Abolish selection committee system

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

In a performance culture
1. Results dictate who stays and who goes.
2. Non-performers are easily identifiable.

Pakistan's long track record of non-performance indicates there are many candidates for the chop. This is especially true of performances abroad and in Limited Over formats.

Unfortunately, in current system, it is not easy to assign blame. Did Pakistan lose because the captain was not right (Shahryar)? Or did they lose because they introduced old non-performers (Inzimam?) Or was it that the preparations/tactics were wrong (Captain/Coach?)

Of the candidates for chop, the selection committee, regardless of who it constitutes of, is at the very top.

It has no reliable indicator of performance. It is not directly responsible for on-field result. It can easily deflect blame on others. It can hide behind stats or intuition as it sees fit.

Topmost, it is not a cultural fit with Pakistan - where friendships, influence, love and seniority are in the make up of the society - and it is laughable to expect cricket can change that.

Pakistan's history is replete with examples of players being plucked out of wilderness because the other system just doesn't work.

Here is the proposal. Very much like the Premier League System.

1. Abolish selection committee.
2. Replace it with a team of 20-25 scouts - relatively young ex-cricketers, association picks etc. Evolve the most performance based system of choosing these scouts.
3. - Spread them all throughout the country (and abroad). Bind them to watch games from Div A to grass roots and report quarterly.
4. Make the scouts team report into the Head Coach. He may choose a chief scout to ease his burden but ultimately he is responsible.

You see where I am going with this.

The single point of responsibility lies with the coach. He cannot blame the selection committee now that he owns it. And he lives and dies by the performance of the team.

What is the role of the captain?

While I am a traditionalist in the sense that the captain owns the results, in Pakistan's case, it is too much of a hit and miss. Can't recall a good captain post Imran and alter Wasim who were any good sustainably - both as captain and as players. Best to take this role off and give it to a high performance coach.

 

[moghul]

Absolutely, the worst one we had in a long time, or ever ?

 

[MRSN]

Pakistan cricket structure is absolutely awful especially when it comes to decisions of chairmen of cricket and the selectors.

Selections are pretty awful. There is no consistency in them.
Selection committee X comes and it chops bunch of players for non performance, replaces them with some new and some old players.
Selection committee Y comes and it chops those players that the committee X had selected, and picks up most of those players that were dropped by committee X.

...and this cycle goes on and on Forever.

I don't think there is any thought process behind selections or any consistency. The selections are made only to calm down people that at least something is happening which buys the selectors and PCB chairmen time to stay at the office for longer time.

 

[DRsohail]

worst..abolish it asap///

 

[Shafi]

Inzamam has proved to us that he is worse than his predecessor. He keeps recycling the old and TTF players and no vision at all. Basically in his squad there is no variation at all.
PCB needs to get rid of selection committee, Misbah (no where near PCB), Azhar from ODI. We don't need Hafeez, Rahat, Irfan, Shafiq (in ODI), ........

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Agree that current selection committee's results are poor - as indicated by slide in rankings.

However, the thrust of my argument is not based on current selection committee but on the system itself.
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Mods, can you please change the title to "Abolish Selection Committee System". Thank you.

 

[Misia]

The couches from all teams in Pk domestic setup put forward the top 2 performers bowler/batsman according to stats (based on 60% and above matches played from there team those players goto NCA then move thru system unless the head coach (Arthur thinks any individual is good enough to strait into national team) u19,Pak A,National team

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Pakistan cricket structure is absolutely awful especially when it comes to decisions of chairmen of cricket and the selectors.

Selections are pretty awful. There is no consistency in them.
Selection committee X comes and it chops bunch of players for non performance, replaces them with some new and some old players.
Selection committee Y comes and it chops those players that the committee X had selected, and picks up most of those players that were dropped by committee X.

...and this cycle goes on and on Forever.

I don't think there is any thought process behind selections or any consistency. The selections are made only to calm down people that at least something is happening which buys the selectors and PCB chairmen time to stay at the office for longer time.

That is why it is important there is single point of responsibility where that person lives and dies by his / her results. Not a bunch of individuals in different groups who can all pass the buck.