. In the adverts which were placed originally - the PCB preferred candidates to have various coaching qualifications which Mudassar Nazar doesn't have although obviously he has played international cricket.

Other candidates who applied for this post included names such as Jalaluddin (ECB level three and Australian level coach) and Mushtaq Mohammed also level three qualified coach. I wonder who was on the selection or interview panel and what they based their decision on to give the job to Mudassar.

As far as I know Mudassar was previous coach of Pakistan and Kenya and also was a coach at the NationalCricketAcademy - does any one know the type of results and the the players he has groomed?

I also feel that other candidates they should have attempted to hire is Wasim Raja who has been based in England for considerable time. He has plenty of coaching experience and is a fully qualified coach.

Also Mushtaq Ahmed would also have been a better choice - he also has considerable experience of coaching in England and I know for a fact that Warwickshire County Cricket Club with a professional set up also uses his services regularly. Wasim or Mushtaq could have brought with them professional approach then hiring someone who has coached Pakistan and Kenya in case of Mudassar.

The director of a Pakistan national cricket academy - is probably the only coach from the major test playing nation who doesn't have the coaching qualifications. For example even the coaches at the MRF academy in India - have qualified coaches and recently Prasad their ex bowler completed his coaching qualifications from England. In England you have Peter Moores as the director - a fully qualified coach with considerable and successful coaching experience which he developed from his previous post as the coach of SussexCounty cricket club.

I have written and discussed in the past whether ex players or big names make a good coach and one think I have always emphasized is the fact that being coach in the modern game is not just about giving batting or bowling tips which Mudassar Nazar will be able to do – but much more involved then that. Science and technology is also playing a key role in coaching not just in cricket but also in major international sports – the coaches are expected to have some kind of understanding or experience in this area. Also, new coaching methods and techniques are being invented all the time and if we want to produce the results then it is important that we have a coach who is good enough to adapt to changes of the time.

I am not too sure whether Mudassar Nazar is the right choice because I don’t think he has the skills or knowledge (obviously he has knowledge of the game – but other areas i.e. technology, science, psychology etc) which a lot of modern coaches are expected to have for this important post.

I wonder who will be appointed for other coaching positions, more then likely it is likely to be based on ‘chamcha-gheeri’ rather then getting the right person for the job.

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Excellent second post, Rock_Express Bhai. Very nicely written!

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Rock_Express
Thanks for presenting a beautiful article from The News and loved your comments as well.
I also think just like you that what is the exact criterion that made the officials hire Mudassar Nazar as the director of NCA. I think it would have been a better choice if we could employ someone with professional coach training. A good player doesn't always make a good teacher. Also, I think we could and we should employ some one with vast knowledge of Cricket coaching/playing techniques in other countries like Eng and Aus. I think as you suggested, we should have discussed this with either Mushtaq Ahmed or even Wasim Akram to give us suggestions for the best candidate in their minds. Wasim Raja could have been one but I think Mudassar Nazar had been coach of Pak in the past so it's not a complete surprise. Hence, let he be given full authority of the job and then wait for the fruits to appear. Goodluck to him...
Umer

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First of all excellent post, However I don’t agree with the criticism, I can only give one example here, if Wasim Akram says (assuming) he is ready to coach the youngsters of the nation under PCB umbrella, I am pretty sure there wont be any finger pointing as to if he has completed the required courses for the job qualification, and my case is made much more strong with the appointment of Waqaaa without any job qualification.

Mudassar Nazar is appointed as a director of NCA not a Head-coach for the NCA, there are much more responsibilities than to give advice to the youngster's, simply put forth, He is responsible to manage and create a building block (scouts) under his watchful eyes so they can get the best of youngsters at the NCA who are groomed under Aaquib Javed; who is the silent force and backbone of producing excellent bowlers and we have seen a fruitful result in the form of winning U-19 world cup.

The idea and examples mentioned in the above post suggest a very professional criteria, no doubt it will take a long time, the decay of poor selection of the management lies in the "ad-hoc committee itself" however most of our ex-cricketers are not qualified, but this does not suggest they dont have the eye for the talent.

