Pakistan cricket
Wisden Cricinfo staff
June 16, 2004
Pakistan have sacked Javed Miandad as coach of the national team and replaced him with Bob Woolmer, the former England batsman and South Africa coach.
More to follow.
Here we go again. 
Pakistan sack coach over India defeat](http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/040616/3/4g1v.html)
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan has sacked cricket coach Javed Miandad the first ever home series defeat against India, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced.
Former England batsman Bob Woolmer, who coached South Africa, replaces Miandad, the board said.
“His contract has been terminated,” PCB chairman Shahryar Khan told a press conference on Wednesday.
“We offered him to serve as national cricket advisor but he has declined,” the PCB chief said.
“We have convinced Bob Woolmer to take over as coach.”
In April India capped their first tour across the border for 15 years with maiden 2-1 one-day and Test series wins on Pakistani soil.
The Pakistan defeat sparked severe criticism over the team’s management while players were accused of lacking discipline.
Miandad’s tenure, his third as coach, was to have expired in April 2005.
Woolmer, who played for England, will join the Pakistan team on July 2 before they embark on their Asia Cup title defence to be played in Sri Lanka from July 16 to August 1.
“It was not easy to have a coach of Woolmer’s status who is regarded as pioneer and highly respected but through negotiations we have asked him to take up the job until the World Cup 2007,” Khan said.
Woolmer is one of the finest coaches in cricket today and I feel that it is a very good omen for Pakistani cricket. Also his appointment till 2007 will bring stability and let him plan on a long term basis. :k:
ooohh... dun knwo what to say... ehsan bhia.. can u shed some light on Woolmer coaching career???
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*Originally posted by proudpakistani007: *
ooohh... dun knwo what to say... ehsan bhia.. can u shed some light on Woolmer coaching career???
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He coached SA for quite a few years and the results are there for everyone to see.
OMG.. this is possibly the greatest day in the history of Pak cricket. amazing…just amazing. Woolmer I love you man - the first ever professional coach is Pakistan’s history. the PCB couldn’t have made a better choice. I don’t care if they win or lose now 'cause they’re and will be on the right track.
well done, PCB, i.e., Shahryar Khan and Rameez.
:bhangra:
dats nice.. i hope miandad dun take this personel because it is for the benift of our team.
but still they didnt win Worldcup or even reached final 
please tell me that he is way better than indian coach ??? 
pp07, Woolmer was the coach when South Africa were the number one side in the world under Cronje’s captaincy. their batting lineup went all the way to number 10/11. they played no less than 3/4 allrounders every game. their captain was the best captain in the world. they were the world’s best fielding squad and were absolutely ruthless with steely efficiency. only stumbling block was the finals for them but the eventual match fixing scandal might’ve had something to do with that…
Woolmer is an exceptional coach - very technology oriented. he thinks ahead a lot and is known for his meticulous planning skills. I’ll post articles on him if I can find them. all in all, he’s one hell of a coach. before the Buchanans and the Fletchers came, he was widely renowned as THE best coach in the world. Pakistan tried to get him many times before but sometimes he wasn’t up for the job and he asked for too much money.
OMG, I still can’t believe it. and the fact that they appointed him till 2007 means they’ve given him a lot of confidence as they should. Excellent. I haven’t been as happy since I don’t remember when… I think I’m gonna have a heart attack. :bhangra:
ok, all this excitement from sambz it has to be be good news
it doesn’t matter if Miandad takes it personally or not. 'cause fact is he will take anything personally regardless of whether it has anything to do with him or not.
but once again, :bhangra:
ok, that was the last time. I’m sober now.
an old article on a different topic but it tells of Woolmer’s scientific methods.
**Woolmer: the right man at the wrong time **
By Scyld Berry - 28 March 1999
BOB WOOLMER has to be rated the best there has been in the brief, post-Packer history of full-time coaches of national cricket teams. In five years he has calmly cajoled a team, which had been on a par with England, into being the best one-day side and the second-best Test side. He is the person best qualified to be David Lloyd’s successor, the right man to be the next England coach. But it is the wrong time.
