A heads up to all the paki bros out there
anybody check out Bob Woolmers website (I don’t know if I’m allowed to say it here , but whatever)
Unbelievable content on there
You can directly ask Bob questions and he answers them.
He also directly addresses arcticles written about Pakistani Cricket by inserting his own statements into the articles.
It’s really neat. If I get a chance, I will post his comments on the article by Rehan Siddiqui
Re: Woolmer
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A heads up to all the paki bros out there
anybody check out Bob Woolmers website (I don't know if I'm allowed to say it here , but whatever)
Unbelievable content on there
You can directly ask Bob questions and he answers them.
He also directly addresses arcticles written about Pakistani Cricket by inserting his own statements into the articles.
It's really neat. If I get a chance, I will post his comments on the article by Rehan Siddiqui
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whats the url?
THE DAWN IS BREAKING AGAIN
05 Aug 2004
Asia Cup exposes Pakistan team's frailties
By Rehan Siddiqui
Pakistan finished top from the bottom in the "three-team" Asia Cup, yet the entire Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) management including chairman, chief executive, coach, manager and captain has gone overboard claiming the campaign as an outstanding success and predict the team to be on the verge of accomplishing greater deeds in coming months.
I presume he means third? EUPHORIA Sorry I do not see us in a euphoric state! It was the first OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW THE TEAM WORK AND TO SEE THE TEAM in action.
THE TOUR WAS A SUCCESS IN THAT we certainly managed to put in some decent team structures during the Asia cup none of which the author was privy too or indeed wanted to be privy to. He never came to one practice and watched all our games from the inner sanctum of HIS room AT the Hotel.
Such euphoria coming from the PCB officials is nothing new taking into consideration the past experience. The very same sentiments have been expressed for the past four years with not one major victory to date to the credit of the team to shout about.
To describe the trip to the pearl island a success is another crude attempt by the PCB officials to hide management's inability to put the house in order and overcome the team's frailties which were so visible in Colombo.
THIS IS HIS OPINION NOT THAT OF THE MANAGEMENT! I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE TRIP WAS NOT A DISASTER AND THAT WE MADE GOOD PROGRESS!
The fact of the matter is that the present team, despite spending huge sums of money in acquisition of dozens of foreign experts, has not what it takes to become a real threat to the dominance of Australia, the undisputed kings of world cricket.
ANYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS CRICKET WILL UNDERSTAND THAT IT WILL TAKE TIME TO BRING A TEAM UP TO THE SAME STANDARD AS AUSTRALIA HAVE ACHIEVED. INDEED IT TOOK AUSTRALIA 10 YEARS!
Pakistan's problems after the end of the "golden era" of Imran Khan have been inconsistency, brittleness in batting and perennial shortcomings in ground fielding and catching. The performance in two significant outings, India and Sri Lanka, not for the umpteenth time highlighted these frailties.
IF IF IF ONLY - BRINGING BACK THE PAST IS NOT MY EXPERTISE ANY WAY IF THERE IS ONLY A PAST THERE WOULD NEVER BE A FUTURE.
The squad named to defend the Asia Cup by Wasim Bari and his co-selectors was the best available and the blame of failure lies with the players and the team management as they failed to rise to the occasion.
THANKS A LOT WE LOST ONE GAME AND FAILED TO RISE TO THE OCCASION
While the defeat against Sri Lanka was a bitter pill to swallow the loss of bonus point, so important against India, was lack of planning on part of the high-profile coach.
IN WHAT WAY DID WE LACK PLANNING MAY I PLEASE HAVE AN EXAMPLE!
One swallow does not make a summer. This has been exactly the case with the Pakistan team. The PCB management is crowing over the win against India but very conveniently forgot the humiliation against Sri Lanka earlier.
I QUITE AGREE ONE SWALLOW DOESN’T MAKE A SUMMER, CAN YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW WE CONVENIENTLY FORGOT ABOUT SRI LANKA? THE WIN AGAINST INDIA WAS AN EXCELLENT COMEBACK FOLLOWING THE DEFEAT. A LOT OF JOURNALISTS SAID THAT WE COULD NOT RECOVER FROM THAT DEFEAT.
It appeared that Pakistan team management's sole priority after the Sri Lankan debacle was to avoid defeat at all cost against India and winning the trophy became secondary.
I HAVE HEARD SOME RUBBISH IN MY LIFE BUT THIS TAKES THE BONUS POINT!
As things stands today the chances of Pakistan challenging Australia in the too distant future is not on the horizon unless we produce bowlers of the calibre of great Ws Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Imran Khan and the batsmen of the standing of Javed Miandad, Salim Malik and Saeed Anwar.
THIS STATEMENT MERELY SHOWS HOW FAR OUT OF TOUCH THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE IS! WE WILL NEVER BRING BACK THE PAST TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN.
With due respect Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik and Imran Farhat are not in the same class of above named trio while Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami cannot be compared with the truly world greats Ws who delivered on the field rather than blowing their own trumpets off the field.
The coming months are going to be really testing for Pakistan cricket and only the time will tell whether the present available talent has the capability to rise to the occasion and be counted on world cricket map or go down the same road as the once invincible and mighty West Indies, the new whipping boys.
AT LAST WE ARE IN AGREEMENT THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL BE TESTING FOR PAKISTAN CRICKET AND THIS IS WHEN WE ALL HAVE TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! INDEED WE WILL HAVE TO LEARN QUICKLY IF WE ARE TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS WE HAVE SET EACH OTHER. WE HAVE TO DO THIS WITH THE PLAYERS WE HAVE AND THE STAFF WE HAVE!
Perhaps the time is right now for PCB to also engage foreign chairman and chief executive to turn things around as the present as well as past top officials not only plunged Pakistan cricket into one crisis after another but also brought country's good name into disrepute due to on and off field activities of the players and officials.
CLEARLY THE AUTHOR COULD DO A BETTER JOB OR COULD HE? WHERE ARE HIS SUGGESTIONS OF HOW WE CAN IMPROVE? WHERE ARE HIS SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WE CAN BEAT THE AUSTRALIANS? CRITICISM IS THE EASY WAY OUT!
AND THE AUTHOR IS OK AT CRITICISM. REMEMBER HE SAID TO ME “I WRITE WHAT I SEE”. MY CHALLENGE IS TO COME OUT AND HAVE A LOOK!
I CAN ONLY GUESS THAT HIS TEAM WOULD BE: -
- HANIF MOHAMMED
- SAEED ANWAR
- JAVED MIANDAD
- MAJID KHAN
- ZAHEER ABBAS
- INZAMAM UL HAQ
- IMRAN KHAN
- WASIM BARI
- WASIM AKRAM
- WAQAR YOUNIS
- ABDUL QUADIR
The URL is bobwoolmer.com
Who the hell is Rehan Siddiqui? Above article doesn't even make sense.
Well, true that whoever Rehan guy is only presented his criticism, but Woolmer didn't reply to the statment regarding the bonus point.