Is it time for a Director of Cricket position in the PCB?

[Savak]

Most PCB Chairman's are individuals with very little knowledge or understanding of Cricket and therefore they are very easily influenced by all the ex and current active cricketers that they consult on advice from Cricketing affairs. In my view, the PCB Chairman should delegate all the cricketing affairs to the Director of Cricket position like the ECB does with Rob Key.

The Director of Cricket should be given the responsibility to hire

- The coaches with the national team, U19, Shaheens, Domestic teams and Academies. The performances of the coaches should be evaluated in terms of cricketing KPI's, the new players they discover every season, the improvement in swing in a pace bowler, improvement in line, length of a bowler, improvement in spin of a bowler. Any bowler or batsman not showing any improvement after a year and habitually repeating the same errors, mistakes should be chucked out and replaced by others.

- The selectors of the National team, Shaheens, Emerging and U19 teams, Domestic teams

- To review the pitches in domestic cricket and to ensure it is inline with modern pitches in international cricket

- The balls and bats being used by our domestic cricketers

- Sending a message across to all the domestic teams and coaches to tell the players that they have to bat at Strike rates of 150 plus in T20 cricket and 130 plus in ODI cricket, every player has to be told i.e. you have to find a way to hit one boundary, one six every over, if you can't do that, you will not stay in the team for long. Align the requirements of International Cricket to the Domestic Teams.

- Sending the message to all domestic players, U19 players that these are the fitness standards, nutrition standards that you have to meet if you wish to be selected for the domestic teams and international team with mandatory fitness tests every week.

- Having the sole authority to grant NOC's to players. Players who do not participate in domestic cricket especially 4 day cricket will not be elligible for NOC's and will not be allowed to play in the PSL.

I guarantee you things will change for the better in a few months if the following above is implemented

 

[Cricket Warrior]

Yes, but even the Director of Cricket won't be able to make an significant impact in our politicized system, as this position will also be managed by those who doesnt have any background in cricket.

 

[ahmadharis1]

It's a good idea on paper but would never work in Pakistan. Every other year there would be some political change and a new director of cricket. This country is a joke

 

[Itachi]

ideas are good only when they can be executed as per intended.

 

[FastBowlingAllrounder]

Throwing another administrative spanner into the incompetent bureaucracy will only add more friction.

 

[saqib.rai]

Most PCB Chairman's are individuals with very little knowledge or understanding of Cricket and therefore they are very easily influenced by all the ex and current active cricketers that they consult on advice from Cricketing affairs. In my view, the PCB Chairman should delegate all the cricketing affairs to the Director of Cricket position like the ECB does with Rob Key.

The Director of Cricket should be given the responsibility to hire

- The coaches with the national team, U19, Shaheens, Domestic teams and Academies. The performances of the coaches should be evaluated in terms of cricketing KPI's, the new players they discover every season, the improvement in swing in a pace bowler, improvement in line, length of a bowler, improvement in spin of a bowler. Any bowler or batsman not showing any improvement after a year and habitually repeating the same errors, mistakes should be chucked out and replaced by others.

- The selectors of the National team, Shaheens, Emerging and U19 teams, Domestic teams

- To review the pitches in domestic cricket and to ensure it is inline with modern pitches in international cricket

- The balls and bats being used by our domestic cricketers

- Sending a message across to all the domestic teams and coaches to tell the players that they have to bat at Strike rates of 150 plus in T20 cricket and 130 plus in ODI cricket, every player has to be told i.e. you have to find a way to hit one boundary, one six every over, if you can't do that, you will not stay in the team for long. Align the requirements of International Cricket to the Domestic Teams.

- Sending the message to all domestic players, U19 players that these are the fitness standards, nutrition standards that you have to meet if you wish to be selected for the domestic teams and international team with mandatory fitness tests every week.

- Having the sole authority to grant NOC's to players. Players who do not participate in domestic cricket especially 4 day cricket will not be elligible for NOC's and will not be allowed to play in the PSL.

I guarantee you things will change for the better in a few months if the following above is implemented

From the job description, looks like it has to be an ex-cricketer

With the easy money these ex-cricketers can make by senselessly ranting 24/7 on tv, doing a 2 month PSL gig, you really think anyone would be interested?

Never saw Rahul Dravid, VVS, Ganguly, Dhoni, Sachin do regular cricket "analysis" shows like literally each and every one of our cricketers do

Plus from the JD, looks like the person has to be on high character which none of our 90s "legends" were

 

[BunnyRabbit]

The job requires a person with vision, strong communication and interpersonal relation skills. On top of that, the job requires NO EXTERNAL INTERVENTION which is impossible in PCB. Even if we are able to bring in Andrew Strauss (the best Director for ECB), he won't be able to do much because of having his hands tied by the external influencers.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

From the job description, looks like it has to be an ex-cricketer

With the easy money these ex-cricketers can make by senselessly ranting 24/7 on tv, doing a 2 month PSL gig, you really think anyone would be interested?

Never saw Rahul Dravid, VVS, Ganguly, Dhoni, Sachin do regular cricket "analysis" shows like literally each and every one of our cricketers do

Plus from the JD, looks like the person has to be on high character which none of our 90s "legends" were

Dravid and Saurav have both done commentary and analyst gigs. Dravid was the analyst for ct 17 i remember. Saurav and Sehwag were doing commentary.