Science and Tech are work for the bio-tech's and not the responsibility of the NCA director, You need a staff for that and who can work on the individual youngster’s stats and I am certain to draft those people will be one of his job.

Anyways it’s a right step, as far as Wasim Raja he has already excused that he wants to spend time with his family and stay in England. As far as others all i can say is that it opens up a wonderful opportunity to bring professionalism to Pakistan cricket but it will take a long time to step in that direction, you will need to hire right people for right designation under right management.

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Pretty good read, Acrobi Bhai.


Reading the actual full post above and taking a more closer look at the quoted text presents contradicting views. Would it be possible for one who does not have the required criteria (as mentioned by Rock_Express) to employ the services of those who do? If Mudassar himself doesn't grasp the concept of bio-mechanics and fails to understand the underlying technology that is so critical in modern-day games, is it a stretch to imagine that he would go ahead and give a green signal to appoint someone who does have knowledge and expertise in these fields?

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In Short Dhobi bhai the answer is yes, as we all know One is a wise person when you know how to accept the goods of the world and filter the wrongful deeds and let them not affect you.

One does not need to grasp the knowledge of bio-mech and tech/s, you need to be simply encouraging and welcome the knowledge and expertise required for the modern cricket. I am not a management major but I think the key to manage any organization successfully is insatiable appetite whether it comes in the form of contemporary knowledge or from the wise eye of experience, or perhaps the fusion of both.

*Accept or Reject*
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Folks,
Lets not jump the gun here, Mudasser Nazar has tghe required cedentials check this out:

Mudassar Nazar (born April 6, 1956, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. After retiring from professional cricket, he has had a number of administrative positions in the cricketing world, including coach for Zimbabwe and for several other teams.

Summary of Career

Mudassar Nazar made his debut in [(Mudassar Nazar - Wikipedia)"

And, this is what criciinfo states:

“Quick and understated, as a cricketer and a personality, Mudassar was far more of a “mode” batsman than his more gifted partner Mohsin Khan, but he made the most of what he had. One of Mudassar’s predecessors as Pakistan’s opening bat was his father, Nazar Mohammad, who suffered an unfortunate accident after he carried his bat through an innings in Pakistan’s inaugural Test series in 1952-53. Mudassar himself was at his best on slow, low pitches: his innings against England in Lahore in 1977-78 was as slow as they come and wouldn’t attract a crowd of 50,000 nowadays. As a league pro in England he developed his medium-pace, which had its moments. After retiring he took up coaching, briefly, taking charge of the Kenyan national side in 2005”

Mudasser Nazar has held coaching jobs in England, Kenya, Zimbawe and Pakistan. Except for Wasim Raja there is no other Pakistani cricketer of the same experience and stature, Jalaluddin has done a terrific job in Karachi but then again does not hav any international experience. Mushtaq Mohd has managed Pakistani cicket team and maybe Bangladesh iam not sure, other than that he is running a cricket academy in Dubai. Like I said, Mudasser is the only Pakistani test cricketer who has managed two test playing nations and one prospective member.](“Test cricket - Wikipedia”)

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So Mudassar is the right choice because he has managed two playing nations and one prospective member. So any one who has done that would be the right choice? Was this the criteria the PCB were looking for?

So if Jalaluddin doesn't have international experience does this mean that he is not good enough? You only gain experience if given the opprtunity. Similarly, Peter Moores the the ECB Director - does he have any experience of international cricket. No, but that hasn't stopped the ECB appointing him as he has all the credentials of a modern coach.

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Dear R_E,
Like most of the other Gs members, Iam not employed with Pcb therefore cannot speculate as to what they were specifically looking for. What I have stated are facts which support Mudassar's selection as Nca director. Maybe if you gave some thought on Mudasser's merits then you would appreciate his professional qualifications.

As for Jalal uddin, maybe he could have done a good job as Nca director Iam not disputing that, but his lack of international experience definately gave Mudasser the edge.

