We have fallen well behind other teams: Waqar
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March 24, 2015
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SYDNEY: Waqar Younis warned on Tuesday that cricket could die out in Pakistan if rival teams continue to boycott the country where international tours have not taken place since 2009.
There has been no international cricket in Pakistan since the militant attacks on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March 2009 which killed eight people and injured seven visiting players.
"The biggest hurt is that we are not able to stage international matches," Pakistan head coach Waqar told AFP.
"I fear the game might die out as we lack talent at junior level and it's tough to indulge kids in cricket. It's a very important aspect, we have to bring international cricket back and the government has to help in this regard."
The Pakistan Cricket Board managed to bring minnows Kenya for a short one-day series last year and are negotiating with Zimbabwe for a visit in May this year.
Waqar believes Pakistan's quarter-final exit from the World Cup at the hands of Australia showed there is a lot of hard work to be done on the country's cricket set-up and infrastructure.
"If we want to save Pakistan cricket we have to lift our domestic game because there was a big difference in standards at the World Cup. We were well behind other teams.
"We can't delay it, we need power-hitters like there are in other teams and players who can score 300-plus runs," said Waqar, whose team only crossed the 300-mark just once in seven games at the World Cup -- against the amateurs of the United Arab Emirates.
"Cricket is changing fast and we have to keep pace with that, if not we will be left far behind." Waqar stressed Pakistan needed good batsmen.
"Bowling has never been our problem," said Waqar, himself a great fast bowler.
"I think we should feel proud of our bowling at the World Cup.
"But it's the batting where we have been struggling for a long time now and after Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan -- whenever he quits -- we will have a big vacuum.
"It is a matter of putting things in order. It's not only about winning the World Cup but also improving our ranking by lifting our standards."
Waqar said strict rules on bowling actions badly affected Pakistan's build-up for the World Cup.
"Just before the World Cup, the International Cricket Council launched a crackdown and because of that we lost Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez," said Waqar of his two key spinners who were suspended due to illegal actions.
"But now is the time we should lift ourselves because cricket has been our pride."
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ameed
Mar 24, 2015 08:27pm
We have falling behind not only in batting and fielding but also in how we conduct ourselves in front of the media on a live telecast. This behavior starts from the top.
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Antigua
Mar 24, 2015 08:43pm
if cricket was to die out it wouldnt be because of not being able to host international games. It would be because of people in influential positions who only are out for personal gain. You have players who come in the team with reference while genuine talent either doesn't make it or come when its near retiring age.
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Harmony
Mar 24, 2015 08:47pm
'Waqar stressed Pakistan needed good batsmen'. That has been the case for many years now and we are still nowhere!!!
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Asif
Mar 24, 2015 08:51pm
Wasim Akram should lead as a Coach for PK. I request PCB to hire him immediately. Afridi, Misbah and Younus Khan must retire from ODI cricket.
Lets groom young talent.
Thanks
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Asma
Mar 24, 2015 08:54pm
Pakistan won T20 cup in the same period. Stop excuses Waqar, Pak lost due to your wrong team selections, and poor Misbah copped it.
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javed iqbal
Mar 24, 2015 08:54pm
Viki is right absolutely . We are weakest batting line up in ODI at present. Neither Government nor wealthy class take measures for promoting the game. Our ex-players do not contribute for improvement in the game rather prefer to appear on senseless TV talk shows only for criticizing the Team members / team management or BCCP for their vested interests / personal grudges.
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Ali Khan
Mar 24, 2015 08:54pm
There are so many factors for Pakistan's loss. However, Waqar should resign as the head coach immediately. Caoches are supposed to know the strenghts and weaknesses in each and every player in their squad. How can he not know that Sarfaraz can be more effective as an opener than Nasir and a better wicket keeper than Umar? Given the chance Sarfaraz ended up earning two Man of Match awards from the three games that he palyed
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ahmed
Mar 24, 2015 08:54pm
Using not having international cricket in Pakistan is lame excuse for your failure. It is not going to cut blame on you. Take full blame Waqar and quit right away. Your decision making had played big role in Pak failure in this WC.
Keeping Sarfarz on side line, not selecting Fawad Alam in probable 30, and not taking opportunity to get Saeed Ajmal on board, instead getting Nasir Jamshed are few of your decisions that caused Pakistan big time.
