Waqar Younis has resigned as Pakistan coach[INDENT=2]**According to news, Waqar Younis has resigned as Pakistan coach.
**Zimbabwe tour will be my last Assignment - Waqar Younis
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Nice. :k:
Now I hope Butt sahib does the same as well!
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**Coach Waqar Younis resigns for ‘personal reasons’
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Cricket coach Waqar Younis. — Photo by AFP
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis resigned on Saturday, citing personal reasons, but said he would continue in his job through this month’s tour of Zimbabwe.
“I have tendered my resignation to the Board last week and the tour to Zimbabwe will be my last,” Waqar Younis told a press conference, just over a week before the national team’s departure for the African country.
The 39-year-old former fast bowler took over as coach in March 2010, but has since faced controversies including the spot-fixing scandal that led to lengthy bans for three cricketers, dissent from players and differences with former one-day captain Shahid Afridi.
“I have taken this decision on personal grounds, including medical grounds, and have no differences with anyone and my resignation has been accepted by the (Pakistan Cricket) Board,” said Waqar.
Pakistan plays one practice game, one Test, three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 matches on the tour of Zimbabwe which starts on August 28.
[http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/20/coach-waqar-younis-resigns.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/528774.html](http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/20/coach-waqar-younis-resigns.html)
Personal reasons… 
Oh well…
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I guess the row with Afridi has had some effect on Waqar’s hold on team,
All in all, his stint with the team was not a bad one AT ALL. :k:
I hope they bring Aaqib as coach. but oh well.
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It's personal reasons about his and his wife's health. Good luck to him for the future.
Waqar guided the team through very tough times, and did a good job.
**Player Power!
**Is that a hint that Afridi is coming back soon? But did n't Afridi say that he won't come back unless Ijaz Butt steps down? Also Shoaib Malik comes back and the coach resigns. Coincidence?
I wish one day I wake up and hear the same about Ijaz Butt - his 3-year tenure ends officially in October but you never know. Zardari might give him an extension!!
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On another note, we'll be listening to some funny commentary once again
'There was definitely a nick, I heard it in my ear'
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Not a very articulated answer by Afridi but he has a point
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^ yes it is a valid point. If only he could talk a bit diplomatically! :p
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Afridi is just too jazbaati
He does not know what to say and more importantly how to say things in public. Just like his goofy comment post world cup - 'Indians do not have big hearts.' That was a very stupid thing to say - he is making a fool of himself here. And he is overstating the importance of coaching courses. Yes they do probably help but coaching courses alone do not make a succesful coach!
Peter Moores who was the England coach before Andy Flower is a professional cricket coach. Yet it is common knowledge that Vaughan and Pietersen among others did not respect him because he had not played the game at the highest level. Not surprisngly the results were poor under him. Another good example is Richard Pybyus
I would like to know what courses Greg Chappell, Andy Flower or Fletcher had done before taking up coaching jobs. The fact of the matter is, they all came straight into coaching from cricket retirement and were quite successful as coaches. They all basically learned and honed their skills on the job. Flower's first test match as England coach in 2009 was a disaster. England were bowled out for a paltry 51 in the second innings in the Caribbean and lost the series 1-0.
I believe that most cricketers who have played the game at the highest level esp. those who have been captains in their time should be able to be good coaches as well. It all comes down to good leadership communication and motivational skills and commonsense. Few doubt Miandad's cricketing acumen and skills but his every stint as captain and coach in the past has been marred by some controversy owing to his poor communication and manmanagement skills.
A lot also depends on the players you have at your disposal. That is partly why Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards did not have very succesful stints as Windies coaches. Noone can seriously doubt their cricketing, communication or motivational skills.
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**Afridi questions Waqar’s reasons for resigning!
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That’s Waqar’s personal decision and should be respected, he’s made his mind up now so best to move on.
I am sorry … but does anybody know what it would take to keep Afridi quiet? I like him as a player (not his brainless batting) but I am sick of him speaking when there is absolutely no reason to speak or say anything.
Afridi is going down in my estimation every day…
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The brainless guy talks about ego problem of players. He should look in the mirror before saying things like that.
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personal reasons?
everyone is coming and going, kambakhat Ijaz Butt ko koi reason nahi milta? koi uss ko itna personal nahi samjhta kia 
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well shame on afridi for a speculative judgement of waqar's health.....i personally think that waqar actually did a great job as a coach given all the problems that pakistan faced.......we drew series against SA and Australia..beat england in englad in one test match (the same English team has completely demolished Indians)...won against NZ and reached semifinals of both T20s and 50 over world cups.....i mean this is one hell of an achievement...and our batting for all practical reasons did not exist...no inzi, no yoyo, no younis, no malik...total disaster and yes, no aamir and no asif either...but waqar still produced results....more than any other coach in last 10 years or so...and here is afridi bad mouting waqar....
