Re: Wright, Boon possible candidates as coach?
Technology is very important. Bob was an innovative coach and his 'laptop culture' was adopted by all professional coaches after he came up with the idea. He did wonders for SA with that approach and even with Pakistan, his approach did good for the team. Sure, the results werent as good we Bob or the Pakistani fans expected but that has little to do with Bob using technology and more to do with our own players and their attitude towards the game and hard work. People like Intikhab Alam and Miandad are living in a fools paradise if they think that the tools and methods used during their own playing days can match the technological innovations of the modern day game. It just shows how narrow minded both men are.
Miandad, in particular, is the worst possible person to Coach the Pakistan team. In all his stints, he has failed in terms of results, innovations and even unity. Throughout his stints, the team has had internal squabblings due to the infamous Miandad politics. Its quite funny to see how desperate he is to become the Coach. He has a show on Hum tv and every night they run a poll that says ' do u want javed bhai to be the coach of the pakistan team' ... plus throughout the show he does his best to put himself in line for the job. So when the PCB...quite rightly...advertised for the Post and mentioned qualifications such as Certifications and Computer skills, Miandad immediately began dissing the move - because he knows his goose is cooked.
Every board advertises for the position of Coach...when India hired Chappell...they had also placed an add and then had their committee interview all candidates. Ex-Indian test cricketers like Amarnath and Gaewkad, Aussies like Chappell and Dean Jones, made Power Point presentations for the job. Eventually Chappell was chosen.
In Pakistan, the ex-test cricketers think they are 'Gods'...they dont want to be in line for a job, they dont want to learn new technologies and skills - they just expect jobs to be handed to them on a silver platter.
Good for the PCB that they set a solid criteria for the job. Let the job go to a professional with proper modern day certifications and qualifications - and not a narrow minded money hungry loser like Miandad.
Miandad is a millionaire (His wife is a millionairess too belonging to the Sehgal clan) in his own right. He earned enough from that Sharjah six alone never mind the fact that he played international cricket for 21 years from 1975-1996. So I don't see money as being an issue with him.
Ofcourse computer-aided analysis can help you in analysing the weaknesses of your opponents and your own team etc. But at the end of the day a coach can only do so much and it's really down to the players to learn from their own mistakes and try and improve. But the problem is laptop or no laptop our players just don't seem to learn from their past and keep repeating the same mistakes whether it's the fielding lapses or opening failures etc. You still essentially need the same skills and discipline that Imran and Javed polished during their time by playing in county cricket, Sheffield Shield etc. Imran Khan would also disagree with too much reliance on laptops. I have seen him use the same phrase on various talk shows when asked to comment on Bob's (when Bob was alive) laptop approach. Imran's reply would invariably be, " mujhe nahin maloom ke woh uss computer mein kya billiyan dhoondta hai, aakhir hum nay bhi ikkeess saal cricket kheli hai.."