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Kanderp india
Mar 24, 2015 09:00pm
I was disappointed by Pakistan exit
it was such a great team
not good for cricket
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Saima
Mar 24, 2015 09:00pm
Instead of looking for big hitters, let them learn to build innings by playing rolling shots. Umar Akmal is a supurb batsman if he is banned from playing airborn shots. 17 out of his last 25 innings ended in playing deleberate upish shots. Just notice that even when playing ground shots, his strike rate is about 80. Pakistan needs to finish this sixes hitting culture among there top order batsmen.
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public
Mar 24, 2015 09:06pm
Thanks to you.
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Nadeem
Mar 24, 2015 09:13pm
...and YOU are/were the coach! Why didn't you see this before the cup? Now pointing out the obviuos. The whole administration including coaching and selection staff, Sethis including should be FIRED for the debacle!!!!
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Sarah
Mar 24, 2015 09:14pm
Waqar Younis we need to send our batting people to play in various condition,especially in England,Australia region.Make new comers players play on green top .If they still survive the pace and bounce of green track,bring them into national squad.No point in giving same failing member 100 matches,give them limited matches to perform or get out.Umar Akmal is prime example,he is not even sure why he is in current squad.He fails again and again and now it is more than 100 matches.Enough mate you need break now.It is becoming eye sore to Pakistan fans.
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truef
Mar 24, 2015 09:17pm
Pak has very good U19 team. They need to build good core team for first two years at least 4 batsmen + 2 bowlers. Basic skill should be very good fielding skills which should not be compromised at any cost.
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hakim
Mar 24, 2015 09:19pm
@Harmony
I disagree to a degree. We need performers.
What about the talent we already see at the national level, at first class level.
Basically, it's true what Waqar says. However, we also do not utilize the talent we have
See Fawad Alam, a poor guy. What can he do to be selected ahead of other "talents".
We don't need talent. We don't need stars. We don't need potential match-winners.
We need performers.
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optimist
Mar 24, 2015 09:23pm
@Antigua Very true. The international standards has gone very huigh infitness and fielding, while Pakistan is where they were in 1992. Umar Akmal and Shahzad are at-least good fielders but Sohaib Maqsood and Nasir Jamshed are poor fileders in addition to their below average batting.
I don't blame Misbah or the Players for Pakistan poor show. The players played to their potantial, the fault lies with the selectors.
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Ravi
Mar 24, 2015 09:26pm
The facts presented by Waqar are very true and PCB (and govt) should work sincerely on it as a feedback.
However, I believe that ardent Pak cricket observer was very well aware of these facts, ahead of the WC too.
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Imran A.
Mar 24, 2015 09:28pm
That is part of the problem. I think we should leave players like Afridi when they don't play well. We should be ready to take difficult decisions.
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shuaib
Mar 24, 2015 09:36pm
Yes, we need to re-build Pakistan cricket and removal of Waqar Younus will be the right first step in the right direction.
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Mola Jutt
Mar 24, 2015 09:44pm
It's taken him this long to realise this? Come on Waqar, please be true to yourself. A merit based approach backed by a good throughput from the domestic track, ought to do the trick. I disagree it is all doom and gloom, there are some great finds in this world cup, including a potentially new captain, Wahab Riaz.
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Zak
Mar 24, 2015 09:50pm
Time to retire him. Despite no matches in pakistan, pakistani talent has awed the cricketing fans the world over, and he says cricket might die out. Only thing holding the team progress is the incompetence and corruption in the PCB.
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RAM
Mar 24, 2015 09:54pm
Waqar the coach and Wahab the captain. Make Shezhad vice captain.
PAK team does have a few good players in team.
Fielding must improve for them to be competing at the next level consistently.
Misbah, Younis, Afridi should retire from ODIs.
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Zee
Mar 24, 2015 09:55pm
Becoming wiser after the fact is so easy. Dump all the deadwood including Waqar. Induct new talent. Refuse all tainted personalities even if they apologize for their wrong doing. Start afresh. We will be successful.
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RAM
Mar 24, 2015 09:56pm
@shuaib Not sure about that. I think Waqar is a solid coach but Mgmt must hire a batting and a fielding coach (good ones).
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truef
Mar 24, 2015 09:56pm
Yes, no international cricket means no motivational force for youngsters in PAK. And we should encourage players like Afridi. Recently I am seeing U Akmal started to play like that, they wanted to get popularity and not playing for team to win. if needed, play run a ball, else if needed, more than run a ball, try to hit whenever get opportunity. At any cost, keep the game alive till last ball.