The problem is there's lack of proper composed guys with good vision about cricket and how to take it forward. India and England have plethora of people with such capabilities.
Even SL cricket has Sanga, Mahela etc.

It's just not Pakistans culture to be professional and be sincere to their jobs (esp in sports)
Wasim holds a high position in KK in psl yet he doesn't care one bit about what his franchise does in terms of cricket related stuff. Wasim has vocally gone after haider ali on tv yet his franchise has him as a platinum signee.

Mohammad Akram seems like the only sane person in Pakistan who is well vested in the development process of cricket and overseeing everything but he is involved with PZ. And due to him not being a prolific ex cricketer, he will be taunted and teased by our high class and sly sports journalists who've all graduated from ivy league universities.

 

[Savak]

Dravid and Saurav have both done commentary and analyst gigs. Dravid was the analyst for ct 17 i remember. Saurav and Sehwag were doing commentary.

The problem is there's lack of proper composed guys with good vision about cricket and how to take it forward. India and England have plethora of people with such capabilities.
Even SL cricket has Sanga, Mahela etc.

It's just not Pakistans culture to be professional and be sincere to their jobs (esp in sports)
Wasim holds a high position in KK in psl yet he doesn't care one bit about what his franchise does in terms of cricket related stuff. Wasim has vocally gone after haider ali on tv yet his franchise has him as a platinum signee.

Mohammad Akram seems like the only sane person in Pakistan who is well vested in the development process of cricket and overseeing everything but he is involved with PZ. And due to him not being a prolific ex cricketer, he will be taunted and teased by our high class and sly sports journalists who've all graduated from ivy league universities.

Wasim Akram like Mickey Arthur is just interested in double dipping. He is getting a big fat salary for nothing.

 

[saqib.rai]

Dravid and Saurav have both done commentary and analyst gigs. Dravid was the analyst for ct 17 i remember. Saurav and Sehwag were doing commentary.

The problem is there's lack of proper composed guys with good vision about cricket and how to take it forward. India and England have plethora of people with such capabilities.
Even SL cricket has Sanga, Mahela etc.

It's just not Pakistans culture to be professional and be sincere to their jobs (esp in sports)
Wasim holds a high position in KK in psl yet he doesn't care one bit about what his franchise does in terms of cricket related stuff. Wasim has vocally gone after haider ali on tv yet his franchise has him as a platinum signee.

Mohammad Akram seems like the only sane person in Pakistan who is well vested in the development process of cricket and overseeing everything but he is involved with PZ. And due to him not being a prolific ex cricketer, he will be taunted and teased by our high class and sly sports journalists who've all graduated from ivy league universities.

They did analyst gigs/commentary for the ICC during the annual ICC tournament

In Pakistan, its different

I don't know any former cricketer of any relevance who is NOT giving third class analysis right now. Just senselessly criticizing everything the team does.

In India, even.the criticism is subtle. The other day, Kamran Akmal the great wicketkeeper was saying I hope and pray Pakistan loses so that this core group can be broken. If this was in India, he would have been cancelled for life.

It got out of hand in this World Cup. 10 different shows- 20 different former cricketers. No censorship. Jo moo mai aye bolte jao

In India, how many cricketers can you name who are doing this rubbish? A handful maybe. Because most of them are

Busy working in improving the cricketing structure and identifying talent in the country
Or
Training themselves for entering the corporate world

Our former cricketers lack any personality/education for a career in the corporate world after retirement AND have now found an easy way to make money. Become friends with a 10th.fail sports journalist and then just start criticizing the team left, right and centre for views
Praise India all the time to get Indian views

 

[BunnyRabbit]

They did analyst gigs/commentary for the ICC during the annual ICC tournament

In Pakistan, its different

I don't know any former cricketer of any relevance who is NOT giving third class analysis right now. Just senselessly criticizing everything the team does.

In India, even.the criticism is subtle. The other day, Kamran Akmal the great wicketkeeper was saying I hope and pray Pakistan loses so that this core group can be broken. If this was in India, he would have been cancelled for life.

It got out of hand in this World Cup. 10 different shows- 20 different former cricketers. No censorship. Jo moo mai aye bolte jao

In India, how many cricketers can you name who are doing this rubbish? A handful maybe. Because most of them are

Busy working in improving the cricketing structure and identifying talent in the country
Or
Training themselves for entering the corporate world

Our former cricketers lack any personality/education for a career in the corporate world after retirement AND have now found an easy way to make money. Become friends with a 10th.fail sports journalist and then just start criticizing the team left, right and centre for views
Praise India all the time to get Indian views

it's the lack of education or rather lack of basic ethics.
our ex players who did jack throughout their career come on as analysts and want the team to do poor so their words can spark some ratings (they just want to earn money) regardless of what they have to do to get it.

India has way too many regions with different backgrounds, culture, languages etc but none of them ever want their team to do bad. In Pak, the lobbies have totally destroyed any semblance of fair critique there was. We still have regions whose aim is not to have a good team but team composed of players from certain areas and loyal to certain people.

It's one reason why the sane people wouldn't want to be involved with the cricket cause they would be subjected to below the belt nonsense throughout.

 

[FearlessRoar]

To be honest, I'm not understanding what the job description and duties of a Team Director are.