Woolmer should have been appointed in 1993 after he had proved his worth at Warwickshire. The Test and County Cricket Board, in their all too finite wisdom, chose Keith Fletcher and gave him a five-year contract. When he had to be sacked less than half-way through, those responsible for the appointment did not fork out from their own pockets to pay him off: so much for accountability.
As coach of England, Fletcher was the same as when he had been captain, cautious and introverted, the opposite of everything he had been at Essex. The job description of a national coach has been changing, from hands-on technical adviser to organiser of a network of specialist sub-coaches. But whatever the description, daily practice routines remain a core responsibility, and Fletcher laid a dead hand on them, making the England players stand and watch while each one dropped his ration of skiers, while the South Africans under Woolmer were stimulated and vigorous.
**Woolmer has gone back to look at cricket afresh, not relying on the MCC coaching book that was put together in the 1950s. By thoughtful analysis and studious application he had turned himself from being a medium-pacer into a sufficiently good Colin Cowdrey replica to make three Test hundreds.
A feature of the wicketkeepers Woolmer has coached has been the area which Keith Piper and Mark Boucher have covered, especially down the leg side. Woolmer went to watch the best goalkeepers to work out how they leapt and dived. To make Trevor Penney and Jonty Rhodes not just the best cover-points around but wicket-takers through run-outs as well, he video-taped them diving and helped to reduce their number of movements before throwing in.
His methods have always been quiet suggestions, never barked instructions, the style of the only other contender for the title of best coach, Bobby Simpson. Simpson was hierarchical: do this and that, as I say. Woolmer has been new-age meritocratic, starting with admitting his own inadequacies. Both styles have worked. Woolmer’s more so. **
If not in 1993, he should have been appointed England coach in 1995, instead of making Ray Illingworth coach-cum-manager. Illingworth was absolutely right in one respect: he was given the job 10 years too late, by when the age-gap had been exaggerated into a gulf by his ‘in-my-dayness’.
And if Woolmer is given the job now, it will be the best part of five years too late. It is primarily a question of desire, or shortage of it. Woolmer has been there and done it with South Africa. Why should he want to go back on the road and try to do it again with England? In addition to the lukewarm statements, the expanding midriff betrays a preference for a good life in the Cape and its vineyards, mixed with a little coaching, perhaps at Warwickshire again in the English summers. In his fifties he has earnt some rest.
The England team and set-up would also be very different from the South African. In 1994 South Africa wanted to make up for lost time, to become the best as quickly as they could. England’s players don’t mind if they improve but trying new things might jeopardise their place in the side: safer to keep doing what you do, and get that county benefit to set you up for life. England’s batsmen average late 30s and never more than 40 as they have a comfort zone in which to hide.
Woolmer was given a free hand too, to work with his players all year round and take them to camps for preparation. In England there is no Dr Ali Bacher to make the national interest supreme over local loyalties. Even after concessions from the counties, England’s coach has to work with one hand tied behind his back in summer.
There is no other overseas coach on the horizon so good that his excellence would make up for the fact that his heart is not in England. Graham Gooch therefore deserves the chance to fire the England team with the same zeal that they demonstrated in the Ashes series, though you had to look hard to detect it when they were bowled out on the first day in Perth and bowling in a heatwave on the first day in Adelaide.
And if Gooch can raise England’s intensity level in the field on the Monday of the Test against New Zealand at an apathetic Old Trafford, he deserves the job on a longer-term basis (though not a five-year contract again). It would have been ideal if had he been a manager somewhere else first, at a county or overseas, to learn from other examples and his mistakes; but at least he has already shed the dourness of his later playing years.
Lloyd’s achievement was organising the network of specialist support, even if analysing opponents remains a serious lacuna. Gooch’s forte is the other part of the job, the technical direction in the nets, where heaven knows there is plenty to be done with the feet and hands of those who bat for England. Under Bob Cottam a promising stable of pace bowlers is developing. If there is no attacking spinner - the biggest single defect in England’s cricket - it is one which no coach could cure in a hurry.
