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Time and again we see that the world champions of the worldcup 1992 and the world champions of the Twenty Twenty worldcup 2009 fail to perform according to their potential. We see them doing good in a match or two and then there is a long chain of losses before there in another unexpected win. At an average, Pakistan team loses 4 out of every 6-7 ODI matches they play. The condition is worse in the Test arena where is almost fail every time.

The reason for their failure has always been termed as “inconsistency”, however, I believe that it is just not the inconsistency that is the root cause of the shocking performance our team has given over the years. The players, ex-players, management, Media, analysts and even the sport ministers believe that there are other areas that need to be fixed in order to increase the standard of our team.

Currently, the 11 players that are playing in our team, or any 11 players who have played a match, are performing according to their own talent. They are playing the game just the way they have been playing from their childhood. There is no proper training or coaching and by the look of it, there is no one in the management side who can even counsel them to make corrections in their techniques. From errors and blunders in the domestic arena to the lack of guidance in the international level, we find every individual building, progressing and then failing on their own. It seems that there is no one to look after them. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is too busy solving controversies and their personal issues that they don’t have time to work on the players.

There would be people who would oppose me but I believe that every player in this game goes through a bad patch and the cricket board of that particular player should take special care of him. A player who has previously performed in the international arena or has been a match winning player can always turn the game on in the future as well. All he needs in confidence and match practice. BUT YOU CANT GIVE HIM PRACTICE IN THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.

The board should realize that the domestic level is the best area from where a player can get match practice and can increase their confidence as they are playing against relatively weaker opponents. This way they always get an edge and there is a change that the player will get back his confidence. However, our board is ready to give “match practice” to many players like Misbah ul Haq and Shoaib Malik at the international level.

It will take a lot of time for them to get back into their groove at the international level because they will be against good opponents and certainly 9 out of 10 times they will fail to perform. That will de-motivate them and Pakistan team will also be paying a heavy price at the same time. The board should ask the senior players to get back their performance by playing in the domestic seasons rather than becoming a burden to the international team by not performing.

Then there are issues like the coaches that PCB has hired. We currently have two bowling coaches (Waqar Younis and Aqib Javed) and we don’t even have a single batting coach. We have players like Javad Miandad and Saeed Anwer who can provide quality coaching to our batsmen but I am not sure why are we not taking their services. Corruption and Politics has been the other two words that are always linked with the PCB and with the output that we are getting nowadays from our cricket team, it seems that we have incompetent people sitting on the position where competence is required. God bless Pakistan Cricket.

Posted by: Agha Dawood

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