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zeeshan
Mar 24, 2015 10:05pm
I am not a big fan of Waqar as a coach but it is very important for us to keep consistency otherwise we keep changing our coaches.As a nation we have very short temperament as well. Give him 2 years and if delivers then it is Ok otherwise bye bye.....
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AJamal
Mar 24, 2015 10:06pm
Waqar is absolutely right. Due to bad infrastructure at the domestic level, top talent is not coming out.
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prada
Mar 24, 2015 10:07pm
Make Arif Abbas as chairman pcb. His tenor was the best. U 19 and A team should be built which was the case about 10 years back many players came from this. Hammad Azam and Anwar Ali like players are good talent they nd to be groomed by keeping them with the team. Mistreatment of M Yousuf and younus and senior players like didn't allow the grooming on younger batsmen.
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Aurangzeb
Mar 24, 2015 10:09pm
Waqar what you have done for the team ?
Nothing else can help Pakistan cricket unless Majid Khan or alike head the PCB.
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prada
Mar 24, 2015 10:10pm
Continues inclusion of dubious players like S Malik Misbah K Akmal imran farhat in place of class batsman like M Yousuf and younus khan has caused a break in knowledge transfer of building and finishing an innings which was carried from Zaheer to miandad to Inzimam and the YYs
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dad
Mar 24, 2015 10:17pm
your job was to keep us ahead or ayleast at par with them,
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Wachucha
Mar 24, 2015 10:24pm
@Asif do you want match fixing to become a norm?
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Abdul Malik
Mar 24, 2015 10:26pm
Waqar, what did you do to lift the Pakistan team? You were the head coach and you were paid very well. You don't even know how to speak to the media and you call their questions as "Stupid". How can you coach a cricket team?
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Salman
Mar 24, 2015 10:35pm
Waqar is simply using the politicians dancing around the real questions tactics and covering up his own failures. Apart from Wahab, no other bowler was that impressive. Why was Sarfaraz not in the squad before? Why was Umar Akmal selected instead of Fawad Alam? Why was Sohail Khan selected over Umar Gul? Why was Yasir Shah not given a chance, when Afridi was failing continuously?
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Sunil USA
Mar 24, 2015 11:00pm
I respect Waqar but I dont buy his reason. Pakisthan does have lots of talent , I feel the main reason of failure was because of poor selections and Lots of top guys lynching money from Cricket.
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logic
Mar 24, 2015 11:04pm
first get your players fit and athletic - the flabbiest team of world cup was Pakistan
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Parvez
Mar 24, 2015 11:05pm
What we need.......is new coach.
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LOUDSPEAKER
Mar 24, 2015 11:09pm
Learn how to bat under pressure from Grant Elliot's innings against SA in the SFs, open the innings like Martin Guptill did against West Indies in the QFs. Finally, cricket in Pakistan can only be improved if selection of young players is done on the basis of merit.
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Ramesh Krishnan
Mar 24, 2015 11:34pm
Excuse of not playing international cricket is lame as Pakistan is playing international cricket on UAE...Pakistan is not short of talent especially in bowling department..But the batsmen are not consistent..All the batsmen including Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad and Sohaib Maqsood are very good players but not performing when team needed them most...Fresh start is required...young players should be included in the team rather than allowing the aged players to play till their forties...
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Sami
Mar 24, 2015 11:41pm
Coach be positive, we are playing all home international series in UAE. We didn't miss much as far as international cricket is concerned.
What we are missing is fairness in selecting players!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Random
Mar 24, 2015 11:49pm
I can feel Interest in cricket has fallen down .. don't know y
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rathorew
Mar 25, 2015 12:05am
@Antigua Spot on!
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optimist
Mar 25, 2015 12:05am
Sir, the problem is not nternational matches not beiplatyed in Pakistan, the problemis the lame duck selectors who take dctation.
About Grant Elliot of NL: Quote" The 36-year-old, who fought his way into the World Cup squad off the back of excellent domestic form, produced a player-of-the-match performance to see his team into the World Cup final." Unquote
In Pkaistan cricket team only one player was selected because of his form in domestic level, Sohail Khan. The best ODI player Fawad Alam was ignored whikle Sarfaraz was made to sit out for four crucial matches.