You have repeatedly asserted Mudassers lack of coaching experience or skill sets, well Pakistan, Zimbawe and Kenyan boards other than tghe English league structure will differ with you. As for the issue of latest technology, that issue is like latin to 99.9% of current and past cricketers. When confronted with such problems you delegate responsibility to the professionals who then give their reports and matters are resolved with complete and upto date knowledge. Take the example of hiring Waqar Yunus as bowling coach and Jonty Rhodes as fielding specialists even though they had a high paid permanent coach (bobby woolmer).

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I never thought you were employed by the PCB. You stated facts regarding Mudassar Nazar who has played international cricket and having coached previously - which you seem to regard as his professional qualifications. Yes he was a professional crickter but is he a professional coach? Please don't tell me by coaching various countries - he can be regarded as having professional qualifications.

Javed Miandad has also played and coached Pakistan - in fact a better record then Mudassar as a player would that mean he has professional qualifications? In fact his coaching stsyle was heavily criticised as being out of date.

As far as I understand the NCA post will be to train and groom up and coming youngster, therefore not having international experience may not be important as he will not be coaching the senior Pakistan team.

When the likes of England appoint coaches - the criteria and qualifications are demanding. When they appointed Peter Moores as the ECB director - they knew that he hasn't played international cricket, in fact he was avergae county player. To them not having international experience wasn't important.

Mushtaq Ahmed also has played internationale cricket and is a qualified coach - and applied for the same post, what I am trying to get at is the reasons why he didn't get the job? Could it have been pay demands etc?

What exactly do you mean or perhaps clarify what you are asking? If you mean Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Kenyan boards will employ someone who is not a qualified coach wheras even the English league structure employ professional coaches - then you are correct.

What does this tell us then....? Pakistan, Zimabawe and Kenya are hiring the right people and the even the English league structure (with a professional set up) are not?

Yes it may be latin but perhaps more latin to Pakistan cricketers including past and present. Bob Woolmer uses technology or does he delegate the task to someone else?

If Mudassar Nazar is confronted with a problem then he will have to delegate it professionals? Where are they going to find these professionals? The chances are very little of these professionals being available in Pakistan and employing foreigners will cost a lot of money. If it turns out to be the case then perhaps it may have been better appointing someone who is a professional in everything even though he may be a foreigner?).
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May be Jalaluddin lost the edge to Mudassar due to no international cricket as Fart_Guru said above, and Mushtaq Mohammad lost his edge because of his valid/invalid criticism of team, captain/coach/PCB from time to time. You can't hire an official in your "team of officials" who doesn't have much respect for that team, wouldn't he cause trouble? Just a thought.

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Does any one remembers or was present at the ODI international between England V Pakistan at Edgybaston, Birmingham in 1987? After the match as the Pakistan team bus was leaving the ground some Pakistani fans abused the players - Mohsin Kamal, Ijaz Ahmed & Mudassar Nazar came flying out of the bus with the bats. They managed to get hold of few Pakistani supporters and started attacking them with flag banners which they snatched from the supporters. As a youngster I witnessed this with my own eyes which was a lot worse then the incident involving Inzmam in Canada.

I mentioned this as we are discussing Mudassar Nazar and he seems to be a very emotional and hot headed guy off the field. I am not suggesting for any moment that he would do anything like this again as we all make mistakes.

Now he is appointed it is important that he is given clear goals and objectives which no doubt he will be to produce the results for which he has been hired. If he doesn’t produce the goals within a certain time period then he should be held accountable rather then being protected by the fact cats of the PCB.

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Yes may be - but the director of NCA isn't going to have much involmement with the senior team is he? The senior team has its own coach therefore there wouldn't be much involvement of the NCA director and the national team.

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but very likely the "officials" above/alongwith him will be the same PCB officials whom they blasted on and off, esp wrt late appointments of coaches (field/bowl).

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I don't agree with the fact that being emotional 20 years ago can bear alot of impact.

