Re: PCB ignores Miandad for seminar
Let's not forget Miandad is on the record in saying "Woolmer is a laptop coach". I mean if a person does not understand the usefulness of a PC in this day and age then I guess he is living in the 80s. It's OK not to understand it but don't be putting others down who do.
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Its only a seminar and if all 99% of the guest are not at ease with one individual because of one's blabber mouth than so be it.
I hail from Karachi and these 2 individuals (JB & RL) have whitewashed all their good cricket with their naive and trivial attitudes at present.
Kudos PCB !
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Aamir Sohail does not deserve to be invited for his "expert" views.
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Seems it is becoming a farce…
Six former captains opt out of PCB workshop
By Mohammad Yaqoob
LAHORE, Nov 15: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s much-publicised workshop this week to get experts’ feedback on World Cup preparations is fast becoming a farce after the sudden pull out of several former captains including Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Wasim Akram.
The PCB had scheduled the workshop for Friday, Nov 17 which it said was an effort to resurrect the game’s fortunes in view of the impending World Cup and to improve cricket’s structure in the country.
The board had invited around 27 former cricketers and journalists to attend the workshop but it was learnt on Wednesday that a majority of big names had dropped out of the list of invitees.
To begin with, former Pakistan captain Imran expressed his regrets about attending the workshop due to his hectic political activities, a fact that was also confirmed by PCB Director Cricket Operations, Saleem Altaf.
“Imran rang up the PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf to express his regrets,” Saleem told Dawn on Wednesday.
Another former skipper Javed Miandad whose name was ‘erroneously’ omitted from the initial list of invitees, told Dawn on Wednesday that he was not going to attend the workshop due to his many prior engagements.
“I have some family engagements to attend to as well as a few TV commitments to honour in Karachi. Therefore, I am unable to leave the city,” said Miandad.
"I received the invitation from the PCB on Tuesday after the national press had raised objections about my name being missing from the list of invitees,” said the master batsman. He, however, clarified that it was not a matter of ego for him to skip the workshop.
Miandad suggested that the PCB should have held similar programmes in each province to get feedback from the local first class cricketers and representatives of cricket associations. “Only after that should they hold it at national level which should be based on local recommendations.”
Denying rumours of his clash with Imran over the domestic setup, Miandad said they were absolutely baseless as “ both of us have the same goal - to give maximum benefits to the cricketers.”
“I think with strong departmental teams, players have better future but there is no harm if competitive cricket at regional or city level is also run side by side,” he said.
Miandad said he would like to convey his suggestions through the press to PCB’s patron-in-chief, President General Pervez Musharraf and would want him to take steps to revive departmental cricket.
Meanwhile, ace former all-rounder Wasim Akram has also expressed his unavailability for the PCB workshop, citing TV commentary assignments for the forthcoming India-South Africa series. Wasim recently conveyed his decision to the board.
Among others who would not be able to make the workshop are former skippers Zaheer Abbas, Aamir Sohail and Moin Khan.
It has been learnt that following the regrets from various former captains to attend the workshop, the PCB has now invited former secretary PCB, Ijaz Butt and former Test opener Mohsin Khan to add some weightage to the whole thing.
In the past, former PCB head Tauqir Zia and Shaharyar M Khan had arranged similar seminars but they failed to reap any benefits from them since the recommendations made were never practically implemented.
When contacted, the PCB chairman said he was still optimistic about the success of the seminar/workshop and vowed that recommendations would be given serious consideration in preparing the future strategy for improvement of Pakistan cricket.
“Views of the participants will be taken into consideration and on the basis of a consensus, PCB will devise its future strategies,” a PCB spokesman said on Wednesday.
As for former fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz, who has been excluded from the workshop, sources said it was mainly due to his rift with the PCB over the payment of Rs 400,000 which the board owed to the former pacer for rectifying the bowling action of suspended Shabbir Ahmad.
Former Test opener and PCB chief executive Majid Khan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Intikhab Alam, Waqar Younis, Wasim Bari, Mohammad Ilyas and many others have confirmed their participation in the workshop.
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^ the onlu notable ones to skip are Javed, Imran, Wasim and Moin... the rest I really don't care whether they attended or not..
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Yes ...and I also hail from the Big "K" of pakistan and Javed was one my heros when he used to play...
but his loose comments about "laptop coach" really hurt the reputation of woolmer for his use of modern techniques. I mean the guy is older then Javed and he used modern technology.
His (Javed's) comment has become a household joke about woolmer so much so that I used to watch cricket on my Laptop and my freinds would say "aap tau bob woolmer ban gayay!"
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Shows how ignorant Javed is about modern coaching methods and technology. Everyone is using the laptops. Saw Prasad the Indian under 19 coaching using it during the World cup. Similary, the English and Australian bowling coaches use them. They all can't be wrong.
Imagine him still being coach of Pakistan - what would he have been using? Nothing I suppose apart from waving from the balcony......
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^ he uses galiyaan quite eloquently.....
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Yes.
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Imran, Javed and Wasim "opting out" means that they do not respect Dr Nasim Ashraf.