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Hassan Siddiq
Mar 25, 2015 12:30am
I think I of the biggest reasons why Pakistan was not up to the mark was because of Mr Waqar younis....... Pakistan team has never performed well under coaching of Waqar. The team selection was horrible through out the world cup.
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jimmy rocks
Mar 25, 2015 12:30am
@Kanderp india
I understand your feelings my friend, but final four was based on talent and achievement. Not on any lottery system.
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CHIPPA
Mar 25, 2015 12:44am
Hey, Waqar, Our cricket team could die out as long as we have coaches like you. Please quit coaching Pakistani team and let the talent come forward.
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Ejaz Ahmed
Mar 25, 2015 12:45am
Waqar -- please resign now. You don't deserve to be a coach. Youd did not select Sarfaraz and Fawad Alam.Don't try to be smart you are the one who should be thrown out first.
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Mohammed Hanif
Mar 25, 2015 12:49am
Until the board is independent and not subject to political grace and favour and players are picked on merit only we will never make it anywhere.
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wahab
Mar 25, 2015 01:11am
Mr Waqar you and other higher ups are one of the major cause of downfal of Pakistan cricket.......It seems you are not a coach but a Sergeant of an army ...very very sorry to say that but its a truth.......
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hr786
Mar 25, 2015 01:34am
Silly excuses he dont know coaching time for him to go home should not any politics in sports
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FutureWizard
Mar 25, 2015 01:36am
It is your fielding which was the biggest let down.
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hr786
Mar 25, 2015 01:39am
@Parvez agree
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ZEB
Mar 25, 2015 01:43am
Mistake #1
Pakistan needed batting couch but PCB hired Waqar's with bowling background.
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Khan
Mar 25, 2015 01:47am
Dear coach! You're boys dropped 15 catches and gave 10 out of 10 wickets in catches playing reckless during three quarterfinal! This is a general lack of professionalism, bad planning and faulty team selection, and has nothing to do with international teams not coming to Pakistan!
And no! You don't need players who score 300+ runs. You only need the ones with right mindset who could play through the 50 overs and set up a decent score to defend for the bowlers!
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NT
Mar 25, 2015 02:21am
Waqar Younis failed as a coach and is stating the obvious.
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Inti
Mar 25, 2015 02:25am
What good will it bring by playing Zimbabwe at home on docile wickets. ..maybe the poor batsman will look good again. I would rather see A tours or invite A teams from South Africa, Australia or New Zealand. We need to take a chance with the younger players and give them time to settle.
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Laeeq Ahmed
Mar 25, 2015 02:26am
We talk of power hitters. What PCB has done to Razzak.
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Inti
Mar 25, 2015 02:27am
Do you we really have only two spinners in the country. I wonder why Yasir Shah was selected!
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ENIGMA
Mar 25, 2015 02:28am
The Pakistani diaspora would love to create a top notch world-class cricketing system in Pakistan with high tech security stadiums and clubs.
Imran Khan has been extremely successful in his global fundraising for Shaukat Khanum Hospital, thanks to millions of overseas wealthy Pakistanis. Why not do the same for cricket? Especially if funding, investments and international board members are not connected to local corrupt politicians who spoil the entire process of nurturing healthy, fair competition.
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Adnan
Mar 25, 2015 02:41am
@Asma Well Said
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Moe
Mar 25, 2015 02:59am
@logic they looked like butterball turkeys.
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Freeman
Mar 25, 2015 03:02am
No doubt international teams playing cricket in Pakistan will help to some extent but our team is playing a lot of cricket with international teams abroad. It gives them more opportunities to play at non-home wickets that should have been more helpful to play WC matches in Australia.
By the way, does it mean only international cricket within the country could teach boys how to catch a ball?
The actual problem is, nobody including coach feel any responsibility. All the times some external factor are responsible for pathetic performance. Most of the players and all of the management including the board need only money and status. Nobody is ready to devote himself for the results.
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Kadir Khan
Mar 25, 2015 03:06am
This statement was expected from you. Now you realized what happen when you drop talent like Fawad and select out of form Jamshed and unreliable Ahmed Shahzad who don't even have any proper technique to be called as a batsman to play in the World Cup.
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Kadir Khan
Mar 25, 2015 03:20am
@RAM Come on Ahmed Shahzad was the biggest blunder in the entire team selection. It was because of Ahmed Shahzad that Pak batting never could maintained a stable batting line up. He shahzad can only play against club teams, he don't have a proper technique to be called as an opener or batsman. Captain should be sarfaraz and v.capt should be either Wahab or Mohd Aamir.
