Re: Pakistan V Windies. H/L post#450
This is a very misleading statement. I don’t think Imran has ever remotely linked his personal or team’s success with their social class and education level. Instead, you’d find players from that era (be it Imran himself or Miandad) giving full credit and placing monumental emphasis on the excellent quality of department/club cricket they proudly played in those days, and in their own words, it was department cricket that defined and groomed their cricket and characters. Can the current day Pakistani players relate to their experience?
If education and social class could help players become great cricketers then England would’ve been the world’s best team.
It’s my core belief that education is a birth right of every human being, but the kind of discussion you guys are leading reeks of classicism. I’m sure that’s not the intention but it sure is a slippery slope.
Imran, Zaheer and Miandad etc. most definitely benefited from playing county cricket. but I have never heard or seen IK praising domestic cricket. This is news to me!
If anything he thinks standard is too low. IK has always been against departmental cricket and wants Pakistan to follow the Australian model (fewer teams, higher standard)
Few links from the pasthttp://www.siasat.com/english/news/imran-slams-paks-poor-domestic-structure-test-debacle
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