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While on his ego trip, Rameez Raja finally experienced a dose of reality. It is easy to use the word "aggressive" until you are blue in the face. But the only way to put that into practice is bringing alignment to the Institution of Selection. The players are correct. How can any player play no holds barred cricket, when at any moment at the whim of a Chairman, Chief Selector, Head Coach, or Captain, his livelihood can be taken away. Is that fair?
Of course not, it is this system of injustice and incompetence that has plagued Pakistan Cricket for 3 decades. Fundamental to this incompetence are two things. One, the EGO. Our EGOs in Pakistan have no bounds. Its hard to build a system. Its easy to tear it down and destroy players lives along the way. Two, there is a genuine lack of literacy in how we think about the game of cricket. That genuine lack of literacy manifests itself time and again in our selection of squads but also from game to game.
I've always compared our selection process to taking names out of hat. When that is your process that success or failure can only be evaluated in the aftermath of outcomes. In the face of constant defeat people love to blame the players. It's not the players. The players and their performances are a reflection of society and a system that simply doesn't exist. What does, doesn't function very well.
I would suggest that every Pakistani go player by player. There are three buckets of players. The first bucket is the bucket of players who perform. They are simply talented and very good. There presence in any format can never be questioned. This bucket is small. The second bucket is a bucket of players who are talented but don't perform or perform inconsistently. Yet they continue to receive opportunities because of the way they look as opposed to their performances. The third bucket is a bucket full of victims. These are players who are easily dropped. They have no media backing, and their skill and talent is not obvious to the naked eye. Good outcomes can breed more opportunities. Bad outcomes can breed banishment.
I will leave you with two things.
One, there is no one among the cricketing fraternity in Pakistan that is qualified to coach the national team. There is no one among the cricketing fraternity in Pakistan qualified to be a selector.
Two, the Pakistan Cricket Board should do away with the institution of selection. There should no Chief Selectors. Players shouldn't be selected, teams should be built. How do you build teams? The actual building of teams can be debated, but the structure that builds them isn't debatable.
The best organizations have a qualified individuals to be a General Manager or President of Sporting Operations. The Cricket Equivalent of that would be a Chief Cricket Officer, Director of Cricket, or General Manager of Cricket. Apart from directly building the team, that person is given the responsibility to create the infrastructure both physical and intellectual to build an elite team on and off the field. Rather than just select players, he is tasked with building a process around evaluating talent both subjectively and using analytics. His job is to generate and reconcile all the information in order to make informed decisions.
Listen to the Players!!!!
Of course not, it is this system of injustice and incompetence that has plagued Pakistan Cricket for 3 decades. Fundamental to this incompetence are two things. One, the EGO. Our EGOs in Pakistan have no bounds. Its hard to build a system. Its easy to tear it down and destroy players lives along the way. Two, there is a genuine lack of literacy in how we think about the game of cricket. That genuine lack of literacy manifests itself time and again in our selection of squads but also from game to game.
I've always compared our selection process to taking names out of hat. When that is your process that success or failure can only be evaluated in the aftermath of outcomes. In the face of constant defeat people love to blame the players. It's not the players. The players and their performances are a reflection of society and a system that simply doesn't exist. What does, doesn't function very well.
I would suggest that every Pakistani go player by player. There are three buckets of players. The first bucket is the bucket of players who perform. They are simply talented and very good. There presence in any format can never be questioned. This bucket is small. The second bucket is a bucket of players who are talented but don't perform or perform inconsistently. Yet they continue to receive opportunities because of the way they look as opposed to their performances. The third bucket is a bucket full of victims. These are players who are easily dropped. They have no media backing, and their skill and talent is not obvious to the naked eye. Good outcomes can breed more opportunities. Bad outcomes can breed banishment.
I will leave you with two things.
One, there is no one among the cricketing fraternity in Pakistan that is qualified to coach the national team. There is no one among the cricketing fraternity in Pakistan qualified to be a selector.
Two, the Pakistan Cricket Board should do away with the institution of selection. There should no Chief Selectors. Players shouldn't be selected, teams should be built. How do you build teams? The actual building of teams can be debated, but the structure that builds them isn't debatable.
The best organizations have a qualified individuals to be a General Manager or President of Sporting Operations. The Cricket Equivalent of that would be a Chief Cricket Officer, Director of Cricket, or General Manager of Cricket. Apart from directly building the team, that person is given the responsibility to create the infrastructure both physical and intellectual to build an elite team on and off the field. Rather than just select players, he is tasked with building a process around evaluating talent both subjectively and using analytics. His job is to generate and reconcile all the information in order to make informed decisions.
Listen to the Players!!!!
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