The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is advertising for the role of assistant coach for the national team. Any suggestions as to who should be the assistant coach of the team?
Pakistan Assitant Coach Vacancy Advert.
Are there any suitable canidates in Pakistan which meet the criteria? Not even the clown Javed seems to meet the criteria apart from him having played test cricket. Even if they receive applicants for the role they may end up hand picking someone.
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PCB's prerequisite's list already disqualified a lot of the "has beens" of Pak. cricket.
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How about a female coach?
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
How about a female coach?
Maulvis like Muhammed Yousaf may not even consider playing for the team if female coach is appointed.
Imagine the idea of female coach when other maulvis were controlling the team i.e. Maulvi Mushtaq and dopey Inzi.
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I would make Rashid Latif the asst. coach. He should be good for batting and wicketkeeping learning in the team. Plus he is a sportsman by heart, still really fit and should work well with an OZ.
However, I think the Level II requirment might kill his chances as well.
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Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
I would make Rashid Latif the asst. coach. He should be good for batting and wicketkeeping learning in the team. Plus he is a sportsman by heart, still really fit and should work well with an OZ. However, I think the Level II requirment might kill his chances as well.
Rashid be a good choiuce...he has been running his own academy for a while and should be a good assistant coach.+ he covers the base of being Pakistnai and this experience will make him a very good candidate for future coaching assignments
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
Sarfaraz Nawaz.. Get him inside the establishment and there will not be any controversy.
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
Rashid be a good choiuce...he has been running his own academy for a while and should be a good assistant coach.+ he covers the base of being Pakistnai and this experience will make him a very good candidate for future coaching assignments
Totally agree with the above.
Also, he was a keeper himself and would be able to help 'learners' and over-rated players like Akmal.
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
I would make Rashid Latif the asst. coach. He should be good for batting and wicketkeeping learning in the team. Plus he is a sportsman by heart, still really fit and should work well with an OZ. However, I think the Level II requirment might kill his chances as well.
Maulvi Mushtaq didn't have the above requirements but than again it didn't matter as he may have had the dictator Inzi to support his case.
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Who else...Mushtaq Ahmed :p
But on a serious note, I would like to see Aaqib Javed on the coaching team but since Lawson was a fast bowler himself...no point of having Aaqib and Lawson together...It would be better to have a batting/Assistant Coach and a fielding coach as well...maybe Lawson will bring that from Australia as a part of his support staff.
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
How about a female coach?
A PCB appointed groupie....I like that!!! That may very well improve team performance.
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However, I think the Level II requirment might kill his chances as well.
The requirement is Level II coaching OR had played at test level.
Although I wouldnt go for Rashid I think Aaqib would be a sensible choice but since they already have a Lawson (a former fast bowler) as the head coach I think they might go for someone with batting background in which case I think they should consider approaching someone like Saeed Anwar to see if he might be interested. If he can work with the openers and get their basics right and provide a stable opening combo for Pakistan then that alone should be enough to stick with him for more than two years.
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I will prefer Aqib as Assistant Coach as I think he has potential to be a coach of Pakistan............... So let him work with the team as assistant coach for the mean time, as eventually I think he'll be the man for this job.
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Instead of an assistant coach--PCB need to hire a good English to Punjabi, English to Urdu, and English to Pushto translator...
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
I think they might go for someone with batting background in which case I think they should consider approaching someone like Saeed Anwar to see if he might be interested.
You are making a cardinal mistake in your assumption that Desis often make.
A great ex-player IS NOT EQUAL TO great Coach.
A Coach needs to also have soft skills - he has to have analytical and observational skills, be diplomatic, be able to counsel and above all he must be a great communicator.
Some people are born with natural talent - but they dont have what it takes to coach other players and pass on the skills that they had in abundance.
Example - Kapil Dev. Hear him talk - and one can quickly conclude that the guy is anything but analytical and communication is not particularly his strong area. Whereas a mediocre ex-player like Ravi Shastri has all the skills noted above.
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Here’s our assistan coach…on the toss…sutaN…sit 
Re: Who should be the Assistant Coach of Pakistan Team?
Either Miandad or Muddassar Nazar. Seriously.
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But both will not be chosen for one reason or another.
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Sushmita Sen .then one particular bowler never gets injured ,i can guarantee that.