The Bob Woolmer interview

[Captain_Lota]

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Baad may dilaa daingay!

*** ka ******!

Sincerely,
Captain Lota

[fkhan2]

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@teaser

For the world cup you need a tight ****
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Pepsee break…ajo ****
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No Pepsee, meli pepsee kanha hai ******

teaser yarr yeh walii video tu forward karr, obviously you wont be posting it here, so PM me:D

[Man_with_a_Plan]

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@Captain Lota

If you guys remember well till last year Bob was being booed off by half the nation. If it was anybody else he woulda just quit and left. Bob stuck through and in just a couple of series has made the team into a fighting unit once again the likes of which we havent seen since the 92 WC win. He has helped polish and groom the likes of Shoaib Malik (our version of dravid) and Rana. He’s even managed to tame Afridi and control his unhinged cricketing power that Miandad had no clue how to properly harness. Best of all he has an excellent rapport with Inzamam which is one of the most important requirements of a succesful team. And finally… you may not agree on this.. but he has helped weed out the Pakistan team’s biggest ever liability.. yes you guessed it. Show-ape Actor. He’s kept him in check and that alone has helped keep the whole team’s morale on the higher side.

I am not taking anything away from what Bob has acheived in this team. You can say that Shoaib Malik has polished or matured. He did play under Javed and I believe performed really well. Miandad helped Mohammad Yousuf and Saeed Anwar with his coaching skills. Wasim and Inzimam also helped themselves under Javed’s advice just like they did under other Pakistan’s great. No problem with him as a teacher because he inspires kids in Pakistan. Most of the team considers him as a role model. So the love is there. Inzi never had a problem with Javed as a coach rather than it was Shoaib.

@Captain Lota

So now that people have seen all this, his methods bearing fruit already, they are starting to like him. Its not gora pujari.

When Miandad was around our team was rolling on star power and thats why it was the favourites going into the WC. But look what happened.. the favourites fell flat on their face and havent been able to lift themselves up till last year. The team Bob’s been handed is not star power but will power. They fight till they perish.

I think in '99 Pakistan were the favourites and Miandad had a great hand in making them the favourites. He altough wasn’t the coach of the actual World Cup team so you can blame it on Wasim or the coach of that time. Take your pick I won’t. Superstars have their own dilemmas and its not easy to handle especially the ‘Superstars of Pakistan’. Any success he got is because of superstars and what Pakistan is achieveing is because of Bob?

@Captain Lota

You have to be realistic here. Woolmer has outplayed Miandad in every way possible. And its not for us to decide. The team loves him.. and thats all that matters.

Has he outplayed him or not is still yet to be seen just like your theory of younger the better. The older have experience and maturity, that’s just the other part of the picture. I will say if he does I’ll be the first one to admit it. The team loves him good for him, the team never had a problem with previous coaches did they?

About the lingo, ok over here there people talk and act like that its no big deal. With all the match fixing and stuff that have went on, Pakistan has embarrassed itself enough.

[MYwish]

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ehasan I DID see the celbrations, but it was because they won the matches, there was no interest initially. does that mean that the english people are : roandu'z: jeet gaye tau khush warna shun the game completely?

[Let_Uz_Chat]

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^ Not necessarily true. England's ashes triumph has bought a new craze to this country. Not to say that Cricket wasn't followed like so in the past. A lot of people have started taking interest in cricket here. Kids have started playing cricket on a regular basis, which itself is quite an achievement as, before the ashes, people were of the view that cricket is a boring GRANDAD'S game.

Fan following with England has never been an issue, even when England use to lose a lot, the barmy army still travelled with the side to various different countries and they continue to do so.

Test matches have always had a capacity crowd even before the ashes. Now compare this turnout to the turnout we get in Pakistan. When we play back home we let school kids in free, that's how desperate things are now.

[skhan]

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That's true, test cricket is in a sorry state of affairs in Pakistan. Hopefully things will change in the upcoming series.