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"Our domestic cricket at the moment does not provide pressure situations for players" : Wasim Khan
"We are streamlining (the system) to create better competition for places, create better wickets, make it more competitive, highly quality based as the Chairman has just said, so that we can start to produce players and put them under pressure"
"Our domestic cricket currently and previously does not provide pressure situations for the players"
"People say our players struggle under pressure (but the fact is that) actually you are a product of the system"
"Most important thing is that we want consistency - if we get to the top, we want to stay at the top"
"Australia went through a lot of problems before Allan Border took over - their cricket was going nowhere, they made some tough decisions; what we are doing is that we are making tough decisions but we are also making balance decisions"
"We are trying to balance all sides to make sure we have a system that is here for ever - we dont want to change the system in 10 years time"
"We have an opportunity to change the face of cricket in Pakistan so that we can World Test Champions and we can start improving the consistency in white-ball cricket"
"There is going to be an activity audit as we hear that people say that of so many thousands of our clubs, only a 1000 are active - that will go"
"We have a strict criteria about what clubs will look like and we will spotcheck - we will do that with our coaches"
"If we wanted a meritocracy where the best players would be coming up, then it wasnt going to happen with the old system"
"We are sitting number 7 in Tests and number 6 in ODI cricket"
"For a proud nation, are we comfortable with that?"
"You can either look at this (new system) through a microscope and find faults or you look thought it via a wider lens; if you look through it with a wider lens to see where we want to go and what we want to do, you will see the vision of where we want to take Pakistan cricket"
"We made the domestic schedule 2 months ago as at that time we were scheduled to play SL in Tests at the end of September & early October, and therefore we factored in a number of 1st class matches before then"
"Middle of October, we have domestic T20 so that it will inform the decision making for PSL owners in terms of selections, the second thing is that we have a T20 series vs Australia in early November so we need the selectors to have something to go by in terms of form and in terms of whats going on"
"The fitness standards we have for international cricket, we will try and replicate them in domestic cricket as well"
"There will be fitness tests as part of the cricket association central contract awards for players - there will be fitness clauses in contracts"
"We dont want players coming to the international level without knowing what is required of them"
"We (PCB) are funding associations fully in the first year - close to about a billion PKR that PCB will invest this year"
"Our vision is to create sustainability but first year we have to seed fund this to get things up and running"
"The first year (for associations etc) will be that of learning and we will review this after one year"
"Our journey has is starting, we will have a new head coach and a team with him and domestic cricket will support that"
"This man in front of you, David Parsons, has come from England to set our high-performance system"
"The ECB has the best high-performance system in place - He (Parsons) will not impose the English system on us instead he will assess our system, our coach assessment system, and he will provide recommendations to improve all of those things"
"Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi have all come via the NCA system so everything is not so bad"
"Our average 1st innings score in domestic cricket is 231, its the lowest in the world"
"Zimbabwe is 240, and we are 231"
"How can we be expected to produce world-class batsmen when our average score in 1st innings of first-class is 231?"
"This year we will bring in a no-toss rule; When this was done in England, the average score went up by 40 or 50 runs"
"On the average our first-class games last two and a half days"
"We are streamlining (the system) to create better competition for places, create better wickets, make it more competitive, highly quality based as the Chairman has just said, so that we can start to produce players and put them under pressure"
"Our domestic cricket currently and previously does not provide pressure situations for the players"
"People say our players struggle under pressure (but the fact is that) actually you are a product of the system"
"Most important thing is that we want consistency - if we get to the top, we want to stay at the top"
"Australia went through a lot of problems before Allan Border took over - their cricket was going nowhere, they made some tough decisions; what we are doing is that we are making tough decisions but we are also making balance decisions"
"We are trying to balance all sides to make sure we have a system that is here for ever - we dont want to change the system in 10 years time"
"We have an opportunity to change the face of cricket in Pakistan so that we can World Test Champions and we can start improving the consistency in white-ball cricket"
"There is going to be an activity audit as we hear that people say that of so many thousands of our clubs, only a 1000 are active - that will go"
"We have a strict criteria about what clubs will look like and we will spotcheck - we will do that with our coaches"
"If we wanted a meritocracy where the best players would be coming up, then it wasnt going to happen with the old system"
"We are sitting number 7 in Tests and number 6 in ODI cricket"
"For a proud nation, are we comfortable with that?"
"You can either look at this (new system) through a microscope and find faults or you look thought it via a wider lens; if you look through it with a wider lens to see where we want to go and what we want to do, you will see the vision of where we want to take Pakistan cricket"
"We made the domestic schedule 2 months ago as at that time we were scheduled to play SL in Tests at the end of September & early October, and therefore we factored in a number of 1st class matches before then"
"Middle of October, we have domestic T20 so that it will inform the decision making for PSL owners in terms of selections, the second thing is that we have a T20 series vs Australia in early November so we need the selectors to have something to go by in terms of form and in terms of whats going on"
"The fitness standards we have for international cricket, we will try and replicate them in domestic cricket as well"
"There will be fitness tests as part of the cricket association central contract awards for players - there will be fitness clauses in contracts"
"We dont want players coming to the international level without knowing what is required of them"
"We (PCB) are funding associations fully in the first year - close to about a billion PKR that PCB will invest this year"
"Our vision is to create sustainability but first year we have to seed fund this to get things up and running"
"The first year (for associations etc) will be that of learning and we will review this after one year"
"Our journey has is starting, we will have a new head coach and a team with him and domestic cricket will support that"
"This man in front of you, David Parsons, has come from England to set our high-performance system"
"The ECB has the best high-performance system in place - He (Parsons) will not impose the English system on us instead he will assess our system, our coach assessment system, and he will provide recommendations to improve all of those things"
"Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi have all come via the NCA system so everything is not so bad"
"Our average 1st innings score in domestic cricket is 231, its the lowest in the world"
"Zimbabwe is 240, and we are 231"
"How can we be expected to produce world-class batsmen when our average score in 1st innings of first-class is 231?"
"This year we will bring in a no-toss rule; When this was done in England, the average score went up by 40 or 50 runs"
"On the average our first-class games last two and a half days"
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