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Small battles proved the un-doing of Waqar as Pakistan coach
By Osman Samiuddin
Waqar Younis is not generally the kind of man to walk away from a fight. He never did through a long playing career; not through the match-fixing years, not through years of some of the most rabid in-team factionalism, not through failed revolts against captains, not through crippling back injuries, and never through any number of lost causes on the field.
So whatever his decision to step down as the coach Pakistan says about him, it says something more urgent about the environment he has been working in since he took over in March 2010. How unhealthy, how corrosive is Pakistan cricket at the moment that it compelled this man to step down?
The board is keen to spin the most out of the medical reasons Waqar referred to but there is a little truth to them.
Waqar did seek medical advice in Australia after the West Indies series. Concerns were raised about the levels of stress he faced. But they cannot sidestep their own contribution to the conditions Waqar worked in, conditions - particularly off the field - Waqar may one day publicly expand upon.
In 18 months, he has had to deal with more than some coaches do in their entire careers. Forget the really bad days, such as the spot-fixing scandal, because just the regular debris of Pakistan’s cricket is enough.
Each day brings the gift of a little battle; acquainting with yet another captain, handling the ego of a rising star, new managers and assistants whose faces soon blur into one another, selectors with little powers but great delusions, overbearing, interfering and erratic chairmen, officials who can make bureaucrats look transparent and efficient and trustworthy.
And so there was no one moment when it snapped for Waqar. There was the England tour last year that took so much out of him, the beginning of the end in New Zealand where the Shahid Afridi spat first became serious and even at the World Cup, by which time he said in an interview he felt one of his achievements had been to get out of bed every day and go to work. “Some days I didn’t feel like getting out of my room, thinking another controversy,” he said.
Despite having a contract until March 2012, he had little confidence during that interview that he would last until then or even until much after the tournament.
Not everyone will be unhappy at the decision. Some will say Waqar brought it upon himself by fighting for greater control and influence in selection, by pushing so eagerly for senior players to be replaced by younger ones, or just by getting into a spat with Afridi.
But **his tenure brought something, not least tangible improvement to the outdated shambles his predecessor, Intikhab Alam, looked over. Maybe the method was not always there and the batting was neglected but Waqar’s zeal for the job was not in doubt.
**On results his was a committed navigation through turbulence. **Only one Test series in five was lost (five of the previous seven ended in defeat). They made the semi-finals of both the World Twenty20 and, more impressively, the 2011 World Cup. Four ODI series ending 3-2 - two won, two lost - probably captures the time as well as any: not there fully, but much better than generally expected.
**The search for a replacement is expected to begin this week.
**Waqar laughed off the possibility of recommending anyone as a successor. He knows what Pakistan cricket takes from most men; much of their peace, a little bit of their sanity, their dignity and their will.
From some, such as the ever-acquiescent Intikhab or the thick-skinned Ijaz Butt, a lifetime’s association takes nothing away and that is no compliment. From others it can take much more**.http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/small-battles-proved-the-un-doing-of-waqar-as-pakistan-coach
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The brainless guy talks about ego problem of players. He should look in the mirror before saying things like that.
Yep very much like "If u r looking for the Guilty .... u only need to look into a mirror"
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Waqar's tenure was a really good one. And Afridi did acknowledge that bit in an interview with GEO the other day. But his other statements are those which take the limelight.
Even Misbah said the same thing about Waqar a bit diplomatically which Afridi did too in his stupid way.
I just hope they dont appoint Javed Miandad. It will be another bitter tenure.
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The brainless guy talks about ego problem of players. He should look in the mirror before saying things like that.
Ittna ghussa :@:
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Coz of Waqar Afridi got kicked from the team and now he quitted himself good for him
Afridi should come back and lead the team now
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Coz of Waqar Afridi got kicked from the team and now he quitted himself good for him
Afridi should come back and lead the team now
Lead ?
For the Big Ego ????
Making him a Captain would be the worst decision/Signal ..... he'll feel to be right all the way where as he is/was part of the Problem ..... The Job of a player is to put his hand up and perform ...... Look at Dravid ...... that's leading ...... Just listen to the Words Andy Flower had while choosing him as Player of the Series for India ..... nuff said