However I certainly agree with the fact that there should be a timeline; clear objectives, step by step goals (quarterly perhaps) or a unified layout that within a year or 2 he should accomplish the underline goals.

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Very good discussion, folks! I was searching through the archives maintained in Dawn’s database, and came across this one article which lightly touches upon the requirements of the director position of NCA, and several other related notes alongwith it. A few points highlighted below:

  • PCB wants to induct assistant director, high-performance programme batting coach, high-performance programme bowling coach, youth programme batting coach and youth performance bowling coach. According to criteria laid down by the PCB, the would-be aspirants should have previous experience of either Test or first-class cricket.

Applicants having acquired Level 3 (from Australia Cricket Board) or Level 4 from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) coaching certificate or are in the process of taking these courses would be given preference. In addition, the candidates with considerable cricket coaching experience at all levels would be preferred.

According to investigations carried out by Dawn, there is not a single Pakistani to meet the above-mentioned requirements since the ECB Level 4 course is not allowed to foreigners while ACB Level 3 course has not been conducted in Australia over the past three years.

Currently there are just seven Pakistanis who have the qualifications of ECB Level 3 coaching course and four of them — former Pakistan captain Mushtaq Mohammad, Shahid Mahboob, Iqbal Sikander and Umar Rasheed – are based abroad. Mushtaq, Shahid and Umar are currently living in England while Iqbal is attached with the Asian Cricket Council as its cricket development officer.

Of the remaining lot, Jalaluddin, the ex-Test paceman and the first man to take an ODI hat trick, and former first-class player Shahid Aslam along with Shahid Mahboob are the only people to have acquired ECB Tutor Level 1 certificate, a course that can be only done after ECB Level 3.

Jalaluddin, Shahid Aslam and Mohtashim are the only ones with the ACB Level 2 coaching certificates with the first-mentioned doing it twice.

Dawn

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Yes agreed and this is what I meant to state when I wrote:

Koi Mujhey Yaad Dilaye
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Quite an interesting read. A genuine two-sided debate, or yet another case of chamcha-geeri? You decide.

Mudassar’s appointment defended

By our correspondent

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan on Wednesday defended the appointment of former Test player Mudassar Nazar as director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) over more qualified coaches in the country.

When a reporter drew the attention of Shaharyar on Wednesday to the fact that Mudassar didn’t enjoy a very good reputation as coach in the past while attached with the national teams and did not carry any coaching qualifications, the PCB chief said he had been picked because of his experience.

The PCB appointed a three-member committee comprising Shaharyar himself, Director Cricket Operations PCB, Saleem Altaf and former Test captain Imtiaz Ahmed to pick the director of the academy and other coaches for it.

Last week, after deliberating for weeks, the committee appointed Mudassar who has done no coaching course at any level.

The interesting thing is that while advertising for this post, the Board had said that it would prefer those coaches who had done Level-IV courses. But in the selection process although the committee interviewed people like Mushtaq Mohammad and Jalaluddin, both former Test players, who are Level-III coaches apparently Shaharyar insisted on selecting Mudassar.

Sources said although the DCO and Imtiaz had supported the appointment of Mushtaq Mohammad, a former Test captain, and someone who enjoyed great success with the senior team in the 1990s as coach, Shaharyar used his veto power to appoint Mudassar despite his lack of qualification which was a pre-requisite in the advertisements placed for the director and coaching positions.

Ironically, when the PCB had appointed former England player Bob Woolmer as coach of the Pakistan team in 2004 in place of Javed Miandad it had defended its decision by saying it had brought in a highly qualified coach with lots of experience as coach compared to Miandad who has no coaching degrees.

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And now going back to the original query I posted earlier, considering the above circumstances, is it even remotely possible?

I suppose we will have to rely on Mudassar’s encouragement and open-mindedness on this serious issue (even though it hardly provides a room for breathing).

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forget everything, the key words to note are highlighted in Red :smiley: yeh saari ki saari saazish us ki hai :stuck_out_tongue: