Abdullah719
T20I Captain
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2013
- Runs
- 44,825
Misbah-ul-Haq at a press conference today:
“The tour of England was very important because of the COVID situation. It was very important for world cricket, England, and us.
“If I summarize this tour, as a team and as a coach, we regret the results. We should have won the Test series 1-0 and T20I series 2-0 and that’s the biggest regret.
“Overall, if you look at the type of cricket we played, we started from zero and got ready for competitive cricket without any prior preparation. The type of cricket we played, our team bonding, our discipline, and the image we created of the Pakistan team is something to appreciate.
“Overall, the way we played was important for us. We mostly dominated in the first Test. In the T20Is, we made two 190+ scores and defended the second one. To improve on that performance after the loss was something special.
“We have a lot of positives from this tour. Looking forward that in future, we can build on these things.
“It’s not like someone else brought Haider Ali into the team, it was us. We’re following the due process. The important thing was to put him in the top 3, Hafeez was also performing and the series was important for us. So we started with our main team. Once Hafeez was confident, we thought we had a chance to put Haider there. We have enough time to make a team with a combination of seniors and youngsters. This was Haider’s first series and he got a chance after 2 matches.
“In T20 cricket, people always say that Pakistan doesn’t have that type of firepower needed in international cricket, but I think we are getting there. Making 190+ against England in their own conditions shows we are on the right track.
“We have a young lot of bowlers. As they get better with experience, they will improve and we’re investing in the right players.
“There’s room for improvement in every aspect. You always think about where you can improve and that applies for any work you do.
“Overall, our vision is to go a bit toward youngsters and bring long term solutions and develop the team. We want to invest in the right players. Also the type of cricket we’re playing, we have been bringing changes. The desired results may not be there but I am satisfied with the overall process and it looks like we are on the right track.
“The England tour was very important and I was busy with that, which is why I wasn’t in touch and involved with the domestic cricket process. We had to get started with everything on a timely basis. I will now sit with Nadeem Khan and discuss things and how we can improve.
“Regarding T20Is, Pakistan was number 1, but when I came, we had a losing streak. We lost in SA and other places, we lost in England and the team had started going down. Everyone knows why that happened, some of the players like Fakhar, Shadab, Hasan went out of form. They were the main contributors. We are looking to take the guys back to that level. Our performances in England show we are on the right track and improving.
“I will talk to Nadeem Khan about the coaches and people in the setup. Names aren’t a problem in a professional setup, you have to work with people. As a professional, you have to adjust. When you work with them, you know where people stand.
“The biggest regret is that you play cricket for results. When you make mistakes on the verge of victory then you try to fix them. We can some technical, tactical mistakes and mental pressure. Our inexperienced bowling will need to be given some time. If we look at that one session, this panicked situation is created when you’re a little inexperienced and that showed. Also in the 2nd T20I, we had an injured bowler and we panicked. As they play more cricket, we will improve. Tactically, we need to improve also but it’s the experience that will bring the most improvement.
“Disappointment is natural when results don’t go your way. You want to win and get results. On that tour, either rain would come in our way when we were in control or something else. There was frustration and disappointment about that, rather than toward any player. As a coach, I do need to have patience and these things happen.
“Every player looks to do what he can to improve the team. Babar is powerful and makes his own decisions. There are no instructions from us. We try to empower him. I have remained a captain. Until you don’t take your own decisions, you won’t learn. You can only learn from your own decision. Mistakes happen but overall I think things are improving and will improve.
“We’re just trying to find the right balance with Amir. If we have two young bowlers in the team then we have one experienced bowlers like Wahab replaced Amir. With Amir, we needed two new ball bowlers and he was bowling the best. This is not about individuals, we are forming the team according to the requirements.
“Seniors can continue with the team. Wahab and Hafeez performed here and if we look at the last couple of years in terms of avg and SR, Shoaib Malik has done very well as well according to the demands of modern day cricket. We have to find the right balance. All these players are in consideration and when the World Cup comes, we’ll see who is in our best 15. They can be senior or junior. We want to try different combinations right now and see what happens. I think it’s wrong to write off players saying he’s 37, 38, he won’t play there, etc., it’s not fair on the player and the team. We will try these players and we’ll get a good picture before the WC about the best combination.
“What people have said in the past doesn’t matter. When you work in an organization, you need to work and empower others to work and forget things in the past. We have played together and we need to keep things aside and work on improving the team.
“When you’re head coach and chief selector then you can build trust and develop clarity so that no players are scared. This tour was excellent because we got a lot of time to understand eachother and talk to eachother. We have removed the fear from players. They opened up and spoke to me and for me, it’s also easier to help them when I know their state of mind, etc.
“We don’t even know what’s happening in the media. Sometimes we make a decision and people say we came under media pressure but it’s just a coincidence. You plan these things ahead of the tour. Sometimes it looks like pressure but if you make decisions like that then it won’t work, so there’s nothing like that.
