David Dwyer to join Geoff Lawson Rugby trainer hired to shape up Pakistan
The PCB has hired an Australian rugby trainer as part of the support staff for Geoff Lawson. David Dwyer will join Lawson, who is due to arrive in Pakistan next week as coach, in time for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup.
“We advertised the post for the trainer of the national cricket team and have finalised David Dwyer who is an accomplished name in fitness training in Australia,” Zakir Khan, the board’s director of cricket operations, told AFP.
Khan said Dwyer’s experience will help boost fitness levels – an area where Pakistan’s cricketers have struggled in recent years.
“Dwyer is an experienced professional and was selected after thorough research. We have taken feedback from Lawson as well,” said Khan of Dwyer, who will fly out to Lahore alongside Lawson to join the team next week.
Dwyer arrives on a two-year contract and will replace Murray Stevenson, the South African trainer whose contract was not renewed after Pakistan’s first-round exit from the World Cup.
How heartening it is to see a national post being advertised and in the process, attracting someone who lacks Pakistan's interests in his heart. How heartening it is to see PCB singing a tune parallel to a western society and placing life bans on our own cricketers while in the same breath, nailing foreigners after foreigners for the national posts. Everything that we do is a result of the exact match that is done in the western society. Foreign coach, foreign support staff, foreign body parts, but when you refer to their own shortcomings, they are quick to role-play the characters of judge, jury and executioner. PCB and it's chief patron can go and hang themselves.
Now all they need is an American baseball fielding coach and they are set. Really, the PCB team needs to work on the fielding really badly. Australian fielders are now extremely disciplined and effective, thanks to their American fielding coach.
The fact is that the PCB had already set the guidelines that if a player plays in the ICL, he will be banned.
Yousuf, Inzamam and Razzaq knew about it, and did it anyway. If they don't want to play for their country it's their loss. We all support the Pakistan team. Whether it's run by the very best administrators or a bunch of buffoons, Most of us will continue to support them.
I am not against foreigners coaching our national team and I don't know if the board officials have an inferiority complex. It seems that while the PCB can spend millions on hiring foreign staff they can't even arrange a proper farewell for our ageing/retiring players who have served cricket for 12-15 years and this really irks me.
David Dwyer to adopt rugby-style regimen for players Pakistan’s fitness trainer targets Indian tour
David Dwyer, Pakistan’s new fitness trainer, has said that he expected his team to reach its peak fitness level in time for the tour of India. “The current fitness level is okay and I have been watching enough to know that I can see what their levels probably are, and the target is to reach the top level before the important series against India,” he said.
“Basically we work with these guys so that we improve the area that they are weak in, trying to get rid of the limitations that they may have,” Dwyer said, adding that he would adopt a tough rugby-style fitness regimen.
“The idea of having a rugby coach is not new in cricket, things are quite the same but they are put in a different way so that these guys get something new which they have not done before.” Dwyer, who has previously assisted Geoff Lawson, Pakistan’s coach, vouched for the regimen’s effectiveness. “I have worked with Lawson at the University of New South Wales cricket club in the year they made the grand final and won the one-day series, so the rugby style training has worked before.”
Dwyer is on a two-year contract and has replaced Murray Stevenson, the South African trainer whose contract was not renewed after Pakistan’s first-round exit from the World Cup.