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Kadir Khan
Mar 25, 2015 03:33am
chief selector Moin Khan and the members of his selection committee along with coaches should be sacked immediately. Amir Sohail to be appointed as chief selector and members of the selection committee should include Mushtaq Ahmed, Saeed Anwar, Shaoib Akhtar and Imran Nazir.
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Kashif
Mar 25, 2015 03:37am
and najam sethi ... waqar?
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Asgher Ali
Mar 25, 2015 03:56am
Thanks to you and your inactive cronies that We have fallen behind. The sooner you disappear from the cricket scene the better. Do not forget to take your two buddies.
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dost mohammed
Mar 25, 2015 04:33am
Pakistan has a population of close to 200 million, compared to 4.5 million of NZ. Is talent a problem? No, that's not the issue. The issue is mismanagement and the mental fitness of our players. Compare the mental calibre of the players in the 1992 WC, those of Imran Khan and Miandad, to the likes of what we have now. Also the types of people in key cricket management positions - political gifts rather than any merit involved.
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fida sayani USA
Mar 25, 2015 04:49am
The best way to save cricket in Pakistan is to get rid of people like Moin Khan, Waqar Younis, Rameez Raja and likes of them.
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AH
Mar 25, 2015 05:20am
Waqar shall retire from head coach please. He does not know the strengths and weaknesses of the players. He makes comments of weak Pakistani batsman after lost in the WC and not before. He thought having Nasir Jamshed in the team would strengthen the batting who was not the part of Pakistan one-day squad prior to the WC! Please give us a break Waqar and move on to some new job.
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Pakfan
Mar 25, 2015 05:29am
Coach, on one hand bowlers selection was fair but on the other batsmen selection was totally unfair by not selecting Fawad Alam and playing Sarfraz so late in the tournament.
In ODI we needed stability in lower middle order and it is so sad that we are keep on relying on unreliable Umar and Sohaib who are only good for T20. At present Fawad needed to give stability in test and odi middle order batting.
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An Overseas Pakistani
Mar 25, 2015 05:58am
I think the problem in the team/management is you Mr. Waqar that let us down. Our team was not prepared at all for the world cup. There was no consistency in the batting. The team went in to bat without any game plan. Yes we lost some players before the world cup, but they were all bowlers and the replacement bowlers did a good job. Seems like you had no writing on the drawing board, and you let politics and favoritism take over good coaching.
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John
Mar 25, 2015 06:12am
The macro level issue with poor fielding and batting appear to stem from inability of Pakistani batters and fielders to cope with stressful situations. Both batting and fielding are reactionary in nature which can cause a lot more stress comparatively than bowling where bowler is the one causing anxiety in the batsman. Pakistani bowlers bowl largely with much less stress and hence are able to showcase their maximum talent. Batters and fielders fare poorly because they are not prepared to handle the pressure of the situation. PCB will be well advised to have a program to instill mental toughness in Pakistani team.
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Hashim
Mar 25, 2015 06:14am
That's a good start Waqar. Since you are coach of this team, it would be good to take some of the blame of falling behind other teams, and resign from the post. Pakistan team needs someone at the helm that can spot talent when they see it, rather than favouring people. Waqar has not been a good coach, he must admit that. With Misbah, Afridi, and Younis (hopefully) out of the game now, its time that Pakistan bring in some new players from the domestic structure, as bad as it is. But it should not just be for their recent record in the domestic circuit, but they should be looked at for their technique and adaptability.
Finally, the PCB would do good to improve the structure of the domestic game, at least improve the grounds and order livelier and bouncy pitches to be made, rather than dead and docile tracks that offer nothing to bowlers. That's the only way to better our batsmen who are always caught wanting when they play on fast and seaming wickets.
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Saad
Mar 25, 2015 06:31am
We dont have a settled opening pair since 1999!! There was international cricket then back in Pakistan. Pakistan itself was a powerhouse of cricket. But because of negligence and poor attitude we could not groom any openers and now since the retirement of inzi, yusuf and misbah and we havent been able to groom a proper middle order bat either. By the way Mr. waqar, you have been the coach of Pakistan 3 times now, you were the coach in 2011 as well when the team faltered in the semis. Your own performance is not very good either. Stop making excuses and start doing some work.
