If you want the Pakistani team to have the chaos and crazy attitude, than that should be done against the opposition. Not against your own team members.
A very good example was Javed Miandad. Miandad was not someone that was involved in infighting with his own team mates but rather would dish it out against the opposition. He got overshadowed due to Imran Khan, but Miandad was a batsmen with an Australian attitude that Pakistan had.
The chaotic attitude that our other players ended up devolping was more of internal fighting that destroyed our team in the long run.
I havent wacthed 90s cricket but i have read biographies and articles, and one thing is common in all those texts. Waseem Akram, as captain, created a toxic atmosphere.
If your captain or even senior player creates an atmosphere where there is an aura of the senior player, to whom you cannot approach or talk to, than groupings will develop within the team naturally and the young players also end up learning from these guys.
The junior or new coming players were never mentored or guided, it was free for all where you had to survive.
Why Muhammad Yousuf's career ended short? Because he saw how his seniors only played internstional cricket and did not give a rats behind to domestic cricket and he copied them. He also kept that attitude of senior player, senior player should get selected irrespect of playing domestic cricket.
The chaos or the anger the team displayed wasnt against the opposition but was mostly spread in the team and was just players fighting among themselves and looking like idiots world wide. Either they were fighting for the captaincy, or they were fighting the chairman.
What lead to Pakiatan team become the well behave version it is today are the following things.
Shoaib Akhtar
Misbah
Social media
Lack of confidence (small city players)
Shoaib akhtar now adays pretends to act as a patriot who never did wrong, but the guy was crazy. He was a ticking time bomb. Hitting a team mate with a bat, performance enhancing drug charges, taking on Dr. Naseem Ashraf, fighting with Bob Woolmer.
Pcb had to deal with Akhtar, and they were not gonna let another Akhtar be made hence i would assume they bought strict discipline in the under 19 where any player showing dissent or ajything was thrown out of the team.
What Misbah did than was the reverse of whatWaseem Akram did. Misbah as a captain was approachable. As a captain, he took insults for the sake of the team. If some player insulted Misbah he did not respond back and people take this as him being tame or creating a team that was tame.
Misbah did not make the team tame, his players in the dressing room respected him. Even under him, if Pakistan posted a score of 250 ish, under Misbah it was defendable as he knew how to use his bowlers well.
People think Misbah made his players tame when infact that is very wrong. Misbah used to ask his bowlers to give something to the opposition. He used to ask Irfan to also give stare downs and use your mouth instead of just quietly bowling
What Misbah did was, he ended the team infighting. Once the team infighting was eradicated, we were exposed, because it should that we never made noise against the opposition but just amongst ourselves.
Us becoming tame as a player were because the other other reasons.
Social media played a big factor. Interesting to note, in western countries like North America, social media isnt used as much as we Pakistanis use. Our players know that anything they do, it gets backlash on social media alot.
Look at Shanawaz Dhani. He is a very happy go person, but many people had issues with him how he celebrated. He was even bashed by Afridi. He was bashed to a point where we saw Dhani having to stop his celebration. Meanwhile, a South African Imran Tahir continues to celebrate as he did before. The criticism he gets was again was not from his own side people but from us Pakistanis.
If there is some fight, our players quickly run to social media that oh it was just us having fun. We try to play for the gallows. Each act of the players is for social media attention now adays.
As for the players not dishing out on the opposition. Simple, lack of confidence. These guys cant speak in English, they fear looking like idiots. Plus, the social media things add up that if they do try to say something to the opposition, they might get caught on camera and look bad.
The lack of confidence is due to many of these guys coming conservative backgrounds and smaller cities.
You can insult, Rizwan, and he will just happily smile like a fool.
However, if you insult rishab pant, he will also give it back to you. Why? Because indian players have the confidence, plus, on their social media, its all about the indian nationalism, hence for them its basically if the white man insults them, they have to give it back, or else i dians will bash them.
Our captain, babar azam has zero confidence. Than many of these guys cant utter a word of english. You bring in Afghanistan against them, all of a sudden, even shaheen afridi starts dishing out some pashto insults, because thats when the language is understood.
I would prefer the disciplined team over the chaotic 90s team. However, there needs to be some confidence. You can pkay your cricket like New Zealand, but atleast as a player, stand up when an opposition says something against you or does something against you. Nz are the nice guys, but if you say something to them they will respond back and not smile like idiots.
Shadab Khan is someone who i have felt is someone who is like that. Whenever he felt the opposition did something wrong, he doesnt stand quietly but speaks up, either on the field or in the dugout. Yet, he does that in domestic cricket, lets see if he would be able to do that if was in charge in international cricket.