“When you look at our resources then you look at what you have. If you have experienced players who can perform at an adequate level then you use them. But sometimes you think you need young players for the future who can do well. Naseem Shah was the best fast-bowler in the QEA Trophy by far. So we took him. It’s not like we discarded some best bowler and brought him. In terms of pace, attitude, future, Naseem and Shaheen are standouts. However, what people are asking is for them to perform like Anderson and Broad. To get to that level will take them time and we shouldn’t confuse these things. According to their experience level, I think their performances are exceptional.
“We don’t throw in players in the team and then say they are learning so we can’t perform. Naseem is the best of the lot and looking for the future, we try and make the best decisions.
“When we played Sarfaraz, we also said it doesn’t matter, you can’t judge performance on one game. He worked hard all tour and performed well in side games, his keeping was good as well. Rizwan is our first choice obviously at the moment in terms of performance and confidence. Saifi is second and he has performances in the past and he can still contribute. It’s not like we gave him one match because we want to get rid of him after that, he’s still in our plans going forward.
“People criticizing the number of staff members, if they are there then they know what it’s like to handle 30 players. Our conventional approach to coaching is to have 6 batsmen batting and make the rest fill in. That approach has changed. We want to even give the #11 batsman batting practice. So you want 30 batsmen to bat every day and prepare. You need to work on your all-rounders, their fielding and training. You don’t have any net bowlers, no support. Within the group, the coaches had to do fielding sometimes and umpiring too. That was the need of this tour, to have a big staff. This helped us.
“Who determines what is a defensive approach and what is an aggressive approach? If a team is making 195, what can be a more aggressive approach? In England, you couldn’t think about winning the toss and opting to bat. Runs on the board, this is an aggressive approach. You’re one match down and you make three changes, this isn’t a defensive mindset, it’s aggressive. I don’t understand what we call an aggressive mindset. Everyone has their own thoughts about this matter.
“Regarding dept cricket, the board is trying to do something about the cricketers. You don’t want to end the income of cricketers or to make players less or cause them financial loss. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do too much on this so far. We also had problems due to three months of COVID. My opinion is that the board should think about this as should the govt and I have said this before as well.
“It’s not easy as a batsman in England, Joe Root is struggling. Their openers who scored runs in previous series struggled here. For Asad, this was a tough tour but he has time to get back in form in domestic cricket and we’ll see what happenes. I think he can still perform well for Pakistan in future.
“Wahab faced some problems due to COVID but eventually he made good progress there. But he couldn’t get ready for Test matches. He performed well when he got a chance. He has a role in white ball cricket, it’s up to him. Everyone saw his spell in the last match and his match-winning ability.
“More or less, this is our pool of cricketers. You have room for 1-2 players here and there. We will try to give youngsters chances while maintaining the team strength and also allowing players the chance to develop.”
“The tour of England was very important because of the COVID situation. It was very important for world cricket, England, and us.
“If I summarize this tour, as a team and as a coach, we regret the results. We should have won the Test series 1-0 and T20I series 2-0 and that’s the biggest regret.
“Overall, if you look at the type of cricket we played, we started from zero and got ready for competitive cricket without any prior preparation. The type of cricket we played, our team bonding, our discipline, and the image we created of the Pakistan team is something to appreciate.
“Overall, the way we played was important for us. We mostly dominated in the first Test. In the T20Is, we made two 190+ scores and defended the second one. To improve on that performance after the loss was something special.
“We have a lot of positives from this tour. Looking forward that in future, we can build on these things.
“It’s not like someone else brought Haider Ali into the team, it was us. We’re following the due process. The important thing was to put him in the top 3, Hafeez was also performing and the series was important for us. So we started with our main team. Once Hafeez was confident, we thought we had a chance to put Haider there. We have enough time to make a team with a combination of seniors and youngsters. This was Haider’s first series and he got a chance after 2 matches.
“In T20 cricket, people always say that Pakistan doesn’t have that type of firepower needed in international cricket, but I think we are getting there. Making 190+ against England in their own conditions shows we are on the right track.
“We have a young lot of bowlers. As they get better with experience, they will improve and we’re investing in the right players.
“There’s room for improvement in every aspect. You always think about where you can improve and that applies for any work you do.
“Overall, our vision is to go a bit toward youngsters and bring long term solutions and develop the team. We want to invest in the right players. Also the type of cricket we’re playing, we have been bringing changes. The desired results may not be there but I am satisfied with the overall process and it looks like we are on the right track.
“The England tour was very important and I was busy with that, which is why I wasn’t in touch and involved with the domestic cricket process. We had to get started with everything on a timely basis. I will now sit with Nadeem Khan and discuss things and how we can improve.
“Regarding T20Is, Pakistan was number 1, but when I came, we had a losing streak. We lost in SA and other places, we lost in England and the team had started going down. Everyone knows why that happened, some of the players like Fakhar, Shadab, Hasan went out of form. They were the main contributors. We are looking to take the guys back to that level. Our performances in England show we are on the right track and improving.
“I will talk to Nadeem Khan about the coaches and people in the setup. Names aren’t a problem in a professional setup, you have to work with people. As a professional, you have to adjust. When you work with them, you know where people stand.