International cricket in Pakistan is not the problem. The problem is political appointments in PCB and wrong selections in the team.
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pardesi
Mar 25, 2015 06:35am
India should welcome Pak players to IPL. Politics should not be mixed with sports. Pak batsman will learn a lot at the IPL. If Firangs can play why not our brothers?
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Asif Kidwai
Mar 25, 2015 06:50am
@Sunil USA My friend you are right on the money
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concerned
Mar 25, 2015 07:06am
Waqar is very wisely brushing it off his shoulders.why can't he accept that pak has immense talent in cricket u pick a guy from any street in pak and they will produce amazingly in any cricket ground of the world.
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Arshad
Mar 25, 2015 07:10am
Yes Waqar thanks to you our team has fallen behind.
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Naveed USA
Mar 25, 2015 07:18am
@javed iqbal
absolutely right!
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iqbal
Mar 25, 2015 07:36am
we fall bec our bowling coach cant detect wrong turn in our bowler but empires . we fall bec we cant catch . we fall bec our head coach do not know which player have what potential . now lay out blame on foreign team s visit . we lost last few word cup bec of same problem not due to foreign visits
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Sohail
Mar 25, 2015 07:47am
How can u play someone like Nasir who doesn't even know how to run what to talk about chasing, saving boundaries and taking catches. He wouldn't be selected on the basis of his fielding even for first class teams in other countries. How can the team management and coach overlook this and say that we are falling behind. Yasir Shah is another example where once we last Irfan, Yasir should have been brought in against Ireland as a wicket taking bowler and then played in the quarter final. Waqar's theory was that Ireland are good at playing spinners- vow!! Ireland batsman had absolutely no clue reading Shahid Afridi. Ehsan Adil did not do badly but even a cricket student can say that he can not win matches- while I believe Yasir could have. Waqar did do some good stuff but hope the management learns from the tactical mistakes they made. I haven't even mentioned Sarfraz!!
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Azim Iqbal
Mar 25, 2015 08:00am
@Pakfan when we discover talent like Mohammad Irfan in late twenties and opener like Sarfaraz at the age of 27 and still say that we better play M Irfan at No. 1 instead of Sarfaraz and and we dont regret it,remember what was their age when we discovered Waqar,Waseem and Javed Miandad?
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nadeem qazi
Mar 25, 2015 08:08am
Look friend, Just leave this job along with Moin and Sethi and we will find our way in this game. let Wasim Akram, Rashid Latif, Inzimam ul Haq, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Miandad, Shoib Mohammad run this business, I am very sure that they can take this game to another level.
Please think about Pakistan. No politics, no dirty dictatorship, no personal liking or disliking No Rameez, no waqar, No Moin and no Sethi please.
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Ali
Mar 25, 2015 08:25am
Fawad Alam
Sarfraz Ahmed
Ahmed Shehzad
Sohaib Maqsood
Haris Sohail
Wahab Riaz (Cpt)
Mohammad Amir
Saeed Ajmal
Umar Gul
Mohammad Irfan
Mohammad Asif
Rahat Ali
Coach: Wasim Akram
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Junaid
Mar 25, 2015 08:26am
Waqar Younis does not know anything about coaching. He never trained himself as coach formally. PCB executives are unable to judge and make difference between the skills of a coach and captain.
He has made very basic mistakes in this world cup. Now he is beating around the bush to fend off the blame. All good leaders take responsibility and offer to leave. But he will no do that, and will wait to be removed.
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Asim
Mar 25, 2015 08:34am
Waqar has all the excuses but he should take blame for all this poor performing team who's players can't even run and field drop easy catches. He should only blame himself.
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Urguz Jhan
Mar 25, 2015 08:50am
It all goes back to the root cause of all problems -- Pakistan's delusional obsession with Kashmir.
Stop your obsession with Kashmir, and see Pakistan transform itself !
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ManishD
Mar 25, 2015 08:53am
Arre Bhai! It was obvious to everyone in the world that Pakistan was done in by its selectors. There is no lack of talent. Just let the cream rise to the top. ( Sarfraz for example)
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Zak
Mar 25, 2015 08:58am
We can come back , no big deal.
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blunt
Mar 25, 2015 09:55am
Mr. Waqar did his best to bring the game to this state with his actions in AUS.
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Pakistani
Mar 25, 2015 10:29am
We have falling behind…….we know that already. Its time for you to go!!
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whats in a name
Mar 25, 2015 10:38am
@ahmed So if you replace waqar, who is the next person to take over ? Even that person is going to face the same issue. If you observe carefully, Pakistan has declined drastically since other teams stopped touring them. Waqar is spot on in his assessment. Unfortunately pakistanis are unable to understand what he meant.
Keep changing people and replacing with others is of no use.
Pak has to play more cricket with stronger teams like India, Aus, SA.
Only then cricket will flourish.
For this to happen, country needs to really become stable so that other teams can tour. Pitches in UAE are different and no use playing on them.
Also People with illegal actions like Ajmal should never be encouraged. Pak will have no chance to fight against ICC in retaining such players.
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Howzat
Mar 25, 2015 11:54am
Waqar ji you only found this out now that not hosting international matches is hurting Pakistan after exit from the WC! I think this statement is more about saving jobs than any rational examination of the team's performance. Pakistan did not deserve to go any further. If it wasn't for the bowlers it would have been an exit in the group stage. If Bangladesh can send people home for breaking rules why coudn't he do the same? Why didn't he see the talent he had at his disposal when selecting the side?
I find his statement that 'we lack talent at junior level' bizare considering Pakistan were runners up in the last junior WC, and have a decent record in the event with being winners in 2004 and 06.
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salman
Mar 25, 2015 02:17pm
@whats in a name
I completely agree with you
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salman
Mar 25, 2015 02:17pm
@whats in a name
I completely agree wid u
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Krishna
Mar 25, 2015 03:27pm
@Khan : Very true. For all that you mentioned Coach is not the only one to be blamed. Lot goes into fielding these days. Even IPL teams have fielding coaches. Having seen your bowlers like W's suffer from dropped catches, I continue to see the same even after many years. I say this only because you had wonderful bowlers with not so much support.
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Sami Sahab
Mar 25, 2015 03:39pm
@Waqar, first the selection looked well balanced to you and now you want to get away with your mistakes by blaming the domestic system or by saying it is because of no international cricket in the country. Why don't you accept your mistakes and move on? We need new players and coaches in our team if we really want a drastic change in our team.
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Effy
Mar 25, 2015 03:56pm
This is my new Pak team : Fakhar Zaman, Sami Aslam, Babar Azam, Harris Sohail, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Hammad Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Wahab Reyaz, Sadaf Hussain, Rasa Hasan, Zia-ul-haq. Reserves ( Imam-ul-Haq, Zafar Gohar, M. Aftab, M. Rizwan, Junaid Khan, Mukhtar Ahmad, Mir Hamza )
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Rizwan Khalid Arain
Mar 25, 2015 04:28pm
If we wont lift the domestic cricket, the past will repeat itself.
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mushtaq ahmad durani
Mar 25, 2015 06:14pm
Ok
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ahmed
Mar 25, 2015 06:32pm
@Ejaz Ahmed He should take responsibility and resign from the post of head coach, due his bad selection and favouritism policies the result are infront.
Shazad,Akmal should not be included in new team. enough for Umer Akmal more then 100 match he makes same mistake., What mistake PCB did by playing Afridi for 20 years without significant performance by him, no proper allrounder are groomed.
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fazlus
Mar 25, 2015 08:36pm
pakistan urgently need 'innings-builders'' who can build long inningses like Yusuf, Inzy, Anwar etc..who strive to stay in the crease for long & enjoy rotating strikes regularly....if everybody is trying to bat like Afridi, pakistan cricket will never reach anywhere......
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Kanwarch
Mar 26, 2015 01:57am
Nothing wrong with Pakistan cricket although we do need international teams visiting Pakistan. What we must do is to get rid of people like Waqar Younis who has been a complete failure and who has no leadership qualities . Bring people like Aqib Javed, Waseem Akram as coaches an d Mohsin Khan as manager.
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optimist
Mar 26, 2015 03:54am
@Abdul Malik - Well said. Waqar was simply giving excuses for those players who were injured or banned by the ICC. If he thinks Pakistan cfricket is in such a bad shape why did he become the coach, he did nothing to life the team. The best coach was Mohsin Hassan Khan as in his tenure Pakistan clean sweep the England series.