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ahhh... .oh. kayy...
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Not necessarily......they may not like others being invited or may not see any real benefit of the whole exercise.
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^Nah I seriously think they don't like Mr. Secular Nasim Ashraf
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Javed may not be "think tank" personality. He does pass a lot of judgments on a lot of things but again as I mentioned earlier, we still can utilize him for his batting techniques. We have problems with our betting. Other than a couple of reliables in the team, its mostly problematic.
Can't we utilize his talent for that. Or atleast bother to listen to him - he may have something imp. to say too.
And same is with Aamir Sohail
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^ All his so called ‘Techniques’ are already in use like the reverse sweep minus the ‘Monkey dance’ when he tries to enforce a run and eventual overthrow from the fielder,
On the same note I can say Pakistan Team needs Saeed Anwar or atleast Amir Sohail to teach our vintage batsmen to play short balls and ‘Pull’ techniques,
Can’t we see it not happening ?
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**Former players vote for aggressive World Cup strategy **
By Khalid Hussain
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCBs) much-trumpeted workshop aimed at finding a formula to ‘create a winning team’ turned out to be a damp squib at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore on Friday.
With some of the biggest stars of the past like Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Zaheer Abbas distancing themselves from the exercise, the one-day workshop witnessed several other former Test cricketers and the game’s administrators sharing ideas to lift the game in the country.
“Not many bright ideas came up during the day’s proceedings,” a participant of the workshop said. The workshop labelled ‘Creating a Winning Team: The Future of Cricket in Pakistan’ was a brainchild of PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf who wants to device the Board’s future strategy on the basis of the recommendations made during the seminar.
It is hardly a novel concept as a few previous PCB chiefs including Lt Gen (retd) Tauqir Zia and Shaharyar Khan also hosted similar seminars without achieving much success. Though some of Pakistan cricket’s biggest luminaries snubbed his invitation, Ashraf did manage to attract a sizeable list of cricketers that included Imtiaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Muhammad, Majid Khan, Asif Iqbal, Intikhab Alam, Wasim Bari, Sadiq Muhammad, Abdul Qadir and Rashid latif.
The cricketers have suggested that the Board should devise an aggressive strategy to prepare the Pakistan team for the 2007 World Cup in West Indies. The former stars believe that the PCB should waste no time in selecting a pool of around 25-28 players for the World Cup and then pick the best players to represent the country in the quadrennial spectacle to be played during March-April.
The cricketers believe that the current team’s biggest weakness is its sloppy fielding. It was pointed out that fielding plays a crucial role in today’s cricket especially in one-dayers and Pakistan will have to improve in this department of the game to enhance their World Cup chances.
The Board was also asked to help make the national team players mentally and physically ready for the tough World Cup challenge. There was a consensus on the move to include a selector in the national team’s think tank and the official would be made a part of the selection process for the playing eleven for Tests and ODIs. The Board has decided to give selectors a more active role in the selection of a playing eleven to curtail the captain’s dominant role in deciding his line-up.
Reports coming out of the Pakistan dressing room in the recent past suggest that skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq dictates terms during the selection of a playing eleven, something which is unacceptable for the current officials of the Board.
The Board now wants three persons ñ captain, team coach and a member of the national selection committee ñ to decide the team formation. The playing eleven would be decided through a majority vote. This new policy may be implemented while selecting Pakistan’s playing line-up for the second Test against West Indies getting underway in Multan from tomorrow (Sunday).
The thorny issue of restructuring domestic cricket ignited heated discussions. The Board has decided to form a committee to review suggestions at improving the standard of first-class competitions in the country.
Source: News
Re: PCB ignores Miandad for seminar
I can teach them the pull technique. We don’t need Aamir or Saeed Anwar to teach them but the question is if they do not even know the technique then what are they doing at this level?
Secondly even if someone does teach them the technique who is going to go to the nets and practice it all and perfect it. Take for example Imran Farhat he can pull the ball but the problem is with his shot selection. Most Pakistani batsmen have a problem with shot selection rather than technique.
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they must immediately check with a good fashion designer to get help.
:p j/k
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Reports coming out of the Pakistan dressing room in the recent past suggest that skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq dictates terms during the selection of a playing eleven, something which is unacceptable for the current officials of the Board.
The Board now wants three persons ñ captain, team coach and a member of the national selection committee ñ to decide the team formation. The playing eleven would be decided through a majority vote. This new policy may be implemented while selecting Pakistan’s playing line-up for the second Test against West Indies getting underway in Multan from tomorrow (Sunday).
I think this will cause rift between captain and coach, if coach vote in favor of selection committee member. I would rather leave selection of a touring side to selection committee in consultation with Coach and Captain, but final decision to Selection Committee. Once touring side is decide, then selection of 11 players should be left to Coach, Captain and Vice Captain. This way you are Vice Captain is part of the planning, since he is the one to handle the 11 players if Captain go off the field, plus every player knew that VC is also playing role in the affair of their selection and it will command him more respect and thus more harmony in the side.