“The biggest regret is that you play cricket for results. When you make mistakes on the verge of victory then you try to fix them. We can some technical, tactical mistakes and mental pressure. Our inexperienced bowling will need to be given some time. If we look at that one session, this panicked situation is created when you’re a little inexperienced and that showed. Also in the 2nd T20I, we had an injured bowler and we panicked. As they play more cricket, we will improve. Tactically, we need to improve also but it’s the experience that will bring the most improvement.
“Disappointment is natural when results don’t go your way. You want to win and get results. On that tour, either rain would come in our way when we were in control or something else. There was frustration and disappointment about that, rather than toward any player. As a coach, I do need to have patience and these things happen.
“Every player looks to do what he can to improve the team. Babar is powerful and makes his own decisions. There are no instructions from us. We try to empower him. I have remained a captain. Until you don’t take your own decisions, you won’t learn. You can only learn from your own decision. Mistakes happen but overall I think things are improving and will improve.
“We’re just trying to find the right balance with Amir. If we have two young bowlers in the team then we have one experienced bowlers like Wahab replaced Amir. With Amir, we needed two new ball bowlers and he was bowling the best. This is not about individuals, we are forming the team according to the requirements.
“Seniors can continue with the team. Wahab and Hafeez performed here and if we look at the last couple of years in terms of avg and SR, Shoaib Malik has done very well as well according to the demands of modern day cricket. We have to find the right balance. All these players are in consideration and when the World Cup comes, we’ll see who is in our best 15. They can be senior or junior. We want to try different combinations right now and see what happens. I think it’s wrong to write off players saying he’s 37, 38, he won’t play there, etc., it’s not fair on the player and the team. We will try these players and we’ll get a good picture before the WC about the best combination.
“What people have said in the past doesn’t matter. When you work in an organization, you need to work and empower others to work and forget things in the past. We have played together and we need to keep things aside and work on improving the team.
“When you’re head coach and chief selector then you can build trust and develop clarity so that no players are scared. This tour was excellent because we got a lot of time to understand eachother and talk to eachother. We have removed the fear from players. They opened up and spoke to me and for me, it’s also easier to help them when I know their state of mind, etc.
“We don’t even know what’s happening in the media. Sometimes we make a decision and people say we came under media pressure but it’s just a coincidence. You plan these things ahead of the tour. Sometimes it looks like pressure but if you make decisions like that then it won’t work, so there’s nothing like that.
“When you look at our resources then you look at what you have. If you have experienced players who can perform at an adequate level then you use them. But sometimes you think you need young players for the future who can do well. Naseem Shah was the best fast-bowler in the QEA Trophy by far. So we took him. It’s not like we discarded some best bowler and brought him. In terms of pace, attitude, future, Naseem and Shaheen are standouts. However, what people are asking is for them to perform like Anderson and Broad. To get to that level will take them time and we shouldn’t confuse these things. According to their experience level, I think their performances are exceptional.
“We don’t throw in players in the team and then say they are learning so we can’t perform. Naseem is the best of the lot and looking for the future, we try and make the best decisions.
“When we played Sarfaraz, we also said it doesn’t matter, you can’t judge performance on one game. He worked hard all tour and performed well in side games, his keeping was good as well. Rizwan is our first choice obviously at the moment in terms of performance and confidence. Saifi is second and he has performances in the past and he can still contribute. It’s not like we gave him one match because we want to get rid of him after that, he’s still in our plans going forward.
“People criticizing the number of staff members, if they are there then they know what it’s like to handle 30 players. Our conventional approach to coaching is to have 6 batsmen batting and make the rest fill in. That approach has changed. We want to even give the #11 batsman batting practice. So you want 30 batsmen to bat every day and prepare. You need to work on your all-rounders, their fielding and training. You don’t have any net bowlers, no support. Within the group, the coaches had to do fielding sometimes and umpiring too. That was the need of this tour, to have a big staff. This helped us.
“Who determines what is a defensive approach and what is an aggressive approach? If a team is making 195, what can be a more aggressive approach? In England, you couldn’t think about winning the toss and opting to bat. Runs on the board, this is an aggressive approach. You’re one match down and you make three changes, this isn’t a defensive mindset, it’s aggressive. I don’t understand what we call an aggressive mindset. Everyone has their own thoughts about this matter.
“Regarding dept cricket, the board is trying to do something about the cricketers. You don’t want to end the income of cricketers or to make players less or cause them financial loss. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do too much on this so far. We also had problems due to three months of COVID. My opinion is that the board should think about this as should the govt and I have said this before as well.
“It’s not easy as a batsman in England, Joe Root is struggling. Their openers who scored runs in previous series struggled here. For Asad, this was a tough tour but he has time to get back in form in domestic cricket and we’ll see what happenes. I think he can still perform well for Pakistan in future.
“Wahab faced some problems due to COVID but eventually he made good progress there. But he couldn’t get ready for Test matches. He performed well when he got a chance. He has a role in white ball cricket, it’s up to him. Everyone saw his spell in the last match and his match-winning ability.
“More or less, this is our pool of cricketers. You have room for 1-2 players here and there. We will try to give youngsters chances while maintaining the team strength and also allowing players the chance to develop.”
Its exactly what he said. What a shameless person this is, will take our cricket to the dumps.