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Zafar Said
Mar 26, 2015 04:00am
@Sorry Waqar why u not resign your salary is $ 16,000 P/month + $25,000 travel Allow. + Medical expenses we Pak are poor country and you are debt not performing your job sincerely pls resign honor before u have been fired due to nonperformer and unqualified coach. Sake of God leave us.
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Jack
Mar 26, 2015 04:44am
@Kanderp india. Pakistans batting is no where when compared to the batting they had in the 80 and 90's. They had individual match winners like Javed Miandad, Salim Malik, Saeed Anwar, Mohammad Yousuf. The present crop of players are not even 50 % in class and skills when compared to any of the great Pakistani batsmen of the past.
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Ishrat Ansari
Mar 26, 2015 05:24am
Here we go again. Blame the players and not the selectors, the coach and management for the losses. Pakistan right now has a top notch playing XI
if we select players, like all other countries do: the top criteria being form and merit of a player.
Listen to our Captain, Misbah ul Haq. Right after being beaten soundly by Australia,
Misbah said the future of our cricket lies in the hands of players like Umar Akmal, who miserably failed to perform in the World Cup. Sarfaraz, the player who performed brilliantly and delared the Man of the Match in two games, was not even mentioned by Misbah. This shows the mindset of a leader who would rather have Pakistan lose matches than have people in the team on merit. Just think. A team with proven strike bowler Anwer Ali, Irfan and Wahab and a batting line up that includes Fawad Alam and Safaraz, the Pakistani team becomes a World Class playing XI.
Would Ejaz, Waqar, Misbah and all the rotten apples, please resign for bringing deliberately shame to our country and the game of cricket. If they do not resign, as is mostly likely, they should be kicked out.
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Aysha
Mar 26, 2015 06:35am
What did he say? We need big hitters? Is he out of his mind? All of our players are trying to be "big hitters" and getting out. They need to learn from Indian players how to rotate strike with singles and doubles and ONLY punish the bad ball.
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BISHWESH KUMAR JHA
Mar 26, 2015 07:31am
I suppose problem with pakistan team is that everyone wants to become AFRIDI .and that is not how to approach a one day game you have to build an innings ..
I find no difference in batting techniques of misbah and hasim amla (SA ) only diff being later 's conversion rate and fact that he opens batting for his team
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Adnan
Mar 26, 2015 11:49am
Dear vicky. South africa managed to survive and produce a quality team that only added to world cricket after reintroduction. Pls stop making lame excuses and tranferring blame.
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Rizwan
Mar 26, 2015 03:01pm
@Antigua
I completely agree with you on this .
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Rizwan
Mar 26, 2015 03:01pm
@Asma
I agree completely its the wrong team selection
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SynHope
Mar 27, 2015 04:10am
The solution is simple. Ignore the international teams and develop extremely competitive domestic cricket. It should be more competitive than the international events. The domestic cricket should be played not by state or province wise, but city to city, town to town. The competition should be so rigorous and so interesting that until the international teams agree to arrive, Pakistan should become a top competitive cricketing nation. Imran Khan should be assigned with this task.
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Ruthless Aggression
Mar 27, 2015 10:58am
We are falling behind because YOU have kept the talent waiting outside of the team... i remember an interview of Zulqarnain Haider to which Doctor Nauman and Rashid Latif agreed... He said that our domestic structure is so corrupt even the records of the players are fake... The players are helped by the umpires in making records at the domestic level and on the basis of those shitty records a player makes his way in the team. Disgusting... I strongly voice in favour of Sarfaraz to become captain of our one-day side...
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Usman
Mar 27, 2015 11:10pm
I have a suggestion for PCB, build quality hotels within the surroundings of our cricket grounds and transport the visiting international teams using helicopter and tighten the security during the matches. This way, visiting teams won't have to be transported to and from the airport/hotels using buses.
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ishrat husain md
Mar 29, 2015 12:02am
@Hassan Siddiq .agree300%
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us
Mar 30, 2015 01:41am
Other teams are using 3rd party vendors to perform analytics to find the weakness of each batsman/bowler and come up with integrated bowling/batting and fielding plan. The fielders these days know when and where to expect a catch and how to take it. It's really a ball by ball cricket now
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Googlie
Mar 30, 2015 10:17am
"We have fallen well behind other teams: Waqar"
Yes that is because of Waqar's unprofessional and unwise decisions!
Like his passive captain, Waqar turned out to be a passive coach too!
He lacks coaching and motivation skills!
He failed to devise winning strategies!
He should tender his resignation!
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