Na Na Nana NA
I told you so
I told you so
And you thought I didnt know anything about the Pakistan Team or Management.
Na Na Nana Na.
They couldn’t have picked a better guy. Finally a reason to be optimistic :k:
An added bonus is we won’t have to listen to Miandad whingeing any more. I expect to see a much more disciplined and professional approach from now on and anyone who is uncomfortable with that should be kicked out and no doubt Woolmer will make sure it happens.
Brilliant news. 
good article. hits all the important notes. this appointment has to be one of the most important ones since Imran’s elevation to captaincy.
**Pakistan embrace the era of the super-coach **
Wisden Comment by Andrew Miller
After a period of barely relenting turmoil, today’s announcement from the Pakistan Cricket Board **may finally signal an upturn in the fortunes of their national team. It has taken several years, and even more false starts, but the PCB has finally swallowed its pride and embraced the era of the super-coach. **
**Bob Woolmer’s appointment is wonderful news, not only for Pakistan, but for Test cricket as a whole. For too long, Pakistan has been caught in a self-defeating cycle of mistrust: from Justice Qayyum’s match-fixing inquiry, through the protracted retirements of Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, to the controversial tenure of Rashid Latif; every step of the way has been dogged by scheming and scapegoat-seeking. Defeat to India may have been the last straw for the old regime, but on this evidence, it may eventually prove to have been a well-timed straw. **
Though Javed Miandad was unquestionably a great batsman, his man-management skills have persistently been found wanting, throughout his playing days as well as his coaching career. That much could be gleaned from his record as Pakistan captain – in 124 Tests, he was captain for just 34 of them, and those came in six separate stints as well. When reviewing his recent autobiography, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack described Miandad as a man who displayed “no false modesty, and for that matter, no genuine modesty either”. In the tinderbox of Pakistan cricket, he was always likely to be a dangerous spark.
Woolmer, on the other hand, is something else entirely. As with the cream of the modern crop of coaches – Bangladesh’s Dav Whatmore, Australia’s John Buchanan, and England’s Duncan Fletcher – Woolmer’s unspectacular playing career is central to his success. He was by no means a failure (he made three centuries in 19 Tests, at an average of 33.09), but the bottom line with all of the above is that perspiration, not inspiration, is the key to success as a Test cricketer.
As South Africa’s coach between 1994 and 1999, Woolmer is well-used to the workings of a politicised board, and since then, his experiences as the ICC’s high-performance director can only have improved his diplomatic skills. **But it is as an innovator that he will come into his own. It was Woolmer who first pioneered the use of computers as a training aid, and under his guidance, South Africa were transformed into the best one-day side in the world, and a Test team that could only be bettered by Australia. **
The talent within the Pakistan ranks has never been in question. It is the cohesion that matters. With Woolmer at the controls, Pakistan at last have an opportunity to pull out of their tailspin, and return to the top table of Test cricket, where they have always belonged. It is a development of which the West Indies Cricket Board, in particular, would do well to take note.
Samb bhai dheeray chalna.
Aejaz bhai 
Ehsan bhai, I’m just waiting for Woolmer to deny the whole thing and say that no such contract talks took place between him and the PCB. 
now, that would be sad.
Ehsan Bhai,
Jitna marzi Naak chada lou,
Agar Shart lagao gey tou Harougey.
Bolo Lagana hain Shart.
Nah, he wont deny it, they were discussing it on Sky sports in UK today and couldn’t believe it that Woolmer had accepted the contract. Most of them thought that with the politics of Pakistani cricket it remians to be seen how long he will last.
Aejaz bhai aap to baat na karein, pehle KK join kee aur hamein series harwa dee aab mere daulat lootna chatey hain. Mere paas sirf £10 hain, kuch toh reham karo. 
Overall good decision. My only concern is that 1 or 2 bad series and people will be on woolmers throat and we will see some new guy taking over.
They need to stick with him till 2007 come what