Re: The amazing thing about Pakistani cricket team/officials
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*Originally posted by Some1: *
I hope I dont sound condescending just because India won the series. I just want to get this in since it has been on my mind for some time :
It never ceases to amaze me how Pakistani cricketers/officials bad-mouth each other in public and sometimes in the middle of a game. This thing (unlike other deshi attributes) is not unique to the Subcontinent, this is unique to PAKISTAN.
In the midst of the series, you have the captain speaking ill of his bowlers(without mincing any words, I must add), the PCB CEO (who, by the way, continues to do commentary and write columns) regularly condemning the players and the players back-biting to outsiders/ex-cricketers about their colleagues while a series is on (e.g. Shoaib telling Latif, Inzy doesn't give him the field he wants).
Deshis being deshis, I dont expect Pakistanis to be professional like the Aussies...so a better comparison would be with the Indians.
I am sure in the Indian team too (just like in any other team) there would be players who dont have the best of relationship with certain other players....but to their credit, you dont see them criticizing each other in public. This was true even during the days of Azharuddin's captaincy when it was known that the players had some real issues with each other.(It was not until the match-fixing episode that such issues came into the fore).
Today, lets say if Pathan was to flop in a series....surely you would expect Ganguly to be more diplomatic than declare to the media that "Pathan is not world-class, he is more hype and less on performance" or something on those lines....
Sometimes I wonder - after what Inzy and Shoaib have said about each other - how they see eye-2-eye in the field... I mean does Inzy look down when he hands the ball to Akhtar...
And finally there are Paki ex-cricketers who want to remain in the lime light no matter what...except for a few ex-players (e.g. Wasim), it looks like the ex-Paki players (including Imran) have nothing better to do in life than take pot-shots at the team.
Across the border in India, other than a few attention-whores like "Bishen Singh Bedi", ex-players are by and large moderate and normally dont make their personal views about certain players public.
So, in conclusion, I think what Pakistan urgently needs is not a bowling/batting coach ( a fielding coach would be good though :) ) but a diplomacy coach. And here they might look to Sharyar(sp?) Khan to teach them how to conduct themselves in public.
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I have to agree with each and every word said above. One has to face the reality. Reality, which may be bitter and tough but if, faced with dignity and courage eventually leads you towards success.
I was shocked and absolutely demoralized after reading such a sensitive article by our national team captain right in the middle of the series criticizing his own teammates and Jesus Christ…which newspaper our captain chose to publish such an article?….AN INDIAN NEWSPAPER. Don’t thing I am biased against Indians but come on…we are in the middle of a tough series against Indians…Inzi what are you doing?….how come you chose such an article to be published in an Indian newspaper right in the middle of series and top of that you are leading Pakistan… you are our captain, you are leading our side, you are our national pride, you represent our national ego….if you have to do laundry so urgently, for god sake do it inside your own home…why do you have to go to your opponents home to use their laundry machine…..
Yes Samb. You are right when you said that inzi was justified in criticizing his fast bowlers. I did agree with each and word of inzi article but the million dollar question is the timing of his decision and the medium he chose to express himself….Samb, how could you justify inzi writing such an article in an Indian newspaper right in middle of series as an acting captain….Just imagine, if Pakistan was visiting india and beating them heavily, do you really think, gangly would have written such an article in DAWN or NEWS.....
And you gave Lee example. But in that case Ponting was not writing an article right in the middle of an on-going series in opposing team's newspaper. Second, just because Ponting did that and ponting is an aussie does not justify his act. I disagree with Ponting on this issue. But what inzi did is even worst. No acting captain should write articles in the middle of a series. He should focus on his job and he should reprimand players inside the dressing room and if he has to say some thing publicly, just say it in a thoughtful manner in a press conference. You mentioned that by criticizing shoaib and sami, inzi was ale to produce results. I don’t agree at all. It made the matter worst and we all say the dirty politics going on in third test match. We won second match by gul’s spell. And if your logic is correct then what happened in the third match? Or may be, like you said, inzi should write such an article before every test match.
And I am so sick of Rameez Raja. For god sake….just do one job at a time. Leave PCB position if you want to be commentator but please stop embarrassing our cricket in such a humiliating way. If you don’t get paid by PCB, then leave that damn post. Be a professional.
And Some1 don’t think that Indian are great diplomats when it comes to cricket…if you want I can send you links of so many ex Indian cricketer’s and analysts articles after India lost the second test match. Every one was cursing dravid and tendulkar. I read at least 5 such articles in which tendulkar was ridiculed and dravid was considered to be “brave but stupid”. Yes we need 101 in diplomacy but don’t think Indians are a PHD in cricket diplomacy either.
) but a diplomacy coach. And here they might look to Sharyar(sp?) Khan to teach them how to conduct themselves in public.